“Greedy ahh company — I come back to this app and most of the features I used are locked behind a paywall, and whenever you save a pic they add a watermark now. This is honestly trash now compared to other free editing apps. Wanted to…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 1,202 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.6 ★3,336,820 ratings
100M+Downloads
4+Age rating
432 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
PHOTO EDITING MADE FUN AND EASY FOR EVERYONE
Tap into your creativity on the go with Photoshop Express—the fun, fast, and easy picture and video editor. Discover seamless one-touch photo transformations and simple video editing—used by millions of creative individuals.
Photoshop Express delivers a wide and diverse selection of features and aesthetics at your fingertips. Create stand out photo collage images, and fix and enhance your share-worthy moments for stunning social content. Unlock unlimited possibilities with Photoshop Express Premium!
PHOTOSHOP EXPRESS FEATURES…
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.
App Store
This analysis describes version 26.37.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 26.37.1, updated 2026-10-01.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 18.4.40 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 18.4.40, updated 2026-08-22.
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
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 18.4.40, scanned 2026-09-17.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
3 or more found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
None found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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.
Positive evidence 2
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
No advertising SDKs
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK among the 8 SDKs detected in the package
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
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: 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 20 distinct reviewers (3.8% of 521 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 7 distinct reviewers (1.3% of 521 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“No Good Anymore — Used to have a solid free tier. Almost every feature is now locked behind premium, and every saved photo will have a big, conspicuous watermark in the corner. I uninstalled the app immediately. Adobe is struggling…”
“Terrible — This used to be my go to app for photo editing until they updated everything to require a paid subscription, features that I used to use that used to be free are now paid features”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 26.37.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.