VSCO: Photo & Video Editor App Reviews

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Lost access. I have had my VSCO profile since 2016 and have had a yearly membership for the past couple years, I regularly post and use the app almost every day. Earlier this month I went to app and it had logged me out and I was unable to log back in. I updated the app and my phone like instructed to do on support website and I was still unable to login. I tried resetting the password and still no luck. It wasn’t registering I even had my account. Because I didn’t have access I was unable to submit a ticket to receive help. I then tried the Discord support option and have not heard back, another member also seeking support said she also lost access a while ago and the members of the team designated to help have never attempted to assist her as requested. Another frustration I have is my yearly membership renewed on November 7th and I lost access to my account November 10th. I would love to regain access to my account or receive a refund for the yearly membership I am now unable to use.

Great app but i have these inconveniences. I’ll start off by saying that this is a great app. I love using it to edit and I especially love how no one can see each other’s numbers of followers, likes, republishes, etc. It’s a free and positive space for me to post whatever I want without having to stop and think about what other people’s opinions of it may be. There’s no negativity on the app. The reason I’m not giving 5 stars is because of the update. I don’t like how when I delete a picture from my camera roll, it gets deleted from the studio as well. Maybe I don’t want the edited pic on my camera roll anymore but i do on the studio. Perhaps i’ve changed my mind and i want it back. Having it stored in my studio was great for me. Also, I liked being able to click on the home buttons on the bottom to go back to the top of the page I’m on. I can refresh quicker that way, but now I have to scroll back ALL the way to the top? I find that very inconvenient. Please go back to how it was before.

Love it, but it could be better imo. I use this to edit all my photos and I love it, I'm also a VSCO X member and I definitely recommend it for everyone. But, I would like it if you guys made the highlight option to not only take away highlights but to enhance them as well, or present an option where I can select what portions of my image I want highlighted (I’d prefer this more), and the same for shadows. Also, I’d like to be able to add presets to DSCO, not just the ones you offer as soon as I take it, because the way it functions now I’d have to save the DSCO, then re upload it to VSCO, which I find tedious. I’d also like the option to turn other videos I have into DSCO. Oh, also for DSCO, I want to be able to save it to my VSCO library, instead of only being to save it to my phone or uploading it to my VSCO feed, and make it longer, DSCOs are so short. And it would be cool if you introduced options that are fun like chromatic aberration, or vintage scratches and dust. If you guys had all these things I wouldn’t touch another app lol. The app’s dope though, keep it up.

Disappointed. I’ve really enjoyed using VSCO through the past few years, but recently it’s really been frustrating. With its most recent update, if you don’t have premium you can’t post DSCOs like we used to be able to. And i haven’t been able to post journals since this past summer (2020). The journals just sit in my journals section and the cover photo is blank and they refuse to actually post. As of this past day, i’m not able to post or even edit any photo without the app completely freezing up and not responding to touch. i’ve opened and closed the app as well as deleted and redownloaded the app to try and fix these bugs but it has not helped at all. Please come up with a solution. Also with the recent update, whenever i want to save a photo to camera roll from my drafts, it takes me to the camera roll section instead of just letting me stay in drafts. then when i want to go back to drafts, i have to scroll every single time back down to where i left off with editing. this makes batch editing really frustrating as well. i have expressed to my friends how upsetting this new update is, and they’ve agreed with me. Please revert back some of these changes.

always room for improvement. I personally think VSCO is a great alternative to not only IG, but a great platform to share photos with other editors! I love the fact that there is no number associated with each post. All the social standards of having “a lot of likes/comments” is not an issue here. It allows creators to really just focus on expressing themselves through photo editing. I would like to say the same for video but it’s only available to members, which are those who can afford to do so; leaving those who aren’t as fortunate enough without that opportunity. I think making VSCO’s video feature free would really attract more users. In addition, I love how vsco can be easily linked to instagram (amongst other apps as well), but I dislike the fact that one must scroll and see every individual photo. I think if VSCO adapted a similar case to instagram, where photos are all in collages so that one can see multiple photos at once, rather than scrolling to view each individual one, it would be much more efficient. I guess being able to view VSCO through Instagram where one can see view multiple photos instead of scrolling down through every picture. Kind of like the desktop version of VSCO but on mobile (thru links). Overall, it’s a great app!!

It’s Going Downhill- Two Suggestions. The thing that is currently getting the most on my nerves though is that when I finish editing and choose whether or not to save or to post, the phone automatically scrolls back to the saved photo. This is so frustrating when I’m editing photos that are farther back or even relatively close and my place in my camera roll is not saved. I don’t want to scroll all the way back, edit another photo and then do the process again. It’s tedious and pointless. I guess this is in place, so we can see where the edited photo lands? But, that’s not helpful. I think that a button at the top of the screen that says “jump to most recent photos” or something would be more useful. Loosing my spot constantly is SO frustrating. I love VSCO, and I will stick around because I love and am used to the editing software they have. However, I feel like with each new update, VSCO is making it harder to stay. They got rid of the studio, which was very handy. I liked having the photos I was editing in one place. When editing my photos, I don’t want my whole camera roll there with all my screenshots too. I want to choose what’s in the studio. I really want studio back. I use VSCO on my iPhone 11, and I would love to be contacted

Going down hill :(. I’ve been a long time fan of VSCO and have really appreciated the added editing features. However, the app is becoming more and more frustrating to the point of being unusable. Every SINGLE TIME I open the app I have to close like 3 pop ups , and they’re always the same ones trying to get me to pay more . I LOATHE pop ups and companies need to get with the program and make for a better user experience that’s not so spammy. Maybe then they’d actually make more sales like they only seem to care about these days. Overall, though the functionality of the app isn’t cutting it. Now, when I try to select photos to copy and paste edits it’s all janky and glitchy. Videos don’t play unless you are trying to edit them, and you can’t pause the video on a certain spot when editing so it just keeps playing on a loop and usually crashes the app after a while. The worst thing, though, is that all of my video exports come out super faded and washed out. I’ve read several forums and it sounds like there’s no solution to this. It’s 2024!!! So, unfortunately I need to edit videos using another app, making it practically pointless to use VSCO anymore.

Love it, just a couple easy fixes!. VSCO is my go-to for chill photo sharing and editing. Super simple and elegant. Just a couple things to fix: - On iPad, the feed always glitches and is a nightmare to use. The photos on my timeline will be super blown up, rotation to portrait/landscape mode always confuses the app, and it takes several attempts at quitting the app and refreshing the feed to be able to see the entire photo. I usually end up just going on my phone to enjoy my friend’s photos. - Discovering and searching for friends could be better. I often find my friends have an account, which is exciting but also disappointing because I wanted to find them sooner! Possibly integration with other social media channels or better account discovery would be nice. I would also love to discover more creators and amazing photographers outside of what VSCO reposts! - I also want the ability to search in my followers/ing list- I get it’s not supposed to be like a hyper-social app but it would be nice to quickly search for my friend and see their latest photography. - The recipes feature is really confusing- every once in a while I’ll try to figure out how to set it and change it and such but I usually end up manually editing the photo. Edit: the app automatically pauses device audio if the volume buttons are pressed inside the app, kind of like it’s its own video. Very irritating happens all the time!

Turning regular settings into premium settings. VSCO was great when it was accessible to everyone of all economic statuses, it’s a great beginner app on how to edit photos and play with lighting. However recently, they started making certain settings that were originally not paid for, premium settings. Pretty whack. Used to like the app, but don’t love how they’re trying to make everyone pay for it now. Going to switch to a different editing app after being loyal for years! It’s just not right. EDIT: Response to VSCO: “Basic” settings like adjusting shadows and highlights should not he in the subscription. People, me included, have bought filters years ago, and now we are expected to pay even more money annually to have those filters back? On top of this, those who have subscribed to the app have complained on social media of the subscription not even working and having bad bugs in it. Apparently VSCO’s instagram bio is about having a community of artists, but when you’re forcing loyal customers to pay this amount for basic features that are otherwise free on competing apps, you’re not about community. And you are not about supporting poor artists.

Avid Member No Longer. Like many users have written recently, i’ve been an avid user of VSCO for the past 5 years and have purchased the annual pass for more editing tools & filters primarily. Thought the price was reasonable and I loved the simplicity of the app and how enjoyable it is to share photos with friends. Recently was emailed about the price increase for the subscription and was appalled! Instead of raising the price $5, they raised it a whole $10! Half the price of the original cost, and there’s nothing new being added to the app in addition to this increase. EXTREMELY upset with these money grabbing developers. Considering purchasing a subscription somewhere else since the company no longer has the best interest of their customers in mind. Going through the recent reviews, I found that the developers’ response to these types of comments are simply to review their new policies and features, but they’re giving no true reasoning behind the increase. It was a great app that really inspired creativity, but I will sadly have to stray away from it. Don’t waste your money on it.

Money Hungry, Disgusting App. I've used this app for years and enjoyed it. However, I woke up this morning to my preset recipe being locked due to the creators making C1, a free filter for as long as I've used the app, a membership-only option. This is extremely discouraging and outrageous, especially when this change happened with no warning. The fact that VSCO has suddenly changed many of their free options to paid-for options really goes to show how little VSCO cares about its members. Why now do these filters cost money? How were they worth nothing a month ago and now suddenly, without any premium changes to these settings, they're $8 monthly? I'm a low-income individual who cannot afford to pay $8 a month for an app I used for fun and to edit my instagram photos. I will be deleting this app and making sure everyone I know does so as well. I'm not someone who usually writes negative reviews at all, but this change makes me so beyond upset. I hope that the owners will take the time to look into their hearts and reverse this incredibly unpopular change for the sake of the people who need the money they would spend on a membership to pay for a roof over their heads.

Worth the money. I see a lot of people with issues for paying for VSCO. I do the yearly membership and I’ve been paying for VSCO since probably 2017. It’s one of my favorite apps because it has so many amazing editing features and even though it is technically social media, it doesn’t feel like it. I often delete social media apps from my phone but I haven’t deleted VSCO once as there is no toxic environment about it. To me it seems to be a place where anyone can post what they want without the fear of being judges. Somehow it just feels different than the rest. It is a little upsetting that they’re increasing prices but seems like all membership platforms are unfortunately. Two things I would love to see this application add is a blemish fix feature and the abilities to add grain to a video. I never understood why such a popular feature wouldn’t be available for he video editing. Other than that, as someone who loves photography, it’s one of my favorite apps!

VSCO journals/ new update. This used to be my favorite social media app because it has never been related to likes or the amount of followers you have. I have been using VSCO for over 6 years now and recently the quality of the app has GREATLY depleted. I am constantly having issues with cropping my photos. I woke up this morning to see my app had updated and that all my Journals were removed. I looked up online and found that VSCO has gotten rid of the journal section for good starting today. I have 6 years of photo journals on this app, that are now all deleted. They creators said this change happened because journals are not creative and they want to keep this a creative space. Well I have been using journals to group photos together like an online scrapbook. Along with that I am an artist and use them to keep track of my progress, so remind me why that isn’t creative enough for you? I am so upset by the removal of journals and all my hard work on keeping my journals up to date with good captions is now gone. The least they could have done was give a warning about this so I could have saved them before they got completely removed. And worst of all I tried contacting the VSCO team to see if there is a way to recover my journals and they have zero information on their website on how to get in touch. Not even an email.

Suggestion for paid members. I LOVE the app and I absolutely love the entire platform, however as a paid member I would like the ability to sign into my account online on my laptop and edit photos from there. I feel like paid members would be able to get even more from the platform as this would allow members to see colors and filters more clearly and allow members to make even better/smarter editing decisions. I went to do this one time because when I printed out the photo after I edited it, and it didn’t turn out the way I thought it would but yet it looked great on my phone app. I’ve used the app less because of this only because I don’t feel like I’m getting a true editing experience. It only makes sense to me, as you can access VSCO on a computer already and can log in and even browse around! You’d think I could at least edit the photos I’ve uploaded under my profile before I post them on the VSCO feed. I will more than likely cancel my subscription and find another app that will allow me to make edits on my laptop as well. Giving it 3 stars for now until VSCO gives paid members a little more freedom outside of the app itself.

