# Photo Animator －After Effects — user reviews > 169 indexed App Store user reviews of Photo Animator －After Effects by Old Man Sitting LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 5,143 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-animator-after-effects/id1474879280/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-animator-after-effects/id1474879280.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,065 · 4★ 390 · 3★ 185 · 2★ 115 · 1★ 388 ## What do users think of Photo Animator －After Effects? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Simple and easy to use - 🎨 Good selection of effects - 💡 Ability to add own photos - 🚀 Smooth and precise effects **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent requests for reviews - 💰 Subscription model required for full functionality - 🤔 Limited features compared to expectations - 🙄 Intrusive prompts to upgrade **Commonly reported bugs** - Rendering issues with longer animations - Crashes and freezes during editing - Inability to save with sound **Most requested features** - More animation options and effects - Ability to position and resize effects - Improved instructions and tutorials - Eraser tool to edit animations ## Newest reviews (11 of 169) ### 1/5 — Photo Animator *2025-12-01, version 7.4* Spent half an hour trying to animate a photo without success ,only appears to alter the contrast and brightness etc,it looked promising so opted for the 12 month subscription,I have now cancelled after the 3 day trial but will not be using it,time to move on,life’s to short,such a pity. ### 1/5 — Rien ne se telecharge *2025-11-26* Arnaque !!!! Vous pourrez faire votre présentation ou animation mais rien ne se téléchargera Ne dépensez pas votre argent ne téléchargez pas et ne vous abonnez pas ### 1/5 — Just a black screen *2025-11-25, version 7.4* Tried different photos, all just show as a black screen or app crashes out. ### 1/5 — Huh? *2025-11-25, version 7.4* So its basically MAKING me leave a review before i even see a single thing it does.... soooo yea. ### 4/5 — Storm Jordan media review *2025-10-23, version 7.4* Overall, I think it’s pretty cool. The elements look great and realistic as well as the water and the atmosphere. I would love to see the effects choices expand to more choices. Your competition has a lot more options. I will not publicly name the programs and undermine your company. ### 1/5 — Sucked *2025-10-02, version 7.4* I tried everything to make this scam work , guess what it did absolutely nothing but change color and shake . What a scam don’t waste a second on this . ### 1/5 — Quite useless *2025-09-17, version 7.4* The photos don’t actually get animated - you are just offered to place very primitive overlay effects on them or text etc. ### 1/5 — Disappointing *2025-06-08, version 7.4* I uploaded an image and it didn’t animate it. No options, no prompts, no questions… it didn’t animate NOTHING. ### 3/5 — Good *2025-05-31, version 7.4* There are a few options. ### 1/5 — Total waste of time *2025-05-08, version 7.4* They advertise that you can add motion to your photos, but all it is is this stupid additions like stars, smoke, clouds… It really doesn’t animate your photos… At least I couldn’t find a way to animate mine. ### 1/5 — Garbage. No instructions. Useless. *2025-05-08, version 7.4* I’ve seen some clunky barely functional apps, but this one is essentially a complete ripoff. I opted to rent for a month and canceled immediately. There are absolutely no instructions, no demos, and I couldn’t even load a picture to attempt to animate it. Apple should not rip people off like this. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Idles *2026-08-24, version 7.4* After choosing an image, it goes into an infinite buffer. ### 1/5 — The app doesn’t work *2026-08-03, version 7.4* I’ve wasted two days trying to get this app to work. It didn’t work. ### 1/5 — Hopeless *2026-07-16, version 7.4* In all the times I’ve tried to animate a pic it’s never worked ### 1/5 — stays stuck *2026-05-27, version 7.4* doesn’t work ### 1/5 — Scam *2026-03-15, version 7.4* This app just stays stuck on loading screen. It’s a scam ### 1/5 — Trash *2026-03-03, version 7.4* This app does not work. Consistently stuck on a loading screen. ### 1/5 — It does not work *2026-02-13, version 7.4* It does not work dont even know where to cancel ### 1/5 — Grrrr *2026-02-12, version 7.4* Bro this thing takes forever to load my animation like bro ### 1/5 — Don't bother! *2026-01-26, version 7.4* The animation is easy more limited than shown, it only adds effects, sent three popup to leave a review or Rhett time you click on something! Disgusting! ### 1/5 — Not easy at all *2026-01-03, version 7.4* Not easy to navigate. No undo could not get my photo to animate. Could not access the online help website. Totally useless and a waste of money ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — My Birthday day *2025-12-31, version 7.4* I m birthday on new year ### 5/5 — New to trying it *2025-12-22, version 7.4* Great so far ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-11-06, version 7.4* Love it ### 5/5 — Pencilmation *2025-11-06, version 7.4* 500 likes ### 5/5 — Don’t use *2025-07-14, version 7.4* Corny ### 5/5 — Cj *2025-06-03, version 7.4* Very good quality ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-06-01, version 7.4* The most amazing app ### 5/5 — Shah *2025-05-30, version 7.4* The sush ### 5/5 — Cool *2025-05-29, version 7.4* Excellent app ### 5/5 — Great *2025-04-21, version 7.4* Great --- *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 2026-09-01.*