Everything’s a subscription now and I hate it. With that said, I bought this app back when it was a one time purchase (I think for only like $1.99? Pretty cheap whatever it was) and it was worth the cost I paid. Not reverting my rating back up to a full 5 stars because for any new users I’d say the recurring subscription isn’t worth it… but since they restored full functionality for the one-time purchasers and the fact that the app itself is intuitive and useful for quick edits, I’d recommend it to anyone looking for this kind of thing on a phone. The only thing I’m hung up on is the subscription model… very grateful I didn’t have to deal with that. I wish it was a simple price hike on the one-time purchase rather than another subscription. I’m thankful I bought it before then.

I have been using union ever since it released several years ago and I hope it’s here to stay, because it’s very simple and easy to use. I have used it for many purposes from memes to collages, and it never disappoints. Of course to get it absolutely perfect sometimes if the images you’re cutting don’t have solid bright backgrounds, it can take a hot minute to refine it manually; but the point is, with Union, it’s simple to do that on your touch screen (it even gives you a little magnifying glass so you can clearly see what you’re doing on smaller parts since your finger will block the view.) so you can easily do it from your phone or iPad as opposed to your pc. (Photoshop is expensive, and although tools like GIMP exist for free on PC, Union is even more convenient if you’re on the go or instantly have an idea.) I’m writing this review because I feel like it deserves one, (and I NEVER write reviews, lol) and because I see the last update was a couple of years ago; I really hope the app gets updated again in the future and doesn’t become outdated with new apple software 😭 I use it so frequently, I’m sure there’s other apps I could learn but this one is my favorite and makes things so easy!! So, if you’re wondering if it’s worth it, trust me; it is. It’s been my best friend for many years now, and you gotta take advantage of it before it’s gone.

I bought this app when it was a one time purchase and now it’s a subscription, where is my money, I’d rather purchase photoshop considering it’s a one time purchase and not 5.99 a month for eternity this is nothing special there’s many other apps on the appstore which offer what this does don’t waste your money, I would’ve recommended this years ago but now I can’t in good conscience say that you should. and yes this is over like 5 dollars. it’s really that serious when they disregard their own consumers like most in the mobile market, I think we should strive for better.to add on top of this the free trial doesn’t work for me and crashes the app anytime I try to save, to see the fall from grace of this company, it’s sad. atleast my app used to work when it was a one time purchase, knowing their actions they’d probably make their other two counter parts to this app subscriptions, as consumers we have a right to not like so many subscriptions for things which just don’t need it, we already have to pay for them in the movie/film industry imagine a world where everything was a subscription. pretty soon we’ll have subscriptions for water bottles, what a cruel world, first world problems to the max.

A poor value app. “UNION” App sounded like a good idea but before I could even export my first masterpiece the consumer unfriendly app required a “subscription” based on Apple’s “Mal-scribeware” scheme which for the consumer/user is no good because you pay whether you use it or not, but for the developer it’s fantastic because the money rolls in even when the app is not being used, and takes advantage of older people with poorer memories or disabled people with even mild disabilities such as dementia who forget to unsubscribe allowing the developer to take advantage of the weaknesses of the human mind by allowing without termination the subscription to continue weekly, monthly or yearly only terminating automatically when the credit card is maxed out to the credit limit and no further “purchases” allowed by the credit card issuer. Other than the above scheme, I couldnt find any other way to “purchase” the App/software outright (which if it did wouldn’t be a purchase anyway but more like a “license”.) I couldn’t think of a more malicious price fixing scheme aimed to take the money from consumers in exchange for nothing. The future of artificial intelligence designed to take your money away from you is already here.