I miss the old vsco. VSCO is a huge fan of fixing stuff that isn’t broken. It started with the user interface, then with the editing tools themselves. Vsco used to be a sleek, simple, alternative high quality photo editing app, and now that it’s more mainstream (and slowly turning into Instagram imo) it’s gotten bad. The functionality of the highlights tool is a great example of a well-intending update actually making something worse, and there’s a bug with the grain tool that’s actually been there for a long as I remember. They also removed the web uploader so now to get photography on my computer to the app (which can only be used on the iPhone btw) I have to use “google photos or iCloud.” Thanks but if I wanted my photography to be 240p I would’ve done that already. Also not a huge fan of how often the paid version of vsco is shoved down my throat. Vsco used to be my favorite photo editing app and posting platform but it’s just gone down the tube. Very sad. Don’t get me wrong, the community is still great and the filters remain unmatched, but the other issues are enough to reduce my usage.

great app but PLEASE fix collage feature. i have been using vsco for years, i have the premium membership (not the new premium membership?? the original premium membership if that makes sense) and i use it all the time. i am BEGGING the developers to fix the collage feature. it is buggy as all get out, i so appreciate that you guys have added the option to save the collage to your gallery so that you can come back and edit it later as opposed to just a one and done type deal, however half the time doing so completely wrecks the orientation of/other edits made to the images in the collage. it is so convenient to have such a simplistic and powerful photo editor in combination with a collage app, especially considering how FEW really good collage apps there are available. i like that you can overlay images however you want, there are no stodgy formatting rules, it’s easy to work with and really enables creativity in that regard- you guys could stay so competitive if you really put some oomf into the collage capabilities of this app. anyway that’s my 2 cents as someone who really appreciates so many aspects of this app!!

Best App Ever… until it removed features for non members. This app was easily the BEST app I’ve ver had. I’ve had vsco since I was in 7th grade and I’m currently a sophomore in college. It’s documented so many fun times (and not so fun times) in my life and has honestly grown up alongside with me. I loved VSCO bc it was unlike any other filter app I’ve had before and it was my go to editing app until you took such crucial features away :( . It’s one thing for some filters to be taken away but, clarity? tone? grain?. Those are crucial things to use to edit photos. Plus you’ve gotten rid of VITAL filters I’ve used since this app came out such as C1. I understand there’s a free trial for the full version but eventually that runs out and vsco has been with me since years. I think it’s so uncool for vsco to take filters and features away from people who have supported this app for 7 + years. It’s honestly so disappointing and I now have to go to Lightroom or Prequel to filter my pictures. Super disappointed in vsco and I’d 1000% change my review if they restored those features and filters for free, because I love vsco and it’s premise so much, it’s just so not cool that they’re taking things away from people who have been there since the start

Frustrating Storage Due To Update. I absolutely love vsco & it’s filters & I’ve been using them for years. One of my favorite things was I could import photos into my vsco studio & delete them from my camera roll. Whenever I had the time, I could go back into my vsco studio & get around to editing. Sometimes I’d save it to my camera roll if I was ready to share/post somewhere, but most of the time I didn’t. Keeping it in my vsco studio until I needed it just kept everything organized and I could easily keep track of my photos and edits. However, this new update deletes photos from the studio if the original is deleted from the camera roll. This has only caused frustration and an immensely unorganized mess of photos in my camera roll. I don’t want everything there, I don’t always need everything exported from the app. And what if I accidentally delete the original? The edit I worked so hard on is gone. This update has only made me use vsco less, and other editing apps a whole lot more. The storage did not need to be fixed, it was functioning perfectly! Overall, this update was extremely upsetting.

Great Film Emulations & Unstable App. I've been a dedicated user of VSCO for over ten years, and it ranks as one of my top apps. For about eight years, I've integrated its use with VSCO Keys and Film Emulations in Lightroom Classic. The mobile version has evolved impressively, especially with the addition of video editing, making it an essential tool for content creators. However, a significant problem persists: frequent crashes. These crashes not only disrupt the workflow but often result in the loss of 10-15 minutes of editing work. The app tends to crash during critical actions like sharing or saving to the gallery, and at times, it fails to save content altogether. Selecting the share button can cause crashes, and there are instances where it stops saving videos to the gallery, displaying a message that the "item failed to save to gallery". This leaves users in a bind, unable to post unedited content and having to seek alternative, though less visually appealing, editing solutions. My advice is to prioritize stability over rapid innovation to maintain the reliability that many creators depend on.

Verification Troubles. It’s an amazing editing app that allows for everyone to make their own custom adjustments and even gives them a good selection of pre- made filters that allows the user to have a good glimpse of what the app can do. The whole feed and layout is similar like to Instagram but still has that unique feature and qualities that makes it different than the- said app. Although some troubles in trying to claim the account of others and for yourself, is quite hard as you cannot verify your account unless the email that you put in, is correct. The problem with this issue, is that many users change emails and even get new phones (completely) and loose access to their old email for them to actually verify the account. Without adding the feature for them to change their email or even add their new email/ phone number, they can’t verify their account and edit their account (such as account name, edit the bio, links, etc). If VSCO adds the feature of letting the users claim their account in different ways, then it’s better for them, altogether.

I guess this is goodbye. I can see that a number of users have already hopped on to say exactly what I’m going to say, but I’ll add my two cents to the fray. I’ve been using this app for 6+ years now. I found it to be a nice Instagram alternative and the editing tools were simple, and easy to use. While I am perfectly fine with having a paid version because I understand the developers need to make money, I find it insulting that they would simply take away features that have always been available for free. I cannot use presets that I have created and used for multiple years because they are now hidden under the premium option. Even the grain setting, which I used as recently as 3 days ago (yes, GRAIN) is now a paid features. Yeah, no thanks. I have contemplated purchasing the premium option as a way to support an app that I have used for so long, but I will certainly never do that now. Looks like I now can now just rely on Apples native editing tools. I can see the developers are giving a blanket “sorry for your experience” response to all these, which is hilarious to me. Until you bring back the features you removed, consider me a lost customer.

Hate the update!. I used to absolutely love this app. There wasn’t a quality I didn’t like about it. I never actually had an account, or the paid version, and still loved it! I use it to edit my photos for my blog. Recently, after updating the app I noticed a change to the way photos are stored. If I delete a photo in my camera roll, it deletes the edited version from the app. I absolutely hate this change. I use the app to edit my photos before posting, but love to be able to go back and review old photos from the past. After editing and posting on Instagram I always delete them from my camera roll because I don’t like to have a ton of food pictures on my phone. I always loved that I could go back in the VSCO app and pull up old photos to reuse on my blog if I wanted to. Now that the photos delete themselves when I remove them from my camera roll I am no longer able to store them in the VSCO app. This is super frustrating, and makes me wonder whether I want to continue using the app to edit my photos. I usually never review things, but I wanted to share my thoughts in hope that this is something that can be changed.

It’s cool. I really enjoy vsco, it’s a fun app I know many people who wish there were comments and likes things that normal social media apps have but I don’t mind, it has good filters but I wish there were more things for free. Don’t get me wrong this app has a lot of free things, but personally I’d love to have the filters the membership offers, but I don’t feel like paying money for it since I don’t use it to often. Just a suggestion. I ,however, do really enjoy the free Dsco feature I love taking short clips and I like how that’s free, it’s also a shame that I think you have to be a part of the membership to post videos. But unlike other apps this app has a lot more than just filters and has things like exposure and contrast to match what you think looks best on the picture there’s a large variety of things you can use to edit your picture, and I have to say they look amazing, I also like how you can repost it and favorite it, it’s different and I like how you can see the posts you have respirated, I also love the discover feature so you can see cool images that other people have posted I defiantly use the studio a lot to edit my apps, and I personally don’t own any social media but it’s cool that it can save to your camera roll and you can post it in other social media apps. Overall, it’s a great app and I would recommend it to a friend (I have actually)

Great, except cannot override original photo. I have been using VSCO for years. I am the family photographer (dslr/iPhone) and have found VSCO incredibly easy to just make simple, stylish, modern edits to photos. It has helped me capture deliver beautiful memories to my family members for years. The greatest feature of all (imo) was recently removed from the last update. I used to be able to save all VSCO-edited photos to my camera roll and have it apply the changes to the original photo. Now, with the feature removed, I have to save all drafts to the camera roll, which creates duplicates (original and VSCO-edited photo). I don’t want duplicates in my library, especially when family photos are often nearly 50+ or hundreds for each event or baby milestone. I get the idea of there being an artistic reason for having this feature removed, but as a person who is incredibly busy and having just recently started a family, I just don’t have time to sort through my photos to clean up my library or filter through the duplicates to figure out what to send to my family. It is so, SO frustrating, especially as a VSCO membership holder. I will continue to use VSCO, but please bring back this feature for my sanity as well as others (it looks like I am not alone with missing this feature).

Hate update from a while ago. I loved vsco but I hate the storing now because it all goes to my camera roll but that just takes up more storage I like to keep my pictures I take on vsco on vsco and the only way I can keep them if I delete it from my camera roll is if I post it but I don’t post every picture I take I like to just mess around with some of mine that I don’t want everyone to see. Please fix this so many people have complained about it and still it hasn’t been fixed I about want to use a new app but. I think you guys should also add the feature to make our vsco account private. Another thing that irritates me is that if I delete my vsco or something happens or say I got a new phone when I download vsco again all my old photos will be gone and yes I know I can save them to my camera roll to back them up but I hate having my vsco pictures on my camera roll I got vsco so my friends could see my fun pictures that I edit I don’t want to have to save my vsco pictures to my camera roll or another app it’s just better to have them on there. Please fix this it’s getting a little annoying and infuriating. I would prefer to not have to switch to another editing app when you guys can just switch it back to the original version you had it.

out with the new, bring back the old!. Listen VSCO, I’ve loved you forever—since 2013 to be exact. The only reason I’ve even added a second star is for the loyalty. This new layout feels like a slap in the face to longtime users. One thing I’ve always loved about your product is that it has been a constant in a world of changing (for the worse) social media’s. I feel like over the years you guys have done an excellent job updating and keeping the app fresh while apps like Instagram have continued to become more monetized and consumerism-focused. While VSCO has continued to be about the photos/documenting experiences. The new layout has shifted the perspective making it less user friendly and more about being corralled to use the member features. I’ve used VSCO for free for so long that truthfully, I don’t feel mad about now paying for the app to continue to use a longtime favorite, DSCO’s, but don’t make me suffer through a entire new app surface. It doesn’t feel natural or easy to use anymore. I used to love editing/posting on VSCO. Now it feels like a chore. 🥺 Please let us restore old versions. Please.

Please read this. Ok so I’ve had VSCO for a bit, and it was great, but recently they took away some of the filters and editing tools and made it so you had to pay and have like a membership to use them. THEY USED TO BE FREE! So I came on here to see if anyone else said anything and someone did, the response from VSCO was that they were sorry the user was having trouble getting the membership/tools and whatnot, that’s not the point, the point is we just want back what we had for free. You took away the free tools and made it so you have to pay for them. I just don’t understand. I rlly like them. But I’m sorry, I’m not paying for the membership, I never buy stuff or pay for premium stuff on apps. I guess I’ll have to deal with this. All I ask is to please give us more free tools and filters. Now for those who want the app, it’s nice, you can edit and post, follow ppl etc. BUT for lots of the stuff you have to pay to use it. VSCO, thank you for a great app. Thank you for making a good way to share with friends. Edit: I do suggest getting this. Sorry if this review sounds negative. I am just frustrated. I do think that this is a good app . I suggest this to anyone.

this is the true photographers social media.. no follower count. no like count. no comment section. i love this app so much. things that can improve: 1: MAJOR ISSUE - White line appearing on posted photos you use the crop/straighten/perspective tool on. Any photo that uses these tools that essentially crop the photo in one way or another will result in a white line once the photo is posted to VSCO. PLEASE fix this! 2: BORDERS - Please consider to allow for Non-square borders? I want even borders around my non 1:1 images! Maybe some more colors to the palette of options? 3: “Remove” tool - Minimum size brush is still too small, max zoom could be increased along side with a smaller brush to enable more intricate correction. Maybe a target mask option would be nice so we can help the Ai decide what to replace the selection with. 4: Smaller Text - allow us to make the text even smaller than is currently possible? Thanks and please keep the app NUMBERLESS with followers and likes please! It’s what keeps this app wholesome and healthy.

Good, but…. PLEASE ADD AN ARCHIVE FEATURE!! 😭 I have some posts that I don’t want on my page at this time but I don’t want to fully delete them. It’d be so nice if we could archive things to restore later. Another thing, I would personally enjoy if journals came back, I think they’re great for documenting travel, road trips and other fun experiences. I feel like journals are cool because you can include multiple pictures in one “post”. Instagram, for example, allows users to include up to 10 images as a part of their post. Pinterest now has a similar feature. VSCO doesn’t have any feature like this, where you can include more than one picture, so I think journals fill that void. Sometimes, I’ll take a lot of great pictures at a life event (prom, graduation, a vacation, etc.) but I don’t feel like I’m able to post all the pictures because it’d clutter up my feed. Journals could help allow me to post more. I also like how you could give them little titles and stuff. So cute! I also like how on this app, there are no visible likes and comments on posts—PLEASE keep it that way because it separates VSCO from other social media apps! I also feel more confident posting because I don’t have to worry whether something will get likes and comments or not. It’s nice because you also can’t see how many likes other people’s posts get. I think it’s great and it’s why I prefer this app to other social media apps.

