# PhotoDirector: AI Photo Editor — user reviews > 1,167 indexed App Store user reviews of PhotoDirector by CyberLink, rated 4.50/5 from 8,124 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photodirector-ai-photo-editor/id907366587/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photodirector-ai-photo-editor/id907366587.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6,448 · 4★ 661 · 3★ 233 · 2★ 161 · 1★ 621 ## What do users think of PhotoDirector? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💡 Lots of features and editing tools - 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface - 🚀 Powerful AI-powered enhancements **Cons** - 🔒 Aggressive subscription model and paywall - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🤖 AI-generated results can be inconsistent or low quality - 💸 Expensive subscription fees **Commonly reported bugs** - App freezes or crashes during editing - Inability to access purchased features - Inconsistent behavior when trying to save edited photos **Most requested features** - Ability to cancel subscription easily - More free features and tools - Improved AI accuracy and reliability - Ability to save edited photos without watermarks ## Newest reviews (10 of 1,167) ### 3/5 — Awesome app for editing *2026-05-30, version 20.13.0* I have had this app for many years now and love it for all the editing tools it offers. In a recent update though, my sister has been trying to use the collage feature and noticed every face was being changed. Some of them didn’t even look remotely similar to the actual person. It would be favorable if there was an option to choose not to use the AI editing function. Otherwise I enjoy the platform. ### 2/5 — Disappointed *2026-05-24, version 20.13.0* Does not live up to its claims. ### 5/5 — Excelente *2026-04-28, version 20.12.1* Excelente ### 1/5 — Too much money *2026-04-22, version 20.12.1* Downloaded & paid to use this for a specific tool only to find out I have to pay even more money to use it. ### 1/5 — アップデートの動画 *2026-04-17* 追記 アップデートされて改悪となった。 すぐセンシティブ判定され、思うように使えない。 それ以前もAI動画の失敗例も無駄にクレジット使って来たのだが、今回の改悪で課金するほどのアプリで無くなったのは残念。 機能を増やすアプデなら分かるが、使えるものが使えなくなるのなら、きちんと事前に知らせて欲しいし、その為に年間支払っているので、せめてWeb版で使えるようにして欲しい。 今のままでは更新は無い。 --------------- アップデートされてハグやキスの動画が作れるようになったのは良いが、デフォルトで5秒。追加で10秒の動画が作れるが、成功率は6割位かな。 失敗例の5秒だと、写真が向き合うのに5秒で終わるという、まるで依頼を無視した動画に。 ならば長い10秒に…してみると、元の人物が枠外に追いやられ、別人が出てくる。というこちらもあるまじき失敗例。これでお高めなコインや実費取られるとなると批判は免れまい。 あまりにダメな場合は保存しなくて良いので、返して欲しい。 さらに韓国メイクっぽくしてると、だいたい有名人に寄るので、センシティブ判定され何も出来ない。 まだお金をつぎ込むには、不安定なので注意が必要 **Developer response:** こんにちは。生成制限や動画品質、クレジット消費でご不便をおかけし申し訳ございません。二重フィルターの精度向上や動画の成功率は最優先課題として改善に努めております。誤判定や生成失敗による消費については詳細を調査いたしますので、お手数ですが「ホーム画面」右上の設定⚙️＞「フィードバックを送信」より、スクショ、元画像、プロンプトをお送りいただけますでしょうか。頂いた情報を元に技術チームにて修正と個別対応を検討いたします。貴重なご意見ありがとうございます。 ### 5/5 — Excelente *2026-04-09* Uso sempre pago com gosto pq é surreal não deixa as fotos artificiais deixa c padrão profissional rápido e prático qualquer pessoa edita rápido e sem dificuldade nenhuma **Developer response:** Oi Gemicael, muito obrigado pela sua avaliação de 5 estrelas! 😍 Ficamos felizes em saber que você paga com gosto e acha o resultado surreal, com padrão profissional, rápido e fácil de usar. Seu feedback nos motiva muito! Se tiver alguma sugestão, use “Enviar feedback” nas configurações do app. Obrigado pelo apoio! 🙌 ### 1/5 — Stupid. *2026-04-04, version 20.11.1* Mate i’ve tried this app to remove a singular strand of hair and it can’t even do that right, THEN when it actually does something right it makes me PAY for a edited image of removing a piece of hair. You can’t get nothing these days without money. ### 1/5 — Won’t do adult content *2026-04-02, version 20.11.1* Am a photographer - boudoir photos- wanting to experiment with ai apps for backgrounds/ touch up / etc. App will not allow that content, but you only find out after purchase. Research led me to believe otherwise. ### 5/5 — Great App! *2026-04-02* I love this app I can create beautiful quotes and memes! **Developer response:** Hi Massimo, thank you so much for your wonderful review! 😍 We're thrilled you love creating beautiful quotes and memes with PhotoDirector. Your support means a lot to us! If you have any suggestions, feel free to use “Send Feedback” in the app settings. Thank you again! 🙌 ### 3/5 — Too Young *2026-04-01* I look too Young **Developer response:** Hi Marcel, thanks for your feedback. We are sorry the AI results did not meet your expectations. Since AI effects can vary based on the original photo, please share the before and after screenshots via "Send Feedback" in the app settings (tap the ⚙️ icon in the top right of the home screen). Our team will review them to improve our models. 