Luminar Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience41.6% of reviews
Neutral13.7% of reviews
Negative experience44.7% of reviews

~ Based on 817 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Luminar

Is Luminar Safe?

Luminar: Photo Editor&Enhancer appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Luminar is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 4,795 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 4,700 App Store ratings for Luminar.

Is Luminar Legit?

Luminar: Photo Editor&Enhancer appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Luminar is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Beware of getting charged even after you cancel your subscription before renewal

I camceled the subscription BEFORE the free trial ended and I still got charged. Scam. I was looking in to their software and planned on getting their desktop app package that included the mobile app. Obviously won’t be. I will be seeking refund via credit card

Love the app but…

I love this app but I wish it had better masking features. The lack of masking on mobile is an issue and still forces me to bounce around different apps or import into Luminar (desktop) to finish edits. I wish the masking and toning on mobile worked as they do on desktop.

A game changing software

Luminar has completely transformed the way I work with my images. I’ve used a lot of photo‑editing software over the years, but nothing comes close to the clarity, power, and ease of use this program delivers. Every tool feels intuitive, every adjustment responds instantly, and the results are absolutely breathtaking.

The AI enhancements are remarkable — they bring out detail, color, and depth in a way that feels natural, not artificial. My images look cleaner, sharper, and more lifelike than I ever thought possible. The glow effects, lighting tools, and color controls are especially impressive. They let me create rich, radiant, ultra‑realistic artwork with almost no effort.

What I love most is how Luminar respects the original image while giving me the freedom to elevate it. Whether I’m working on devotional art, portraits, landscapes, or creative edits, Luminar makes everything look polished and professional. It’s fast, stable, and beautifully designed. Luminar has completely transformed the way I work with my images. I’ve used a lot of photo‑editing software over the years, but nothing comes close to the clarity, power, and ease of use this program delivers. Every tool feels intuitive, every adjustment responds instantly, and the results are absolutely breathtaking.

The AI enhancements are remarkable — they bring out detail, color, and depth in a way that feels natural, not artificial. My images look cleaner, sharper, and more lifelike than I ever thought possible. The glow effects, lighting tools, and color controls are especially impressive. They let me create rich, radiant, ultra‑realistic artwork with almost no effort.

What I love most is how Luminar respects the original image while giving me the freedom to elevate it. Whether I’m working on devotional art, portraits, landscapes, or creative edits, Luminar makes everything look polished and professional. It’s fast, stable, and beautifully designed.
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Apparently not for Chromebook

I would have rated higher after I had paid for the full version, however decided to wait a few days. Worked fine last night but this morning it just kept crashing. I googled to troubleshoot and have now found out it’s not suitable for Chromebook, so money down the drain. It’s a pity because I liked it ☹️
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Easy to use, Pro Results

Switched from Adobe Lightroom. This is quick and easy to get great results.

New to software

Day 1, having moved from Lightroom, finding this a little difficult to get my head into

App crashes regularly

Love the idea of the app and the Mac app is fantastic. However doing any meaningful edits that stacks multiple changes ends up crashing the app on my iPhone 17 pro max. I usually use the blur, skin retouching and colour features but I guess it’s too much for the app to handle or a bug that crashes it
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It failed me

I first was happy. But, then there were glitches and it deleted photos I’ve now lost .

pc版は優秀だがmobile版はダメ

RAWに対応していないので、Lightroom mobileで jpgに変えてからでないと使えない。
対応するカメラ一覧みても、古い機種ばかりで、 mobileで手軽に編集が手間掛かって不便なアプリ。

At last….more things for iPad users

Love the fujifilm nostalgic filters and more skies….excellent….what else can you do

Last update for IOS…

Guys, thank you for your job, this app is one of the best. But how can I see what I’m gonna pay for if I can’t even try any filter? Please, make at least preview or smth…

간편하면서 퀄리티 좋습니다.

컴퓨터로할거 아니면 이게 답

Response from developer

좋은 피드백을 주셔서 감사합니다!

Unusable

I’m an older user and this app is incredibly hard to navigate. It’s not intuitive nor does it offer much assistance. Worst app I’ve ever downloaded. Unless you have professional photo editing experience you should stay away from this app.

Not how it sold itself

Don’t waste your money you need desktop access and upgrades in package to get access to proper raw editing

需求增加批量导出图片功能

1.需求增加批量导出功能 ;
2.增加白平衡调整功能 ;
3.增加排序和筛选功能;
4.编辑完返回的时候每次都到置顶位置?你们是没用过?;
5.越用怨气越大;

Response from developer

您好!听到您遇到这样的情况,我深感抱歉。请放心,我们始终致力于不断改进我们的应用程序,并积极听取您的建议。我会确保将您的建议转达给相关团队。

Love it

Easy to use, love the option of actually purchase it and not subscription(!) Team working hard and update app from time to time with new features. Can’t wait to see what next 😁❤️

Still not ready for prime time

Has a lot of potential with some of the tools and presets but the mobile versions even on the m4 chip and the iPhone 18 pro max are still very buggy with frequent crashes and hangs this can be a frustrating experience, especially when you find yourself “holding your breath” after being deep in edits and hoping it doesn’t crash. For now I’ll stick to Lightroom and capture one on my iPad.
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No HSL !!!!!!!

Seriously.. no HSL module on a photo editor ???? And no way to save mid edit…. You are joking right ????? How can you even justify charging for it without the basic functions of a photo editor ??

It WAS a good app, then…

I was happily using the app and my photos looked pretty good. The enhance function made the photos look great and the skies function turned cloudy days into partly cloudy or bright blue. Now, the skies function only shows two choices and freezes. Can’t do anything. And I paid for lifetime. Not happy.
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Useful for quick edits, but not a fully developed/tested app

This app shows great promise, but is let down by poor integration to the file manager and frequent crashes.

On the positive, you there are some really nice features that give quick/good results. I especially like the Light Depth feature and skin blemish/smoothing features.

While you can open files from the file manager (as well as photo gallery), full resolution exports can only be saved to the iPad photo gallery, which does not support my preferred workflow. I end up having to re-export from the gallery, making each photo edit slow and clunky.

The app locks up or crashes frequently. This is especially true when working with OM System (e.g. OM-3) RAW files. In addition, there are some of my OM System 50Mb (hand-held) RAW files that Luminar just cannot export and the come out black. This is disappointing when you have just spent time editing them. It seems that the software developers didn’t put any code in to check for running out of resources so Luminar could gracefully handle the situation. As a developer, this seems unacceptable and I speculate that they were rushed into a release before they had carried out basic testing.

As it stands, I will probably only use the app to power through quick JPEG light edits of family photos and carry on using Affinity with RAW files for photos that deserve more considered edits.
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