# We Heart It — user reviews

> 58 indexed App Store user reviews of We Heart It by Super Basic, LLC., rated 4.10/5 from 17,672 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/we-heart-it/id539124565/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/we-heart-it/id539124565.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 12,181 · 4★ 1,555 · 3★ 840 · 2★ 480 · 1★ 2,616

## What do users think of We Heart It?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 💎 Unique community and aesthetic experience
- 🖼️ Large variety of images and content
- 🎨 Useful for inspiration and mood boards

**Cons**

- 🚫 Removal of core features like profiles and hearting
- 💸 Aggressive monetization with ads, watermarks, and subscriptions
- 🔍 Deteriorating search and navigation experience
- 🗑️ Loss of user data and content

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Frequent app crashes and glitches
- Login and account issues

**Most requested features**

- Restore profiles, hearting, and social features
- Remove watermarks on user-uploaded content
- Improve search functionality and content discovery
- Provide option to export/download user data

## Newest reviews (17 of 58)

### 2/5 — The new update…

*2023-06-06*

Hi we heart it, I just want to express my sadness to see the app change into whatever this new update is. I have been a hearter since I discovered your app in 2012, and now it seems that the whole reason I downloaded and fell In love with the app is gone. What’s the point of being called “We heart it” if we can’t heart pictures? I have used this app to plan my days, and weeks for as long as I can remember, by picture hearting, I also loved the articles as well, I discovered new music, recipes, fashion advice from other hearters…. I built a profile with a following I was proud of and now that’s gone as well. But Please PLEASE don’t change the website!!!! If you change the website I will be forced to say goodbye as is everyone else. I am also very very sad about the loss of articles. I am a writer professionally and I made several articles that I got so many hearts on and I was so proud of myself. But now that is just wiped away. Pinterest is going to be my new app if you make the website the same as the app. I truly will miss this app and it’s uniqueness from every other social media page. I felt noticed and liked here. This was my go to, I deleted Instagram long ago and was okay because I had this. Now it’s also going away. I will miss what we heart it was. 

- signed, a broken hearter.

### 3/5 — Laggy/Glitchy

*2022-05-23, version 12.2.4*

Hey, I’m a fellow user of ‘WeHeartit’ and I absolutely love this app! It’s so fun! 
However, I am having one main issue. I’ve had this app for a while but it’s super laggy/glitchy whenever I go on it. I’m not sure if it’s the app itself or if it’s my mobile phone. I am an Apple user but I tried everything I could to try and solve the problem. Nothing has worked so far. I tried restarting my device, closing all other apps, deleting my themes, etc. 
It seems like this is only a problem if you’ve had the app for a while. I remember having an old account on another device and it worked nice at first then the issue started after a while. It did the same with this one. I’ve tried just ignoring it but it’s too annoying to handle anymore. 
Again, there’s no way that it could be my device. It’s got to be something with this app. 
Overall, I have nothing negative to say about this app. It’s one of my favorites but I have now switched to another app due to this problem I’m having. That’s why I feel like ‘WeHeartit’ only deserves three stars. I hope this gets fixed eventually.

### 4/5 — Disappointed

*2022-05-02, version 12.2.4*

Old users will understand this review. We used to be able to download unlimited amounts of images without being bombarded with ads and watermarks. But these days, ever since ‘WHI Premium’ came out, the developers thought it would be a good idea to limit what OLD USERS COULD ALREADY DO, and add it for “premium members only”. I think I speak for everyone using the app that this is unfair. It’s almost as if WHI made their app worse on purpose, so that they could make money off of ads or people who purchase the subscription….which to me, is a terrible way of attracting more users. It’s really a shame because besides the recent updates, WHI is a unique app that a lot of us appreciate for its algorithm but I am very disappointed in what they did.

### 1/5 — This app used to be Gold

*2022-04-14, version 12.2.4*

Not sure what has happened with WHI but I am disappointed beyond belief. There are ads EVERYWHERE and the app keeps crashing. You can only download photos with a LIMIT!? This app used to be better than Pinterest to me. But it’s impossible to use now without having to pay a subscription. And it crashes every 30 seconds and I have to restart the app. This is insane and I shouldn’t have to fork out money for a better experience. What happened to caring about your product and the consumer? Putting a watermark on photos that don’t even belong to the app!? I have been a user for YEARS and this is the worst I have ever seen this app. Switched over to Pinterest for a better experience. At least update the app to the new iPhone update, fix the bugs, and cut back on the ads. If I have to watch a add to download or swipe I shouldn’t have to have a limit on the amount of photos I save

