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Yes...IF the tables WERE turned

Kpedney’s inability to understand is should bring sympathy. Shutterstock advertises a FREE app & royalty FREE images. You don’t find out the expense until AFTER you’ve registered and given your personal information to SS to do with as they will. That’s the usual price of anything FREE on the internet. Not necessarily from one that exacts fees. There is nothing FREE on this site/app that I could find.

There are plenty of websites that do offer FREE image downloads of varying quality. No one denies Kpedny or others the right to try to recoup the expenses they have in doing photography. The complaint lies in the false representation of “royalty FREE images” that still incur a significant cost.

I’m deleting the app, cancelling my account and, if I plan to pay for images, I will buy them from a site that doesn’t misrepresent itself.

What’s not to understand?

BTW, do you know the music and movie industries also incur costs? I’m sure you don’t expect to download their content for FREE either.
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I would recommend Stutterstock to a friend.

I found that the selection and ease of how Shutterstock works was just about perfect for my needs. I really enjoyed that I could pre-buy an amount of pictures and then select as I went. The variety of topics and the quality of the pics were a great asset.
The negative things I would say is that this has such short timelines. Having a monthly fee was out of my budget, so I had to work quickly to get what I needed before cancelling future months. I also felt that we should be able to filter the type of pictures as to what was suitable for a younger crowd to see and those who would enjoy something more risky (i.e. lingerie and poses)
A suggestion I would have is to incorporate 'Placeit' or a similar idea so it would be easy to add your own touch to mockups. Best of all if there was a way to add your product to a picture. Like you branded frisbee flyer to a picnic scene.
A friend recommended shutterstock andI would recommend it to a friend as too.
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Horrible Experience

Bought a package for 750 stock photos and they automatically took off over 250 photos. I phoned to say there is a mistake and they acknowledged there was an issue but refused to give me photos. The package has now timed out and I don't have all of the photos I need. What's ins of company acknowledges a problem and then refuses to fix it???
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Poor UX, not really usable

Am a paid Shutterstock website subscriber. This app has an unnatural UI, forces you to use landscape orientation, a lack of the most basic filters so is not usable for a typical paying customers requirements. The makers of the app should read Apple's user interface guidelines and at least make some attempt at following them. Feels outsourced.

It sort of works, but is not usable as a Shutterstock subscriber.
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crashes

great for finding cool pictures otherwise though. but it starts loading a lot and it will continue to do this for half an hour even though I have full internet. I close the app, turn off my phone and try again for the same result. please fix as it is difficult to use like this.

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I very love this app. Theres a lot of wallpaper that i use and i love these! 5stars for you!

C-R-A-S-H

A iOS developer once told me about an app he was coding "first I must make sure it doesn't crash".

Shutterstock: first things first. Correct the crashes. Please.

Fantastic picture/graphic selection!

Easy to download, vector files let you design as you want...love this app!

I seach on my iPad

Loved the website, but the iPad made searching even better. Great images, super service and now even better with this iPad app.

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