“Charged for free trial — When subscribed to the free trial I was told I would be given a 7 day free trial. I was charged on the 3 day after cancelling my subscription.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 512 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★121,816 ratings
—Downloads
9+Age rating
221 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Photo Retouch is a photo and video editing tool for removing visual distractions, refining portraits, and creating polished edits. Key features: • Object Removal: Brush over distracting objects or background passersby and apply the edit. • Photo and Video Retouching: Make local corrections, blur selected areas, and track moving subjects in videos. • Portrait Tools: Adjust facial proportions, eyes, nose, mouth, skin tone, texture, and the appearance of fine lines. • Makeup, Hairstyle, and Hair Color: Preview different makeup styles, hairstyles, and hair colors. • Background Editing: Automatically separate subjects and replace or blur backgrounds. • Creative Editing: Add text, filters, effects, layouts, and collages. • AI-Assisted Tools: Expand images, restore older photos, add color, preview hairstyles. • AI Photo Enhancement: Improve photo clarity, details, lighting, and overall quality.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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 5.28 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.28, updated 2026-09-09.
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 no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says 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
65–79% 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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
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.
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 9 distinct reviewers (1.8% of 512 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 512 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 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 512 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Users describe the free version as usable
Reviewers repeatedly say the free version is worth using on its own. Nothing we can measure corroborates that — a free listing with in-app purchases looks identical whether the free tier is generous or a demo — so this is published as what reviewers say, not as a measured credit.
What we saw: Reviewers describe the free version as usable: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 512 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Free trial but they still charge you — I just wanted to photo shop one picture so why not try the FREE TRIAL right? And then I still got charged for that, please explain how that works.”
“Scammed Free Trial — Said I would get 3 day free trial then immediately charged me. Complete scam.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.28.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.