“BEGS for subscriptions then shows you ads anyway 💀 — BEGS for subscriptions otherwise you can’t use the app, and shows you ads anyway. Icky developers making cash grab apps for SIMPLE stuff. Get out of here with that.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 501 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★83,283 ratings
—Downloads
9+Age rating
205 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Edit and resize photos or videos effortlessly with easy-to-use features and powerful AI tools. Edit Up is an all-in-one photo and video editor for Instagram that lets you create any design with ease. Premium editing and elegant design tools for creating standout Instagram carousels, stories, collages, and Reels covers.
MAGIC EXPAND: • Expand your image to fit any aspect ratio without cropping. • Extend your pictures while maintaining natural quality and composition.
RESIZE & CROP: • Resize and crop your photos or videos to fit perfectly on any social platform, including Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube, Pinterest, Twitter, and more. • Optimize images for E-commerce. Resize for Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, Depop, Poshmark, and more. • Post full size photos and videos to Instagram without cropping.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.4 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.4, updated 2026-09-24.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 58 distinct reviewers — 11.6% of the 501 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
One source only — shown, not confirmed 5
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (4 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 501 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 501 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 501 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (2.6% of 501 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Ads — I normally don’t mind ads and I will purchase the pro version of an app if I like it but the ads on this app are ridiculous! It kept shutting down when I didn’t purchase the pro version. Let me try the app first to see if I like it…”
“Scam — It allows you to crop a single photo for “free” (after watching several ads). Afterwards, you need to pay for it. It will still allow you to go through the process of selecting a photo and forcing you to watch ads, only to then…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.4.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.