I'm blown away by the apps feature set. I've use ReTouch for years, which is also by this app developer and its an amazingly app too that lets you remove large distracting acting objects from photos. There is a very large learning curve for this app. For those wanting to master it I'd suggest the Retouch app as a training platform. There are video tutorials in ReTouch at the opening screen. I think I'm learning to use Handy more readily because I've use ReTouch for so long and the underlying framework is the same.I wrote another review for ReTouch giving some tips to reviewers Q's there. I have no connection to the developer but I do publish my own 'tips' website...with an emphasis on ios things. It's what I love doing and I think the app developer may not speak English which may make emailing him fruitless. I edit a lot of photos, primarily for illustrations for my website...so I use a lot of onto editing apps...so does my husband who's a semi-professional photographer. This is probably one of the most powerful apps I've ever encountered...which is why there's a steep learning curve.I'm still learning Handy myself...there's so much power here and so many features it will probably be a long time before I master everything. But everything I've tried out so far works exactly as intended...when things go wrong for me it's always user error.

I've tried dozens of photo editing apps and this is so far the absolute best if the bunch. I'm a 20 year veteran of desktop Photoshop so I'm picky about my photo apps being robust and capable - this app is both. The interface is intuitive, the tools powerful (the healing brush is awesome - I bought the app because of how well this tool functions), the effects plentiful and fun. It's an agile app, with quick processing and easy undo-redo (even of multiple steps).It's stable (even on my old 4s I've yet to crash), it's nimble (no lag, no waiting), and it's my new favorite. I've been using Snapseed as my essential editor (another fast and stable app), but find the ability to pinch-zoom and slide around the zoomed image while editing to be a *huge* improvement over Snapseed, which has no zoom capability.

There are hundreds of photo apps for the ipad, but they just have the typical effects and basic adjustments (brightness, saturation, contrast, white balance, sharpening). This app is much different than any of those apps. Snapseed was innovative, and I will still continue to use it, but this app has many features that set it apart from other apps. The magic crop works great for most things with a repeating texture, but it's also a powerful cropping tool on its own. Tone and color has all the features you need, auto levels works great on most portraits, but for landscapes I prefer to do it manually. Sharpness is great if photos are slightly blurry, or just need to be more in focus. One of the best sharpening tools I've seen. Warmth is excellent for portraits and adds an excellent natural warmth to skin tones, but it makes landscapes a little too "gold" which I don't prefer for most shots. Retouch and clone stamp are fully featured and work great similar to touchRetouch which I'm also a fan of. Move me can be useful for something fast, but photoshop is still necessary for being more accurate. For amateurs, it's a fast and useful tool. The filters are my favorite part. They are fully customizable, you can combine them for great effects. I add soft vignettes to almost all my photos. Tiny planet is unlike any effects I've ever seen. HDR, Smart Contrast and Polarizer are good for color adjustments and creative coloring. All the other effects are also stellar, these are just ones I use the most. Frames work well, Grunge is my favorite. Textures are useful and cool, customizable, useful for giving pictures a creative finish. Overall a very nice app.

Have only had this app for a few hours, but I already love it. I've tried the move and magic crop tools...they work! One photo with plaid sofa was a bit off on extending photo, but a beach scene did well...had sky, mountains, waves, and sand. Both are very cool and very useful. Good array of filters. Navigation is easy and intuitive. It doesn't do selective lighting adjustments...will still be using Snapseed for that... but it does just about everything else. Handy Photo will definitely be my go-to editing app with assists from Snapseed. If future update includes selective adjustments, I might not even need that. As for my iPhoto or Photoshop Touch apps...they're collecting even more dust now, though the latter still has a few tools I'm glad to have.

I have been a professional photographer for 20 years and have relied on Photoshop as my main editing tool. Often I find myself exporting phone pics back to the desktop to edit because I can't do what I want on the phone.Handy has changed that for me. The retouching (healing) option is very good, and the smart crop works well. Being able to do selective area adjustment and having a smart selection tool like this app has make me go back to my desktop editing far less than before.I do have two dislikes for the app though. One major and one minor.My major complaint is that when trying to select a photo to work on the gallery view thumbnails are too small to see any detail at all, especially if you are like me and shoot multiple versions of each shot.The minor complaint is the magnification window that pops up when using the selection brush comes up on the left side of my finger. I am left handed and my finger always ends up blocking my view (partially) of the magnification tool. Being able to have a preference menu to set for right or left side display would be very useful.

I've been using Handy Photo more and more these days for several reasons, mainly:1- Output size/resolutionI've been using Handy Photo more and more these days for several reasons, mainly:1- Output size/resolution: if you are editing large files captured with a DSLR and uploading to a photo sharing site or marketplace that takes full-size files, then guess what? Snapseed will shrink the file size of your edited image down to your device's "native resolution" when you save it. Handy Photo does not seem to have that limitation and will preserve the image quality.2- The option to *selectively* apply basic adjustments & most filters: Yep. Paint them in or use one of their Lightroom-like adjustable gradient filters. (It would be nice to adjust black and white points up or down.3- Accessible history: this app is non-destructive in that it will save all of your prior steps until you load a new image. Even if you completely close the app, Handy Photo will let you resume your work and re-load all the steps on the latest image when you launch it again. In Snapseed on the other hand, once you apply an adjustment or effect the prior step is lost forever unless you save that step to your camera roll (and yes, I've done that more than I care to admit😳).The above 3 features were the nails in Snapseed's coffin for me. (I really do miss Snapseed's drama filters though😔)The "Retouch" feature is also near and dear to my heart (Me? Lint on my lens? Never!😉) The Magic Crop can come in handy but can be tricky to use. I sometimes wish the "magic" feature could be turned off if I don't want to inadvertently expand the image with cloned stuff on the edges.The interface's toylike feel (maybe that's just my take on it) took me some getting used to. But I quickly got past that when I could see what it can do. Sure, there are always more features that any app could use. But it's a great all-in-one editing tool to have in your pocket.