### 3/5 — Not like it used to be

*2022-03-18, version 12.2.4*

This app used to be really popular and I had discovered it years ago from Tumblr. On the older versions there were no ads and uploading images didn’t come with a watermark. Since the app had a data leak some years ago my account that I had for years had gotten hacked without me knowing, I contacted weheartit and they chose not to give me back my account when it’s evident that it’s hacked. It’s pretty dissapointing when I put years into an app that my mini blog was also important to me. This app should definitely have stronger security measures such as logging in with face ID or two factor verification to prevent this. I made a new account but so many ads pop up it’s almost hard to enjoy it anymore. The good thing I will say about the app is that it is still good to use for inspiration and has nice images. That is about it, but I do not find the app as fun anymore especially since my old account is hacked.

### 1/5 — Great Idea for an app… poor execution

*2022-02-27, version 12.2.3*

I’ve used this app for years and have loved it! but I have some serious bones to pick with the developers: the functionality of this app has somehow gotten worse over the years— which is a rare feat in app development. The app lags constantly, it makes my phone overheat, and it will randomly freeze and force quit at least once every time I try to use the app. The ads are overwhelming. I understand having ads is a necessary evil these days (even though it managed to be ad free for years back in the day) HOWEVER, there is an ad every 2-4 posts which is insane. And there’s a banner ad at the bottom too. And there’s an ad (sometimes multiple) if you try to download an image. It’s so much that it’s hindering user experience. My advice to the team is to try to make the ads less obtrusive and integrate them seamlessly into the feed. Another issue I’d like to address is the “image not available” placeholder appearing where you’d saved an image no longer available in a collection. Why show me that? Why not just remove it from the collection or hide it? I’m pretty sure this is a recent update thing because I’ve never seen it happen before. It really ruins the aesthetics of the collection, at least give us an option to hide it. Please please please listen to your user base!! None of us want to abandon this app but it is so hard to use these days!

**Developer response:** Hi there ghgcftkovcty. We're sorry to hear that you're having these troubles. We've been trying but we've been unable to reproduce the issue that you're having. We'd like to learn more about what you're experiencing if you wouldn't mind contacting Support in the app through Settings > Contact Us with more information. Additionally, we appreciate your feedback about the ads and the placeholders and we'll be sure to share it with the rest of the team.

### 2/5 — Visually Impaired? This app might not work for you.

*2021-10-12, version 12.1.3*

Although this app has a lot of cool features that make it look nice and help folks make it their own, as a person with a significant vision impairment, I found the user experience to be stressful and exhausting. Although the pictures are big and (simply) splashy, the fonts are either too light in weight, too light in color, too small or all of the above. People with impairments in their vision need fonts with steady heavier weights and darker colors because they offer the contrast we need to help us see! Sometimes even a mild change in the fonts weight or color can help us A LOT. There was also not enough contrast on the buttons, and not having predictive text on the tags as well as a small area to type them in was a stress as well - even on the iPad where there is much more screen real estate, I’d stop using the app and feel eyestrain or have a headache. Oh well! Like I said, this was a fun app to try. And it does have a lot of cool features for folks who don’t have to be concerned about the same things that I, or others with vision loss, do.

### 1/5 — terrible app

*2021-06-22, version 12.1.2*

I cant even log into my account after the new update. I try to log in and it tells me to log in through google instead which I try to do and it redirects me to google and then it crashes. So i’m just unable to log back into my account and it won’t let me make a new account. And even before the new update, I was not enjoying the app as much as I used to. I do not appreciate getting an ad everytime I download a picture and then on top of that having to deal with the watermark. It doesn’t matter if we get 10 free pics a day without the watermark, those pictures do not belong to you in the first place so why do you get to place a watermark on it? This app used to be so much better without all the millions of ads and watermarks. You are just trying to force your users to buy the membership. Some people don’t have the money to do so and you need to be considerate of that. I promise you adding millions of ads and watermarks will not make users buy the membership but instead drive them away from the app altogether, like myself. And now I can’t even get back into my account? Do better.

**Developer response:** Hello! Would you mind sending an email to hello@weheartit.com so we can assist you with this issue? Also, if you're a power user and loves to download photos, we recommend upgrading to We Heart It Premium. This will address your watermark concern and support us in developing the app. Thanks!

