Upside Down and Kludgey All Around – OneEdit Pro Review

This app doesn't respect both options in landscape orientation, so if you use a case or a mount of some sort to prop your ipad up in landscape view, there's a 50% chance your preferred landscape orientation isn't supported. It's the little things that kill, and attention to detail has always been a big part of preferring the Apple experience. • No thumbnails are generated for more than the first twenty or so pics in the image selection menu nor for the photos selected in the input list. Needless to say this is an exceptional pain in the rear. I actually found myself switching back and forth between OneEdit and the Photos app to determine the coordinates (cell addresses) for the range of images I wanted to operate on, e.g. 36th row from the bottom, 2nd picture from the left, through the 89th row from the bottom, 3rd picture from the left (36B—89C). After determining these coordinates from within the photos app, I switched back to OneEdit and proceeded to use that info to select and import that range of images into the input list. This definitely defeats the purpose of BATCH editing. • Image sequences don't seem to be respected. As far as I can tell, OneEdit outputs the images in the reverse order that they were input. • Usability is a mess. Notifications are often presented in button form, although obviously they do nothing when tapped on because they're just messages; and often times these messages appear in the same place in the same button style as actual buttons that were tapped seconds ago in confirmation of another step. Sometimes you have to tap "Cancel" ikn order to mean "Done", and all sorts of other hokey balogna of a similar manner. Another kludgey example, I can't figure out how to dump the output images after having exported them to my desired destination. There's a clear button under the input list, a clear button under the actions list, but nothing of the sort under the output list. So, when I processed a second batch of photos, they were simply added to the first batch that was sitting in the output list. In other words, in order to export the second batch to my desired destination (Photos app), I had to re-export all of the photos from my first batch too. Then I went into the Photos app and manually deleted all of the duplicates that were created. Maybe there is a way to delete previous images from the output list, but it sure isn't obvious. In fact the statement "it sure isn't obvious" applies to much of the OneEdit experience. If you really need batch image processing then some how, some way, you should be able to accomplish the basics with this app. And I think this is the only app available, at this point, for performing these tasks, so take it or leave it I guess. Just don't expect the most fluid, elegant, well thought out process for doing so.
Review by katzilla349 on OneEdit Pro.