Photo App Review: Photo Editor+ – Big problems under the hood.
Photo Editor+
Version reviewed: 1.0
Price: $0.99
Bottom Line: I don’t like it. A good toolset, but it fails to do a lot of basic functions well.
When an iPhone photo app cracks the App Store Top Ten, it’s selling hundreds, if not thousands of copies a day. Generally, when it’s that highly ranked, it’s a safe bet that the app has been vetted by users and is going to be a pretty good buy.
Which leads me to wonder how Photo Editor+ by Axiem Systems has ranked so high so quickly from its initial launch two weeks ago. Currently, the app is #5 on the App Store Paid Photo & Video sales chart — better than stalwart apps like Snapseed, Photogene2 and even Hipstamatic. It’s not a horrible app, but it’s definitely not worthy of number 5 with a bullet.
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