### 1/5 — Watermarks?? Are you kidding? And tons of ads

*2021-06-19, version 12.1.2*

How can you add a water wake to the pictures that you don’t even own.. Most (I mean more than 90%) of the pictures are posted there after being downloaded from another app, like Flickr (where the original creators are) and you can take credit for those photos. This is ridiculous, really. And don’t even make me start on ads.. I’ve never seen an app that has so many ads, never. Your app was nice before but now it’s not possible to use at anymore. If you really want to succeed in this niche, please, listen to all the recent reviews people post about your app and make changes. Otherwise all your users will just to Pinterest or other photo sharing apps and forget about your brand. There is a way to make profit and also not annoy every single user on the app, and you should learn it.

### 1/5 — Waste of time

*2021-04-20, version 12.1.2*

I won’t usually give poor feedback, but I’m in hopes that if enough people send their frustration, the developers of this app will get a clue, but it’s obvious ethical standards aren’t a high priority for their company. For this reason , I also don’t believe they’re including all of the bad reviews in their near 5 star rating. At some point, it has to occur to them that they could be making a lot more money with a few minor changes that don’t force subscriptions. I won’t use this app at all anymore, and I know there are many people that feel the same. People don’t respond well to pushy, tricky, shady tactics. They don’t jump on board when they feel forced or coerced. If We Heart It insists on sticking to the changes they’ve made and don’t listen to their users, it only confirms their intention to maximize their earnings with unethical behavior, labeling images as their own when they are not, preying on people who subscribe out of frustration or simply because they have no time to call them out and help make a change, and they will continue to prey on those people by increasing costs and restrictions to offset their loss of customers as time passes, so if you’re subscribing to that plan, good luck to you!!

**Developer response:** We are sad to know that your experience with the app was not satisfactory. Please share your issue with us at hello@weheartit.com and we will look into it at the earliest. Thank you.

### 2/5 — Search Bug

*2021-03-21, version 12.1.1*

I have a yearly subscription with this app and have used it for years. Within the past year and a half , there has been a bug with clicking search suggestions. For example, if I start typing in “home”, and I try to press “home interior” in the drop down list of suggestions, instead “home decor” will auto fill as if that’s what I pressed. This happens every single time, no matter what I try to search.

 I’ve tried tapping a hundred different ways, deleting and re-downloading the app, and even got a new phone recently, so I know it’s not me. It’s so aggravating and practically renders the app unusable. I plan to cancel my subscription if it’s not fixed soon. I used to love this app because I find the UI a little cleaner and more pleasing than others like it. I really hope there’s an update in the future that addresses it because I’d really like to continue using it.

### 3/5 — UPDATE WEHEARTIT

*2021-02-25, version 12.0.9*

I’ve been using weheartit for years, since 2013. It was my favorite app I preferred it over Pinterest! I loved when you went on your own account and there was a collage of your hearts and when you would press the circle in the middle it changed to other pictures you hearted. I miss that feature so much. Weheartit has since downgraded. I still love weheartit but it’s not as enjoyable as it used to be. There are ads like crazy, and they are so annoying. Constantly being spammed with the premium trial thing. What is this why has this app turned so money hungry. Also when you save pictures and after a few you start to get the little watermark. Like first of all how does that even make sense. Weheartit doesn’t own those photos. Seriously Weheartit please fix yourself, you would get so much more traction again if you removed all of these things! I miss the early WHI days. I know so many people do.

### 3/5 — Pinterest’s greedy little brother

*2020-12-01, version 12.0.7*

WeHeartIt watermarks images that they *DO NOT* own copyright of (if the user has the free version, of course, because every website or app is trying to go premium these days to drain everyone’s wallets now). I don’t see how they aren’t in legal trouble due to copyright infringement. Anyone can easily reverse search the image to save it without the greedy WeHeartIt watermark, which I advise you to do, because that’s a really, really, really, shady business practice for WHI. I couldn’t imagine how I’d react if I put my artwork on WeHeartIt, only for them to take credit for all my hard work. (Look up reverse image search on the internet if you don’t know how to!)
WeHeartIt makes money by ads—every website seems to throw them in your face nowadays, and WeHeartIt isn’t an exception. Barely even glide by one on mobile and it’ll take you to a third party website or an app you already have installed. This is a VERY INVASIVE thing for an app to do, and has probably been a cause of many users’ departures from the app. I don’t blame them either. Fix this and you’ll get a ton more support—guaranteed . . . unless the WHI team is only after data mining and could care less about their users. 
We’ll see.