Not useful Anymore. I don’t want to create drafts.. I have been a free member for over 6 years and with the recent changes to editing tools and removal of some free filters, I figured it would finally be worth purchasing the membership for an app I have used (for free!) for all of these years. After all, it is was a great app that I continued to use because they continued to make the app better and the membership is reasonably priced. However, less than a month after purchasing membership, this latest update was released and has made the app virtually unusable for my workflow. The new UI/UX is so simplistic it is difficult to use, the removal of the ability to directly edit photos on your camera roll has been removed (which was the reason I stuck with VSCO as my go-to editing app for so long), only being able to see thumbnails rather than the full image for imports, and just the overall degradation of the app has made me regret my decision. Just please please please add back the option to edit photos directly without having to create drafts for all my photos. My phone already has so little space available that I cannot afford to have an app that double up on storage data just to edit photos, it is ridiculous.

paywall feels like a scam. i’ve used vsco since the early days, before there was any kind of membership needed. i paid for all of the filter packs back then because it was a one time payment and i enjoyed the way they looked. now many of those filters i already paid for, and several of the ones that had always been free are once again behind a paywall. to me this feels like a scam. i’ve spent money on a product and had it taken away from me again. not to mention that settings like grain and color had always been free but now you must pay for them. i would rather just edit these in the photos app at this point. i was understanding when they added a membership to use NEW features or specific NEW filters but taking things that we already purchased or things that were once free and putting them behind a paywall is just so cheap. not to mention it’s now a monthly payment for something that was once free. i don’t believe i’ll be using this app anymore. it’s very apparent the company doesn’t care about its users, they only care about making money. the fact that the developer response on all negative reviews is copied and pasted speaks volumes to this fact.

Taking away filters purchased before the release of their membership option. I’m not one to want to leave low scoring reviews on apps I genuinely enjoy using and have been using for years but after jumping on the app today to edit a few photos again I realized it’s been done again. Ever since the release of VSCO’s membership option I lost most if not, all of the filter packs that I purchased when I first joined the application. Luckily they prompted me with restoring old purchases; didnt say ALL of my old purchases so I wasn’t surprised to find that they only restored a minimal assortment of the filters that I purchased. That was maybe, a year- almost two years ago, I’ve made do and kinda just let it go. But today I see that I lost about 5 more filters that I already purchased before. I totally understand pushing the membership option in order to keep the application afloat and thriving but one would think all their old purchases of the filters would be grandfathered into this new version. So you know we don’t feel robbed. It’s really disappointing that I can’t restore all the packs that I bought a while ago.

new layout is HORRIBLE. Not sure how new this layout is, if my app just now updated an old update or if this is brand new, but the new layout of the app is HORRIBLE. It is in no way, shape, or form user-friendly. I tend to dump a bunch of pictures into VSCO and then edit them, saving as I go. Now I have to scroll through my camera roll and I can only select ONE PHOTO at a time, I have to edit it right then and there, there’s no option to upload a bunch of pictures and then edit them later, and if I wanted to do that I would have to individually select each picture and “save to drafts” for every single one, scrolling back through my camera roll each time and THEN I can go to the SEPARATE “Drafts” tab to edit it. One of the worst parts of this whole feature is that if I select a picture and edit it right there in the “Studio - Camera Roll” tab, there is no way to save it to my camera roll AND save it to my drafts. So if I want to save it, I have to individually add it to my drafts, then change tabs, and edit/save it from there. If I want to edit it then save it from the Camera Roll tab, I have no way to go back and edit it later because it doesn’t go into my drafts, where it would normally be stored. I cannot emphasize enough, this update is HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE! I am so disappointed and know that VSCO can do much better — it’s as if no one thought these changes through. Very disappointed. Please go back to the old setup.

y’all fell off. I’m a photographer and the app used to be me go-to editing app. VSCO took all the tools and filters I use for my edits and made them where I can only access them if I purchase a subscription. That was kinda trash because free version of the app already barely had any features. Now the app is pretty much a waste of space without a subscription. I’m not gonna lie y’all got me. I submitted and went ahead and bought in because I’ve been using VSCO for 2 years. Now this new “Studio” update is trash because I used to be able simply just copy my edits from certain drafts and paste them on to a bulk of photos. Now, I have to make those bulk of photos into drafts, edit them and then save them into my camera roll which makes the editing process more difficult and creates hella unnecessary duplicates of pictures that i have to go back and delete. My thing is, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it and y’all are doing TOO much. Please stop and fix this once great app. I don’t even leave reviews but the recent updates of this app doesn’t “appeal to a serious creative” like me and have ruined a once great editing app. I can’t even switch apps because i’ve financially dedicated a year to this BS😐. Please don’t leave a generic message under my review.

I love VSCO. I have used vsco for years, as both a photo editing app and a social media platform. I have 2 accounts, pro for my main account but not my second- if you’re willing to pay for premium it is worth it for both, but if not then don’t even bother to download. They have locked so many features for those who don’t subscribe that without a premium account, it does barely more than I can do in the photo app on my iphone. Went down to four starts because 1. like others, I would love to have an archive option and 2. every time I open the app I’m accosted with messages from vsco promoting this or that new feature and will sometimes get multiple during the 10-15 minutes i’m on there. These messages have to be dismissed before you can use the app and it’s annoying when I’m just there to edit a picture rather than learn about new features. I’d rather they make a separate message inbox for these notifications that I can check if i’m interested.

Bad update. Like many others that have written recent reviews, I have been a loyal VSCO user for years now and have the paid membership. I used to love this app, but the new update is super confusing. I liked uploading a bunch of my favorite photos into the studio and then batch editing. It used to be so easy, but now it’s very convoluted and hard to copy paste edits across photos and make sure they are all consistent before saving a copy to my camera roll. Please revert and listen to your user base. :( Update: maybe I am missing something but I HATE that it now asks me to “modify photo?” and then saves over the raw photo in my camera roll with the applied edits. I like keeping my raw photos separate from edited because as editing styles change I know I always have the original preserved for use at a later date. In addition, there appears to be a weird bug where an edited photo looks different in the studio then when you actually open it in edit mode. The last version of VSCO was perfect; please please please revert. I’ve had to switch to the Lightroom app because I hate this update so much. I assume VSCO is trying to save money because server space for everyone’s photos and edits was too costly. I would rather pay more for the old app than deal with this new update. Please fix, how many bad reviews will it take?

Literally what happened?. Okay, so I’ve had VSCO for years, but took a break from it in 2020 for obvious reasons. Since then, I’ve been using other photo editing software, and I’m in the midst of finally editing some photos that I’ve had backlogged. I go through a cycle of trying to figure out what software to use when editing sets of photos, and decided to go back onto VSCO to see if anything was viable. I was first surprised with the layout. Having to constantly import photos instead from your camera roll instead of them already being accessible in the app was an immediate turn off. Then I said “okay, check out what the filter and editing layouts look like”. I was even more shocked to see what features were once free are now under a paywall. I mean seriously? You want ME to pay to add grain to my photos, a feature that used to be free? Genuinely gobsmacked. I’m seriously starting to loathe these companies that were once accessible for most now being whisked away to corporate greed. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve had a VSCO X membership, but at the time of having it, the extra features to pay for made sense. What a waste, I genuinely loved this app, but similar to Picsart, this is another unnecessary money-hungry company.

A lot more inconvenient now. The app used to have the ability to tap on all the photos you want from your camera roll to the drafts area and you can just edit all of them straight from there. Simple. Easy. But then VSCO removed that feature and made it so that you have to manually scroll through your entire camera roll to edit a picture ONE by ONE. Now the only option when you select multiple photos is to create a montage. I don’t want that. I just want to move them all to drafts to edit them quickly. It was so much more convenient before. I run a small online shop, so I edit pictures often- and several of them in a row at that. It takes up twice the time to edit than it did before. Please bring it back. Update: it’s still bad. They changed it so that you can add multiple pictures back into the edit page at a time, but the edited pictures sit next to the raw pictures when trying to find them again in the VSCO app. So you have to scroll a lot again. Also, you removed the ability to edit screenshots. I can’t even edit a picture I got from my own camera roll because it’s a screenshot. That’s wild.

Love the app, but please add this feature!!. I’ve been using VSCO for many years now and I love it—their presets are amazing and the “look” VSCO has mastered even persuaded me to upgrade to the full version. I really love being able to create journals, which brings me to my next point: please please PLEASE (i’m literally begging u) create a feature that allows owners to download images from their journals. I ended up creating a bunch of journals with some of my favorite edited photos, then lost my phone (and with it my artist studio) and as a result, I no longer have access to downloading the edited versions. While I sometimes do copy and paste edits, I typically make small individual changes and to go through the entire process for each journal would take hours. Please make this option available—it wouldn’t even have to be for public use, but at least give owners of the photos the option. I would be so appreciative! Otherwise I have 0 complaints and suggest it to anyone who enjoys photography.

terrible customer service!! And an update I would like to request.. Honestly, I like how vsco is an alternative to Instagram, but what is most annoying is that it doesn’t show everyone your followers or likes, and doesn’t have a setting to turn it on. And yes, I get that people are self-conscious, but there should be a setting to turn things on like a publicly show your followers, likes, and comments. Like Instagram !! I am not allowed to have Instagram for many reasons. And many of my friends also aren’t allowed to have Instagram. many others feel this way about the likes, followers, and comments. And I have tried to contact you on the ‘request a feature’ page. But I got an email back saying ‘we do not respond to emails that request a feature’ or something along those lines. And that is truly disrespectful because the whole self-conscience thing I said earlier? Well, that makes people feel like they can’t be heard. So I suggest you talk to your staff and make a few updates, because the last thing I said about the ‘request a feature’ is truly outrageous. And also, please read more of the reviews for this app, as you will see my point as many other people feel this way, it isn’t just me. Sincerely, Angela

Dissatisfied & frustrated after years of loyal use.. I’ve used VSCO for almost a decade now, maybe longer—I even remember when the app was branded VSCOcam—and have been a paying member of the VSCO user community for almost as long. But it’s absurd that even after giving them $30/year for YEARS they continue to hound me to pay even more for an even more expensive premium membership. Let me be clear—I am perfectly fine with VSCO’s new pro membership. I was actually excited at first and considered upgrading to it! It sounds very useful and worth the money, to be honest. But the constant barrage of email reminders to “complete my upgrade” (which I have received daily ever since I simply looked at the new tier), combined with the in-app advertisement for the new membership that I can neither remove nor opt out of (despite already having an active, paid VSCO subscription)—is testing my loyalty. VSCO, please treat your loyal, longtime users with respect and stop milking our money out of us. In my opinion, the $30/year I already spend is already plenty enough for those new features you’re now charging even more for. And if you disagree with that statement—which is totally valid, you’re the devs, after all, and only you know how much work you put into this app—at the very least, stop harassing me to give you more of money.

Not worth paying for. I have used and enjoyed VSCO for years, but the newest update made a lot of manual adjustment filters (clarity, grain, etc.) locked for free users. Frankly, VSCO was a convenience app for me - I am not paying the equivalent of a streaming service every month just to have editing options on my phone that I can easily do for free on my computer. I have no interest in using VSCO as a social media platform, and I am disappointed they’ve removed so many manual adjustment options from users without a paid subscription. It is one thing to charge for preset filters and automated adjustments, but not manual ones. Further, I don’t support the subscription model - I dropped photoshop when Adobe decided you couldn’t own the software outright anymore, and I’m not going to support the subscription model for a phone app with far fewer features. If you’re willing to use the subscription feature then I’m sure you’ll enjoy VSCO, but I’m sick and tired of never ending monthly payments just because tech companies are trying to end outright ownership. I’d even be willing to pay a one-time payment option for premium (as in, pay a high flat rate once and always have access - NOT an annual renewing subscription), but I won’t support ongoing fees to manually edit my own photos. I’ll just use my computer. Disappointing to lose VSCO like this, but at least I’ll free up more space in my phone!

Looking for another app. I have been using VSCO since 2014. Every single picture I have edited I have used this app for it. I remember everyone would ask me what app I used and would tell them VSCO. And they would use it even years later. To the point that everyoneI knew used this app. And loved when it blew up because everyone can now see how great this app is. I like what they have added like posting your picture on the app And discovering creators. That being said I will not be using this app again. Introducing a paid membership is stupid. It makes since when making content is what you do. Not when you just want to edit a picture to post on Instagram. It was ok when they introduced it and people who want it could buy it and you could still use the app and do most of the edits I had been doing since 2014. And it’s now a total subscription app now for except for a handful of filters. You can have both and have people like me still use filters that we have always used and have a subscription for people who what it and offer more. But completely forcing us to pay is a slap to our face . It makes me sad since this is the only app a have ever used.

