Snapseed: Photo Editor

Totally worth it!!!

I bought this app thinking that it wouldn’t be so much that it provided but I was wrong. This provided so much and it was so easy at first you’re kind of scrolling and you’re like what the heck does this do,but once you get just of it it’s so easy. It took me maybe five minutes just to finish the photo and I did every tool it provides and it was worth it because in the end, it was so cool. you can make anything look cool on this app and you don’t have to buy stuff like I thought you would and it’s so much fun because you have every tool and you don’t have to buy anything you don’t have to get membership. You don’t have to do anything and this made me ◡̈⋆ⒽⒶⓅⓅⓎ😊 because I have the apps I buy you have to get lots of stuff and it’s frustrating but this one it was way funner. It’s so simple so easy I would definitely recommend. if you read my other reviews, you would know it’s hard to get me happy. i’m very critical.

Reviewed on version 3.8.0

This app used to be great but not anymore

Snapseed was the photo editor I recommended to everyone. It was clean, easy to use, and actually had really useful and powerful tools. Then came the redesign. What a godawful mess! They’re so proud of their little animations when they should have done more user testing instead. The adjustments are no longer intuitive. You often can’t see exactly what you’re doing because your finger is in the way of the tool interface. I often end up switching between tool modes because the adjustment movements are too close to the movements that switch things. When you finish an adjustment they fling the tool menu up in front of your image instead of allowing you to judge the result properly. Then there’s the whole “library” thing where I have to have a separate photo library inside the app. The user experience just blows now. I keep the app on my phone for literally one reason alone and that’s the vignette tool. It has the best adjustments of any vignette tool that I’ve found. But that’s it. It’s the last thread keeping this app around for me. It’s seriously terrible now when it used to be so clean and pleasant to use. I have tried for a while now to get used to this new iteration but I really just want to go back to the old version. It was far superior in every aspect. For the record I’m trained as both a UX designer and a professional photographer.

Reviewed on version 3.11.0

REALLY hate the new design!

I do not know what the Snapseed team was thinking when they took a very elegant design of an app that has been amazing for the ten or twelve years I've used it, and then turned it into an app that looks like as clunky as ipad apps looked in 2010. The worst part is that everything takes up way more space now so the photo appears smaller on the screen while you work on it. Everything used to live in a half inch strip on the side but now it takes up like 2 inches, plus it also has stuff covering the bottom inch or more of the screen. Who the heck thought that would be an improvement?? Previously, the gauge that showed the changes, was a nice, simple line that took up barely any space…now it is replaced with a gigantic rainbow shaped gauge. I do not need to see it that big to confirm if it's what I want. I would rather see my photo and what that looks like! This new version is horrendous and I hope the developers will dial it back a lot to at least give the photo more space to work on it. Go back and take a look at how it was and make the photo at least that big. I never would've updated to this, but I got a new ipad so I was not able to get the old version back, but I would if I could. Please tell me there's a button I missed somewhere that allows me to get the classic Snapseed back!

Reviewed on version 4.0.0