### 1/5 — Terrible

*2020-11-29, version 12.0.7*

I started using WHI maybe 4 or 5 years ago, and it was fine, but recently the app became money hungry with the whole “pay for premium” thing. If you want to download something, you have to sit through advertisement videos before you can download and then it has a WHI watermark on it which makes the picture very unappealing. And I had hundreds of pictures that I just didn’t like anymore so I decided to start my account over. I deleted my account and tried to make a new one, but the app would not even let me sign up. It would ask me for my email and my birthday, but when I had to make a password, the app just went back and kept making me start over. I decided to uninstall and then reinstall, but I still had the same problem. After that, I tried remaking my account on my laptop and it worked, but it would not let me log in on my phone.

### 4/5 — It’s Okay..

*2020-08-30, version 12.0.2*

The reason i’m giving this app 4 stars is because there’re a few things i dislike. One of them being, whenever i open the app to find gifs to use for discord and other stuff, 93% of the time it dosent load in. So i have to turn my wifi off and wait about 5 minutes before going back on the app. Another thing is when i try to save gifs to my camera roll they play an ad, and then don’t even let me have the gif.. when it imports into my camera roll it’s a photo of the gif and not THE gif. So i have to copy the link of the gif and go out of my way to save it. Other then the app freezing and me having to manually save gifs, this app is really good for creating your own little “storage area” of things you like and i really like the concept. I love going through peoples collections and i love to make my own too! I recommend this app to anyone who’s looking for a good place to find gifs and photos or people with collections that match your aesthetic.

**Developer response:** Hello! If you don’t mind, kindly send an email to hello@weheartit.com so we can assist you with this issue. Thanks!

### 4/5 — STOP the random ads

*2020-08-03, version 12.0.2*

I understand why ads are included for downloading our “10 un-watermarked pictures a day,” but I do NOT appreciate being bombarded with a random ad as I’m navigating through the app normally. I have been a devoted and engaged user on WeHeartIt for years, and I genuinely love this app. I understand you all as a company must make money, and because I believe in this app so much, I have stayed through what I understand has been a change in leadership and thereafter a change in the structure of the app. I’ve dealt with it all, but one thing I cannot stand are ways to extort money from your users indirectly through annoying and random ads. Please take these away. I love this app and it’s users, and I really truly want it to succeed. However, I WILL stop using and recommending this app to my friends if the way you deal with your users does not change.

### 4/5 — Has a couple issues

*2020-05-26, version 12.0.2*

Lately, when I use WHI, I will try to post an image and put it into my collections, but the image will not show up on the thumbnail of my collections after it is added. Next, the number of likes is very inaccurate on posts. It will say that there are hundreds or thousands of likes on it, when in reality, you press on the number and it shows less than about 50 people who have hearted it. Also, I understand that you guys need to have ads, but there are too many. Any time I am scrolling through my feed, they always end up taking over my screen, and any time I download an image, I have to wait for the ad to finish. I wish the app could go back to how it used to be a few years ago, because now you find a nice image, but it has the watermark plastered on it, and there’s ads everywhere. Not everyone has money to pay for premium and I hope you can fix these issues.

**Developer response:** Thanks for using We Heart It and for taking the time to share your honest feedback with us. Sorry to hear you find the ads to be distracting and intrusive. We often review our apps to make sure that there are not too many ads shown and will take your feedback into consideration! Like many apps, we're glad to provide the app and updates for free, but showing some ads allows us to support our team and keep the app running, updated and awesome. Remember, you can always update to the ad-free version of the app as well. Sorry to hear that you are hearing tapping noises while using the app. If you are still experiencing this issue, please email us at hello@weheartit.com and we can look into it for you. Are you trying to add images to your collections? To do this, heart them first, then select 'Add to collections.' :) Happy Hearting!!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Updates

*2024-04-04*

This app is absolutely horrible from when it was 10 years ago. It used to be a place to download fun aesthetic photos and create your profile + collections. Now it’s an editing app?? And profiles don’t exist anymore???? Like if you wanted to do that, create another app and have it integrated into WHI (like Pinterest’s shuffles). I don’t know why this app is continuing to do horrible things like this when I bet there are maximum 5 users on the app a day… Is the point to lose all of your supporters? I don’t really understand. Also, the ads before making this an editing app got exponentially worse too. You guys have only downgraded and now you’re at rock bottom. I remember there were barely any ads and no watermarks, and then there are limits and ads EVERYWHERE. That was a bad experience, so I deleted WHI and downloaded again 3+ years later to find I can’t login to my account. Profiles don’t even exist, and all my nostalgic memories are GONE. What the heck is wrong with these developers ?? It’s so aggravating to do this to an app so many people grew up with. I hope you guys either change the app back to what it was originally intended for or delete it, which is a better alternative than the sad excuse We Heart It has become now… You can’t even like anything anymore :(