Used to be great. Years ago I used VSCO daily for my editing needs. It used to be the most streamlined, user-friendly app and like so many other things got ruined by superfluous updates that belabor the editing process and just make using it an unpleasant experience. You used to be able to upload a ton of photos in order; now they upload out of order. You used to be able swipe between photos in the gallery in the photo editor, now you have to exit the photo editor and manually select the photo, which may require scrolling all the way back to find your place if you’re editing a large batch. Getting to the photo editor and presets is no longer a quick one button command. Neither is saving a photo, there’s about four steps to do that now, and then you are asked if you want to save your edits within the app (that should be a given?!). There are a million categories for presets so it’s a constant scroll to get where you need to be, which for me is usually “favorites” or “recents”. The app is buggy and photos disappear. I could go on and on. The editing tools are fine, the presets are great, but the app is absolute garbage and you can’t convince me the people doing the updates are actually using it themselves because if so they’d be banging their heads against a wall. Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke, VSCO. Oh, and it used to be free!

non app owner views. Because my viewers of my vsco web page without the application on their phone can only view a certain amount of my content, I have decided to no longer focus on my vsco, which was my highest prioritized platform of social media, and now only focus on my instagram and Facebook. I enjoyed having my vsco as a personal blog type app available for my viewers to look at my page even if they didn’t have the app. Now since vsco requires those to have the app to see all content I must shift my focus to a more easily accessible platform. I wanted to share my art and more personal side but don’t want to be limited because an application wants more users. I thought vsco supported everyone’s differences and sharing those with the world but now I see their focus on strictly obtaining users and making money off of them. This makes me less inclined to utilize vsco and far less inclined to ever purchase again through vsco. Your app brand was different and used to focus on the individual and now you’re just another one of the others, focusing primarily on money and less of the freedom of the user.

Absolutely adore this app.. Paying for premium or not, this app is the best for photo editing. It gives you so many choices to edit with, and you can also post your photos to your feed so other people can come visit your profile and see what you’ve edited. I’ve dedicatedly used VSCO since it came out many moons ago, and have loved it since the very beginning. It’s been great to watch this app blossom into what it’s become today and inspire a whole aesthetic which is so cool to me. May not be my aesthetic personally, but the fact they inspired their own aesthetic is way cool. I don’t see myself ever stopping using VSCO even though I can’t afford premium anymore, I had it for a year, and on my old phone years back, back when they sold filters and packs I had all of them too but I lost access to that Apple ID. Have no idea what it is under unfortunately even though I had it for 5 years. Lost everything. Including my access to that VSCO since it was attached to that Apple ID. I love you guys greatly, and maybe one day if I can afford premium again that would be amazing. I miss my old account lol, would be really interesting to see what’s on it. no idea how to retrieve it though. Thanks again VSCO for all of the memories throughout the years. It’s definitely been worth it.

⚠️THIS APP IS A SECRET PORN APP⚠️. first thing is, i only gave this app a five star rating so it comes out on top. actually the first thing is is that this app is a secret porn app. you can access hard core pornography by putting in certain hashtags and search handles. i know this because i found my daughter massaging herself with a rose toy that she said was her friends but i later found out that she got it for free off of VSCO! as soon as i found out this app contained explicit content i went to check on my son who also had VSCO, i walked in to his room without knocking to find him cuming all over his laptop which was open to VSCO! he also had many sex toys that he was using, which also come from VSCO. i do recommend this app because everything i just said is absolutely not true. this app is actually harmless and i less stressful version of instagram. don’t fall so easily to people who are professional at gaslighting people. love ya 🩷

Unfair Paywall. As a long-time user of VSCO since 2014, I find myself increasingly disappointed with the direction the platform has taken, prompting me to share this negative review. While VSCO initially offered a unique and creative space for photography enthusiasts, recent changes have left me feeling unsatisfied and frustrated. One of the most significant issues I have with VSCO is their decision to put filters behind a paywall. When I first joined the platform, I eagerly invested in a collection of filters, expecting to have access to them indefinitely. However, VSCO's decision to gate these filters behind a subscription membership feels like a betrayal to loyal users like myself. It seems unfair to expect us to pay for filters that we have already purchased, essentially holding them hostage unless we subscribe to their expensive membership plan. Speaking of the membership, let's address the elephant in the room: it's simply too expensive for what you get. VSCO's pricing structure feels exorbitant, especially considering the limited features provided in return. While the subscription promises additional tools and access to new filters, the value simply doesn't justify the cost. Many other competing apps offer similar functionalities at a fraction of the price or even for free. VSCO's insistence on maintaining such high prices without providing substantial benefits is a disheartening business strategy.

Is VSCO that desperate for subscribers?. I have been using VSCO for almost 8 years now and it has been one of my favorite apps to edit my photos. However, I feel like they are VERY desperate for subscribers to pay the monthly subscription! More specificly desperate for money! The reason why I feel this way is because whenever I edit a photo, I notice that some of the features that I usually use (tone, grain, and split tone) are all of sudden locked now which is SO frustrating. Even some of the filters I usually use are now locked as well. I feel like they’re doing this in order for people to end up spending their money and subscribing for membership! It’s already annoying editing pictures straight from the camera roll instead of selecting certain photos like I used to, and now locking features that everyone loves?! There was also a time where I could use the DSCO feature for free and now that is locked too! Because of this, it makes me want to not use VSCO anymore and if VSCO continues to do these unnecessary updates then I will be using a different photo editing platfrom! Get it together!

Disappointing update. I’ve used and loved vsco religiously since the days of the old app and am a vsco x subscriber. I know this probably won’t be read or changed back, but I’m really, really disappointed with the new layout. I usually throw a bunch of photos into vsco, edit some of them, then save the ones that come out the best. I reeeeeally don’t like having to edit right from my camera roll then save as a draft if I don’t want to save it back to my camera roll. I do so much comparison and tweaking in the app before I save the ones I love, and this new workflow is not conducive to that at all. I also absolutely hate that copying and pasting filters overrides the photo in my camera roll — who in the world would want to do that?? Overall, this is just mega disappointing. I’m really tired of companies fixing things that aren’t broken and not listening to consumers, so hopefully you hear my two cents. Thanks for making an app I’ve loved for many, many years. I would hate to abandon it now, but the workflow is not sustainable for me in it’s current state. Edit: copy-pasting the same response on everyone’s review is not a good look...😒

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Still. Still a VSCO user since day 1 of this app. Love it. Request please: Add an action to “Import to VSCO” for videos. It only comes up for photos. Also, need to show/have access to all albums/media types when importing from Studio. Can only access recents and my albums. And request to add border feature for video as well with same function as in the photo editor. Thanks guys!

The import images/video screen keeps flashing/refreshing.. Every time I try to import my videos and photos, the screen keeps flashing/ refreshing for no reason. This defect kind of defeats the purpose of the app and it is very annoying. It should be a small patch to fix it but it has been going on for over 6 months. I have paid for a year subscription but I won’t be resubscribing. It’s a shame because I have been using this app for over 4 years and it’s sad to see it go down the drain and become greedier by the minute.

Greed. Pure Greed.. I have been a long term user of VSCO. Across the years, I’d scrimp and save to pay for different filter packages until I’d collected all the filters available again. I was angry when it changed to subscription, because it didn’t refund me the money I’d spent in good faith, and was informed that if I didn’t get a subscription, my purchases wouldn’t exist. So I reluctantly agreed, and budgeted the annual subscription fee. It’s frustrating, because I have no interest in 75% of the rubbish on there, because if you’re wanting artistic effects like that, SURELY you’re using affinity or photoshop. To now see that you are DOUBLING the subscription price, when I only use maybe half a dozen filters, and zero tier options is an absolute disgrace. I’ll be cancelling before my refresh. The insta filters are worth the sacrifice.

Latest update ruins the ‘free version’ of VSCO - use Adobe Photoshop Express instead. The latest update of VSCO (in May 2022) has completely ruined the ‘free version’ of the app. I’ve been a VSCO user for 10+ years and previously purchased many individual filters, before the app moved to a premium subscription model. I have happily used the free version of the app to edit photos, but the latest update has significantly restricted the editing abilities. No longer can I use the ‘Clarity’, ‘Tone’ (highlights/shadows), ‘Grain’, ‘Split Tone’ (colouring highlights/shadows), editing tools. Popular filters (like ‘C1’) are now locked as premium filters, despite being free for years and years. The ability to ‘copy and paste’ edits across multiple photos is now a ‘locked premium filter’, which makes making several edits at once only possible if you pay a subscription fee. The free version of the app is now less functional than the standard iPhone editing tools. I’d recommend finding another photo editing app (such as the free and highly functional ‘Adobe Photoshop Express’ app) unless you’re willing to commit to the monthly subscription fee to access basic editing tools.

deletes pics from vsco once original is deleted from camera roll. i find that the new update that deletes my edited photos off of my vsco after i’ve deleted the original, unedited version from my camera roll is EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING. my camera roll is now as full as it’s ever been but when i first got notified of this they said it was to ‘help not use as much storage up’ ???? how does it help ?? it’s literally forcing me to keep my unedited photos !!! i don’t want my vsco gallery to be empty by keeping all my edited pics in my camera roll. that would almost defeat one of the core purposes of vsco for me !!! so, PLEASE FIX THIS. very very frustrating. i love this app and have been using it religiously since 2015 .... although i’m extremely disappointed by this update :(

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Crashes all the time. Long time user of VSCO since it first came out. This is the first time I’ve had such a terrible user experience. - Very slow and buggy - Freezes almost every time I try to import or export - Finding the new UI with extra steps a bit frustrating. For example when I finish editing a photo I used to be able to export straight away (save to camera roll), but now I have to click on ‘next’ THEN export. Sounds simple but when the app is slow, that extra step is painful.

Very frustrated trying to log in. I have paid for a subscription and I am trying to log in on my iPad. When I enter my password it says my profile is invalid. So I tried to sign up and it says that my profile is already connected to my account, which I can’t access because it says that I have an invalid profile! Would like to contact the developer but the website address is also invalid. Not very happy I have wasted a lot of time and money and there doesn’t appear to be any way to connect any support to sort the issue apart from voicing my concerns on this platform.

What the heck??. I literally only downloaded this app for the grain filter a couple years ago because I like the way it looks in photos. I’ve used this filter on this app for years and never paid a penny for it then suddenly one day it was locked under a paywall! Same with some other effects that I’ve used for years. Disgraceful. How about come up with new original stuff to put under a paywall instead of taking away what we all already had and loved? So unfair, get it together vsco

Don’t read the others. Pay for what you enjoy. Vote with your wallet.. As someone who rarely writes App reviews, I thought it would be good to clear the air about the negativity from the recent reviews. I use VSCO sporadically. I’m not a Instagramer, or a pro-photography. I enjoy playing with photo editing apps and appreciate the design simplicity of VSCO. I’m on my second year of paying for VSCO X. My reason being is it equates to about $2.5 a month. I’m actual terms that’s what I’d consider the upper limit cost for a ‘virtual hobby’ I enjoy. It’s easy to use. It’s always updated regularly. It has a vibrant community with very, very, positive like minded people. When I give up on this hobby, I’ll stop paying for VSCO X, simple as that. Until then, keep up the good work. The above review is my own personal opinion.

Please just make this more stable. I’ve used VSCO for going on about 10 years. I really love it. But oh my god for the better part of 1.5 years it’s been so unstable; I still use it cause I really like the raw editing / video filters. I forgave you for the quite frankly greedy pro subscription but I’m writing this review as I now can’t even import photos. I would contact support but there a different issue each time; my videos can’t render, the import screen won’t load my photos, it crashes when I pick a photo, etc. the only way I’m loading it now is going “photo-> import to VSCO” and it still crashes. It’s so annoying. Fix your stuff and make it stable before trying to charge people so much extra for pro :/

An embarrassment to its creator. Asking users to pay upwards of $50 for basic editing tools is a JOKE. As someone who was once a member for 2 years, $20 was pushing it, half of your features are already embedded in the iphones basic editing capabilities. I used to use this app RELIGIOUSLY and had done since it’s release but this has become comical. Every new day I open your bug-ridden app I come to find YET ANOTHER feature stripped away and locked behind your ridiculous subscription fee. Your company’s desperation for money is nothing short of deplorable and you’ve reduced yourselves and your owner to nothing but a pen of greedy swine 🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖. Creator, owner and photographer Joel Flory has strived to make photo editing as inaccessible and undesirable as he humanly could’ve and is an embarrassment to the industry. I would no longer recommend this app to anyone and encourage users to turn literally elsewhere. 🚮🤮🤢 Kind regards.

Paywalling features that have been free for years. One of the scummiest things this company has done is put features that have been free since the iPhone 5 behind a new subscription paywall. I’ve used VSCO since it was called VSCOcam and now I can’t even access basic features like copy and paste without paying monthly/yearly. Do not support this company. Download Lightroom for better filter and editing support, the app is not worth it, especially now, and their response is simply “we took away things you’ve been using for years and now you have to pay monthly to access them” - do not support this company.

Thanks for stealing my money. Tried the “free” app and forgot to cancel the YEARLY subscription auto payment in time. Yes, ultimately my fault for not unsubscribing before the cut off but would have been nice to have had an email reminding me/asking me “hey, are you liking the app? If not, don’t forget to cancel otherwise you’ll be charged $30 for a useless app you’ll never use.” Another alternative might that the default is to CANCEL unless you actively want to sign up for a whole year. I get that you need to make money from your app, totally fine with this but you need to do so ethically. I suspect this underhanded-hope they forget to cancel-tactic is part of your business model so I won’t bother asking for a refund.

