PhotoGrid: Video Collage Maker Ratings and Reviews

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When I first installed this app and opened it I almost deleted it immediately because it asked to subscribe. I assumed it was useless without subscribing like most things. Thank goodness I didn’t delete it! Not only is it not useless, it saved me SOooo much time, ink and paper. I could kick myself for not finding it sooner. I am putting together a bunch of pics for my nephews grad party. I was unable to find any decent printer app to use with my phone and brother printer so had to print each 4x6 photo individually. Doing this made the pics to big, was wasteful and required cutting by hand. With this app I’m able to print 2-FOUR pics on one single 4x6 sheet! The pics are perfect size to collage, easy to see (not to small) and no cutting out all the extra backgrounds are needed. Saving the collage to print only requires an EXTREMELY quick ad Thank you SO much for this app. I do not need the extras included in the subscription so I’m here writing this review in hopes that it helps this extremely useful app. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

Too many ads that take 3 mins to get Rid of.

Ads in PhotoGrid takes a very long time to disappear. I bought PhotoGrid a few times when I had my business 6 yrs ago but in the last year in order to use the Free version, you now gave to wait about 3 mins for one Ad to go away and then the X appears so you can then close the pesty Ads. I had to delete the App several times in order to use the free version to edit my photos, it's very time consuming and not worth it anymore. I will delete the App for good today. I feel PhotoGrid is trying to FORCE consumers to BUY it so we can stop using the free version. PhotoGrid, consumers does not like being forced to do anything. So I will find another Free Editing App that I can use with Not so many Ads, until my budget allow me to Purchase it. PhotoGrid hello, Inflation is high in the US and ppl are being laid off after the Pandemic bc the feds are increasing interest rates in order to bring down the cost of products and goods, which helps lower inflation, but also comes with increasing interest rates, companies start laying off and/or end up going bankrupt, so not too many companies are hiring right now besides the ones that pay $8 an hr, No one can pay a mortgage and take care a family off $8 an hr, so these Apps will wait to be purchased until we get extra money to spend on wants. But our needs are priority and comes first, like putting food on the table, paying mortgage so families can have a roof their head, are the most important.

Developer Response ,

Dear user, deeply sorry for all the inconvenience that caused you.
Hope you can understand that ads are necessary for PhotoGrid to provide free services.
Besides, you can enjoy an ad-free experience with Premium! If you have any questions, please contact us, we will try our best to provide the best service to all users :)
If you see any inappropriate ads please let us know, thanks!
Thank you for your support and understanding! Contact us: photogridapp.feedback@gmail.com

Used to be my favorite - really disappointed

I’ve used this app for years and years - it’s been my favorite for editing photos. I loved the choices of filters, the way the app worked was great, and most importantly it was accessible and, for the most part, completely free. After the latest update, I hopped on to edit a photo and came to discover that they’ve completely limited the amount of filters you have access to; there used to be a plethora of different folders to choose from and now you get four - the rest now cost .99¢ and up. In the past, a lot of other filters always cost money, but they’ve now changed it to be the majority. I just think that’s really crappy considering so many other things on this app now cost money and they simply don’t need to. I don’t see an issue with charging for something that you’ve worked for and I understand that it takes an entire team to get an app going, but this just seems excessive. What exactly am I paying for when the app itself is bogged down with ads and lags to the point where my phone starts to overheat when I’m simply trying to add a border to my photo? Really disappointed. Hopefully this changes, I’ll be using another app that doesn’t try to profit off of every single minuscule thing in the meantime.

Developer Response ,

Dear User, Thanks for submitting feedback to PhotoGrid.
PhotoGrid keeps updating many materials and brand new functions for users to explore!
However, subscription income plays an important role in it.
Thank you for understanding, welcome to share your creation with us via: photogridapp.feedback@gmail.com

Processing video collage takes FOREVER!