### 1/5 — Gone forever

*2024-02-26*

I’ve been using we heart it since 2014, when I was 17. It has always been a safe haven for me to come and be creative and feel like I’m apart of a community. All of that was taken away from me in the blink of an eye. Every picture, every collection, every follower is now GONE. The countless hours I spent interacting with this app, the dedication and hard work of making my special collections is completely swiped from existence. Words do no justice in how gutted I feel. This app was the first time I felt validated on a social platform, unlike Instagram or Twitter. I actually felt seen and appreciated. I felt like I was a part of a community of other teens/women who just loved photos. I will never experience that again, I will never see any of the pictures from this app on any other platform. I doubt anyone a part of the new company will see this review, they’ve made all of WeHeartIt’s social accounts private so that they don’t have to witness our outrage. I hope it was worth investing money into changing the app just to lose like 99% of its users. A complete and utter waste. I want to believe one day they will right their wrongs but given the current state of the world it’s unlikely. Thanks for nothing.

### 1/5 — Genuinely upset about the new update that I am writing my first review

*2023-09-13*

I’ve been using we heart it for as long as I can remember , I lost all my folders, my profile, my posts, and my mutual friends on the app, my articles and other things. Honestly super upset about how much time I spent on the app just for all my data to be erased, I can’t even search things up it’s just endless scrolling on content that Im not even interested in. I decided to delete the app and move on from it unless they do something about bringing back our profiles and folders with the things Ive been loving for years, I don’t care about downloading my “content” from the desktop website it should have never gotten to that point where you delete peoples profiles and folders. I can’t believe that it went from being such an amazing app with many things to do to an editing app, who ever came up with the idea to make it into an editing app has to be fired 👎 it was WE HEART IT for a reason not WE EDIT IT you’ve completely ruined a perfect app that many people loved and made it completely useless and boring in a matter of seconds , I hope that many people who feel the same way are no longer using your app because honestly it’s not even usable anymore.

### 1/5 — what happened???

*2023-08-12*

This new update has completely gutted everything that made WHI special. Like many others, I’ve put years of work and creativity into this site and I have almost 30,000 images I’ve collected over 7 years. WHI was a unique community and Im hard-pressed to think of another site that will fill the gap left behind. Hopefully someone else will see that there is a market for a similar app and make something better that we can use. But for now, WHI is a shell of its former self; just a bootleg Instagram with uninteresting podcasts made for the NPCs of society. There’s no way they thought this would go over well with the community, and I assume they know about the backlash considering their Twitter and Instagram accounts are private. Cowards. I tried to go to my homepage feed after the update, and it looks like a bunch of generic spam images posted by bots, not the usual things I see from accounts I follow. The current WHI audience doesn’t want this, not sure why they’re self-sabotaging like this and essentially giving the middle finger to their loyal community. As a former premium member, I’ll never be supporting these soulless capitalist ghouls again.

### 1/5 — Honestly my heart hurts :/

*2023-06-13*

I was recently praising this app, expressing to a friend how incredible it is for visualizing and how much it means to me. I've been a loyal user of We Heart It for over ten years. I sincerely hope that the creators are actively working to address the issues and restore our data. Interestingly, the desktop version still displays my hearts, collections, and followers, but the search bar has disappeared. I hope they will retain our data on the desktop version at the very least. Currently, there's no compelling reason for me to remain a subscriber, so I have decided to cancel my subscription for now. It's hard to imagine that losing 99% of their user base is their intention, but one can never be certain. However, I can confidently say that this isn't like one of those Instagram updates where people complain but continue using the app. The app has become completely unusable. The homepage now seems to be sorted based on the oldest photo posted on We Heart It, which is very strange. I need answers.

Update: their faq page was updated 11 days ago and says “ We’ve added new capabilities to create and edit images, curate your gallery and explore content that will brighten your day. We've done away with profiles and hearting to focus on these new features. 

Useless app now. You guys lost me be being so out of touch with what your user base wants, and blatant disregard.

