# Color Effects - Photo Editor — user reviews > 437 indexed App Store user reviews of Color Effects by The Othernet, LLC, rated 4.10/5 from 5,027 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/color-effects-photo-editor/id409913910/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/color-effects-photo-editor/id409913910.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,487 · 4★ 378 · 3★ 185 · 2★ 126 · 1★ 851 ## What do users think of Color Effects? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Great app - 👍 Easy to use - 👍 Awesome features - 👍 Useful for photo editing - 👍 Lovely to play around with **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes when saving photos - 🐛 Doesn't work as advertised - 💰 Requires payment for key features - 📢 Too many ads - 🐛 Buggy and unreliable **Commonly reported bugs** - Doesn't save edited photos - Recolor feature doesn't work as expected - Frequent crashes and freezes - Compatibility issues with newer devices **Most requested features** - More color options - Ability to recolor without paying - Better save/export functionality - Improved zoom and precision tools ## Newest reviews (16 of 437) ### 4/5 — Network error *2025-02-21, version 8.96* This app is great, but I keep getting a network error when I open it and the auto brush just doesn’t work and it keeps going back to its original color. Otherwise the app is great. ### 2/5 — Watermark spoils it *2024-05-05, version 8.96* Been using this app for years and now a watermark at the bottom of exported pics makes them useless unless you crop it out and resize the picture. I’d happily pay a couple of pounds to get rid of the watermark but it says the Pro version is not available in my area (UK). Have to find another app to do the basic greying out now 🙁 ### 1/5 — Used to be perfect! *2023-10-29, version 8.96* If I had reviewed a week ago I would have given this app a 5 ⭐️! But then I had to reset my phone (not because of this app) and now every 10 seconds it’s showing me an ad so it’s impossible to get any work done. I already paid my $ to have unlimited pro features for this phone/Apple ID but there is no where to click to restore my purchase!! It’s really frustrating! And no love to click for “help” “customer service”! Now I’m just ticked off even trying to use it at all. Please please fix it & let us restore our one time payment we already made!! Update- months later and ya”ll STILL F*d up! Why isn’t there an option to restore my purchase? I’ve now paid you all a “one time fee” three times!! And now apparently ur website is shut down?! Super sketch. ### 2/5 — the efforts there just don’t take my money thanks *2023-09-07, version 8.96* this app took my money it needs to be removed from the app store it is terrible. ### 1/5 — Scam *2023-08-16, version 8.96* They charge you to use anything then it literally just gives you the option to draw ### 1/5 — App *2023-08-09, version 8.96* This app always stops,and I have to delete it and start it all over again!!!!! ### 1/5 — Wanted to change colors but… *2023-07-26, version 8.96* Won’t let me change color I don’t want gray only grrr ### 1/5 — Rubbish app *2023-06-24, version 8.96* Meant to be free and easy to use, not true. Poor instruction no tutorial, still can’t use it. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY! Still angry about this scam. Disgusting. ### 1/5 — Scam!!!!! *2023-06-02, version 8.96* Asks you to pay once your all set to color. Then it just crashes!!! I want my 2.99 back!!!! Now ### 1/5 — You have to pay *2023-04-24, version 8.96* Wanted to change black background to the white - impossible. Keeps asking to pay for the app, no options to do it with an advertisement. Couldn’t do a thing for free. So deleting it, it’s totally useless. ### 1/5 — Horrendous *2023-04-17, version 8.96* You can’t use the recolor unless you upgrade, what an absolute joke to advertise coloring and then ask users to pay ### 2/5 — Misleading *2023-03-26, version 8.96* You can basically do nothing unless you make a purchase. ### 1/5 — There’s better apps *2023-02-28, version 8.96* Even after you are force to see the ads you still end up with a water mark on your final picture! ### 2/5 — No high resolution option *2022-11-25, version 8.96* Even if you pay for this app it doesn’t let you edit or save at normal photo resolutions. Everything is way more pixilated than it needs to be. Don’t buy it. Get Color Pop or something else instead, they are way better. ### 1/5 — Pointlessly removes original color *2022-11-07, version 8.96* The point should be to RECOLOR, not to have to color everything from scratch. Free version limits you to gray and still makes you watch crappy ads. Pick one or the other. ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work *2022-11-01, version 8.96* I purchased the app so I could colour a picture - nothing happens …. Not happy ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Horrible scam *2026-08-02, version 8.96* First off, if you can even manage to open the app and add a photo without the app glitching out and shutting down, you have to pay to even use the main feature of the app?? Insane ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2026-07-21, version 8.96* Couldnt get it to do really anything ### 1/5 — Why isn’t this working ? *2026-05-10, version 8.96* Support page won’t open in Safari. Unsecure. I used to love this happened? Please help! It keeps going back to white and it isn’t putting in solid color! Please fix this! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-02-08, version 8.96* This used to be a great app but I guess the developers abandoned it or something… No matter what color you try to select, it remains on white. No in app assistance. Too bad. ### 1/5 — Abusé *2024-12-23* 1 euro LA retouche photo c’est un peu se moquer de gens ! Abusé ### 1/5 — not free, low quality *2024-12-12, version 8.96* This app is not free to recolour. It is free to make convert the picture to black and white. It's always disappointing to be tricked into buying apps that are not what you have spent time signing on for. The overall quality of colouring is quite poor, pictures look very doctored, fake. ### 1/5 — Absolute rubbish *2024-07-21, version 8.96* The app is so basic & clearly doesn't do what it shows ### 1/5 — I Paid for full version however still throwing ads. *2024-05-24, version 8.96* I Paid for full version however still throwing ads. ### 1/5 — Can’t get the colors I want *2023-11-26, version 8.96* All I wanted to do is change the color of a whit house to a tan color. Can’t even come close to any color. Can’t do any darker colors. It just turns gray. Can’t do black. You choose a color you want and it is never even close. Dave you money and time. ### 1/5 — Not an upgrade but a downgrade *2023-11-20, version 8.96* This app used to be completely free before but now the main tool I use (which is color change) is unavailable unless I pay which is ridiculous. This app was good for a FREE app but not good enough to pay for tools within. Seriously not worth the money… ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — THE BEST *2026-01-17, version 8.96* Used this for years, perfect! ### 5/5 — This work great…BUT… *2023-12-30, version 8.96* I’ve seen that some folks have complained that they are unable to load photos or are unable to edit new ones. (Blank or Grey screen). Then they delete the app and try re-loading, etc. Suggestion: BEFORE you go that route, be sure that in your iphone settings(Settings/Color Effects/Photos/) that you give the app Full Access or you won’t be able to edit anything. (Sorry, can’t speak for Android users) This should be made clear by the developer. I have been using the “free” (w/Ad’s) version for years. Got a new phone and blamed the app for this issue. Once I toggled on Full Access all was again right with the world. ### 5/5 — Love it 🤩🤩🤩🤩 *2023-04-20, version 8.96* This app is so cool because it encourages me to color and do fun things in the real world. I also love it because of the take a photo or pick one that was already taken feature 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 ### 5/5 — WOW! *2023-01-04, version 8.96* This thing is amazing it’s so fun and really does the job! I recommend it really I do! 😁😁😁 ### 5/5 — Color effect *2022-04-04, version 8.96* Love it!!!! Such an enhancement to every day pics ### 5/5 — Favorite Photo App *2022-02-26, version 8.96* I love this app, I use it so often to enhance photos, to highlight those I love in each photos. I have printed out and put on display more photos all due to this app❣️ ### 5/5 — Love it *2022-02-19, version 8.96* This app is so great I only wish is that they did a version for Samsung ### 5/5 — Excelente *2022-01-16* Fácil de usar e ótimos resultados. ### 5/5 — Best app ever *2021-11-19, version 8.96* The one of the best app ever I have ### 5/5 — Updates *2021-09-16, version 8.96* Is there any new updates coming soon? At the same time is there any type of thing that I can see which tells what new apps are coming soon like subscriptions. If so then I’d like that have that. Great app too. --- *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 2026-08-29.*