Today I made one of those neat collages that had videos in them which is an amazing feature alone... but when I went to save it is when I thought I was going to pull my hair out! It crashed several times causing me to have to start the process and trimming and layout all over again at least 4 times. Then it would try and save it and would never progress pass 21% and just freeze. I tried again later and it finally didn’t crash and saved but guess how long it took to get to 100%? It took nearly 1.5 hours just to save it. Totally killed my phone battery from a fresh charge too doing it. The videos were standard iPhone taken videos and each one was 20-25 seconds and the whole things was under 25 seconds as they all play at once. While making a collage of various videos is great—- it’s not practical at this point to even bother using it. What is odd is I’ve made them in the past (it had been a long while though) and they use to save in 2-3 min or less. Not 85 minutes! Not sure what changes but can’t be 5 stars when that feature has declined in service. Hope it gets better soon!!!

Very useful app with great features!! 👍

I use this app all of the time and have been a paid member for the past couple of years. This app has great features and options for editing videos and images. It is up there with my favorite apps for editing images/videos. The only thing I’d like to see added at this time is a way to align text (the only way to know your aligned currently is if it’s directly in the middle), if there was a way to have some sort of guide to align text anymore and to make sure it is aligned with other text, it would be super helpful!!

Update: I had an issue before with a security warning from the AT&T mobile security app but it currently looks like I no longer have that issue after updating the app (was instructed to do so after contacting support). I really appreciate the help PhotoGrid’s support team provided, thank you very much!!

I would recommend this app! 👍

Developer Response ,

Hi! Thanks for your reply😃😃
PhotoGrid always put our users in the first place! Users do not need to worry about their privacy and security. Recently, we have released the latest version(8.0.31), the link problem has been solved!👍
You can update to the latest version, if you encounter other problems, don't hesitate to contact us! We are always here to help! Thanks for your patience and reply!
email: photogridapp.feedback@gmail.com

Great For Basic Editing!

I’ve used this app for years for basic editing (whether fitting a pic for Instagram or making a quick collage) as well as for some other little projects that were made easier by making use of the free tools in PhotoGrid. I’ve never paid for any extras, though there have been a few things over the years that may have come in handy... I miss a few things that used to be free and are not anymore but it’s not a deal breaker for me. They’ve also added some things (filters, fonts, etc) that are free and fun/useful so it evens out. I’ve recommended it to lots of people over the years so I suppose it’s pass time I gave it a good review here. Yes, I would recommend! Again, it’s a great little app for basic photo and video editing. I’ve used others as well in the past but this one most often and when space is low, it’s the only one that stays on my phone. 😉 That alone is high praise! 😂 It’s no PhotoShop but it’s a great tool to have if you take/post lots of pics. I’d probably give it a 4.5 out of 5 ⭐️s and say I’m 90% satisfied with how it’s worked for me over the years.

Developer Response ,

Dear CatholicMom16, thanks for for the touched reply!
Thank you for being a PhotoGrid loyal user, we are very appreciate for you to letting us know the feedback.
Hope you can understand subscription fee is mot of the reason to keep PhotoGrid a free app, so we can keep providing free new function and materials:)
And also, you can let us know which type of creation you usually made with PhotoGrid, it will helps us to know users better, so we can make a better improvement on PhotoGrid, thanks!

Hope to hear from you soon!
email: photogridapp.feedback@gmail.com

PG team

FRUSTRATING - slow and always crashes

I've been using - AND PAYING - for this app for years. I really like a lot of its features and the ease of its interface. HOWEVER. It CONSTANTLY frustrates me. It crashes every time I use it for more than 10 minutes. It takes FOREVER to load photo albums when selecting images to add to a grid - almost like old school dial up internet speeds. I keep thinking they're going to fix it eventually, and instead they're adding stupid premium features this app doesn't need. If I can't even add text to photos without the app crashing, I definitely don't trust it to do "animations" or whatever without crashing. Also, the grid format selection screen recently changed and is totally ridiculous. Please change it back so the regular photo grid options are up first, not all the weird star shapes and repetitive "scrapbook" layouts, thanks. Also fix it so it doesn't crash!! I don't want to find a new app but this is ridiculous, it shouldn't still take me an hour to edit 3 photo grids. (It wouldn't take that long if I didn't have to start over when it repeatedly crashes halfway through my work). I have this problem on iPhone 13 Pro AND iPad Pro.