### 1/5 — what happened???

*2023-06-10*

This new update has completely gutted everything that made WHI special. Like many others, I’ve put years of work and creativity into this site and I have almost 30,000 images I’ve collected over 7 years. WHI was a unique community and Im hard-pressed to think of another site that will fill the gap left behind. Hopefully someone else will see that there is a market for a similar app and make something better that we can use. But for now, WHI is a shell of its former self; just a bootleg Instagram with uninteresting podcasts made for the NPCs of society. There’s no way they thought this would go over well with the community, and I assume they know about the backlash considering their Twitter and Instagram accounts are private. Cowards. 
I tried to go to my homepage feed after the update, and it looks like a bunch of generic spam images posted by bots, not the usual things I see from accounts I follow. The current WHI audience doesn’t want this, not sure why they’re self-sabotaging like this and essentially giving the middle finger to their loyal community. As a formerly premium member, I’ll never be supporting these soulless capitalist ghouls again.

### 1/5 — this app needs change, I wish i could give it 0 stars

*2023-06-08*

to the makers of this app, you have erased all the hard work of not just me, but many other people. all our photos are gone. this app was once for the aesthetic creators, not you have kicked us out and feeling abused. many of which paid for your services in the past. it’s with great disappointment that most of us will be deleting your app all together and switching to Pinterest. your new business is losing a large majority of your customers. all the time I took out of my life to spend on your app has wasted years of my time. I hope you
understand this is the worst thing you’ve ever done to your company. if you refuse to change it back, you will surely go bankrupt from losing your top audience. as a 21 year old, probably in your new demographic, you failed. nobody wants your podcast or editing we have bettet alternatives for that. your app had a special purpose and you’ve now made it useless, good job. I really hope you come to your senses and fix your wrongs. you really messed up, it’s time to change it back.

### 1/5 — CRAPPY NONEXISTENT CUSTOMER SUPPORT

*2023-02-05, version 12.2.7*

Why do you keep replying to people telling them to email your customer support team when you won’t even answer the emails ? I’ve emailed twice about the issue of being wrongfully blocked when I have a premium subscription that I should be refunded for if you can’t unblock me. I have received ZERO response. If you’re gonna tell everyone to email your customer support team then maybe get them to do their jobs and actually respond. I hope I don’t have to contact the BBB over this…….

EDIT: received an initial response telling me I’m permanently banned and there’s nothing they can do about it. Fine. At this point I’m over using the crappy app with the scummy staff anyway. But they have gone unresponsive again (surprise surprise) after I’ve asked for a refund. And no, Apple will not issue the refund. They told me to contact the weheartit developers directly. They must not know I have a better chance of talking to God himself. 

I guess I’ll keep emailing 🙄🙄🙄

### 1/5 — Ridiculous guidelines

*2023-01-24, version 12.2.7*

Bro I’m so sick of tired of these ridiculous guidelines. Is anyone actually managing them or is it all robots??? Cuz the most normal pics will get removed “violating guidelines.” This is so stupid & it’s ruining my collections. I’ll be creating an aesthetic, well thought out collection & then all the sudden half the photos are gone… none of them are even in violation. It’s literally like selfies, photoshoots, or an aesthetic photo of boba or something… there’s nothing inappropriate about any of the photos you remove. Your guidelines are ridiculous & too strict. Sometimes I can’t even post my own graphic designs without them being removed 2 seconds later, and once again they don’t violate guidelines. They’re not copyrighted, they don’t show anything inappropriate, they don’t have cuss words on them, etc etc etc.. PLS FIX THIS. I’m so tired and over it. Is there anyone in development that still cares for this app anymore?? It seems like you just gave up on it.

### 1/5 — Disappointed

*2022-05-11, version 12.2.4*

I’ve been using this app for years and decided probably about a year ago to step up to a paid account. I absolutely loved it. I finally found a place where I could share my interests with others and interact with other people that had the same interests I do. However, about a week ago, my account was blocked. I never hearted inappropriate content and I took breaks in between. Because I love this app so much, I tried to make a couple more accounts to keep up with my interests and friends I made. But we heart it blocked those as well, despite me not even being able to heart many images at all. It’s really unfair that my account was blocked when I followed and respected the guidelines. I can no longer even access we heart it. I just want to be able to get my account back or create a new one to be able to enjoy the app again, as I never promote inappropriate content. I’m about to cancel my subscription. I’m frustrated and I’m extremely disappointed.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — OG User here!

*2021-12-10, version 12.2.2*

I’ve been on WHI since the beginning & have enjoyed being apart of their growth over the years. I’ve always had a paid account, which is so worth it! Eliminates the ads & just a smoother experience. Highly suggest just forking over the $20/yr fee! 
I own an online boutique & always need random artwork for my instagram feed to “flow”. This app has more unique images than Pinterest, which is ridiculously saturated. I’m starting to notice WHI is beginning to become this way too, which I really wish they’d have a better system of kicking duplicate images people post. Never fails when I search for “sunflowers” for example- I’ll see the same exact sunflower image 2 dozen times while scrolling thru the thousands of others. 
Also, I hope they can tweak their search feature to include either images or users, as it’s sooo saturated with I guess Asian pop singers? I’m not familiar with this, but it seems that’s what normally appears first in almost all of my searches- no matter what I search. 
Other than those minor things, this App is awesome! I can’t help but hesitate posting this review, as I almost don’t want more users to be using the same unique images I’m finding! Being selfish here, but it’s the truth! The internet is clogged as it is!

