Google Photos vs Photoshop Express Photo Editor

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Google Photos 1/5 · US Nosy and not worth it: Wanted to upload my photos to a shared album on this app from a work team bonding event. It was a really fun day and I wanted to contribute. If I could select certain photos from my library I would’ve done just that and have a neutral to positive experience on this app. But no, I spent many minutes of my life poking around the app, not knowing why the selected photos I chose
2. [R3] Google Photos 3/5 · US Photos won’t delete: I have been a longtime Google Photos user. We’re talking years!!! In the past 6 months I have noticed when I press delete on photos, it doesn’t actually delete. I will have to delete the same photo 3x sometimes Prior to it actually deleting and stop taking up my storage quota. Also, now that it’s not free, there’s little difference between paying here and paying for extra iClo
3. [R10] Google Photos 1/5 · US Never uploads correctly: I imagine this product works well on Android, but on iOS it has been a complete mess for sometime. Images will not upload even when you leave your phone open, you cannot remove images from albums, images disappear from albums, and the list goes on. Fire these PMs and start over from scratch.
4. [R64] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 1/5 · US Money grab and bad tools: Don’t bother using this app if you arnt going to buy a subscription. Even with the subscription, the tools are very finicky and don’t deliver good results just mid. Very frustrating. Also be careful if you buy a subscription because they might try to charge you $100+ for canceling, completely motivated by making an extra buck where they can
5. [R6] Google Photos 3/5 · US Good at one thing. And only that.: I’ve been using Google Photos for years. At its core, it’s great. It backs up my photos without my having to do anything. But that’s on one account. I have multiple Google accounts that I use regularly. The Google Photos app is only useful with the account I back up to. And here’s why. I can’t filter between backed up and non-backed up photos. The Google Photos
6. [R12] Google Photos 3/5 · US Performance is horrible: I used to love this app and am married to it because all my photos from over the years are in it. However, the last year or two the performance has continued to deteriorate. The app is so impossibly slow and sometimes doesn’t load at all. Hoping to amend this review if updates are finally made, but I’m tired of waiting and hoping.
7. [R61] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 1/5 · US Doesn’t work: It undoes all my work with the fakest adjustments that can’t be undone even though they were just done. Ruining hours of tedious work.
8. [R67] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 2/5 · US AI issues: One would expect the AI to be more intelligent. The results were less than satisfactory.
9. [R34] Google Photos 2/5 · US Crashes constantly: This app has gotten steadily worse over the years. It crashes constantly on my iPad. Very frustrating.
10. [R76] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 2/5 · US Crash: To pay for this app and have it crash half the time is ridiculous. Perform all these edits and it says error saving then crashes. All work lost.
11. [R4] Google Photos 1/5 · US shady practice: This app keeps tricking me into enabling photo backup, forcing me to buy more space without understanding how I ran out in the first place. I just had to spend an hour undoing it manually because I’m worried the bulk undo option will erase photos I manually added to shared albums. You have lost my trust and I will be migrating to a different app.
12. [R79] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 1/5 · US This is not a free app: I used to ma kb e the most basic changes for free, but now everything is under premium, which requires a subscription.
13. [R106] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 2/5 · US Used to be a great app: This app used to be great, but then they took away many of the free features and made them cost money. In addition, now every photo you save from the app has a HUGE watermark on the bottom! Really sad how bad this app got
14. [R16] Google Photos 2/5 · US Deletes photos from your device.: Update to review: I got a response from the developer with links about my issues and how to resolve it, and typical of developers they did not read my review. They skimmed it to look for key words or used an AI to "read" it. The link they gave me was what I suggested in my review to new users. I had already read through their help section and it is the same as th
15. [R32] Google Photos 5/5 · US I love Google photos: I’ve been a paying customer for years and tell others to use it. Only suggestion that comes to mind: My family went on a trip recently. I created a shared photo album and we all added to it from our Google photos. The problem is that my own facial recognition definitions don’t work with their shared photos. I feel like they should still. There are like 1,300 photos and I wan
16. [R87] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 3/5 · US App has been broken for weeks: Pretty nifty app with decent capabilities, but it’s been broken for weeks on iPhone and iPad. App freezes and fully seizes up upon launching it. Still no bug fixes or patches somehow. You’d think Adobe would be more on top of stuff like this.
17. [R94] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 1/5 · US Definition of Self Sabotage: This app has become unusable and awful. The most simple features require a subscription now and they have removed everything that made this great.