Useless.
The filters are useless. They barely change anything. Want refund but probably lost this money.
Free trial is a lie
Don’t fall for the free trial! They will take 9.99 from you with out your knowledge.
Longterm client, gone
Really disappointed to learn the original afterlight is now basically dead for THIS version. Which is just a rip off of lightroom. Cant work without crashing because the creators took all the features and put them behind a paywall. Cool! Literally the same dust and grain options now stuck behind a subscription fee. 15 years of loving your app diminished by schemes and greed.
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Needs a little more versatility
There is a lot you can do with the picture filters, and it improves your pictures very well, but for adjusting and readjusting text there is a strong lack in capabilities to go back and correct your design of typography. Needs to be made easier to make re-adjustments to the typography.
Went to a subscription model
Was a great app, now useless.
Best App for Color Adjustments
I've used this app for years and years now, and I always come back to it. There is nothing that does it like this one when it comes to colors, filters, effects, adjustments... even compared to Photoshop (on the phone). I love Afterlight. They seem to be a good company too, I was grandfathered into the premium for being here before there was a premium, and they've never gone back on their word. You don't have to pay even more for additional community filters if you have premium either. Good app. :)
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Interface
After about twenty minutes of use I couldn’t find a single AI feature, and I can do all the basics I need to edit my artwork without having to pay for it.
10/10 I would truly rate them higher if the App Store would let me
10/10 I would truly rate them higher if the App Store would let me
Crashes Constantly, Minimal Color Options
Was looking for something just to tweak some wallpaper colors. When I opened this app, it asked for notification permission; when I hit “don’t allow”, it crashed. Reopened, went into add a color overlay to a wallpaper and none of the presets were what I wanted, so I cancelled to go back and pick a new image, but this crashed as well—every time. Doesn’t give me any confidence that it wouldn’t crash while making changes to my photos and lose everything.
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Review
A bit frustrating that the app is always trying to upsale me every time I’m on it
Disappointing updates
I’ve been using after light for as long as I can remember. One of my favorite parts about it are the film like presets. I loved the gold one, you used to have 20 different variants and be able to tap the filter to change it slightly - but with this update now there is only one and i’m not a fan of it. Don’t know why they’d get rid of the multiple something for everyone options but unfortunately the MULTIPLE variants were the reason I still use this app and now I have no reason too. Disappointing as the variants were my favorite filter i’ve ever used
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Love it
Love the app! I'm not a photographer but this sure helps me learn to edit the look of a photo!
Update Issues Resolved.
THANKS !!!!!! Working great again.
Response from developer
Hi there, an update was just released that fixes this issue, please make sure to update and try again! :)
Nifty & Brilliant
A fantastic all-rounder for mobile image editing; contains a countless number of professional, designer, and user-made filters of endless variety, as well as the editing tools to make and catalogue your own with ease.
Devs are responsive to customer issues, and fix (the very few) bugs that occur within a single day or two.
The consistency of this app is a godsend, and the new filters introduced every so often bring plenty of variety.
The premium upgrade is worth it in my opinion, just to be free of pop-ups and access the full suite of tools.
Plus it’s a one-off purchase!
Devs are responsive to customer issues, and fix (the very few) bugs that occur within a single day or two.
The consistency of this app is a godsend, and the new filters introduced every so often bring plenty of variety.
The premium upgrade is worth it in my opinion, just to be free of pop-ups and access the full suite of tools.
Plus it’s a one-off purchase!
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Response from developer
Hi there, an update was just released that fixes this issue, please make sure to update and try again! :)
무한 사진 로딩 에러
업데이트 후 사진 불러오면 계속 로딩만 되고 화면이 넘어가지 않음.
Response from developer
안녕하세요! 방금 이 문제를 해결하는 업데이트가 출시되었습니다. 꼭 업데이트하신 후 다시 시도해 주세요! :)
Well worth the premium version, but…
As always, an amazingly intuitive and essential photo app, but the latest version has a severe bug. When attempting to press “use” during the image selection process, the app gets stuck on loading indefinitely. Running on my iPhone 11 Pro (iOS 17.4.1) I had a simple low-resolution image showing a spinning wheel for 1 hour before I gave up, and I tired this for a number of various resolutions.
I really hope that this is looked at soon, as I really don’t want to lose my 6 year daily photography streak or have to swap to a worse app. I’ll rewrite this review if the issue is resolved! :)
(Unfortunately this bug is still present in the latest [27/03/26] version)
I really hope that this is looked at soon, as I really don’t want to lose my 6 year daily photography streak or have to swap to a worse app. I’ll rewrite this review if the issue is resolved! :)
(Unfortunately this bug is still present in the latest [27/03/26] version)
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Update Issues
▪️With the Afterlight 5.2 update today, I am unable to launch the app in the extension portion photos on my iPad. Might be due to the update of the iOS 26.4 also today.
▪️ Guidance please.
▪️ Guidance please.
Best App for Color Adjustments
I've used this app for years and years now, and I always come back to it. There is nothing that does it like this one when it comes to colors, filters, effects, adjustments... even compared to Photoshop (on the phone). I love Afterlight. They seem to be a good company too, I was grandfathered into the premium for being here before there was a premium, and they've never gone back on their word. You don't have to pay even more for additional community filters if you have premium either. Good app. :)
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Crashed & lost everything
I discarded a layer and the whole app crashed, and I lost almost an hour’s worth of work. And this was right after subscribing to pro! Before the crash, it was fantastic. So disappointed. Now I’m hesitant to start over, I don’t want to lose my work again.
Nothing but filters that you have to pay for
I wanted to actually fix the lighting in an image. The only choices I were given with a paid plan were photo filters that I already have in my phone’s camera app.
Best editing app since 2015
Great effects, the app doesn’t take advantage of the pro phones/ipad. Also wish you could edit in hdr. Everything else amazing had this app since 2015.