### 5/5 — UMMM IM CONCERNED (PLEASE READ)

*2020-09-19, version 12.0.2*

okay so im mindlessly scrolling through the app and music randomly pops up but no video for an ad is no where to be seen. me being curious to see what kind music was playing, i put my phone speaker to my ear to listen to the music and it sounded like someone was playing the music in a room but somewhere behind them. they were probably watching me through my camera because as soon as i put it to my ear i can hear someone fumbling around to cut off the music. IM PRETTY SURE they saw me listening and got scared. i’m aware that people can like watch you through your phone/computer cameras but having it happen first hand freaked me out. btw this has happened before, music randomly plays in the background but no ad pops up. idk if this can be fixed (probably can’t) but y’all be careful cause that was scary.

### 5/5 — Fantastic App

*2020-05-09, version 12.0.2*

Honestly, there is nothing bad to say about We Heart It. I have premium, so obviously I really have no complaints about the ‘lack of free content’ or whatever. I enjoy the fact that it’s not social media in the typical sense of the term. You can download/save other users’ photos, but you can’t comment, or really do any real social interaction besides follow people and their collections. It’s a great app for storing photos, as well as just expressing yourself and your interests. We Heart It is one of the few apps that I go onto everyday, I find it to be very user-friendly and just fun to use in general. It’s a much better alternative to Pinterest in every way, which I know some people will disagree with. But overall, We Heart It has a better design, better way to save photos, and it feels more personalized. Definitely recommend to anyone.

### 5/5 — Please remove watermark !

*2020-01-24, version 12.0.0*

I, and many others, have been using this app for years. This app used to be the best for saving photos for editing purposes with the large variety of photos to chose from. 

When I first got it there few ads and I was completely fine with it because I get it but recently when I opened the app again I suddenly got bombarded with multiple ads, which is extremely annoying. 

I ignored it and proceeded to save photos as my patience began to shorten with more ads popping up even if I did nothing. The last straw for me was when I saw the watermarks. I personally don’t see the need to add them when so many people used the app beforehand. Now, with this new upsetting addition I feel as if the app has no use anymore. I used this app for the countless photos and NO watermark. With the watermark it makes saving photos pointless. 

Though I am grateful for the limit being raised up to 10 photos, it’s still not enough. No matter what number it is raised to, knowing that I will soon reach that limit and the photos will be marked is just sad. 

Hopefully with all the feedback this app is getting, the developers will see the problem and remove the watermark entirely.

### 5/5 — Please remove the watermark completely.

*2020-01-07, version 12.0.0*

I have been using this app for a very long time now, for picture's that I can use while editing, and the watermark has been the most disappointing update this app has had. We heart It does not own the photo's, it only provides a platform for real life people to post photo's and make collections. We (the people who use the app) upload these photo's into collections or just to upload them for others, so people can enjoy using them however they please. We should not have to only download 10 images a day because you want to put a watermark on all of the photo's, and we shouldn't have to spend money on a membership for photo's we could just google and find. There is no other app like we heart it, and everyone cherishes the app very much, we are grateful for a platform where you can find photo's on and make friends with people who have similar interests. Although we are not grateful for now having to pay for photo's that we have gotten for free since the beginning of the app. Once again whi does not own these photo's, they provide a platform for people to upload photo's, and making us pay for a membership just to download photo's tell's all of us that you are just trying to make more of a profit when thousands of people use this app already, please just remove the watermark completely. we'd be grateful.