Worst update ever. I’ve used VSCO for the past 3 years to edit photos before adding them to Instagram and this new version doesn’t even makes sense to me. I can’t save photos in Draft as before so that I can edit them in a batch, so I tried another way which was adding the “favourite” flag to them so that I can access them without being lost amongst all the unwanted photos, and every time I had the filter for Favourite, then edit the photo, the filter reset to display all the photos, and even worse than that, every time the list starts from the first photo rather than the photo I was currently editing, and I have to scroll down amongst the myriad of photos to find the one I want to edit. Just awful!

A good app ruined. One thing I hate in this tech era is paying for stuff and then no longer having access to it. The logic seems to be just keep screwing people so we make profits! Seems like the original customers that made this app great have been disguarded. I am tapped out in subscriptions. Originally bought all the filters. I can’t seem to access my photos or albums, and now basic features have been taken away! It’s like selling a sandwich and then charging you for every ingredient as extra. Moving on

Step backwards. Love VSCO and have been using it for years. Usually I’m pretty patient with updates but the new layout has completely broken the workflow that I’m sure many people have perfected by now. Why do we need to modify the original photos just to do a batch edit? And now saving photos is under the share button but the camera roll option is tucked so far away as we have to scroll through all the social media options first? Why make the camera roll the first tab? It used to be so much nicer to see all your edits in one place - no one curates their camera roll?! It’s so ugly to see my camera roll first up :/ What used to be a simple app to use has turned into something overcomplicated... please at least have a video on how you think the new workflow should be and guide us through the UX/UI mess because I am struggling to find something that works.

Disappointed.. Loved VSCO and spent a few £££ on filters that no longer are available to me because of the new yearly subscription. First off, the main reason a lot of people were drawn to this app was because of its versatility, you could still edit amazing looking photos with no yearly cost and the choice to purchase filters depending on your aesthetics. I won’t be the first to think that VSCO have put their existing customers off from buying a yearly subscription and if anything, should have made it optional to buy individual filters AND/or a yearly subscription. I don’t want to pay £28 a year to use the same two-three filters. Change it.

Stop all the unnecessary weekly updates!!!!!. Stop releasing unnecessary and fake updates every week. I have to update this moronic app every week because the VSCO company releases fake versions with zero improvements every week just so they can stay relevant and fresh in the App Store. The App Store rewards apps that have regular updates, and sneaky developers take advantage of this by releasing new versions with zero updates and claim that they’re updating the app. It’s all BS, nonsense, unnecessary and pointless and horrible for the end user. Get your app right, then stop all updates until you have some new feature to introduce, but don’t be sneaky and misleading! Stop claiming that you are doing bug fixes and improvements because everyone knows that you are not! VSCO is a stable app and has been for a long time there are no issues so stop all the nonsense.

Deleting photos. Very very very difficult that you have the new feature of deleting photos that are deleted from device. I can not stress enough how annoying this is as I clear space up on my phone however I store photos there for me to post on my Instagram account. Please make an option to remove this feature as I have lost so many photos thinking they would be saved in the application and I’m really disappointed. Would love to know if there is a way to turn this feature off!! Love the app though - really great for storing photos and editing. Thank you

Photos do not appear at all, very slow!. I’ve always paid an annual fee with VSCO, no problem for having subscription with a good app. However, lately none of my imported photos display. All white out. I even deleted the whole gallery of imported photos twice, to free all space and start over, now my gallery has under 20 photos yet it’s still all white, NOT LOADING / NOT DISPLAYING any photos at all, I cannot edit my photos. Please fix this bugs soon.

I don't often leave reviews but this is a TERRIBLE update. This most recent change to the interface is just not practical... If photos are going to be sorted chronologically, at least give the option to sort it by how it appears in your roll. When you're using multiple apps to edit a photo, it's hard to tell which is the most recent edit and it takes way too long to scroll all the way back to find the photo if it was taken a while ago. When selecting and editing the photo, it overrides the original photo and does not save it for easy access to reedit later if needed (unless saved as a draft first which is an extra step). This extra time is not worth it and I might just use another app now. Please fix this ASAP.

Meh.. I’ve used vsco for a while to edit my photos, and it’s been pretty good as i’ve been able to make most of the filters i’ve wanted,, but recently it’s been glitching a lot and i’ve been unable to edit my photos. i’ll add them in and it won’t let me click edit even if i restart the app multiple times. It also crashes a lot,, and randomly deletes my filter recipes which is VERY annoying. I’d recommend Polarr over Vsco as you can add as many of your own filters without charge, and there’s more features on polarr + it rarely glitches/crashes.

Average features, money grab. For years I have used free features on VSCO which were fine, but over time it seems prices have increased and they have started charging for the editing tools I most frequently used. I started a free trial to see if I would find it worth it to keep access to my favourite tools that were previously free. I must have forgotten to unsubscribe and got a charge BUT still can’t access those tools. I have never logged out of VSCO. It tells me my current membership is free yet I’ve been charged. If im a subscriber, why is it still asking me if I’d like to subscribe? Gone downhill.

Step backwards. With every update the UI gets more and more confusing. i’ve been using VSCO since the start, long time user and have paid for years of subscriptions but honestly can’t justify it anymore. How do I access the camera roll? How do I access the camera? I’m bombarded with other people’s accounts making using vsco out and about almost impossible. You miss the moment before you figure out how to get to the camera! The icons are so minimalist and similar looking I always hit the wrong one. Also... Mental Health check? Literally go f yourself. You’re not my therapist, you don’t know anything about me. I should look after my mental health by using your app in which most features are premium? How insulting and insensitive. This notification pops up every day and I’m certain I’m not the only one who finds this insulting.

Useless without save to camera roll!. I’ve been using VSCO as a paid subscriber for almost 5 years. I’ve finally had enough after reading how many other people are affected by this “bug” where created content cannot be saved to the phones camera roll. Even the developers stated “workaround (save as draft first) does not work. This has been happening for months and I thought it was due to my phones storage, now I read that hundreds of other customers are stuck in the same boat and it hasn’t been fixed yet. My subscription is now rendered useless 💸💸💸 cheers VSCO!

You have to PAY for everything.. I’ve used VSCO for many years as it was one of the best apps to edit photos, but the new update means that you have to pay for everything. Sure, some features being premium isn’t a problem, but now simple editing tools such as grain and clarity are locked until you pay for premium. What once was an amazing app now isn’t worth it. You might as well buy literally any other app on the App Store because it’s all the same now. It’s so disappointing, because it use to be such a good app.

just lost a VSCO lover!. the newest update has just pushed me away, a user of VSCO for the last many years. I don’t have the money to be paying for the bare minimum features, that’s why i always choose VSCO and now it’s been updated and they’ve taken away features I used for years, this is such a shame. I’ll be using another app from now, also won’t be recommending VSCO unless you wanna spend a fortune just like every other app on the app store that’s greedy for money… even if it’s the simplest features.

Please give me back my paid preset filter packs!. I have been using VSCO since its early days. I love the basic editor - the VSCO team have made so many great improvements to it over the years. I loved it so much I bought almost all the VSCO preset filter packs. Today I noticed that most of my presets are locked again, requiring a subscription to unlock. I know you need to make money going forward, but I paid for these preset filter packs under the pretence that I would have access to them for as long as I used the app. I’m frustrated and disappointed, particularly because there wasn’t any warning - just log in one day and your access is gone. Please give me back the preset filter packs!

It used to be good. I returned to this app after few years break. One of the features that I really liked previously that was ahead of its competition - Lightroom was ability to select multiple images and apply filters to it. Huge time saver. Not a fan of new file management system - once you process the original it is removed from your camera. Super annoying when you want to process images with several different filters. I really don’t understand the logic behind changing what works. That’s how you kill the app and lose customers.

Unable to use. I loved using VSCO on my old phone where I had purchased the full amount of filters and editing options. When I upgraded to my new iPhone, all my app subscriptions rolled over except VSCO. It now tells me to pay for a subscription every time I go to use certain locked filters etc. then when it takes me to the subscription says I am already subscribed. So basically I have paid for something I cannot use as there is this huge glitch. I have tried deleting the app then downloading again. The brand new subscription rolled over in October and I thought this might kick it into action but it did not. I’ve tried contacting VSCO to no avail.

What happened to my membership?. I’ve been using VSCO for a long time now. I even bought the presets back when they were available to purchase for Lightroom. Great photo editing app. I use it to edit my photos on my phone for stories for my photography business. Easily one of my favourite. However, recently I’ve had issues with it. I’ve been booted out of my account which I’ve paid a year subscription for. I still have till 2nd of September this year, 2021 before the membership expires, yet I cannot log on my account. Tried multiple time to connect back into my VSCO account, all the custom presets I’ve saved and photos in my library are gone and it’s asking me to subscribe for a membership. I already have one, I’ve checked my apple account subscription. What is going on here?

VSCO premium: lost all paid presets. I am very upset. I was using VSCO for years and paid for the premium membership which was a one off payment. The app was very good but now that it’s moved to subscription (VSCO x) things have changed. For the user base like myself, I no longer have access to all the presets that I’ve payed for. I do not trust this money hungry company anymore, I was expected to be able to keep the presets or at least what I’ve payed for. It’s a very good photo editing app but you gotta subscribe to their offerings now in order to gain full access. (VSCO premium members like myself, with one time purchase are no longer valid). I do not see the “restore purchase” function anymore in support, there is only a “restore membership” function which does nothing to help me in order to obtain the presets I payed for. How annoying, I really loved this app before they made these significant changes

Great App, Terrible Support. I’m a long time VSCO supporter - going back to when they sold Lightroom Presets. I also happily paid for the premium version of the app because the UX, tools and sheer speed of editing photos was world class. The issue is that when the app doesn’t work it exposes a serious lack of care from their team. My app started exporting black photos. I was able to narrow it down to an Apple ProRAW issue. Did they care? Nope. Did it take weeks for them to reply? Yup. Did they give me a timeline. Nope. In fact, their response to my inability to fix a bug that leaves the app unusable was “I kindly encourage you to keep VSCO up to date on a weekly basis to see if your issue has been corrected.” Super disappointing - suffice to say I unsubscribed from paying them $35 a year and have started to look at other apps.

Used to love it, new update is money hungry. I’ve been using VSCO for as long as i can remember and with the recent update in May 2022, they have locked out essential uses such as the split tone hues, clarity, highlight and shadow sliders and most importantly the grain tool. This update is pushing users to subscribe and pay for something we have all been using for free FOR YEARS. Very unhappy about this update, and it shouldn’t be like this, when most people use VSCO to be able to edit their photos freely with MOST abilities that has been for FREE for years on this app!!! Removing this app immediately because of this update. Sad to see a great app become needy for money like this.

VSCO Latest Update is very bad. I have used VSCO for as long as I can remember and it has always been my go to edit app, however, the new update is horrible! The layout and navigation is confusing and not user friendly, and makes it a lot more complicated to edit and find my images. Additionally the new feature that forces you to modify the image is very frustrating, especially when copying edits. Being able to modify the image should be optional. I have attempted to keep up with this update, however I am sad to say that it is nothing less than extremely disappointing. I know for a fact that I am not the only one saying this, many of my photographer colleagues are having similar issues. Perhaps think about releasing a roadmap tutorial of how all the new features work, or streamline the software back to a more user friendly platform! I am all for change but this is just too much, and quite frankly has made things a lot worse than better.

Some extra user controls would help. 1. The most important one is to allow manual sorting/re-arrangement of imported pics. When I batch import my pics, they no longer appear in chronological order. It's very slow to import one photo at a time, in the order that I want them to appear in the studio. It would be much easier if I could click and hold a picture and slide it to the position I want it to appear in. 2. Include a brightness adjustment as well as exposure. Exposure increases shadows and highlights, similar to Levels in Photoshop, but it doesn't brighten the entire image the same way that Instagram's "Brightness" adjusts the photo. 3. Allow to desaturated a photo completely. Currently, the desaturate function still retains some colour in the photo even at the lowest extremity

VSCO X Video - 1080p Please? (Better Resolution). VSCO Cam has been one of my all time editing apps ever and with the addition of editing videos through the VSCO X program, I adore this app even more. However, it would really be great and beneficial if VSCO allows us to export the edited videos at least up to 1080p. I know that 4K is not a must and that is totally fine, but I would’ve like to export videos after editing at FullHD resolution and not up to 720p for better, high quality videos. I think that a lot of consumers would’ve like to save not only the best looking photos, but also producing the best looking videos don’t you think? Overall, I admire VSCO as a whole but I think with a couple of improvements like saving videos in FullHD resolution, VSCO would have potential of being the perfect photo and video editing app.