🙏 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Collages *2026-08-20* PhotoDirector used to have a very nice template collages for different occasions like birthday, wedding, graduation, valentines and so on but they don’t have it any more which lower their image among other apps. Very bad move for them to do so. ### 1/5 — WORST OF THE WORST *2026-08-12, version 20.15.0* 0 stars ### 1/5 — No me gusto *2026-08-04, version 20.15.0* Están tratando de cobrar una membresía qué cancele hace tiempo, por favor borren todos mis datos ### 1/5 — Prompt *2026-07-14, version 20.14.2* It doesn’t do what I ask and doesn’t know colors ### 1/5 — DO NOT DOWNLOAD *2026-07-10, version 20.14.1* The company has been charging me $39.99 every other month for almost a year even after I’ve cancelled the subscription and it’s only supposed to be charging that one time per year! The app isn’t even good enough to be worth $39.99 to begin with! ### 1/5 — Won’t respond to messages *2026-06-30, version 20.14.0* Purchased a new phone. Logged into the new phone and pro features that I paid for are unavailable. I’ve followed their directions on transferring accounts three times with luck. Messaged them on instagram 8 times on many different occasion with no response. I paid for the year outright too. ### 1/5 — Absolutely NOT free *2026-06-06, version 20.13.5* There is no functionality and no even-basic tools that can be used without the subscription page blocking you from saving it. Giant waste of time to be told basic features can be used for free. False. ### 1/5 — Free trial- don’t do it! *2026-06-02, version 20.13.0* App did not allow me to cancel but instead charged me the annual price. BE AWARE cancel right after or many days ahead of time if you don’t like the app. I personally did not like how the ai enhancements came out but now I’m stuck with this for a year and was charged $89. Be careful!! ### 1/5 — terrible app *2026-05-11* you can’t do anything without having to pay, all stuff you could have done for free in any other app, straight garbage **Developer response:** Hi Dhqueheb, we offer many free editing tools and basic materials! For advanced AI features, we provide daily free credits so everyone can try them. Subscribers get 300 monthly credits + premium perks. Try the free trial for 30 extra credits! For questions, please use "Send Feedback" in app settings ⚙️. Thank you! ### 1/5 — Old fashioned and useless *2026-04-27* Yet another editor claiming to be AI , but ink prompting. Have to use old fashioned tools. Deleting it. **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry for the experience 🙏 We offer classic tools and advanced AI features like AI Removal & Image to Video! If you need help finding specific AI tools, please reach out via "Send Feedback" in the app settings ⚙️. We'd love to assist you. Thank you! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The best *2026-06-29* Excellent app to improve the quality of photos **Developer response:** Hi Ninoska! Thank you so much for the 5-star rating! 😍 We are thrilled to hear that you find our app excellent for improving photo quality. Your support means everything to our team! If you ever have any suggestions or need help, feel free to reach out via "Send Feedback" in the app settings ⚙️. Happy editing! 🙌 ### 5/5 — All you need *2026-06-15* This is the perfect app for quick and easy editing of photos and fb post photos. **Developer response:** Hi Osabe! Thank you so much for the 5-star review! 😍 We are thrilled to hear that you find the app perfect and easy to use for your photos and Facebook posts. Your support means a lot to our team! If you ever have any suggestions or need help, feel free to reach out via "Send Feedback" in the app settings ⚙️. Happy editing! 🙌 ### 5/5 — Tolle Photoapp mit vielen Funktionen *2026-06-07* Das Fussballfieber in Ki Anprobe und alle neuen auf Iphone funktioniert nicht und ist nicht freigeschaltet, nach Aktualisierung der App! **Developer response:** Hallo! Es tut uns leid für die Probleme. Wenn Sie Premium abonniert haben, tippen Sie auf der Zahlungsseite bitte auf „Kauf wiederherstellen“. Sollten die KI-Funktionen danach nicht freigeschaltet sein, kontaktieren Sie uns bitte über „Feedback senden“ in den App-Einstellungen ⚙️. Wir helfen Ihnen schnellstmöglich weiter! 🙏 ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2026-05-30, version 20.13.0* Quality edits. User friendly. ### 5/5 — 好用 *2026-05-29, version 20.13.0* 易用漂亮 ### 5/5 — Riley’s review *2026-05-22, version 20.13.0* I think this is the best app to edit your photos/videos ### 5/5 — Exceptional 👏 *2026-05-18, version 20.13.0* Out of all the AI photo editors I’ve tried, and believe me I have! This PhotoDirector app is unbelievably awesome I’m a fan I have told everyone I knew about this one and they are all in love with it Thank you for this awesome app oh to top it off it’s very reasonable compared to the others! I hardly ever leave a review but this app if I could give it 100 stars 💗 ### 5/5 — The best *2026-05-17, version 20.13.0* The best ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-05-02* I use this app regularly for picture editing (combined with Q Vector) and it’s totally worth upgrading to pro, I’d say. I wish cutouts could be shrunk down a bit smaller and that the AI Remove were a bit better at removing small text. Also, auto select should work within a selected area too. Autoselect works great around edges but I don’t like how it just assumes what you want to remove/cutout/enhance etc. Great app and love watching it get better over time with technology. A few minor improvements and this will be the only picture editing app I need. **Developer response:** Hi Vagildo, thanks for upgrading to the Premium version and for the 5 stars! 🌟 We highly value your detailed feedback on cutouts, AI Remove, and auto-select improvements. We'll share these great ideas with our dev team. Please feel free to share more thoughts via "Send Feedback" in the app settings ⚙️. Thank you! ### 5/5 — La mejor app *2026-04-29, version 20.12.1* Me encanta esta app --- *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 2026-09-05.*