Painnt - Pro Art Filters for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Piccoman68

  Nice little app

  A nice little app for social media posting and interesting bunch of effects. I didn’t realize that it offered a monthly subscription to some of the effects, which is good and bad. It’s very easy to use. I can see how some of the effects would lag on slower systems (mine’s pretty robust, and it still took some time to render some of the effects). Recommended for the beginner-mid level photo filter enthusiast who wants to up their game.

  
  
• By ReviewGuru.com

  Used to be amazing, no longer works and no response from developer in over a year

  I used to rave about this app to everyone! I loved it. I don’t know what happened, but this app stopped being able to finish processing ANY file on pretty much every style selected. I contacted the developers as I have a pro subscription. That was over a year ago and I never heard anything back other than my assigned ticket number. My computer was fairly old so I thought it might have been my computer’s fault. NOPE. Just got a brand new top of the line Windows and am deeply disappointed to find that, after restoring purchases and going to convert some photos that Painnt still doesn’t work - it hangs at about 80% finished rendering. And then there are the crashes - oh so many crashes. They’ve done a much better job of keeping the ipad version up to date with improvements, but they seem to have abandoned the Windows version. Terrible shame. Don’t waste your money.

  
  
• By SonicPlayground

  Amazing but wildly unstable app

  First, the good: • The app is super simple to work with • Quality of image output and transfers is amazing • Large images are rendered quickly on my PC • Included styles and style library access is a big plus • User interface for setting up transfer parameters is clean and minimal (not trying to be clever) • It does batch processing! I wish it: • Would save the settings I've entered within a saved favorite style Now, the bad: • It's unstable and crashes or stops processing files frequently • The app crashes constantly when running batches (running batches as I write this and on avereage it's crashed about every 10 photos) Final words: If the instability issues were addressed for this app I'd happily pay for a year subscription or buy it outright. The batch processing features are what brought me in and it's worth it for that feature alone. I paid for the one month access and I'll continue using it for the handful of projects I have now - and I will continue to power through all of the crashes because it takes far less time to process images locally vs. on the web. If it crashed half as much I'd be dancing in the streets.

  
  
• By SkipToMyDo

  Needs to keep in mind that filter quality > quantity.

  This app is pretty good. I’ve been fooling around with it for most of the evening and haven’t had the issues with quitting/crashing that some other reviewers have talked about. I’m glad that it’s got a decent amount of material for free users (I’m using this for fun and don’t mind the watermark or SD rendering of around 1000 pixels). The major downside for me is the lack of filters that create an artistic effect that looks passably authentic (i.e. that looks like perhaps a human could have created it). Now, to be fair, none of the “AI” art filter platforms have a whole lot of filters that meet that standard, but for now, I’ll mainly stick with using Prisma on my iPhone for having the highest number of free filters that do.

  
  

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