Ok but what…. I was on tiktok and i was watching a slow mo tutorial on vsco and we need to screen record because apparently you need to pay money to save it?😩ok but why do you need to pay to save a video? It's unnecessary that we have to pay to save the video, I mean other apps like CapCut don’t require you to pay to save the video, I mean it’s not that deep like why do you even need to pay save a video like what.😟

VSCO has lost it. VSCO used to be a wonderful company, but has become greedy and lost it’s way, ignoring it’s long term customers that have paid good money for it’s products in the past. The latest update is diabolical as it removes two very important features for me: 1. the ability to save a file within the app. Now, if you edit a file, and want to save it, you have to export it immediately to the camera roll. 2. When exporting files there is no longer any option for output size, just full size presumably. This latest update is infuriating, why change something that is perfect and useful?! I am seriously looking at other alternative apps, so I can ditch VSCO. Sadly all good things come to an end.

Disappointed with VSCO membership. In another method to earn profit, VSCO have decided make their users sign up to a yearly subscription to gain access to all their editing tools. Users, including myself, who have already paid money to access all of these existing tools, will now have to fork out more money to use things they’ve already paid for. To say I’m disappointed is an understatement. I have been using this app for 5+ years to edit my photos and now I’m questioning whether I will continue to use VSCO Cam in the future. Why couldn’t you just create more filters and earn money from there? Or what about creating templates for Insta stories and charging money for it? I’m confused as to why you are now making existing users pay more money to use things they’ve already paid for.

How do i cancel my membership?. I don’t know why my apple account was paid for the vsco cam yearly membership. I had problems with installing apps and i deleted this app days ago and it was already paid after I deleted the app I don’t know how i can ask for refunding and getting my money back I’m already satisfied with this app so I don’t need a membership at the moment please fix this problem

So far, a million times better than instagram. So far it’s really good, super creative! Love how it’s not about vanity and the sexiest half naked woman on instagram. There is a lot more to appreciate than the basic pornographic selfie on instagram, there is a lot of artistic talent to appreciate and admire in every picture I’ve seen so far! I hope it steers clear of the same path instagram went down! I do feel like it needs more free filters though, just to add more variety for those who can’t pay for a membership.

Image quality dropping on certain images. Hi I’m wondering if others have had the same problem but I’ve been using vsco since 2015 and I’ve yet to purchase the subscription service as I bought most of the preset packs prior, but recently a couple of my photos when exported drop down becoming really pixelated. Other photos from the same camera/taken on the same day are fine but it’s happened to four from the same batch of images I’ve wanted to save. I have even tried adding the same image in again and copying the edits made yet it still exports it lower than the normal image quality. Not sure what else to do :/

You have ruined VSCO. This is my second recent review and I’m so disappointed, clearly VSCO has recieved overwhelming negative feedback about recent updates but has done nothing but paste a generic message below reviews. Please for the love of photography bring back the bulk editing feature. The new interface is a misery use, the camera roll and drafts tabs just complicate and slow down your work flow. Why do I need to edit a photo before I can add it to the drafts tab? The editing features are still good but it’s honestly so frustrating to edit a series that I’m looking for an alternative and will cancel my membership if it’s not fixed soon.

Loveee. I really like this app for editing. Obviously most apps like this have a cost and that’s completely fair. But the free content available is still absolutely amazing. I really like how you can see the layout of your edited photos and what it looks like before you upload them to Instagram for instance. BUTTT it would be absolutely amazing if I could move a photo to a different spot in the studio after I’ve edited to see what works better in different spots. At the moment if I wanted to move something I would have to completely delete it and re upload and it’s just a hassle. Please add that feature to the next update!!

Add a “seen” or “read” in messages. This is a wonderful app but the only thing is that I would really like to know if the person I’m messaging has seen or read my message so please do something about this and add this feature aswell another thing is , there’s no way to delete a single message or a message to be able to be deleted on both devices which my only option is to report and I’m still waiting for my report to go through as soon as possible so fix this ASAP aswell please.

Jump in Cost of Membership Excessive. I have no problems with subscription apps, but I’m a firm believer that the amount you originally subscribed for should be what you continue to pay for as long as you subscribe. A forced jump from $28 to $54 AUD when few new filters or features seem to be added now is appalling. I’ve been with VSCO since the VSCOCam and desktop filter days and a subscriber since their subscriptions began, but this price increase is it for me. Have cancelled renewal and moved onto other apps.

Was a Big Fan But Not Now. I have had this app since they launched. I was quite happy to pay for the subscription. Since they introduced a “Pro” level, the app has gone from $20+ to $99 (?) for a Pro subscription. It is unclear what you will not have access to if you do not have a Pro subscription. Regardless, it was what made me make the decision to base my Project 365 in 2023 around VSCO, with a mission to use all of their presets. I do very little editing in VSCO. They have a whole “FX” section which you cannot layer and to do so, you need to save the edited photo multiple times and use an app to blend the layers. The blur function is not intuitive. Till today, there is no photo editing app that can beat Snapseed. For old-timers like myself, we are hanging on to Snapseed for dear life as Google try to get people to do their editing in Google photos. What is most annoying is the constant reminders to make use of VSCO Pro on the desk top. They have rolled the desk top version out without actually completing it and half the controls are “coming soon”. It was truly one of my favourite apps. But now, I find it all quite pointless especially for the price.

Fantastic app but simply overpriced. As far as photo editing prowess goes, VSCO is up there with the best. But the price has become absurd and I don't know how anyone would justify it when there are other apps which have the same capabilities for less money. Untill VSCO rethinks their pricing model I'm jumping over to Darkroom, as buying all of their features permanently is HALF the price of a VSCO annual subscription. Sorry guys, I genuinely think you've overestimated your market worth.

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Veco im not paying. Im not Paying to post on vsco that’s ridiculous, paying to edit i get but paying to post dotn make the app free then this is actually ridiculous anf alot of ppl ik will stop usuing ur app because we have to pay to post, even a picture, insta, snap, twitter we dont have to pay to post so why make this to pay to post what kind of business decision was that

Beware. Started a 7 day trial of VSCO x on the 31st (still have the email.) the next day I get emailed a Apple receipt for the full amount of $29. I want a refund.

Give back my A6 & other previous free feature. I’ve been with VSCO for a long long time, it always my favorite app and most usage app. But now almost every basic features are locked. Before this change and subscribe policy, I bought certain series of filter which include A series. Even though A6 was free at that time, but I did bought whole A series which mean that A6 should be include anyway. It’s very bad that you took away something I’ve been paid. After this membership policy, I rarely use the app and their nothing to much can use now. Disappointed.

MAKE IT FREE. TERRIBLE vsco used to be my favourite app until they started charging u to post Would give 0 star if i couls

no grain brings pain. i understand paying for the 8192 filters, but the simple grain tool???...

i hate u vsco. i hate u vsco

subscription is killing your app. stop being lazy and charging users what used to be free features, make new features that are worth paying instead.

Never loads. My vsco app NEVER loads. Every other app that i have loads perfectly fine but vsco is a problem. maybe it’s not just my wifi, maybe it’s a problem with the app

Favourites. The favourites page is gone bring it back the update took it away.

why would u remove it. i use one specific filter, HB2, for years since i got the app back in 2016, and now we have to pay for it??? like i understand making newer filters locked, but why would u make the ones u had u on ur app for years locked now? put it back this is ridiculous

BRING BACK THE OLD LAYOUT. New studio layout sucks. It doesn’t look good HONESTLY. Bring back the old layout please.

Deleting from Camera Roll. I’ve said this before in a review, and will say it again. Please bring back the feature where my images would store on the app, and not be affected if deleted from my camera roll. You may not think so, but that was a major plus and benefit for me. I’ve been a longtime user of VSCO, and also a paid subscriber. Please restore it.

New update. I LOVE this app I use it everyday, but the new update that doesn’t save your pictures in your “studio” if you delete them off your camera roll REALLY bothers me. I never have many pictures on my camera roll but I know thy if I wanna go back and look at stuff they will be on my vsco. But not anymore! Change it back!

Too many tools. Used to be my go-to app for photo editing on my phone. Now they’ve locked too many tools and features that used to be free. E.g. adding a grainy effect to your pictures now requires you to purchase that editing tool? Ridiculous.

Ridiculous. I think it’s pretty stupid that a feature that was free for YEARS is something we all of a sudden have to pay $10 a month for now? Money hungry if you ask me

One star for being scammy. I’ve been using VSCO’s free version to edit my photos for the last five + years, and today when I opened the app, the only filter missing from the list was the filter I’ve been using to edit all my photos with for the past few years (HB2). VSCO gave absolutely no warning (or reason) as to why it would need to be paid for moving forward and in my opinion it feels gross and scammy that the ONLY filter that has been removed from my list is the one I use every day. Introduce new features that entice users to switch to the paid version of the app instead of locking out the features your free users use daily. This is giving “Netflix decides to introduce ads, when the whole point of Netflix was that it is ad free” vibes and YUCK. 10/10 would not consider purchasing the paid version simply out of principal.

After 9 years. I used this app for almost 10 years, and the new update suggests that it’s time for me to move on from editing apps and just enjoy my photos with minimal alterations. Farewell.

How could you do this?. Let me start this off with a congratulations to VSCO and the lovely team behind it. I cannot get enough of the app and it’s an amazing tool that I use literally everyday. I have fallen in love with the powerful and elegant tools to have the capability to make every photo perfect. (It makes me feel so in control as an artist!) Aside from the questionable update every so often, I believe they have all been for the better. But I think this is... mind-boggling. How could you remove the functionality of the library? I don’t care about the storage on my phone and honestly, neither should you VSCO. I assume this is the ‘soft’ nerf to the usability of the app until you introduce new paid features. But my god, I hope these changes aren’t permanent. I started using the app about 3 years ago and didn’t have an actual account until about a year in. That speaks to how fantastic the editing tools and user experience were designed. Why take away (I’d argue) the best and ultimately most fundamental part of your app? The gallery is so essential. Not just to photographers, or just to the casual photo taking community but to anyone who spends their time using the app (with an account or not.) I want a place where I can put my photos side by side and compare them. I want a place where I can catalog all of my shots in a spot that isn’t my cluttered and disorganized camera roll. (A collection of the best shots all neatly organized into one page.) I want one app where I can edit, view, and share my photos all from one place. All of that is what the gallery is and should be. VSCO is meant to inspire the art of photography and I believe this groundbreaking change goes directly against that. By not letting me reflect on my shots, cherish the moments I have captured, and reuse/remix techniques and combinations I have crafted for future use, I believe VSCO is moving backwards. I PRAY that this update isn’t permanent and is only an experiment. (Plus, I really don’t want to have to proof my photos in my camera roll.) - P.S. as a subscriber to VSCO X, why are the features of the app being removed? I thought paying customers would be getting access to new tools, not having old ones taken from us.

VSCO ain’t it anymore. VSCO used to be great but they’ve made almost the whole app locked unless you pay. what id be able to understand is that every app comes with premium features for purchase but VSCO has even taken features that were ALWAYS FREE and now making you pay for basic editing features (ex. add clarity to your photo or enhance shadows/highlights). i liked a bunch of free filters that VSCO had but they’ve made those a premium feature now. very sad. i hope everyone finds a better alternative!

Huge disappointment. Vsco has begun to remove free features like grain and require a subscription to access these once free features, don’t bother downloading

Joke of an app. VSCO is a great platform to share pictures with others as well as use its free to use editing features. This app used to be so great until it suddenly started almost leading the members to have a subscription in order to use features on the app that was free before. From changing the bio, changing my profile picture, and even posting itself gives me a little pop up saying that a membership is required. Why are we being forced to pay for something that is the bare minimum on the app? This is incredibly ridiculous and will only cost users to stop using vsco all together.

1 star for VSCO’s greed.. Only 5 stars to tell you to use Snapseed. They have the free features VSCO decided to take away.

Poor business model. Removing filters that were previously PURCHASED and along with features that used to be free was great way to upset your user base.

does vsco want ppl to delete their app?. i’m genuinely asking bc what the hell. y’all created a “request a feature” option in the settings, but it seems you lot don’t even know it exists. how in the hell are you making people pay for settings that have always been free. you will not only add 0 features that your users actually want (maybe check what people are saying in your “request a feature” option as a gentle reminder), you’ll take an extra step to make their lives worse by making them pay for grain. GRAIN??? even TONE??? the iphone has shadows and highlights in the photo editor and you’re trying to get people on a membership for TONE. im in awe actually whoever came up with the idea to do this and was actually approved by whatever idiot in charge. i’m redownloading lightroom and prequel. good day:)

What a mess. Locking previously purchased and previously free features behind a payment is a horrible idea. Would love to have been in the room when that was approved. Will not be using this app any further.

Trash update and app. You now have to pay to post a picture. Whoever came up with this update is brain dead and needs to be fired immediately.

New update ruined a good thing. This app was my absolute favourite for editing and so easy to use. Losing the mass edit function ruined the entire app for me. Not being able to copy and paste my edits without over writing the original pictures in my ACTUAL camera roll is an absolute joke. I NEVER gave vsco the permissions to make changes to my pictures in my camera roll. I’m so absolutely disappointed. Oh and it got rid of all my old edits from before the update.. cool.

