# Snaplight - Photo Highlighter — user reviews > 81 indexed App Store user reviews of Snaplight by Tanner Christensen, rated 4.10/5 from 19 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/snaplight-photo-highlighter/id977049674/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/snaplight-photo-highlighter/id977049674.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 13 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 3 ## Newest reviews (17 of 81) ### 3/5 — when process large photo（phone taken）it will crash *2019-09-21* iPhone 6 Plus。 small one is OK。 ### 2/5 — Crashing *2017-06-06* Before the last update, I LOVED this app! I would have given it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So many times I just wanted to highlight a small amount of text from within a lot of text and this worked perfectly!!! But now for some reason, every time I try to save what I have done, the app crashes and it doesn't save my work! I am running the latest iOS on my iPhone. I think it may need another update. I expect an app that I pay for to work :( **Developer response:** Hi Newb78, ensure you have enabled photo permissions for Snaplight to resolve this error. Go to the Settings app on your device, find "Privacy", then "Photos," scroll to select Snaplight and make sure Read and Write photos permissions are turned on. ### 2/5 — One trick pony for SCREENSHOTS only *2017-03-29, version 1.2* It highlights easily enough, although beginning the highlight drag inside an existing area will not work. Highlights can be removed sequentially only, so multiple areas can be removed but only if you lose the ones added after the one you wish to delete. This ONLY works on screenshot sized pics at this time. ### 3/5 — Works for intended use *2017-03-28* I like the concept, but I think users were expecting to use this app in a way the author hadn't intended. I'm one of those people - I wanted to upload a pic from my phone and highlight it, but this isn't possible yet. Well, it's "possible" but not functional unless the pic you're updating is the exact dimensions of your phone, otherwise it will be cropped. This app works fine if you take a photo of a page in a book or take a screenshot from iBooks/Kindle app (but then the words are entirely to small to highlight well), but for now you cannot highlight memes or inspiration quotes or any other pic that isn't of iPhone photo dimensions. - It's not clear that the crop button also functions as an undo button - I only discovered that by accident - The height lock is actually really clever for highlighting multiple lines of a book, but I would have never guessed by the button symbol that that was its function - App description says cropping and zooming is coming to the app, so I'll keep this on my phone for now ### 2/5 — Not very useful *2016-11-24, version 1.2* Forget the people that like this app. They are just spaghetti sauce. It crops. But very clumsy design. Deleting. ### 2/5 — Poorly done *2016-06-10, version 1.1* No zooming in or out, no scrolling, no help or instruction. Overall, not a very friendly app, very limited ### 2/5 — Good, needs work. *2016-05-29, version 1.1* If your photo doesn't fit the size of your screen perfectly you can't see all edges. I work with square images a lot and this app would be perfect if I could zoom out and see the whole picture. ### 2/5 — Needs improvement *2016-01-29, version 1.1* It’s a good idea! But the interface is confusing, it does not seem to work on photos that have been cropped. With a little more work I could see this being very useful. ### 1/5 — I tried, but I can't figure out this app *2015-12-18, version 1.1* No documentation, no help function, no workee. I couldn't get the highlighted area to go to any other app where I could use it. This and the other app (Effects Studio) I downloaded this week via Starbucks were awful. Both were poor quality and useless. After all the useful apps I've gotten from Starbucks in the past, these are really disappointing. ### 1/5 — Useless app *2015-12-01, version 1.1* A waste of time and money. I don't recommend it to anyone. ### 1/5 — Zero stars!! *2015-12-01, version 1.1* Did not do anything that I expected it to after reading the description!! Total waste & very frustrating! Don't buy it! That's what I get for buying a low star rating app, which I never do...until today! Never again! Very unhappy with this app! ### 1/5 — Useless! *2015-11-26, version 1.1* What a waste of time and money! ### 2/5 — Limited area *2015-11-12, version 1.1* Only allows seeing/highlighting the middle 80% of the image. ### 1/5 — Duh?! *2015-10-17, version 1.1* Like so many reviews before mine...there's not