Photomator User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience56.4% of reviews
Neutral14.0% of reviews
Negative experience29.6% of reviews

~ Based on 1,569 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Photomator Safe?

Photomator – Photo Editor appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Photomator is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 3,715 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

88.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,715 App Store ratings for Photomator.

Is Photomator Legit?

Photomator – Photo Editor appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Photomator is 90/100.

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

Top reviews

mr

Its great, the only problem I seem to have is to be able to save them to a file on my desktop. The only way is to export. It would be easier if I could just click save and have a choice.

Escaped the mainstream

Finally made the jump from Adobe. Photomator has all of the tools I used in LrC. Greatly appreciate that the AI (or ML) is not thrust upon us but is available as a tool if we so choose. Couple that with the lower price point and ability to purchase lifetime, I’ve found a match made in heaven.

So sick of endless subscriptions

Had Pixelmator and Photomator on my iPad for years and now they are either discontinued or now cost a fortune..so sad that overpriced hardware and Apple One subscriptions mean absolutely nothing when you want to simply edit an image on an Apple device anymore.

Nothing special

I wanted to use a tool to stitch photos and wanted to test it but I failed to unsubscribe so was charged with one year subscription for a too I did not need. All it can do you can do with GIMP as well. Lessons learned no to test apps which require payment before even evaluating it if it gives any value.
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Gut aber noch unvollständig

Insgesamt eine tolle App die eine wirklich vielversprechende Alternative zu Lightroom bietet. Essenzielle Dinge die hier aber Fehlen: 1. Profilkorrekturen für verschiedene Kameras. 2. Flaggen / Bewertungssystem von Fotos. 3. eine transformationsmöglichkeit zu JPGs. 4. Anwendung von Foto- /Druckprofilen.
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Please Apple

The app is great but not great enough to beat LRC, it has so much potential

Good Bye Lightroom

Great tool no longer need Lightroom

Exceptionally annoying. Scam style subscription model.

1. Be careful with the subscription. I signed up for a free trial to test the app and ended up getting charged $30 for a program I used exactly once.
2. For some strange reason, you cannot swipe to the next photo while in editing mode. On top of that, I constantly find myself accidentally applying an awful preset, and undoing it is so clunky that it's actually easier to exit the photo and open it again. This completely ruins the workflow and is highly frustrating.
3. If you take multiple photos with different exposures, the app can't merge them into an HDR image. It simply doesn't have this capability.
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Broken

Bought this subscription recently and it was running fine-all of a sudden it won’t acknowledge the subscription (would be good if you could actually get help or assistance from apple for the products they sell). The active subscription is listed in my apple account. Still not working. Not impressed.
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Export is damaged

When I bought it its very good, but a while back every exported photo has lower quality being quite pixelated and stuff.

Very disappointing for several reasons (getting yelled at for returning c

And so confused why it’s not included in this new “amazing” creator studio package. What’s the point. I never post bad reviews unless they really do deserve them.

Could be good

It has good features, the removal tools and workflows are nice. However it’s odd we can’t set kelvin values for the temperature, just relatively moving the slider per photo. It would be nice as that one time license alternative to LR, but it’s not quite there.

no vale la pena

te quiere cobrar cuando antes era gratis

Falta recursos de IA

O aplicativo é fantástico, faz sinto falta de recursos de IA, principalmente na borracha. Também não vejo sentido o aplicativo não estar incluso no Apple Studio.

Please listen

Everything is great, but it would be good to add a blur tool to the app. Please listen.

Estabilidad

Estoy empezando a usarla, y es algo inestable, pero quizás es proceso para adaptarse al laptop MacBook Air 2025

好用的照片调整工具

使用逻辑很自然,作为手机上的照片处理软件很不错了

Threw customers overboard!

I bought a “lifetime” license for this November 2024. Apple bought it a few months later (same issue for Pixelmator) and has now moved it to their package and left us out in the cold- no updates unless we subscribe to package. Never again an Apple app.

great app with 1 major flaw for RAW editing

Photomator is an app with great tools and an intuitive system for organizing and editing photos. However, the 1 big flaw that makes batch editing a slow process is the “copy and paste edits” only allowing the copying of edits made to the images base layer. With the base layer of an image being the only one with access to a RAW files full data it becomes the optimal layer for adjusting an images initial exposure, these adjustments vary between photos in a batch and should be kept on a different layer then colour adjustments which would be the preferred set of adjustments to copy and paste to the rest of the photos in a batch. Not being able to copy adjustments from an adjustment layer means that their edits must be manually adjusted each time for every photo in a batch and misses the point of batch editing entirely. To fix this, please allow us to copy edits made on other adjustment layers as opposed to just the RAW base layer OR allow all adjustment and mask layers to access the RAW files full image data. Either of these 2 changes would make this app the perfect thing for editing RAW images
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worst after every update

2026 kil photomator, it was promesing, now feels like it was left behind without any care, cant select photos with keys, controls oversaturate everything, and files are the same size as raws after export, im disappointed on photomator to be honest