# Photo Focus: Blur Effects — user reviews > 567 indexed App Store user reviews of Photo Focus by 丽譞 牛, rated 4.20/5 from 1,363 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-focus-blur-effects/id1063223648/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-focus-blur-effects/id1063223648.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 804 · 4★ 257 · 3★ 159 · 2★ 60 · 1★ 83 ## What do users think of Photo Focus? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Simple and straightforward - 💡 Great for making memes - 👍 Variety of blur effects - 👍 Works well for basic photo editing **Cons** - 🔒 Locked features behind paywall - 🐛 Buggy and glitchy - 👎 Confusing and unintuitive interface - 👎 Excessive ads - 👎 Doesn't work as advertised **Commonly reported bugs** - Blurring extends beyond intended area - Crashes when trying to use certain features - Restores original image instead of unblurring - Time stamp gets distorted when editing photos **Most requested features** - Undo/redo functionality - More free blur and editing options - Clearer instructions and tutorials - Better performance and stability ## Newest reviews (10 of 567) ### 3/5 — Prost *2020-03-19, version 1.88* Nu Îmi place ### 4/5 — 沒有復原鍵嗎？ *2019-05-12, version 1.88* 我要返回上一步，劃錯一直重新... ### 2/5 — Clunky *2019-04-10, version 1.88* Very hard to figure out at first. Not having an undo button is very frustrating ### 4/5 — Cool *2019-03-30, version 1.88* Cool ### 1/5 — How about some instructions? *2019-02-10, version 1.88* There is nowhere in the app that explains what the different buttons do. What good is a great app if you don’t understand how to use it? ### 1/5 — Not good at all *2019-01-31, version 1.88* Not easy to use, and too many adverts! ### 1/5 — This app is poop *2019-01-12, version 1.88* It doesn’t look good at the end don’t waste your frickin time on it ### 4/5 — Needs an undo button *2018-12-25, version 1.88* Does exactly what I was looking for. But undoing what you did requires going all the way back to the first step. Great app though. ### 1/5 — Really *2018-12-11, version 1.88* Came for zoom blur. Locked content. ### 4/5 — 不錯用 *2018-11-10, version 1.88* 不錯用 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Zombie app *2025-04-07, version 2.1* I’m always excited to find an app that doesn’t want a ridiculously overblown subscription, and over the moon when it also doesn’t scrape every bit of my data. But…. this program has seen better days. I spent some time carefully outlining the subject of my photo and it was doing great. Then I went to adjust the level of background blur and it all went sideways. The crisp outline of my subject was replaced by blurring that extended well past the edges, ruining all my hard work. The level of blur got stuck and wouldn’t adjust properly. It all ended badly and the love affair is over. ### 1/5 — What? *2020-09-17, version 1.88* As soon as I paid for it, it stopped working. ### 1/5 — =( *2020-07-03, version 1.88* I want all the effects free but this just makes me sad all I wanted was to make a vid with motion blur but this just stinks ### 1/5 — Sham. Sneaky. *2020-06-04, version 1.88* I uploaded a picture from a security camera so it had a time stamp. Your app makes the photos blurry and when you “unblur” them it’s restoring it to what it originally was. My time stamp was perfectly fine until I uploaded my pic, then it was unintelligible. When I “unblured” my pic I was able to see it as it originally was before I uploaded it. Complete sham. ### 1/5 — Дибилизм *2020-03-28, version 1.88* Это так тупо!Фото сразу размывается а потом если сделать фокус то фото приходит в изначальное состояние ### 1/5 — 👎 *2020-03-12, version 1.88* It made the pictures more blurry when you put it into the editor so that when you actually went to “fix it” it looked the exact same as it did before. ### 1/5 — Hard to use *2020-02-01, version 1.88* Just an all around terrible app, deceiving title and very difficult to navigate. ### 1/5 — Scum *2019-08-13, version 1.88* Downloaded to add a zoom blur, which I saw in the preview screen shot. Not only is the app littered with ads, the zoom blur is locked behind an in-app purchase. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2019-08-01, version 1.88* I purchased this app thinking it was gonna work after reading the reviews, but this app doesn’t work at all! A waste of time and money. Shows all this stuff that I could unlock if I paid for the app so I did and don’t see any of it on the app. Then it even has a tutorial that looks good of course for show, but when you are actually using the app it does nothing for the picture! What a waste!!! ### 1/5 — Some words would be nice *2019-03-15, version 1.88* Don’t understand what these shapes mean. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Works great! *2024-05-18, version 2.1* I just wanted to blur the background of some photos for Craigslist and it works great. It does a lot more and I'll play with that later. Simple to use and it's actually free. ### 5/5 — Good *2020-06-04, version 1.88* Good ### 5/5 — Amazing *2020-02-17, version 1.88* I love this app it makes me soooooooo pretty everyone should try this app!!!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Simple to use *2019-09-24, version 1.88* I just wanted a photo to have the background blurred, it was easy to do and I’m happy with the outcome ### 5/5 — Приятно *2019-08-19, version 1.88* Легко и просто ### 5/5 — Good *2019-08-15, version 1.88* Good ### 5/5 — Motion blur *2019-05-29, version 1.88* All I wanted was motion blur and i got it and surprisingly no watermark 10/10 ### 5/5 — Best! *2019-04-22, version 1.88* Супер программа, выделяет очень хорошо и быстро ### 5/5 — Excellent!!!! *2019-02-24, version 1.88* Finally! A well written app that does what it says. The developer who wrote this app is highly skilled. He (or she) did an excellent job of making sure that everything works. It is easy to use and does what it says it will do. ### 5/5 — 上一步的按鈕在哪？ *2018-10-28, version 1.88* 稍微畫錯要還原至上一步的功能在哪裡？ 一畫錯就要重新來很不方便⋯ --- *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.*