# GifLab - GIF Maker & Editor — user reviews > 141 indexed App Store user reviews of GifLab by Maple Media Apps, LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 235 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/giflab-gif-maker-and-editor/id975415947/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/giflab-gif-maker-and-editor/id975415947.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 183 · 4★ 31 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 7 ## What do users think of GifLab? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Quick and easy to use - 👍 Simple and intuitive interface - 💡 Useful features like text overlay and looping - 🚀 Fast rendering of GIFs **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - 🐛 Issues with saving and exporting GIFs - 🚫 Limited customization options - 🚫 Incompatible with some devices/iOS versions **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when trying to save or export GIFs - Incorrect aspect ratio and rotation of GIFs - Inability to access full photo library - Ads still show up even after paying to remove them **Most requested features** - Add support for photos/live photos - Improve sharing options to social media - Allow more customization of text, filters, and effects - Provide better instructions and in-app support ## Newest reviews (18 of 141) ### 3/5 — Too buggy *2024-10-23* This app has so much potential and the subscription is reasonable and affordable. But it crashes if you try to use the HD feature. And I refuse to make low quality work. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app and restarted my phone a bunch and nothing helps. I’ll be back if they ever fix it, though. ### 4/5 — effective but bare basic *2023-07-03* This app works fine if you simply wish to change live images into gifs for example , choose the image size , one of 6 various speeds, and add short large text in a variety of colors and a handful of fonts, but the size of the text itself is u changeable- each font has one preset size that cannot be pinched or zoomed to fit as you want it to, and while the text presets are quite large for being unchangeable or adjustable so if you have more than two or three very short words , your entire gif is now covered top to bottom side to side in a font that is probably going to be kinda difficult to make out properly without eye strain or enhanced phone contrast levels turned up to view the gif- if there are multiple moving colors in the body of your gif, be it animated or live action video, these presets are for the most part on the undefinable side, having lines too thin and not fonts Designed to stand out , highly defined, with bolder opaque line work & crisp edges that will stand out and be visible against the moving images in the background video, while ALSO being small enough and formatted in ways so that the bulk of the main gif video background is easy to watch without key parts being obscured by the gif text , so you should both be able to clearly see and comprehend the important portions of the background video while simultaneously not having to struggle to try to figure out what the text says while the video is playing behind it- The failure of this app to provide that satisfactorily was to me the major downfall of the app, although nothing this basic is useful for my needs on most occasions, the fact that it couldn’t even manage e to apply the few tools that it DID offer practically PERFECTLY to me is enough for me to leave this off my list of the gif apps I’m always suggesting to people I know who want to make something super easy on a completely beginner level that comes out beautifully, and is easy to use. So yes it wasn’t a “BAD” app it just wasn’t a “GOOD” one. Lol ### 3/5 — Crashes often *2022-11-11, version 1.4* When processing videos into gifs the progress bar gets all the way to the end then the whole app crashes. Not sure why this happens to some videos and not others. Perhaps the developers can investigate. Otherwise a top notch app! ### 4/5 — Photos *2020-12-31* Can’t access all photos ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work *2020-03-21, version 1.1.4* Any picture/video/gifI have added to my phone in the last few days won’t show up in my gallery in the app. Making this app effectively useless for me. I would really like a refund ### 1/5 — Waste of $3 *2020-01-13, version 1.1.4* Gif to Instagram is just a black page...PLEASE FIX!! ### 1/5 — Does not work! *2019-11-07, version 1.1.4* The gif is created & played in app and in album but not when shared on social media! ### 1/5 — Horrible *2019-10-21, version 1.1.4* Doesn’t show all of the photos from my iPhone. Shows the first 200 only. No ability to import or add to it. Waste of money! ### 4/5 — Love this App *2019-07-03, version 1.1.4* Would love it a lot more if I could move the text around more, add more text, and shadowing. ### 1/5 — Плохо *2019-06-19* Не загружает даже, сразу вылетает , верните деньги ! ### 1/5 — Do not waste your money *2019-05-18, version 1.1.4* I’ve just gotten this app, tried to make a gif out of a video and it rotated the video 90 degrees inexplicably. There’s no obvious way to fix this or none at all, I tried to contact their support but when you tap ‘app support’ it takes you to their website with topics that lead to ‘solutions’ but no actual email contact. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Instant regret. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2019-03-20, version 1.1.4* The app does not sync to recent photo album and will not show all your pictures to even be selected. Additionally, when you try to save a gif to IG video, the app just closes / crashes without saving. Doesn’t matter how many times you reopen it and try again. It never works. So mad I wasted $2.99 on this!!! ### 1/5 — I want my money back *2019-02-15, version 1.1.4* Just keeps crashing when I try to convert Gifs for Instagram. ### 1/5 — Bad. *2018-11-23, version 1.1.4* GIFlab doesn’t post correctly to Instagram. Whether you save the video from the app or try to post it to your feed or story from the app, it doesn’t work. It makes the timing erratic. Won’t use ever again. ### 3/5 — Wrong framerates *2018-11-11, version 1.1.4* Not bad, but the GIFs it creates have weird thing where frames seem skipped and the GIF ends up being kinda jumpy. ### 1/5 — Gif to instagram is blank *2018-11-04, version 1.1.4* Hi. I paid $3 for this so I need to know why whenever I select “gif to instagram”, it shows me a blank page without anything to select next. Please help. ### 2/5 — Problem *2018-10-09, version 1.1.4* App keeps crashing when I try and select a video ### 3/5 — Gifs come out rotated wrong *2018-07-02, version 1.1.4* I’ll take screen recordings from my phone to make gifs but they always end up rotated 90 degrees clockwise ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Useless *2025-03-05, version 1.4.1* A gif editor that won’t import gifs. ### 1/5 — Age discrimination? *2024-04-07* Any reason why I cannot input a birthday before 1.1.1970? Not relevant or not appreciated as user? ### 1/5 — Limited Album Selection *2023-07-30* I want to make a gif from art I saved in a file external to iPhoto library but this app refuses to look anywhere else on my iPad file system. I can't use my art to make a gif. What's the point of the gif making portion of this app if you can't use your art? ### 1/5 — Ruined by NSFW ads and watermark *2022-09-26* Scuzzy ads you have to sit through and huge, unremovable watermark on the result ### 1/5 — 44? Not even for a OTP. *2022-05-08, version 1.1.4* Way over priced for absolutely nothing. ### 1/5 — Collects your age to sell to advertisers *2022-05-04* Why does a gif creation app need to know a user’s age? I read the TOS and the answer is that this app is selling user data to EVERYONE. View it yourself. It’s a long list. They’re collecting your age to help with the data they’re selling to advertisers. Deleted. ### 1/5 — $45 a year for a gif app? *2021-06-17* What the heck is the matter with the App store???!!!!!! The subscription model has to die. Apple please protect people. $3.99 maybe. But $45. Go F your self !!!!! ### 1/5 — Apple *2021-01-12* Отлично тянет IPHONE 12 MINI отличный видео редактр ### 1/5 — Crashes all the time *2020-12-23, version 1.3* As the title says: crashes all the time. It says it is converting my gif and reaches 100% then crashes automatically. Tried with several guf animations same results. ### 1/5 — Used to be good, now doesn’t work *2020-08-04, version 1.1.4* This was my go-to app for turning my gifs into videos for Instagram. It froze, so I uninstalled and had to pay a second time to re-install. Now nothing loads when I click on share to Instagram. I want a refund. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love Gif Lab Since Found *2022-12-11* I purchased GifLab a while ago and loved it ever since, quick renders and rarely any time the app crashes. Has a few bugs from time to time with rendering certain videos, nothing a quick app restart or phone restart wouldn’t fix. Never disappoint with quality of gifs as well! + always loved the addition for gifs to vids conversion tool! Overall awesome app, highly recommended ### 5/5 — Does exactly what it’s supposed to do! *2018-10-03* Love this app! In an ocean of apps full of empty promises Giflab does what I need it to do and it is easy to use and it’s not asking me to pay monthly for it’s functionality like other gif apps out there that are just ridiculous. ### 5/5 — Well worth the 3 bucks *2017-12-10, version 1.1.3* One of the more attractive UI’s I’ve seen. Great app. ### 5/5 — GifLab 👍🏼 *2017-12-10, version 1.1.3* If you’re looking for a way to create GIFs in a Jif (😏) - this is the app for you. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2017-12-10, version 1.1.3* Was looking for an app like GifLab. Easy to use and does everything I need it to. ### 5/5 — Simple & Quick *2017-12-08* Was looking for an app that was able to turn my videos into GIFs to send to my group chats so they would auto loop. GifLab was exactly what I was looking for. You can select the region of the video you want converted to GIF, change the speed, loop mode, and add text if you’d like to. Simple and easy tool. Well worth the 3 bucks for a lifetime of use. ### 5/5 — Simple & Quick *2017-12-05, version 1.1.3* No easier to to create & share a GIF ### 5/5 — Love It ! ! ! *2017-03-22, version 1.1.2* Love It ! ! ! ### 5/5 — Wonderful! *2017-01-04, version 1.1.2* Went through multiple apps but this one was the only one that gave me exactly what I wanted. Allows you to share your creativity on anything! Highly recommend. ### 5/5 — Wonderful App *2016-12-12, version 1.1.2* Clean, works flawlessly, supports awesome features like looperang and force touch, all around perfect gif making app. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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