### 5/5 — Please get rid of the watermark on saved photos

*2019-12-30, version 12.0.0*

I have been using this app for years mainly for editing purposes and when I first used the app there were barely any ads. Now there are ads everywhere, even multiple ads after just trying to save one photo. I’m constantly getting taken to the app store or safari even when I haven’t touched anything. It is really, VERY annoying especially when every single ad is a scam anyways. 
Here is what is making me very angry though; just recently after I saved a bunch of photos I noticed they ALL had the We Heart It logo in the corner! We get it, you are trying to get your money, but it is going to make you lose a bunch of users. People make edits or transparents that take hours or even days to finish just to get the app’s logo slapped on it. It doesn’t seem right, even if it may be technically allowed.
This app has become unusable at this point. You shouldn’t have to buy being able to save a photo. It can improve if you just limit the amount of ads and stop being so money-hungry. Yeah it may be “affordable” but no one is going to buy saving a photo without a watermark, you can just simply google at that point. There is really no app like We Heart It, it brings groups together and it’s amazing, so please consider this.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. In response to the high demand we have increased the number of watermark-free downloads to 10 per day or (300/month). Thank you again for sharing your concerns.

### 5/5 — I heart it!

*2018-03-07, version 9.5.0*

I used to be addicted to Pinterest. Like, I was on it ALL THE TIME for about three years. I used it mostly for memes, but I finally quit it cold turkey about two years ago, and when I got this I promised myself I would not use it for memes. Now, WHI is a wonderful place for me to find references for art, quotes to inspire me when I'm sad, and an aesthetic MACHINE. I can't imagine not having it anymore because it wins where Pinterest fails. It doesn't require you to pin to boards- you simply double-tap things you like and they join your "canvas". Then you can pin things to boards if you want, but you don't have to. And even if you accidentally like a meme, the overall aesthetic of WHI usually washes it away. On Pinterest, if you like something, you get spammed with repins of the same pin and other pins similar to it. That's how you end up in a rabbit hole. The interface is also a little easier to navigate.

Overall, tl;dr, it's a really great app for what it is, and ~I heart it.~

PS, not paid to say this lol. just genuinely like this app a lot :)

**Developer response:** Hey WaverlyKK!

Thank you so much for the kind words and the five-star review! We couldn't be happier you're getting so much out of We Heart It :) We hope you continue to use and enjoy the art, quotes, aesthetic inspiration, and more!

### 5/5 — good but

*2017-12-08, version 9.2.3*

i have been using We Heart It for quite some time like i’d say a good four years. i am not a fan of these ads but i understand and that apps have ads regardless of i may like it or not, but what i say could be improved is the layout. the layout of the app looks quite crowded, and the search page is just me scrambling to scroll without tapping an ad. suggestion: instagram has their explore page similar to We Heart It, and it would be easy having a more open and less crowded screen. i hope this makes sense and i love the whole app overall and i don’t plan on leaving it any time soon, im always recommending it to others and they’ve grown to love it as well. another thing is that messages page, you guys should make a thing where you can clear your messages i’ve had some for over a year and it just bothers me having them there.

**Developer response:** Hi there!

Thank you so much for your review, five-star rating, and suggestions! We're so happy you're enjoying all the inspiration. Additionally, we've updated the app so that you now have the ability to delete messages! Go into your messages and click the button with the three dots, and it should come up as an option :)

### 5/5 — Pretty pretty please

*2017-09-25, version 9.1*

I would like to start off this review by saying that I absolutely ADORE this app/website. I literally sit on it for hours at a time everyday and I can never get enough of it. I literally recommend it to all of my friends and family whenever I get the chance. 
The only thing I ask for you guys to consider is to give users the ability to write articles from their phones! I would be writing articles on the daily and using the app 5x more if I could write through my phone! I LOVE that articles is a thing now, and I cannot wait to start writing. So pretty pretty please make this a thing. Give users the ability to be even more creative and obsessed with this app!!

### 4/5 — Love It, Hate It, Accept It

*2022-11-11, version 12.2.4*

I’ve been a member of WHI since the website was launched over ten years ago and, in that time, there have been a lot of changes. The recent change in ownership has brought with it both positives and negatives, but my biggest take away is - Love It, Hate It, Accept It! 

The original concept that we loved remains at its core, but it is often overshadowed by the little things that we hate. There are ads with occasional glitches - and I’ll be the first to admit that I bought WHI Premium to avoid that. The major point is that the current WHI is here to stay and, while the new owners take feedback, there will be little change if any at all. The “Latest Updates!” on their main account are from 2018 and there is rarely any changes to the app or website. The current state will probably be permanent. 

 I still love this app and, with over two hundred collections, I doubt I’ll delete it any time soon.

Pros:
- Over 10+ Years of Images
- Neatly Organized Collections
- Fun Articles Feature
- So. Many. Photos!
- Social Media Layout
- Easy Nevigation

Cons (With Premium);
- No Messaging System (with remnants of the previous that they will not remove)
- No Reorganization System in Collections (so the order you add them in is the order they remain in)
- Glitchy Trophies (with no assistance from support to address)

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