New update. I loved vsco, but after the update where if you delete a photo from your camera roll that was also uploaded to the app, it deletes in both, I lost interest. I find this extremely irritating and I miss the old format of the app.

Fix your filter shop👎🏻👎🏻. It’s Good But When I Bought a Specific Set of Filter It Bought The Other One Instead. Buying Filters are just Waste👍🏻

Give us back grain!!!. I have been using this app for literally a decade, since 2012 or 2013 or whenever it launched. To have grain suddenly go behind a paywall? F this app.

money hungry. like other reviewers i’ve been using this app since 2016 and now you want to take away basic editing like TONE and CLARITY? even grain??? i didn’t even notice that you took away bio and pfp changing until now but i’m even more livid. you just lost a user much less a subscriber i would NEVER pay 80$ for a photo editor subscription. very upset

Paid Subscription. Randomly added paid subscription for particular features when they were used freely before…

stop pressuring for premium.. why did you take away so many of the features? this app is becoming less and less appealing.

Ughh. Why the heck do U have to pay

Hate the new update. I NEVER leave reviews but I’m so mad. I use vsco for all of my editing and I swear by it. Normally I’d say 5 stars no doubt, I used to upload a whole bunch of photos from a photoshoot at once then edit one and paste the edits onto the others and choose my favourite from there and delete the rest. But with the new update you can only move a photo to drafts ONE AT A TIME. It takes forever and there’s no apps like it I’m so used to vsco so now I’m just stuck. I really hope they fix it:(

Paid membership to post?. Sooo mad about the fact that you have to pay to post pictures on this app now??? Vsco is one of my favourite apps to use and now I have to pay in order to use it. Not happy about that at all, very greedy move.

have to pay to post???. i used to love this app, then slowly they started making you have to pay for certain things like grain and other filters… which okay that’s fine i guess. BUT NOW YOU HAVE TO PAY TO BE ABLE TO POST TO YOUR OWN ACCOUNT?!!!! this app went from the best to an absolute dumpster fire. have had vsco for well over 5 years and will be deleting this garbage. i wish zero stars were possible

Bring the old VSCO back. Hate how if I delete photos from my camera roll it also deletes them from VSCO. HATE IT

So sad. I miss the old update. :(

Why. U have to buy a membership just to post stuff sooo stupid

Developers - what are you thinking?!. I’ve been using VSCO since day one and this is the first review I’ve ever written on the app store. The previously version of the app was almost perfect, but this latest version seems to of made the app infinitely worse. I’m not going to list all of the problems because they are obvious. Just bring the workflow back from the previous version otherwise I and many other long-term users will be forced to switch to another platform.

Confusing Update. Long time VSCO user. First time reviewer. Since the update I don’t think I can use it anymore. It’s confusing how you edit directly from your camera roll??? And then there are like Drafts too??? I export out and it overlaid my edits twice?? No idea what’s going on. But I think they just over complicated my workflow. Will find something better for now.

TOO EASY TO REPOST. Swiping up reposts a picture. I accidently reposted 5 pictures. At least make it a tap, you swipe up 99% of the time to look at photos terrible idea

Monetizing everything now :/. They are trying to make u buy premium for even basic features now like the grain tool. Very very sad this app used to be fun and now its lost its way

Why. Let’s make a free app that you have to pay to post on. Disappointing

What did you do to the app icon😭😭. The new blue icon is so ugly I cannot even express how much I hate it.

CHANGE THIS. i cannot STAND the new update. I hate how you can’t select more than 1 picture to add into your drafts, i hate how it deletes from your drafts if you delete it in your camera roll, i hate the look of it. CHANGE IT BACK. i do not pay for the membership for a horrible app like this.

Automatic delete SUCKS. Automatically deletes photos that’s aren’t in your camera roll :/ used to store pictures in VSCO to edit and post for later now they all disappear without me realizing and I loose all my photos

Mid. Pretty good and kinda fun but annoying you have to pay for the good stuff.

Update sucks. Hate the new update. Can’t import photos without editing them one by one.

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I’ll be looking for a new photo editing app. I loved VSCO because it’s quiet and not focused on the numbers and liked and followers and comments of social media. It was a place for me to be quiet and not be stressed out. PLEASE DONT CHANGE THAT. And I loved editing my photos in one place with all the basic editing tools. But with the recent update I’m very upset!!! I love VSCO. And I thought that the creators wouldn’t be greedy and change. But to take away basic editing tools such as copy and pasting edits, highlights and shadows, and grain, clarity l, plus a lot of filters that we all loved that were free such as C1 and HB1, I’m sad to say that I don’t want to use VSCO to edit my photos anymore 💔💔💔it’s too many steps now to have to go back and forth between apps just so that I can have the grain feature!!! I simply can’t afford to pay a membership and I just want a place that I could feel safe and comfortable using knowing the creators aren’t going to be greedy. But unfortunately that’s what this update is giving off from VSCO. You might as well simply make people pay for the app at this point.

More healthy alternative to other social media. I love VSCO because it doesn’t have likes, comments, or stories so it cuts out a lot of noise and pressure to post because it in no way quantifies what you are doing with numbers. VSCO keeps me inspired, keeps me photo editing and making stuff that I think is interesting. I also love the paid DSCO feature, please never get rid of that! In order to maintain this healthy balance of not being addicted to my visual social media of choice, I would like the ability to turn off “suggested people to follow” section showing up in my feed at all. I would like to turn it off and never see it. I like the other explore features around creative themes and categories, but sometimes I go down a rabbit hole of looking through the suggested follows for no reason. I imagine it drives engagement though, so I’m doubtful that the business case for this feature is very feasible. But as a user trying to maintain well-being it would be helpful :) Also please allow me to choose thumbnails for my videos! With all the amazing montage stuff going on i would have thought this would already be a feature. The performance of the app definitely struggles at times with posting videos and crashes randomly while creating drafts from my camera roll, but the all the positives keep me coming back. Thanks so much!

repost from Lcall4. they really hit the nail on the head with this. Kinda annoyed that they recently took away even more filters and features unless you're a member. I felt like the amount of available things was small to begin with but they took away even more?? Annoying. Another thing, I would personally enjoy if journals came back, I think they're great for documenting travel, road trips and other fun experiences. I feel like journals are cool because you can include multiple pictures in one "post", Instagram, for example, allows users to include up to 10 images as a part of their post. Pinterest now has a similar feature. VSCO doesn't have any feature like this, where you can include more than one picture, so I think journals fill that void. Sometimes, I'll take a lot of great pictures at a life event (prom, graduation, a vacation, etc.) but I don't feel like I'm able to post all the pictures because it'd clutter up my feed. Journals could help allow me to post more. I also like how you could give them little titles and stuff. So cute! I also like how on this app, there are no visible likes and comments on posts- PLEASE keep it that way because it separates VSCO from other social media apps! I also feel more confident posting because I don't have to worry whether something will get likes and comments or not. It's nice because you also can't see how many likes other people's posts get. I think it's great and it's why I prefer this app to other social media apps.

Love it, but needs more for video editing!. I have been a user of VSCO since almost the beginning! I love the app so much so that I decided to buy the membership a year or two ago so I could edit videos and get even more effects! There’s so much to love about this app, but I do think that there is still room for improvement! I would love love LOVE to have more video editing features added to the app. A big reason why I don’t edit videos in it very often is because it lacks editing tools/effects for videos, in comparison to other apps. The “vintage” look is super popular right now and I would love to have a feature that allows me to make videos/pictures look like film, etc. I actually was debating getting the membership for the app Tezza because they have this feature. Obviously VSCO is an incredible app and one of my favorites, and I don’t want to switch, but I would truly love if they had more features, especially for videos!

Long Time Customer Feels Pain. I’ve been using VSCO for at least 4-5 years+ and honestly have enjoyed using the app. I myself have also purchased packs that they’ve first added to the app and have been using the app prior to them adding the membership program. I didn’t have an issue with the membership program since it didn’t take away any access to any of the tools I used, but as of the recent update I noticed grain is only accessible to members. I know it may be something small, but why take that tool away and not make it accessible to all? In addition to that what other tools will you be taking away if you notice its use starts gaining popularity. If you are not aware, the grain effect is what makes digital photos similar to photos taken on film and rather than the younger generation buying a film camera, they’ll use apps like photo light and vsco to get that effect. I understand the move made by the marketing team by removing grain, but I don’t respect it in terms of the long run.

Great...but membership activation is weird. amazing app. i enjoy editing and how it has no ads and no followers or likes or how no weirdos can contact you. but on the downside, i purchased a membership and it won’t show up. i have tried logging in to both accounts that i have, and neither of them has the membership. i am worried that i have just paid $20 for nothing. please help! EDIT: i had to renew the vsco membership to use it. slightly confusing and frustrating but the guide had pictures. the vsco x is amazing, but you should be able to post vids. also, a guide to what each tool does would be nice. (e.g. exposure does blank while simultaneously reducing the blank). in all, an AMAZING app. 10/10. better than afterlight as well. 2ND EDIT: please please let me turn my dms off! i don’t want people asking me what i use to edit my pics! also just for safety reasons, u should let us have a private account!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!

Trashy and Greedy App. I’ve used this app since 2014. It has been a great outlet for creatives. Ever since Instagram has become a commercialized space, I found myself using this app for inspiration more. They offered great filters and editing tools. However, since they introduced the VSCO membership, it has all gone downhill. It was fine in the beginning when they just offered their own special filters and editing tools with it. Now, they’re taking away the OG filters that everyone loved (especially A6 and C1) as well as some basic editing options such as clarity and highlighting/shadowing. Why should basic features like that be taken away? Might as well just make users pay for the app if you’re going to make everyone pay for everything now. Not to mention on the home feed, they have that stupid banner that promotes their membership that you can’t seem to get rid of. The owners of this app have gotten super greedy and shady. I recommend Prequel, Lightroom, or PicsArt instead if you still want access to editing and filters. I won’t give this sad excuse of an app anymore business.

Love VSCO.... but not the new update..... I LOVE vsco! I have used it for years to edit my photos and publish my photography! It has all the tools you need and more!! BUT.... this new update is the worst. I hate it. It makes editing photos miserable. I hate that there are drafts and then your camera roll.... I enjoyed being able to just import photos and then edit in the studio directly but I don’t like that if I go to paste edits on photos I either have to do so in my camera roll and modify the original photo (which I don’t like because sometimes I like to see multiple edits), or I have to go into each individual photo and go through the edit setting to put it into my drafts and then I can edit them all..... takes so long to edit now and just makes it very inconvenient. Maybe if you could choose your studio type? Or even just be able to import photos to be drafts from the camera roll? Kind of sad about this.

i used to be such a big fan but newest update just isn’t it ://. i’ve NEVER written an app review but i am seriously so disappointed :,( i’ve been using vsco since it was “vsco cam” & the whole social aspect of the app was not around yet. with the app’s growth in social aspect & popularity i’ve continued using & even paid for a vsco membership for 2 years. unfortunately, the newest update makes the app so unusable that i’ve already cancelled my subscription & stopped trying to struggle through continued use. the inability to upload multiple photos into drafts is beyond inconvenient. many of my other favorite features like copying edits to paste onto other images have also become extremely tedious to navigate. this is not a matter of begrudgingly learning to use an updated app due to bias to what i’d already known; rather, too much of my go-to uses of vsco are simply no longer worth the hassle of completing according to the new formatting. as a longtime fan and user of vsco, it is not easy for me to turn my back on it, but i honestly would no longer recommend this app to anyone.

Its so good. I love VSCO it's amazing and I love it so much because you get to experience adding editing your apps like so when you want to like be older and or you want to be a photographer or something like that I really love this app and it's so amazing there's no ads or anything like that so thanks for so much it's amazing that you created an app like this and that you can do this but the thing is I would really hope that the video thing that people can't really really afford some some people are able to afford it and some people are able to afford it or they're able to afford it and their parents won't let them so I really would like if y'all could put the video editing free for free. -and I'm sorry if this sounds kind of like weird like it doesn't make sense to you but I'm using the microphone thing on my phone so it's and I'm like stuttering I don't know why but yeah

Becoming too limited. VSCO is a great app overall; the almost anonymous feeling of it allows for a non-competitive social media community, which removes some of the toxicity of the social media world. It’s also great to making pictures come to life how you want them to. With all of that being said, it is hard to embrace its positivities when the company is restricting more and more access to free users. I have absolutely no good reason to pay $30 a year just to enhance my images, nor does the average user. For people who rely on social media for income, different story. Cutting off basic tools that people have adapted to using for free is an easy way to get people to delete the app in total and move to another editing platform. While VSCO is great and gives me tools that improve the quality of captured moments, it doesn’t help when they are being cut off for an extra dollar in a company’s pocket when they were okay without it in the first place.