Developer Response ,

Dear PhotoGrid users,
We're sorry that we can't meet your needs. Could you please contact us through the feedback mailbox below? We will definitely work hard to optimize the product!
Email: photogridapp.feedback@gmail.com
Thank you for your support and cooperation, and I look forward to hearing from you:)

Scam

This photo grid app, keeps putting notifications on the screen to access a free trial. I already had a free trial. Once you have a free trial , you can no longer get that trial again for free. The notification stays on the screen and gives me three options, 1. Continue, 2. Try trial or 3. give up. Then it has an x in the upper right corner. I clicked on the x to navigate me back to the photo grid app photo editor, but it took me back to the screen with the three options. I was afraid to click on a option, because I did not want to accidentally click on the wrong option and get charged for a subscription that is not free. Because trials are only free once. This notification is misleading and is edited to confuse the app user into clicking the wrong option and making an unintended purchase. I’m going to take screenshots of this and report this as a scam.. because that’s what it is.. Stop forcing app users to subscribe to a free subscription when they have already had a free subscription and stop manipulating your ads to cause app users to make an accidental purchase.. this is manipulative robbery and you need to be sewed.

Developer Response ,

Dear user, we are deeply sorry for the inconvenience that caused you.
If you pay for a premium plan with an accident, please contact us by email. We will provide immediate support to solve the problem. Thanks!
email: photogridapp.feedback@gmail.com

definitely potential

i feel like this app has a lot of potential! i just have a few suggestions and i really would love the developers to at least consider these because i love the app, but i really need these changes to make me love it even more:

1) i love that i can edit my photos and make grids and memes and everything. it’s awesome to have it all in one! but when i actually upload a photo to this app, it comes out really blurry. i would love it if you could fix it so that my photo would look just like it does in my phone. it doesn’t look that blurry unless it’s uploaded to this app, and i would like it to stay hd like on my phone.

2) basically, this is like off-brand instagram but better because i have a lot of tools that allow me to edit my photos and videos and make cool collages, which instagram doesn’t allow. so if this is going to be like a better version of instagram that many people switch over to (which i definitely can see happening in the future if you maybe take my advice), allow private messaging so people don’t have to make connections through comments. if you’re worried about privacy, don’t worry too much because you already have a block button and you can make it so people can just delete the messages like instagram does. i would LOVE to have this feature to allow me to actually make friends.

thank you so much, and please consider my suggestions ❤️

Developer Response ,

Dear user, thank you for your advice and for reaching out to us. Also thanks for your suggestion. Please give us 5 stars to encourage development team to create more features and provide the best user experience for you. Thank you! Please contact us via photogrid@conew.com

Beware of the “3 day trial”

The app has decent functionality, very basic, but sometimes you don’t want to wade through a more complicated app to put a border and some text over two photos. So that’s all well and good, there’s an extreme amount of premium content, which is fine, but almost overruns the app. My issue… they offer a “3 day FREE TRIAL!!!!🚨🚨”
basically everytime you even think about clicking on premium content. I do these sometimes, because I’m very good about cancelling the subscription, but with these guys, you don’t get a chance! They’ve gotten me a couple of times, both times I’ve just been immediately charged the $34 or whatever, with no trial period (about a year between the two, I forgot). I assume that once upon a time, I received a 3 day trial and cancelled, so now they show me as ineligible for the trial, which is fine, but SAY THAT! It’s an absurd bug not to fix for over a year. Two stars because it’s not a total dumper and Apple is great about refunding App Store purchases from shady devs.

Developer Response ,

Dear user, sorry for all the inconvenience caused to you. Every user would only be received a free trial one time. Warm reminder, because the application payments process is through the App Store, any payments and personal processes such as if you need to cancel your subscription and apply for a refund, PhotoGrid is not authorized to complete your needs. This is due to the payment and personal policy on the App Store. We are sincerely sorry for the inconvenience. If you have any thoughts want to share with us, please feel free to let us know.
Please contact us via Email:photogridapp.feedback@gmail.com.
Warm regards PhotoGrid