What's new
v1.1- Sign in with Google, Apple, or Facebook — no Bambu password required
- Live Activities now support up to 20 printers, with new 16 and 20-printer layouts (PandaWatch Pro)
- Active printers automatically rise to the top of dashboards and lists
- Tap any AMS slot for full material details — drying time, weight, remaining %, and more
- AMS naming now matches Bambu's standard (AMS A, slots A1/A2)
Your whole fleet. One glance.
Sign in with your Bambu Lab account and PandaWatch pulls in every printer you own — no IP addresses, no network fiddling, no setup wizard. Whether you have one machine or twenty, you get live progress, camera feeds, temperatures, filament status, and error alerts in a single view.
Works from anywhere. Home network, office WiFi, 4G on the road — it doesn't matter. If your printers are online, you're connected.
Fleet Live Activities
Track your entire 3D printer farm without even unlocking your phone. PandaWatch is the first and only app to offer multi-printer Live Activities for the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
- Real-time progress for your entire fleet
- Status alerts directly on the Dynamic Island
- One-tap access to any printer's camera
Hands-Free Fleet Monitoring
Just ask. PandaWatch integrates deeply with Siri and App Intents, letting you monitor your entire print farm using only your voice.
TRY SAYING:
- 💬 "How are my printers doing in PandaWatch?"
- 💬 "When will the next print finish in PandaWatch?"
- 💬 "Check printer status in PandaWatch."
Need a specific filament? Fleet Scout's voice integration makes finding the right printer effortless. Ask Siri which printer has the color and material you need, find printers with the most filament remaining, or check which printers are running low—all without touching your phone.
FLEET SCOUT EXAMPLES:
- 🎨 "Which printer has red PLA in PandaWatch?"
- 🎨 "Find printers with blue filament in PandaWatch"
- 🎨 "Which printer has red and blue in PandaWatch?"
- 🎨 "Which printer has red or blue filament in PandaWatch?"
- 🎨 "Which printer has the most black filament in PandaWatch?"
- 🎨 "Which printers are low on filament in PandaWatch?"
Zero setup
Sign in with your Bambu Lab account. That's it. PandaWatch finds your printers automatically — no IP addresses, no port forwarding, no config files.
Everything on one screen
Live camera feeds, layer progress, temperatures, AMS filament status, and HMS error alerts — all your printers, all at once. Scroll to see more, tap to go deep.
Works when you're not watching
Widgets and badges update in the background so your home screen always shows current status. No need to open the app to know if something went wrong at 2am.
Fleet Scout
Got 8 printers and need one loaded with red PLA? Fleet Scout filters your fleet by filament color and material in seconds. Works with Siri too.
Home screen widgets
Pick which printers show on your widget, filter by filament color, tap to deep-link straight into the app. iOS and Android both supported.
Smart Analytics
Which printers are idle? Which ones are about to finish? The analytics view gives you a quick read on batch readiness and fleet health without digging through individual cards.
iPad at home, phone on the go
The iPad layout uses the extra space properly — a real desktop-class dashboard, not just a stretched phone view. Leave it running on a shelf as a dedicated monitor.
What's inside
PandaWatch started as a way to stop walking to the printer room. It turned into something considerably more involved.
On the monitoring side: live camera feeds for every printer, real-time layer progress, temperatures, print speed, and time remaining. AMS filament status with color visualization. HMS error alerts so you know about jams and failures before they become disasters. A dedicated AMS dashboard if you're running multi-material across multiple machines.
On the fleet side: Fleet Scout lets you filter your entire printer farm by loaded filament color and material — useful when you have eight printers and need the one with red PETG. Printers can be grouped, sorted, nicknamed, and hidden. The analytics view shows you batch readiness and idle machines at a glance.
On iOS, Live Activities push your fleet status to the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island in real time — up to 12 printers simultaneously. Siri integration means you can ask "which printer has blue PLA?" without touching your phone. Widgets on both iOS and Android update in the background and support interactive filament filtering directly from your home screen.
A few things that don't get enough credit: FTPS file browsing works on X1, H2, and P2 series (which require TLS session resumption — something most apps quietly skip). Cached camera images show the last known frame when you're off your home network. Screen Stays On mode turns any iPad into a dedicated monitoring display. And the whole thing works from anywhere — no VPN, no local network required.
Who made this
I'm Michael — software engineer by day, 3D printing obsessive by most evenings. I run a small side business that involves a lot of printers, which meant a lot of walking across the room to check if something had failed. Eventually I got tired of it and built PandaWatch.
That was supposed to take a weekend. It did not take a weekend. Two months later it has Live Activities, Siri integration, a native FTPS client, and more settings than I care to admit. I use it every day, which is probably why it keeps getting features.
If something's broken or you want a feature, email me at support@pandawatch.org. I actually read it.
Free for Life
The core app is free. Not "free with a paywall after 3 days" free — actually free, for unlimited printers, forever. Monitoring, cameras, diagnostics, widgets, Siri, Fleet Scout — all of it, no fleet size cap.
The one paid feature is multi-printer Live Activities on the Lock Screen. Up to two printers is free. PandaWatch Pro unlocks up to 20 active printers on your Lock Screen simultaneously — a one-time $3.99 USD unlock. No subscription, no expiry. Your fleet size stays unlimited either way.
If the app saves you a ruined print or two, consider buying me a coffee: buymeacoffee.com/misaunders
See it in action
📊 Dashboard & Monitoring
⚡ Live Activities & Widgets
🔍 Printer Details
🏭 Fleet Management
Android is coming
PandaWatch for Android is in development. Drop your email and we'll let you know the moment it's available — no spam, just one email when it launches.