Desperately Needs Work – Painnt - Art & Cartoon Filters Review

11.10.18 The app has been updated. It's even worse now, the crashes are so constant I can't even use it long enough to find the "improvements." __________________ Previously: This app should be the toast of the App Store but it is instead a pretty big failure. Not only hasn't it been updated for almost a year, it has several issues that need fixing badly, and yet despite all this the developers have absolutely no qualms about taking your money to enable features that are completely nonfunctional. If you plan to upgrade to achieve higher resolution output, do NOT do it. The app, even when adjusted to the highest memory setting, can't handle full resolution images ever, nor 4K images most of the time. After you wait a very long time for your image to render (a trade off I'd be happily willing to make for a successful hi-res outcome) the app WILL crash and you WILL lose both your work AND all the time you invested. Once you become a paid subscriber you will also learn that you have to wait hours for the algorithm to learn your own custom filters, and you can only create one at a time unless you want to pay even more money on top of the subscription price. You will also routinely deal with the rendering process getting stuck until you change parameters to kick it back to life, even with lower res images. And don't for a minute believe that rendering at lower resolution will consistently resolve the crashing problem. It won't. Until the developers put in the work to fix Painnt's serious flaws, stick with the basic version and treat it like the toy it is rather than something meant for actual art. It has a very long way to go before it qualifies as anything remotely useable by serious artists. Whatever you do, don't give developers money when they have clearly demonstrated that they have no interest in investing anything at all into the app for which you are paying. The features in the free version of this app are the only functions that work, and they barely do.
Review by Ladylonglocks on Painnt - Art & Cartoon Filters.