Polarr Photo Editor Pro for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By hannasees

  no subscription for me

  I bought this app as well before they decided to have a whole subscription thing and unlike others, they haven’t charged me for anything so far. I’m using it as pro and have all the filters and tools available for me to use. I’m not sure why others having this issue if they had purchased it before they decided to have subscription on it. I too would be upset and leave a bad review especially being one of the few people who had purchased before they decided on that. So I completely understand. As for the app itself, they pretty much have everything you need to edit photos except color splash. Either I don’t see it or can’t find that option lol It’s fairly easy to use so I don’t think I’m missing anything but as for editing photos, it’s great. They have tutorial videos as well if it can get confusing. So 5 stars for me~

  
  
• By ELLIOTPAULSTERN

  Not what they make it out to be

  I couild easily give this app 5 stars because it is incredibly featured. The product is misrepresented. It is a play on word. They indicate that they support tons of raw formats and they do. And that is where it ends. Yes you can open a raw file and it looks outstanding on my Microsoft Monitor or my Ipad Pro but that is where it ends. When it opens the raw file it immediately creates a Jpeg version of that file for you to make your adjustments on. You ae not using the raw file like you would do in other raw procssiong software like Lightroom, Picktorial, Affinity Photo, etc. That is where the scam is. You are led to beleive my reading that it supports raw files that it is actually opening a raw file you shot with your camera which siimply is not true. Because you are working onb a jpeg image you have limited adjustment ranges you can work with. That is the scam. Is it a good product for adjusting Jpeg images. Yes it is but would you get better adjustment potential with a raw file. Yes you would. So if you are anticipating processing your raw file then you better look elsewhere because this program will not do it. Just to be clear. A raw file is 16 bit and a Jpeg file is 8 bit. Jpeg files are compressed, raw files are not. Everytime you work on that compressed file you are throwing away more and more image data and if you apply too much processing you will ruin the hard work you put into it to get a great final image.

  
  
• By Germy1n1

  Bad Update Doesn’t Allow Certain Pictures to be Edited

  UPDATE: Polarr help support refuses to work with me to try to work through the errors and dropped contact with me, very poor customer service. I have tested several cameras to see if just my camera’s raw files are causing this issue but its not the case, I have tested a GH3, GX8, and G9 and all three cameras will have the randomest photo files that don’t work. ORIGINAL REVIEW: This app was good until in this latest update the editor now doesn’t edit certain specific photos at random. I don’t know the qualifications for what does this to certain photos but I can shoot a whole batch of photos and photo P……131 will be perfectly fine in the editing then P…….132 will glitch out and not work for some reason even when they are the same RAW file. This needs to be fixed especially when I have clients expected my work to be turned over fast or I will go to another platform.

  
  
• By Phil Seymour

  Better and Better every year

  I probably have another review from when Polarr was first introduced, but there have been many new developments over the years and though I lost some of my custom settings on some updates, I can understand why I would want to use the newly introduced tools to create better filters than myold ones. This is a good addition to your photo editing kit if you havent got a copy of Polarr, you should before the company mistakenly thinks subscription apps are a good thing, (they are not). As long as the real program is available, I recommend that you get it.

  
  

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