Background Remover - Retouch 4+

So it said that if I “invite 1 friend” I would get free VIP for 30 days without having to do any paying things but then it made me buy VIP and you shouldn’t have to pay anyways because you have to pay for literally the one thing this app was made for, RETOUCHING AND REMOVING! All of a sudden the whole point of the app is you have to pay 20$ per year to remove stuff from a picture. It seems like a scam to be because I’m sure that there are other apps that you don’t have to pay and that’s how it should be! You shouldn’t have to pay $20 for an app that you might not even use all the time but it can be useful so you should have to at most pay $1 and not $20

Let me start off by saying this is no intention to hurt anyone who was a part in the creation of this app, but a piece of constructive feedback. Personally, I have never used an app so bad. When I first downloaded and tried the removal, I was in tears laughing at the result. To get an idea of what the app was like at first I imported a regular photo with people and objects that I could do without in the photo. In the App Store in clearly shows a tutorial on how the app works and how you can draw to remove an object or person. It cleanly fills in the blanks and makes a seamless finish, it made it look like nothing was there in the first place. While when I used it, it left janky wonky edges, and blurred lines. It looked so unbelievably ruined. When I tried the person removal feature it left a blurry outline of where the person used to be. In the tutorial it showed being able to get rid of any human, but once again the tutorial wasn’t completely truthful. When using the person removal tool you could only remove humans or faces it picked up on. So even if the person was far in the background and was just a blob that you wanted to get rid of, it probably wouldn’t pick up on it unless you could clearly see and define it as a human. Would not recommend this app. I will say it was free, so no money was wasted, and you get what you get for free. All in all I don’t recommend it to anyone looking for a removal tool.

This is a great example of clickbait in the sense that it lures you in with the deception of providing a free of charge way to remove people/objects from our pics’ background but actually won’t do what you want it to without paying for the subscription. The amount they charge for the subscription is pretentious for such a basic app. 4.99/week or $59/year?? That’s comical!! Should be a one time buy of $4.99 at the most. All it does is waste your time. As of today, 8-1-22, there have been ZERO improvements to the one issue that everyone in the reviews complained. Some of the reviews are from years ago too! No improvements! They respond to their reviews with an obviously scripted auto response that doesn’t address anything directly at all. They simply reply to negative reviews with something like, “thank you for your feedback, we’ll try to make improvements blah blah blah,” and “thank you for your kind words,” to those who surprisingly didn’t hate the app.

Dear app developers, I see you lol!!