Precious - Baby Photo Art 4+

I bought this app with such skepticism, I truly did not think it would be a good app. I figured it would be an ok app since you had to pay for it but i figured a lot of other baby apps I’ve paid for just did the basics and wasn’t anything special (not particularly talking about photo editing, but any app relating to babies or parenting or documenting photos). My oh my, I was proven very wrong after playing around with Precious. It is such a cute app! I have told every parent i know about it, my family members all have gotten the app after I’ve told them about it. There are many different options and it’s incredible how real the pictures look. What a great alternative for parents who are looking for beautiful photos! Whether you’re looking for a baby photo shoot or every day silly pictures, monthly milestones, holidays, or keepsakes, this app is beautifully designed to be used with ease and even auto generates pictures for you! Thank you for making such a great app!

This app is super mediocre and the pricing is absurd. It’s really great for the first 3-4 months of your child’s life. After that it started mixing up photos, choosing really odd frames and borders to associate with my child’s pics and often times selecting a pic that apparently isn’t on the phone any longer so it’s just blank....uhhh how does that happen? The time lapse function was amazing for the first few months, but after that it takes an insane amount of time to load and includes tons of pics that have been deleted (meaning it’s just a white screen in the app). It often selects a cute border or frame that says something that makes no sense with the photo. I would also say that after almost 2 years of ownership (I purchased annual plan and forgot to turn off auto renew before end of first year) the app has gotten worse and not better at sending me usable, cute pics. Instead they are often blank and the captions make no sense for what is in the pic. The only use for this app is if you want to spend a lot of time tapping through the various (and somewhat weak) editing functions. But if you really want to edit pics just buy a photo editing app. Highly advise you against spending money on this app as you will eventually come to despise it...even if you enjoy it for the first few months of your kids life.

See below for an excerpt from the app’s Terms of Service. It’s dangerous to give rights away like this for photos of your children.

By submitting, posting, displaying, providing, or otherwise making available any User Content on or through the Services, you expressly grant, and you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant, to Precious a royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, syndicate, publicly perform, publicly display, and make derivative works of all such User Content and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your User Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Service and Precious’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each User of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your User Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms.