“Ok, I've written a review for this app 3 times. Picsart used to be a creative and fascinating for editors, meaning you could create a picture whatever you liked without using AI, but now, it's almost full of AI slop when you open Picsart…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 2,938 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.0 ★13,329,205 ratings
1B+Downloads
12+Age rating
270 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Ignite your creative potential with Picsart — the all-in-one AI photo editor, AI video editor, and design studio that’s free and easy to use. From business designs to AI art, go from inspiration to creation fast. Create with an AI photo generator and AI video generator, edit with an AI image editor, remove backgrounds with Background Remover (BG remover), erase objects with Object Remover (Object Eraser), apply AI effects, filters, and retouch tools, and turn ideas into designs with templates, collages, story maker, and more. Create with new image-to-video tools, AI video avatars, AI try-on, AI avatars, Gen AI Studio, AI Playground, and Picsart Persona.
MEET PICSART AURA Chat your vision into visuals. Built on Picsart’s platform and trusted by 150M+ creators, Aura is your creative partner. From prompt to design in seconds, Aura creates, edits, and refines in one conversation.…
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 30.9.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 30.9.1, updated 2026-09-30.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 30.9.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 30.9.5, updated 2026-10-02.
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 at least 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
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.
The catch list 2
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 48 distinct reviewers — 2.4% of the 1,999 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).
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: Raised by 27 distinct reviewers — 2.9% of the 939 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
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 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 18 distinct reviewers (0.9% of 1999 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 6 distinct reviewers (0.3% of 1999 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 5 distinct reviewers (0.3% of 1999 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Surprise charges: raised by 27 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 1999 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“unusable. Telling me to pay for premium and restricting the download, though i didn't use any premium features. Also packed with endless ads. Not recommending at all”
“There are too many ads when I try to be done and move on to the next step,asking for pro every ad”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 30.9.1.
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.