Free version limited to 2 layers, max size restrictions make it not worth paying for – PhotoLeaf Photo Editor Review

I’m looking for an alternative to the now deprecated “Photoshop Mix”. I thought this could be it—it even had a very similar layout. Unfortunately, it’s not. The first issue is that the free version is apparently limited to only 2 layers (including the background)—if you pay, you can get up to 6. For whatever reason, I can’t find either restriction listed anywhere on the App Store page. Regardless, I would’ve happily paid to get my 3 required layers if it met my other needs. It does not. For some reason, the max background size appears to be capped at an incredibly low number of pixels. In Photoshop Mix, my project sizes would hit 5,000px in either, or both, direction(s). Here, one side tops out at under 4,000, while the other doesn’t even hit 2,000. Even if I could look past that massive difference (which is extremely hard, especially if I’m paying for the app), the way they make you set the background size would be enough on its own to make me walk away. There’s no place I can find to enter in the desired number of pixels, like one might expect in any program where you’re working in a desired background size. Rather, you have to physically crop down from their max background size, and hope you have the dexterity to stop exactly when you hit the proper number of pixels (assuming, of course, that you’re lucky enough to be working on a project that comes in below they’re extremely low maximum). 3 stars, because what it does, it would appear to do well. But, what it does isn’t something I find usable, thanks to the developers’ seemingly-arbitrary restrictions on size & size selection. Thanks to those, it went from being an app that I would’ve been more than happy to pay for to an app that I couldn’t delete fast enough.
Review by ThisIsMyDisplayName on PhotoLeaf Photo Editor.