Lean User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience21.2% of reviews
Neutral5.0% of reviews
Negative experience73.7% of reviews

~ Based on 179 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Lean Safe?

Lean - Clean up Live Photos does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for Lean is 45/100.

This assessment is based on 73 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.9/5.

Safety Analysis

21.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
74.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 73 App Store ratings for Lean.

Is Lean Legit?

Lean - Clean up Live Photos appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Lean is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Thank god

This app save my life!!!

Waste of money

I should have read the reviews first. I want my money back.

Avoid this app! Good idea but waste of money

Awful execution of a good idea.
The size of the photos remains the same! That defeats the whole idea of converting from live to single photo.
In addition, the app deletes all the meta data, such as location, data and time.

Problematischer Datentransfer

Was die App macht, ist sehr gut. Eigentlich!
Mich stört auch nicht die Tatsache, dass die Fotos unter „Zuletzt“ als neue auftauchen - das wusste ich ja vorher.
Allerdings verweigert diese App immer wieder ihre Arbeit und behauptet, mein Speicher wäre wahrscheinlich voll (ist er aber nicht!). Liegt es vielleicht eher daran, dass die Server des Entwicklers nicht erreichbar sind, um die „statistischen“ Daten zu senden? Selbst wenn das vom Datenschutz her unbedenklich ist, darf davon nicht der Erfolg des Umwandelns abhängen!
Bitte korrigieren!
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Useless.

You can actually do what this app claims to by taking a screenshot.

Failure if not a fraud

It says I have no Live Photos to fix, which is wrong. I have 1322, which it ignores. There are ZERO instructions, so app does nothing. Do not buy. Disgusting that Apple allows this in the App Store, and Apple should allow refunds. If no stars were available option that is what this app deserves.

Does not work

It does not work after I changed about 70 photos. Not loading after I tried to change more photos and changing photo order now everything is a mess. Can you consider refunding me for this app?

Lean did not work at all on my iphone 15.5

Lean did not work at all on my iPhone 15.5

It just works!

If you're getting error messages about free space, but you have the space, the problem's most likely you've already backed up to iPhoto. So the live photo's in the cloud. Delete your unwanted live photos before you plug in at home, or on a device that stores your full resolution photos, and you'll be good! Been using this app for years, couldn't live without it!
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No “select all” option…?

I’ve got about 5000 I want to convert. No “select all” option means it’s going to take me forever 😅 I wouldn’t have paid £4.49 for it if I’d know.

Ruined my photos! Nightmare!

I spent an entire evening converting thousands of my Live Photos to still photos. There is no button to say select all. I had to click the photos one by one for a few thousand times. And what a mistake it was. My photos are completely ruined by the app. What the app does is that I ended up with thousands of still photos all dated the same date, with no more location data in the photos. I am a designer who always rely on the location of my photos to work. My photos have been ruined. This is not fair.
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Very unhappy!

I keep getting an error which says the error is due to lack of space. I loaded the app in order to free space. Wasted my money.

Strips EXIF data

DO NOT USE IF YOU CARE ABOIT EXIF DATA like location, date, time, lens info, etc. I’ve used this app before and I thought it kept all EXIF data and just removed the Live Photo. It ruined a bunch of my photos which is disappointing.

All photo details gone

This app removes all the date and time information of each photo changed and that scrambles the order the picture were taken, I had several hundred photos that I needed to keep in the order I’d taken them and now I spend hours sorting them to correct order.

Bug

After deleting a thousand photos, I’ve found that the metadata of the original photos were not duplicated over as described. I’m running iOS 15.2.1, please fix the issue, otherwise very easy to use!

Très pratique mais avec une limite de taille

Super pratique et efficace. Par contre les données EXIF ne sont pas toutes conservées, mais surtout la date de prise de photo est perdue, remplacée par la date à laquelle Lean à effectué sa modification… C’est très dommage par ce que du coups je ne pourrai pas utiliser cette application. J’attends une mise à jour avec impatience pour peut être corriger cette fonction.
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Degrade of time stamp treatment

I have been using lean for about two years and love it. However on latest update, it began to ignore Exif’s time stamp and rewrite it with when live photo is converted by lean. I hope it will soon be fixed.

Doesn’t work

It will not process any of my pictures and continues to give me an error message. Don’t waste your $5!

If only it worked

Great concept but doing more than one photo results in an error even when there is plenty of free space. Makes the app basically useless

Does not work on iPhone 11 or iPad mini 6.

Not useable - all I get in the app are error messages that suggest I’m trying to convert too many photos at once (even when I select just a single image) and that my device memory is low (my iPhone 11 and brand new iPad mini both have plenty of free space).