# Blend: Combine Photo Layers — user reviews > 342 indexed App Store user reviews of Blend by Owen Schick, rated 4.40/5 from 3,574 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blend-combine-photo-layers/id975578412/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blend-combine-photo-layers/id975578412.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,500 · 4★ 457 · 3★ 318 · 2★ 96 · 1★ 203 ## What do users think of Blend? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🎨 Good blending effects - 💡 Useful for quick photo projects **Cons** - 🔒 Paywall blocks basic features - 🐛 Crashes and bugs - 📵 Constant requests for reviews and subscriptions **Commonly reported bugs** - Work area reverts to tiny size - App crashes during editing - Screenshot function not working as expected **Most requested features** - More free editing tools and filters - Ability to resize and reposition layers - Improved stability and reliability ## Newest reviews (16 of 342) ### 1/5 — Have to pay to use it. *2026-04-30, version 3.3.5* Needed this for a quick photo edit and it had the free features I needed but you can’t save the image without paying. Not sure why you’d even have free features if you need to pay to save the edit. ### 1/5 — Kostet! *2026-03-29* Man kann rein gar nichts machen ohne das es kostet. Ich habe das Tutorial für eine Bildbearbeitung durchgemacht und als ich das Bild herunterladen wollte kam direkt die Anzeige das dies kostet. Man kann es nicht einmal Screenshotten. ### 1/5 — SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED to even TRY the app *2026-03-19, version 3.3.4* You can't even try the app without paying for a subscription. The first thing that happens when you load the app is clicking through a survey that takes you to a paywall where the default is to pay for a subscription before even trying the app. Then when you figure out how to close that, you can play with the app a little bit but it won't even let you save one image to see what it looks like and check the output statistics on your image. Unless of course you pay for subscription. Which is ridiculous. I could see paying 5 or $10 one time for a tour like this, but certainly not a subscription. Plus, if you can't even try the app for a little bit, how would a person ever justify buying a subscription? I wasted my time with this download. ### 1/5 — Free trial doesnt work *2026-03-17, version 3.3.4* Free trial doesnt work and you get charged 44.99 ### 1/5 — Hoax??? *2026-03-05, version 3.3.4* Like the person who posted before me, this ap worked for me at FIRST, but hasn’t for several months now, and I just signed up in Sept. ‘25! There is no place to go to help correct this situation!! ### 1/5 — Garbage *2026-03-03, version 3.3.4* Paywalled, lets you create something but then doesn't let you export it and they have it set up where you can't even screenshot the work. 0/10 find a different app like I'm about to do after wasting 15 minutes. ### 1/5 — Makes you pay for anything *2026-03-01, version 3.3.4* You can’t do anything for free. You can’t even screenshot or export without paying. ### 1/5 — Costs money *2026-02-27, version 3.3.4* Costs money to export even after you get the photo how you want it ### 2/5 — Works great until it doesn’t! *2026-01-10, version 3.3.3* The app worked great for about 10 months. Then it stopped working correctly and wanted to force me to purchase a new plan even though mine was not yet expired. I decided to renew it through my Apple subscription settings even though it was not yet time to renew and it still would not recognize my subscription. There is no log in or log out prompt. I even tried deleting the app and reinstalling it. It still didn’t work. I finally just cancelled it. Please add an account log in and out option! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-11-27, version 3.2.6* Don’t even work just get a bug error ### 1/5 — Yearly Fee? No Thank you! *2025-11-14, version 3.2.5* This is a very simple app with very few features, and they want us to pay a yearly fee for it instead of just letting us purchase the app. Ridiculous! Spend your money somewhere else. ### 1/5 — I can’t use the app without saying I’ll rate it. *2025-11-06, version 3.2.3* I don’t know, it forced me to do this to try. Probably a sign I’ll be uninstalling it soon. Here goes. ### 1/5 — Blocked by a pay wall 👎🏼 *2025-11-05, version 3.2.3* Blocked by a pay wall ### 1/5 — Always a payment *2025-10-28, version 3.2.3* I’m trying to do one simple photo overlay and I have to whip out my credit card to sign up/ pay for a dumb subscription? Oh, let me just screenshot and crop my own photo since the app will at least let me stack my photos. Just kidding! Because it blacks out your screenshot in your camera roll. 