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Photoshop Express Photo Editor
Adobe Inc. · 740,127 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 67 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"features"
14 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. This used to be my go to app for photo editing until they updated everything to require a paid subscription, features that I used to use that used to be free are now paid features" - Cel2311
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"photo"
11 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. This used to be my go to app for photo editing until they updated everything to require a paid subscription, features that I used to use that used to be free are now paid features" - Cel2311
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"subscription"
11 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. This used to be my go to app for photo editing until they updated everything to require a paid subscription, features that I used to use that used to be free are now paid features" - Cel2311
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"free"
11 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. This used to be my go to app for photo editing until they updated everything to require a paid subscription, features that I used to use that used to be free are now paid features" - Cel2311
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"everything"
8 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. This used to be my go to app for photo editing until they updated everything to require a paid subscription, features that I used to use that used to be free are now paid features" - Cel2311
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"premium"
8 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This is not a free app. I used to ma kb e the most basic changes for free, but now everything is under premium, which requires a subscription." - jmodef
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"photos"
8 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bring Back “Combine Photos”. “Combine Photos” is arguably the most useful feature on this app, as it allows you to use a cutting tool while adding multiple layers. I’m a freelance artist, and this feature is absolutely crucial to my job. I don’t appreciate when Adobe r…" - LeonBelmont12
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"crashes"
7 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crash. To pay for this app and have it crash half the time is ridiculous. Perform all these edits and it says error saving then crashes. All work lost." - Alocalguy
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"work"
7 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crash. To pay for this app and have it crash half the time is ridiculous. Perform all these edits and it says error saving then crashes. All work lost." - Alocalguy
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"image"
7 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not user friendly!. Trying to simply remove an object in a photo but there is no explanation no guidance nothing! Cannot remove the image 😡" - c7rhodes
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"feature"
7 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. This used to be my go to app for photo editing until they updated everything to require a paid subscription, features that I used to use that used to be free are now paid features" - Cel2311
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"load"
7 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not good anymore. It’s so stupid features they used to have are now locked behind a paywall! Like should have just never let them be free in the first place. But then NOOO because “no one will download our app” bye bye old roaches." - The first beanster
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Terrible
This used to be my go to app for photo editing until they updated everything to require a paid subscription, features that I used to use that used to be free are now paid features
This is not a free app
I used to ma kb e the most basic changes for free, but now everything is under premium, which requires a subscription.
Terrible
This app keeps duplicating clips during editing. I’ve deleted it, replaced it and even started over (after an hour of work) and it’s still not working. I don’t do app reviews but that’s how much this has aggravated me for the amount of money we pay for this service.
FIX IT!
FIX IT!
Watermark
upset and disappointed. I loved the app and use it several times/day. I cannot use it with the logo watermark on it. To remove it you are forced to pay a very high subscription. A once loved app, now forced to look elsewhere
Not user friendly!
Trying to simply remove an object in a photo but there is no explanation no guidance nothing! Cannot remove the image 😡
Definition of Self Sabotage
This app has become unusable and awful. The most simple features require a subscription now and they have removed everything that made this great.
App never works
This app sucks!!! It never works
Whole app is just a screenshot
Nothing functions. Like clicking on a dead image.
Bring Back “Combine Photos”
“Combine Photos” is arguably the most useful feature on this app, as it allows you to use a cutting tool while adding multiple layers. I’m a freelance artist, and this feature is absolutely crucial to my job. I don’t appreciate when Adobe randomly decides to pull features with no prior warning. Now I can’t work. No other application offers the same features that Photoshop Express does, and not nearly as intuitively. Adobe claims that it’s present on their other apps such as Adobe Express, but that’s a flat out lie. It is nowhere near the same thing. Bring this feature back ASAP.
Delete
Will not let me delete my account.
Not working for a while
Crashes every time i ooen the apo
They asked for a review
I hate it the menus have too many useless options over bloated I just want to edit my pics not add ai filters
Not good anymore
It’s so stupid features they used to have are now locked behind a paywall! Like should have just never let them be free in the first place. But then NOOO because “no one will download our app” bye bye old roaches.
Nothing but glitches
Doesn’t work. When I try to export I get the spinning wheel forever and nothing ever happens. Half the time it crashes. This is a garbage app.
Can’t even crop a picture
I can’t even crop a picture in app without it bugging out and randomly changing the settings/borders. Never had any issues on the desktop version but dear god the app is genuinely unusable, I shouldn’t have to spend 15mins fighting the app to do something that takes less than 2 seconds to do on the desktop version
Dysfunctional app
I do not recommend this app because of three reasons.
One, you have to pay over 100 dollars a year to get the whole editing options of the app.
Two. It gave me an option of a 14 day free trial. But it tried to make me pay that crazy 100 dollars first.
Third. The options I do have, they suck. It keeps freezing and says, “can’t load”. This app is very dysfunctional. Don’t pay 100 dollars for this lazy app.
One, you have to pay over 100 dollars a year to get the whole editing options of the app.
Two. It gave me an option of a 14 day free trial. But it tried to make me pay that crazy 100 dollars first.
Third. The options I do have, they suck. It keeps freezing and says, “can’t load”. This app is very dysfunctional. Don’t pay 100 dollars for this lazy app.
Sucks!
I want to remove people and this app just adds a replacement.
Don’t wast your money
This app blows. Give me my money back
Where did the combine photo feature go?
The ability to combine photos simply disappeared one day. Why?
