GuruShots: Photography Game

Just use this APP! It’s so relaxing..❤️

This app is 100% revenue focused at the expense of what it says its core offering of what should be fair competition of seeing who has the best photos. The app has a lot of potential, but socializes awards to the person willing to spend the most (i.e. coins) You’ll spend hours culling through and voting on photos. I truly believe they sandbag and restrict photos and votes no matter how good they are in favor of those people who are spending coins to boost their sub par photos. Rewards are a joke. They’ll mention monetary awards, but that amount is only as it relates to their own coins you purchase to do things like swaps, boosts, etc. You don’t actually win anything of true value. Turbos are an absolute joke. They have you guess between a series of two photos which one is the most popular and I cannot tell you how many times an absolute trash photo is the one. They even have the audacity to charge you 250 coins for this horrible benefit. Again, I think the app has a lot of potential - but I really feel the product vision is not geared towards you as the photographer. Inconsistent, unfair, shady, untrustworthy.

This game is fun to a point. The teams always encourage you to be competitive and I’ve been kicked from several teams for no reason or because I posted a vertical picture or some terrible reason. It’s also expensive to buy boosts. I enjoyed the app for abit, but then it got to a point where I couldn’t win cause some person who used AI to get a good pic. Not many people even see my photos to begin with unless I use every boost imaginable, but it barely helps.

Turbo is a complete crapshoot. I used to love Gurushots, have played since 2018, I’ve won two comps and am a Guru, but turbo killed it. Finally had to delete the app.

Hadn’t logged in for awhile. Would love to access my account, however the reset link sent just asks me to sign in; cannot sign in because it won’t recognize my password or let me reset. Frustrating.

I live to review photos with my kiddo but some xxx photos slip through the cracks so now I can't have my kid with me when I use the app. The app needs better moderation. I understand some nudity as art, but some accounts are using it to promote their OF accounts.

I loved this game a few years ago and used to play it constantly and then just ran out of time and space on my phone. Now it is boring. The limitation on entry of challenges makes the game stale. I don’t see this helping get my pictures out like it once did

Update: welp you did it! My team of 3 years no longer wants to play and the coin restructuring makes achievements very difficult without paying and I refuse because my team doesn’t want to play. Whomever made this change should be reconsidered. RIP Gurushots My team and myself are starting no play anymore because the voting system is now skewed by the turbo system. It makes achieving all star nearly impossible without spending boosts and turbos. I’m glad I made Guru eventually but my team is all that made me want to play but they are so disenchanted and it’s killing the experience please consider before you lose all of us

When you first introduced the turbo,I didn’t like it but he didn’t hate it. I now hate it let me tell you why. Not only is it required to get an all star level but it’s now required to get Elite! it’s almost impossible to get all star now. Before this change I thought it would take me about a year to get from guru four to guru five. Now I think it’s gonna take me about two years or more. Either lower the requirements between gurus or lower the amount of votes you need to get all star so it’s reasonable again. I’m buying so many coins now! Of course, that’s what you want isn’t it? I used to love this app/ game. So sad now. P.S. I’ve been playing since the beginning.

When I first started playing this a couple months ago I really enjoyed it. But they have either changed the game or the algorithm is intentionally set to make it fun in the beginning and then as the competition increases they start making in hard to get coins. Almost all games increase in difficulty that is to be expected. But this particular game took away several features that allowed me to earn coins while also increasing in difficulty. The turbo feature is a huge rip off as it seems to be set to make you lose intentionally so you are tempted to pay for additional try’s. I have much more to say about that feature but that would difficult to cram into this review. The free boost seems to show up in the middle of the night when everyone is usually sleeping then in the morning it prompts you to pay for it because you missed it. I spent $15 in the app this morning and the few measly things you get are gone within a few challenges. I would really enjoy the gale if I didn’t feel I was being robbed. It makes me sad that I have to give it up because it is not just set up as pay to play, it is set up as pay exorbitantly to play.