Polarr: Photo Filters & Editor

I’ve had this app for a really long time and it was so good until they started taking all features away unless you upgrade. Even basic features, you now need premium just to save a picture even if you’ve only done basic editing. How greedy this developer has become comes to show which how much they’ve stripped the usability and accessibility of this app. Don’t waste your time! It’s better to pay for photoshop and actually get real editing features.

it’s lovely 💕 i do wish it had less ads but it’s okay cause the end result is always what i wanted!

I love the app but I would love it even more if we could add videos aswell!

This app is fantastic so I’ve paid for the full version for the 2nd year now

useless absolute trash. Can’t even export the goddamn thing

I remember when this was free and you could save photos FOR FREE. It was a fantastic app. I’d be happy with ad’s than a subscription service :// really disappointed with how these apps are turning out.

How this app gets such high ratings is beyond me. Free version is close to paralysed by a combination of adverts and glitches. Batch save pretty much never works and general glitches at almost every turn make this a truly awful app to use. What makes it worse and more puzzling is that these glitches never seem to get fixed with updates. Overall a very odd app that I don’t recommend.

honestly, it’s unusable now. i used to use it all the time but now i have to watch an ad for every picture i put a filter on??? sometimes it doesn’t even work after watching the ad!! i can’t do this anymore oml

during covid i used this app ALL THE TIME! i used it for literally everything, but now i can’t even download a picture without watching a 30 second ad. i thought the limit to only 3 saveable filters was bad, but now you can only save 1 picture per day without watching long and unskippable ads? no thankss! this is all so you can buy ‘premium’ which i would, if it wasn’t so expensive. it is no where near worth over £5 a month, when you can literally download other FREE apps which do the exact same. do better.

Polarr used to be by far the best photo editing app. A photoshop in your pocket, more comprehensive editing tools and effects than all the other basic apps. Even today’s Adobe apps don’t compare. That version is almost gone, the developers have gone all-in on ‘social’ features, creating profiles, shareable filters, pushing Discovery of these filters and in doing so seem to be dedicating resources away from the previously fantastic functions of the app. To top it off, the app signs me out almost every. single. time I close it… so I can barely use the Paste Edits feature. The workaround is to create one of their ridiculous Filter gimmicks just in case the next time I open the app, I’ve been signed out. I want the old, Photoshop-on-a-phone back.