🫩 can’t even do the tiniest things anymore without paying. ### 1/5 — Removed Video Editing *2025-07-20, version 3.2.2* I’ve been using this app for a while & not only have the output colors irreparably changed from their inputs (non-matching), they have removed the ability to edit videos in the app, which was my main purpose for using it, & left the category as “Photo & Video”. Terrible. If you have a 2023 version app, never update it, they ruined everything. ### 1/5 — No *2025-06-09, version 3.1.9* Was looking for a focus stacking app - the 3 day trial charged me $40 for a year of nothing I can use. Very cool. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — scam *2026-08-24, version 3.4.3* there is no free trial, you cannot save without paying ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2026-08-06, version 3.4.0* Downloaded it just to make a quick little meme by combining 2 pictures together. Kept having issues with the layers and wasn’t allowing me to change which layer was where. Oh, also, ITS NOT FREE AT ALL. You get a 3 day trial but it signs you up. Sorry, only needed it for 1 picture and it’s trying to make me do a subscription. I’ll pass, very annoying and money greedy app ### 1/5 — Bad bad bad *2026-06-29, version 3.3.9* I have to pay to export anything. Cannot screenshot it legit needed it for one picture and couldn’t even do that ### 1/5 — Annoying Garbage *2026-06-21, version 3.3.9* App is functionally useless without a 30$ per month subscription. ### 1/5 — Greedy *2026-06-18, version 3.3.9* Can only save images if you pay. ### 1/5 — Scummy *2026-06-11, version 3.3.9* Most good settings are behind a paywall, and so is saving any images you edit as well. No pay, no editing, can’t even screen shot it, making the app genuinely unusable for anyone who can’t pay for it. I give it a Minus 8 out of 10. ### 1/5 — Nope *2026-06-10, version 3.3.9* Delete ### 1/5 — Works but they use very shady practices *2026-06-08, version 3.3.9* The app seemed to work great for the one and only thing I would ever need it for but the only way to save my work was to give them credit card information. I tried taking a screenshot of the work knowing it wouldn’t be full quality but to my surprise, it wasn’t any quality at all because the app somehow blocks you from screenshotting or screen recording. Needless to say, find another app. ### 1/5 — pay to use scam *2026-05-24, version 3.3.8* makes u pay immediately ### 1/5 — AI Sales app *2026-05-16, version 3.3.7* Open the app for the first time and you're met with the classic fullscreen non-skippable multi-panel sales pitch trying to convince you why you need the app you already downloaded. Then, you're funneled to a subscription page which you can close and finally use the app. However, you can't export any information (even screenshotting is blank) until you fork over some cash. There are dozens of free ways to edit images off of your phone. This is gross. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Work area tiny *2025-11-24, version 3.2.6* I have re-loaded multiple times and the work area continues to revert to tiny. It was such a fun app until this happened. ### 5/5 — Cool app *2025-11-04, version 3.2.3* I like it ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-08-27, version 3.2.3* This app is great ### 5/5 — please leave the center of the. photo *2025-07-31, version 3.2.2* might be great if i could see it ### 5/5 — Good *2025-05-11* Its very nice to use **Developer response:** Thank you, Junu! Happy to hear Blend feels easy to use. 🙌 ### 5/5 — H *2025-01-08* Hfh ### 5/5 — APP *2023-11-25, version 2.1.1* This is the most useful app I have found up till now and it’s easy to get started with ### 5/5 — Thanks *2023-10-22, version 2.0.9* Thanks ### 5/5 — Gets the creative juices flowing! *2022-11-13, version 1.9.5* This app is easy to use and taps into your inner artist and ignites a creative flow! Lots of fun too! ### 5/5 — ‼️♥️‼️ *2022-05-23, version 1.9.2* Love it...!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*