much point to this app. How the creators can charge for this app is crazy (I got it free from Starbucks)! There's no point to the app and its difficult to maneuver through and I'm a techie person. You can do the same thing (this does) in your phones camera editing feature. Whomever at Starbucks that chose this app for those customers needs to reexamine their process of choosing apps. Epic FAIL, Starbucks! DELETE APP in 3, ...2,... ### 2/5 — One trick pony *2015-10-09, version 1.1* The app works fine and perfectly as intended. It's just a unitasking app. It's only purpose is to highlight rectangles of photos. So maybe it's useful a few times a year, but other photo editing apps can also accomplish what this app does along with a dozen other things. I received this app for free, but I'll be deleting it now. ### 1/5 — Won't even open! *2015-10-04, version 1.1* Glad it was free through Starbucks. Haven't been able to try it because it won't start up. Booooo! ### 1/5 — Pointless *2015-10-02, version 1.0* I read through some of the positive ratings and thought: why would you take a picture of a page then highlight it with this app then post it? Why don't you just type the quote? Seems ridiculous to me ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes every time *2017-12-23* When I first downloaded, this app was perfect! But soon after, it stopped working at all. The app will open, allow you to highlight but as soon as you try to save your pic, it crashes. I hope the app can be fixed. But until then, it’s useless. **Developer response:** Hi rayann, ensure you have enabled photo permissions for Snaplight to resolve this error. Go to the Settings app on your device, find "Privacy", then "Photos," scroll to select Snaplight and make sure Read and Write photos permissions are turned on. ### 1/5 — ? *2017-03-27, version 1.2* Downloaded this app but have no idea how it works no instructions or guidance useless. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2017-03-27, version 1.2* What a useless, clumsy app. ### 1/5 — 1 star, only because I could give less *2017-03-14, version 1.2* What a piece of crap. The App Store should not eve allow this to remain for sale AND SHOULD REFUND MY MONEY. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2017-02-23, version 1.2* Can't even zoom in or out, so you're left to highlight whatever it chooses to show you in the app. Don't waste your money. ### 1/5 — Waste of 99 cents *2016-10-30, version 1.1* This looks like a school project. Can't highlight near image edges, no way to zoom/move image, lack colors, can't resize selections, etc. ### 1/5 — Good idea which doesn't work *2016-08-30, version 1.1* Unfortunately when you load a photo you can only see part of it so you aren't able to highlight the text you want to - useless at the moment ### 1/5 — Great idea. Flawed execution. Hold off until developer fixes major issues *2016-08-04, version 1.1* Great idea for an app. Terrible execution. There has to be a way to easily readjust your selection. Currently you can't modify what you highlight. Your only option is to delete it and do it over, which is tedious and unnecessary. The camera function doesn't work properly either. Using it and framing something is pointless as it resizes it when you try to highlight. There's no way to hide the controls which usually get in the way of what you're trying to highlight as well. Please fix these issues. You have a great simple concept here, but all the issues listed above make it unusable. ### 1/5 — Still not working right *2016-06-14* It's basically unusable. Before when it used to work, I would've given it 4 stars. The buttons aren't extremely intuitive, but it worked (past tense) well for its purpose. Now and for the past few months, each time I select a photo from my Camera Roll, it's zoomed-in so far only approx. 15% of the photo is visible. There's no way to zoom-out, and thus, it's unusable. I liked it, but now I'm deleting it. ### 1/5 — Simple app does one thing okay *2015-12-24* Really does this app have to exist? If you highlight a lot of text passages for social media, I guess. If you really need this functionality in a hurry, then this could be the app for you. This simplicity of the app is its downfall. The look will get old quick, it makes the image darker with highlighted areas appearing normal. You can't change the opacity of the background, can't change colors. Basic features that should be there ain't, forget anything else deeper. Sorry try harder next time. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Practical *2016-01-29* A quick way to highlight a picture or a screenshot before sending to someone, or for your own reference if you prefer to keep picture notes. I'm surprised it doesn't have a higher rating. ### 5/5 — Simple! Useful! Great app! *2015-09-14, version 1.1* Don't listen to negative reviews. The users don't understand what they are talking about. If you have a brain, you'll understand why Starbucks offered this as "Pick of the Week" app. ### 5/5 — Highlights words as designed as well as sections on a photo! *2015-09-11, version 1.1* This will come in quite handy! Ignore negative reviews, they apparently didn't understand clear description and use! ### 5/5 — Must-have for Social Media users! *2015-09-11* For all the meatballs that don't understand this app or think it's worthless, you're meatballs! When I used to post on IG, often times I'd be reading a book and find a awesome lines I'd want to share. I'd try to take a picture of the books page, but no one is going to read an entire page of a book via IG. This would've been incredibly useful in that I could've highlighted the rad quote so people could know exactly what to look for and the intentions of what and why I wanted to share. Anyways, if I get back to posting on IG, I'll definitely make use of this app. Thumbs up! ### 5/5 — Makes something hard to do easy *2015-04-07, version 1.0* Thanks for making this! I'll pay a buck for an app that makes my life easier. Sure there is a lot to add, but it gets the job done. ### 4/5 — Needs to add mask colors *2018-03-21* I’ve been using this since the first version. A lot. My only pet peeve is the one grey/white. People have various vision issues. It would be more useful if the mask color could be varied lighter or darker depending on situation. Even black to redact. Even more useful is adding colors both to highlight visible text, say in yellow, and to the mask for contrast purposes. I find no other app that picks out text in a photo as easily. Now it’s a matter of what you do with it after selected. ### 4/5 — Pictures *2015-10-07, version 1.1* I like it for pictures to highlight exactly what I want you to notice, such as my son on the football field amongst all of the other players. Never mind the highlighting text from a book, I love this :) ### 4/5 — Don't listen to the morons *2015-09-13* The bad reviews are from people who can't write or spell, so they probably can't figure out what this app is for. If you are reading anything--book, magazine, tablet, computer screen--and you find info you'd like to keep or share, Snaplight allows you to take a photo and highlight the words you find important. Then you can share those words via email, text, etc. I have it 4 stars instead of 5 because I don't see a way to adjust a highlight once it's placed, but otherwise this is a simple, useful app. ### 4/5 — I take a lot of Screenshots *2015-09-07* A recipe. A quote. An address. This sort of thing. This works really well to just highlight the bit I need. To cover multiple lines you simply overlap the highlighted box with another and they combine until you've covered what you need. It makes it easy to show someone what you saw on a page without being as elaborate as Skitch. Just a quick: This is what I saw. One wonders about the level of bile in other reviews. I will use it often because I clip often. I use the Reader View to get rid of much clutter, but this focuses the item so the receiver doesn't have to guess. ### 4/5 — Good concept and 1.0 execution *2015-04-05* I was excited to see this app as I've wanted a way to easily overlay a dark mask on an image and selectively remove the mask to highlight certain sections. For an initial release it is solid. It is really only designed for screenshots or pictures of vertical paper and for de-masking (hi-lighting) rows of text. For this it works well. One problem I have is that I cannot always mark all the way to the end of a row on the right side of the screen, as there appears to be a margin effect. I'd love to see this fixed. As the app seems designed for vertical pictures or screenshots, when using other images, you get a highly zoomed in and cropped effect. I'd like the developer to consider the ability to more easily use other/any sized image. Currently, the hi lighting tool is only a horizontal bar. I'd like the ability to freely select any shape. As it stands now, this is a good, single purpose app that with a few tweaks can be great, and with a few more design changes could be a great general purpose tool. Well worth the price. --- I feel bad that gregh1981 spent his last dollar on the app. The good news is he can sell his iPhone and get a lot more dollars back. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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