3.2
out of 5
206 Ratings
As somebody who constantly uses PicsArt, I was excited to find out they also had an app that makes Gifs. I downloaded the app, and needless to say I’m a bit disappointed. I’ll start with the decent things about it. The overall quality is very good. Everything seems very organized and it’s easy to use. However, I’ve been trying to make Gifs for a while and it tends to skip over photos. I’ll be viewing the Gif over before I export it and I’ll see it skip photos. It’s very frustrating when this happens- I’ve been trying to make a Gif for about a day and every single time a photo is skipped. I have to re-do it. I’ve tried taking photos out, adding in photos at different times, even reloading the app. Nothing works. I also dislike the inability to go right back to your Gif. Once you’ve clicked next, if something is messed up, you can’t just go back and fix it. You’re forced to restart the entire Gif. Overall, I expected more from this app saying as it’s connected to PicsArt, which is a pretty great app.
I think that if there was a way to remove the "PicsArt" or whatever it says, watermark, from your rendered gifs. That this would be a stellar animated gif creation application. Though, in my opinion, I still find the app, 5SecondsGif, to be the better alternative to this program. I just do not want to help advertise for this developer with that watermark in the lower right corner of my work. If there was a way to remove said watermark, paid or otherwise. That would definitely improve this application I think. I don't find the program terrible at all. It's just that seeing a logo plastered on my work, really dampens my creative spirit and makes me not want to use the app. If that sort of thing doesn't bother you, I'd bet that you will find lots to like here. iPhone 6 Plus/ iOS 9.2
PicsArt is my favorite photo editing app so I was very excited to find out they had also done one for gifs. There aren’t really a lot of good apps for gif editing/combining and I find myself using websites rather than actual apps, so again I was very excited. But, sadly, it turned out not to have the features I was hoping it would. Overall, the app is pretty good, they have the right idea with the gif combing and the filters. Though I do hope in the future they add more features. Like for example; more options for resizing gifs to fit each other and perhaps even allowing users the option to edit individual frames. I’ll be keeping it for a while and hoping for a future update. It has a lot of potential.
*Note: I normally EVER write reviews but I fell so strongly about this and believe this app could be amazing with a small upgrade.* This app is pretty neat, and I would use it much more often in the future...if...I had the option to remove the watermark! I normally don't care about watermarks but this one really bothers me to the point where I would pay $0.99 to remove it. It's a cool app with nice features, just needs an update with an option to remove the watermark!! Developers please see take these reviews under consideration and add this feature.Also, what would set this app over the edge is more effects! That's something I enjoyed the moment I played around with the app!
The magic feature is really cool but it's super annoying how it doesn't work!! First of all...it takes you to PicsArt Video app to add the magic effects but once you wait the allotted time it just goes out of whack! It takes you to the home page of the App Store and then it crahes(???) or resets the app to the camera/video selection thing where you start an edit in that app. And if you try returning to this app, GifsArt it's not there either? It only worked once and I have no idea how. This is very irritating, the feature is very cool but it doesn't operate properly 99% of the time. Please fix it-_-
I love this app for making my own little GIF artworks to post on instagram, but it could use a couple improvements: 1. Please add a way to go recall previously-used GIF stickers and sticker search terms, which would make things much easier. 2. Please add a way to create my own animated GIF text phrases that I can use in my GIF art.3. Please add a rudimentary layer system, like in photoshop. That would dramatically increase the creative options. 4. Please add a way to add my own sound or music to a GIF. I want to be able to add my band's music to a GIF for posting on instagram, so this would be nice.5. Finally, please allow a way to adjust the height and width of chosen GIF stickers. Often, the chosen stickers are warped after downloading. Having this feature would enable users to correct for this "warping" effect.Otherwise, great work on this handy app!