DONT UPDATE
the latest update ruined everything! Took away a lot of free BASIC features ( like the healing tool !! ) , lots of free simple filters also were removed . Basically useless app unless you go for the premium .
Counting on Apple to improve the photo app to the point that you won’t need greedy Adobe anymore to simply retouch your pictures. That’s ridiculous Adobe!
Counting on Apple to improve the photo app to the point that you won’t need greedy Adobe anymore to simply retouch your pictures. That’s ridiculous Adobe!
Trash app
Everything is gated behind a paywall that’s absurd
I tried three different apps to remove a poster on a solid color wall, this one performed the worst.
Title. Very disappointing that this app can’t do something so simple. The first option replaced it with neon looking nonsense text. (The rest of the image is a wide angle shot of a kitchen). The second option was better, but the attempt at matching the wall color was abysmal and the quality looked degraded. The native iPhone Photos app did a better job, but the remove tool in Google Photos gave the best results.
Don't bother
It constantly freezes when you keep declining the paid version
BUTT APPLICATION
STUCK BEHIND A PAY WALL FOR EVERYTHING F ADOBI😡😡
NEVER EVER: Generative AI
I would rather cut off my head than use generative AI.
Garbage
Unfortunately I can’t give zero stars which this app truly deserves. Adobes greed has totally ruined a once useful app.
No way to dodge and burn
Adobe can add all the gratuitous new features they want, but it doesn’t make up for getting rid of old tools or the workarounds for old tools such as dodge and burn. It’s so much faster to just do it myself than to deal with AI constantly messing up things.
PAYWALL PAYWALL PAYWALL
Just charge for your app. Nothing irks me more than a download trap with a million paywalls for any and all features. Instant 0 stars.
Hate update
Used to be good
FORCED QR CODE WATERMARK
This is absolutely ridiculous! I had to reinstall PS Express after 8 years of use and not only was the healing/cloning feature paywalled for free users, here's the gut punch: there is now a MANDATORY gigantic QR code watermark for all exported photos, thus making has the app entirely useless.
I have deleted PS Express until this unnecessary price-gouging decision on watermarks has been reverted. SHAME ON YOU, ADOBE!!!
I have deleted PS Express until this unnecessary price-gouging decision on watermarks has been reverted. SHAME ON YOU, ADOBE!!!
Can't even do basic edits without paying
I've used this app for years and there were basic edits and filters available without a pay wall. Now you can't even open a photo without being prompted to sign up for the premium subscription and there is no bypass.
Used to be better
This app used to be better
Do not promote things you don’t want used, artists don’t like bait & switch /pay for play.
Please hire the Avery developers back!
PLEASE FIX UR APP
Still Crashing after update. I think this is never going to be fixed because it has been almost 2 months. I will keep sending this until it gets fixed
Ruined Free Version
No app is obligated to give you a free version, I understand that. But this used to have one that was decent. Now, if you try to save a photo without a subscription, it inserts a giant QR code that covers a quarter of the image. And it only springs that on you once you’ve already put in the time to edit your photo. I won’t consider paying for something that seeks it in such a backhanded way. Do better.
HELP!!! APP Won’t Open!!!!!!!
I am very Frustrated! My PS Express won’t open!! APP WONT OPEN!!!!!!! I am not getting any Tech Support
Terrible App
Don’t waste your money
Fix the app
It was once the best app to use for video or photoshop use, now it’s not good for anything without it crashing and cannot hold on to data for sh- it keeps repeating most recent upload and will not transfer multiple videos onto one timeline. A huge waste of time and energy, left angry and back to capcut
Application
I hadn’t recieved any major notifications that my free trial had ended on either app or email for such a major subscription. Also, attempting to actually utilize this, the app isn’t verifying my premium status and keeps asking to buy premium when it’s already there. Fix the unsupported system at least.
Used to be great …
This app used to be great and really easy to work with, but for some reason,
the basic fonts are no longer available. They won’t download on my device. The fonts I use the most used to show up in recent, but that no longer happens. I am not thrilled with these changes.
the basic fonts are no longer available. They won’t download on my device. The fonts I use the most used to show up in recent, but that no longer happens. I am not thrilled with these changes.
Keeps crashing
Crashed a lot and can’t edit multiple photos at a time
Needs updating
App stays stuck “loading” , will crash and kicks me out of the app
Keeps crashing
After the latest update to add stupid AI slop features, I cannot do anything. If I try to use photo editor it won’t pull up images saying “unable to load image”. If I try to make a collage it will kick me out after selecting my photos.
This sucks because I use the collage feature to promote my work and now it’s useless.
This sucks because I use the collage feature to promote my work and now it’s useless.
Bueno
Hay q pagar para poder hacer lo q quieras
Worst app ever
I went to the app. It kicked me out. I did it again. It kicked me out. Why does Photoshop hate me?
Will not load
The app will pull up the photoshop loading screen then shuts down.
COMBINE PHOTOS - Still NOT Working! NEEDS TO BE UPDATED TO FUNCTION CORRECTLY ON IPAD A16 2026
A new update & still the COMBINE PHOTOS feature does not function at all on a fully updated ipad A16 2026, I’ve uninstalled & signed out multiple times & I’m still not able to use “COMBINE PHOTOS”, Canceling my subscription……👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
gotta pay for everything
it was nice up until they started putting a watermark on every single picture you edit.
Really
Took forever to load and I have a lot a lot a room -
Trash.
Trash. Why is it $100 for the same features as all other “photo editor” apps. Literally nun special.
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Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)