Please switch back to old design!. This new design is all over the place! It’s so confusing! I liked the old design so much better. I liked how you could select all the photos/videos you were going to be working with and move them to the project area and work on them from here. This new design has me searching so much more for all the content I need and then when I save it, it still is somewhere random on my phone and not the first vid/pic in the line up. And my favorite feature was the copy and paste, it was so easy on the old design, this one I had to hunt for the copy and paste button and then I had to scroll for so long to find the pic I wanted to paste it on instead of having all my pics and videos selected in the project room like it use to be! Plus the background is black instead of white, it’s very hard to edit pictures with black light. Why did you guys change it? Like it was so unnecessary, this update is super lame and makes me want to not use this app. At least have the option for this new design or the old design, because I would be sticking with the old!

Awesome app, but haven’t been able to open it in 5 months. I love this app, I have a passion for photography so I love taking photos and editing them with VSCO filters. But I haven’t been able to even open my app since January. I click on the app and the loading screen with the logo stays for a few seconds and then goes directly back to my Home Screen like I never clicked on it. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times I try, it will not open. I’ve restarted my phone, updated my phone, updated the app, I’ve tried everything. I don’t know what to do because I really miss the app so much, I’ve been having to log in through Pinterest to catch up on my feed, and I’m even paying for all of the features, which is now a waste of money since I can’t even use it, it’s been really frustrating. Im scared to delete the app because i might lose my whole feed but I may just have to start all over. I haven’t seen anyone else with this issue…Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated!

GREAT, just one thing. You can edit videos and photos, and also see a safer side of social media. Whoever you choose to follow shows up in your feed and no one else. It is very different from instagram or tik tok, it’s more of an artistic side of social media and rarely shows pictures of people posing in a mirror or I have never seen a tik tok on there once! Totally recommend but there is just one thing, I would like to have a little more variety on the app, only the people you follow show up, but I think it would be a good idea to have a setting where photos and videos pop up according to what you search and watch because I am not allowed to follow many people and their photos get very repetitive, just a suggestion I think would be a VERY nice addition, anyways love the app you should download it!

I love VSCO. The app really is stellar, I use their professional film emulation presets in my photo work in Lightroom, and this app makes a lot of that same magic accessible on mobile while introducing a more art aesthetic social experience that counters Instagram. My only real complaint is that notifications are badly delayed. I can get a bunch of them but when I follow them into the app they have yet to refresh the actual activity listings on my posts. They remain that way for awhile before finally catching up. Other people will lament the somewhat obtuse UI and that’s a fair criticism that I don’t even think the devs try to sidestep, they wanted to do something unique a couple years back, but they’ve walked a lot of that back because it was unintuitively unique. I’d still like to see a design change for the app navigation that makes it more intuitive, but they’ve crammed so many valuable features into the main purpose of the app that I can live with it for now. It just makes introducing it to friends a little more difficult.

Questions for VSCO. I love this app so much! It definitely is a way to show off my creativity and I spend a lot of time on it! I do have a few questions though- the first one would be that is there any way we can add an account so we don’t have to log out each time? I have a account where I post of myself and one where I post of things that I enjoy. It would be so much easier for me! Also is there anyway we can connect them to the same email? I don’t have more than one email. My last question would be is there any way you can add the number of our followers, reposts for each post, and favorites somewhere on our profile? It doesn’t even have to show other accounts the amount of our followers or reposts or anything to anyone, it would just be quicker and easier to see the number then count. Thank you!

Cool things to add!. Love this app with the VSCOX membership and everything, but I would love if y’all could add a Post Notifications feature that way I could make sure to see the posts I want to see when I don’t have time to scroll through my regular feed!! Also if y’all could add a way to create DSCO videos from live photo’s or videos in your camera roll that would be AMAAAAAZINGGGG!!!! I’m always forgetting to take DSCO videos and it would be the best thing ever if I could just create them from my past live photos and/or videos. Also I love how you can edit videos, but I wish that I could save the video without it exiting out and forcing me to start over with a new video. Sometimes I like to save the same video with multiple filters or with a few adjustments and I wish I could do this without having to screenshot all my previous settings so I don’t have to start all over. Being able to edit the video without it continuously playing on a loop would help this, but adding a feature where you could edit the video while its playing on a loop or paused at places of your choosing would be great too. Other than that, I LOVE this app and I can’t wait to see what y’all create in the future. Thank you for such an amazing app!!! (with a very reasonably priced subscription plan too!!!!) Thank you!!!!! - Claire

Heard so many good things about VSCO. Finally, I had a few moments to learn about VSCO. I’ve spent time with the tutorial, importing images and using some layouts with Montage. Then I tried to save it by using the small next button in the upper right corner. It takes me to a screen to subscribe. I have no other choices except to try the Free Trial. This takes me to a pop window that says I have already subscribed. There are no options for help. I tried the App Store hoping to see a way to submit bugs. I could not find this so I wrote this review. I’m really hoping this leads to an answer so I can get some success with VSCO. It is November. I still have not been able to use the app. It says I have already subscribed, but I am not able to use the subscriber features. If we cannot get this to work, I should get a refund. If we do get it to work, please reset my membership. I did not see a way to submit an inquiry in app support.

Love love love...but wait!. I absolutely love VSCO and use it for all of my photography. The range of creativity, inspiration and options it provides is incredible. My only complaint is that when I’m scrolling through my feed, I always see tons of content that I like and that I want to republish. However, I always have to slow down while doing this and can’t mass-republish things without getting an error message! Maybe devs you’ve heard this complaint before and refuse to change it because you want users to pay more attention to others work and not just fly through it (at least that’s why I think you haven’t changed this), but I really wish you would! Content can still be enjoyed even if one goes through it quickly. And believe me, I know that many would enjoy the content that they see much more if they were able to republish and favorite things faster without error. Thanks!

Used to be my favorite photo editing app, has only gone downhill. There was a time where all I used for photo editing was VSCO. The platform was easy to use and straightforward. With every update it has gotten worse and worse, the layout makes no sense anymore. On top of its completely trash user-friendliness, they recently took away the most popular filters and editing features, locking them for premium subscription users only. I PAID for filter bundles years ago and now they just take away the filter I used the most in the bundle? And taking away a basic free grain feature and editing highlights/shadows? NOT okay. Taking away features people paid for is completely unethical and shows zero regard for your customer base. I don’t plan on using this app anymore and I know others feel the same way too. If you want people to pay for a subscription stop making your platform worse with every update and listen to your customer base for a change. Look elsewhere for a photo editing app (snapseed is better these days anyway). It’s all downhill from here for VSCO, what a shame.

Please update your safety settings asap!!. I used to love this app so much. My favorite app to just post fun things and whatever without likes or any of that crap. Now I can’t enjoy it because I have been continuously sexually harassed on the app and for some reason blocking does nothing. And it won’t let me report them and they continue to make new accounts. Please make it so that when you block someone they can no longer see your page or text you or any of that. Also please make it so if you block someone it also blocks all new accounts they make as this person continues to make more and more accounts. I would also like an option to report people that actually does something as reporting does little to nothing. Please address these concerns as this person has been relentlessly sexually harassing me with disgusting messages and spamming my entire page for a very long time now & I feel like I can’t even enjoy the app like I used to. I’m sad to think if other girls are going through the same thing, this is an extreme issue & I’ve gotten no support from vsco!!!

my go-to. I've been using vsco for yearsssss and I even pay for the annual subscription so I can have full access to the app and its features. The UI has changed a bit over the years and was a little confusing at first but I use it every day so it was easy to get used to. It's my go-to app for editing because the filters and freedom to edit are unmatched and really satisfying/fun to do :) The only feedback I have is that the annual subscription recently increased in price & while I received an email from apple, there wasn't an explanation as to why the increase. I'm curious if I can find that information somewhere to justify paying more for the same app? I'm probably going to keep using/paying for it but just wondering if I can be directed to that info/explanation :) in general tho, 10/10 app love it ty developers

Great Editing app but has Bugs. I love VSCO and it is my go to editing app. I am a member and for me it is worth it. I would 100% recommend others downloading the app. But recently I have been experiencing bugs and it is ruining my experience with VSCO. First, a month ago whenever I would open the app, it would simply black out and not allow me to use the app. So I deleted and re downloaded VSCO, just to learn all of my drafts would be deleted. Extremely frustrating, but I understand. Now I am trying to re upload images to my drafts, but they are not in order! They are scrambled all over my drafts and it is very annoying and makes me not use the app anymore. I hope the VSCO team notices this problem and creates an update that fixes my issue and allows my images to upload in chronological order. VSCO please fix this I beg you, so I can enjoy your wonderful app again.

New Update. This new update is HORRIBLE. You have so many people paying for this app, including me, who can’t even use it anymore or edit their photos. The two tabs on the edit page are so user unfriendly and difficult to use. My recent photos don’t even show up in my camera roll on the app unless I screenshot them (???) and then loose the quality in the image. The ones that do show up are rearranged making it so difficult to find the photos you want. When you save a photo they only go into your camera roll and not your drafts like they used to. And you can only edit one photo at a whereas I used to be able to upload multiple photos at a time and have them all in my drafts to compare. It’s a complete mess and not one of these changes is positive and so many people feel the same way. As a paying customer who can’t even edit my photos on a photo editing app, I’m very disappointed. Bring back the one tab drafts page and allow us to upload multiple photos from our camera roll at once. Listen to your paying customers.

Disappointed. Been using vsco for about 5 years now and I am thinking about canceling my subscription. This new update is difficult to navigate, especially for anyone who is getting into photography/editing photos. I don’t like that I can’t actually upload the images and I’m “editing” right from my camera roll. So it modifies the edits over the original in your camera roll. Not only that, but to edit a photo one by one, even if you copy and paste Murillo is time consuming and annoying. Also my images that I save into my drafts aren’t saving to my camera roll either, so I have to click each photo I want edited from the “camera roll” section. I’m really disappointed because I use vsco mainly for my personal work when I’m on the go. I use Lightroom as well but I liked the style that vsco gave to the photos. Unfortunately, I’m just going to spend some time making my own presets for Lightroom mobile similar to the ones I liked from vsco because I will be canceling. Very disappointed.

Not as great as before, but…. I have always loved VSCO! Been using the app for almost 7 years if not longer and it’s been my go to - especially the C1 filter. That was my thing, and from what I know - most people loved that filter. Unfortunately - within recent updates - they’ve moved a lot of the filters, including C1, to the membership. It would have made sense years ago, as they could see it was popular, so people may want to pay money for it - leading to more revenue in memberships for them. Yet, it doesn’t make sense. IT’S BEEN YEARS OF FREE ACCESS. LITERAL YEARS AND YEARS, almost a decade of a free filter and then you randomly open the app and you have to pay. I could understand shortly after creating the app and garnering popularity but it’s at the point to where people are just annoyed and will find something else. It’s aggravating and feels unnecessary. Truly love VSCO - but why the change after almost a decade?

🤔. I’ve been using the app for years and it’s easily one of my favorites. The set up and layout is displayed nicely, and all the functions are easy to find and use. I’ve always liked all the different filters but never wanted to purchase them all individually, so when the subscription rolled out last year I was very excited! That being said, I would love if there could be more in depth tools(selective, curves, text, etc.), too often I find myself having to use another app for a few little things that I think would be great to have all in one place. I also wish you could chose to have a profile or not, simple because I don’t care much for the social aspect of the app, it doesn’t seem to run smoothly and no one really seems to interact in it so it seems ultimately pointless, great concept though! Can’t wait to see what else you guys over on the VSCO team roll out in the future.

Was great now they’re just money hungry. Used to use this app all the time was a go to for me recommended to all my friends, now they’ve decided let’s start charging ridiculous amounts for a subscription to add some filters on a picture that has been free for years and out the blue no warning they started charging money. You wanna know the real reason they did it with no warning because they wanted you to update not knowing nothing will be the same again. If you currently have the app save yourself money and do not update it to still have the free feature. What greedy people they are would never recommend again, and definitely going to let everyone know what terrible selfish people they are for backstabbing their loyal consumers that been using the app for years. One more thing the funny part is the developers commented on the reviews saying they’re sorry to hear that the ppl aren’t happy with the change, they could careless about what anyone thinks, they aren’t sorry at all and know exactly what they are doing, I hope this app becomes a 1 star review app and everyone boycotts them.

Unusable in it's current state... who is making the decisions back there?. Developers are really fumbling their precious bag right now. I know it's hard to compete with popular social platforms, but I mean -- putting a paywall over basic tools such clarity, tone, and grain? At the end of the day, this is a photo editing app and you have a horrible understanding of who is keeping your business afloat. You already removed likes from the social feature to hide the fact that no one uses it so who exactly do you think is keeping you so popular? Honestly, you all owe an apology to the aesthetic teenage Pinterest girlies that have been sharing presets all over the internet for YEARS keeping you on the map and featuring your product for free. It's so easy to find free alternatives to replace these features and if things keep up the way they are, you could lose your position for good after a solid near-decade. 14 and 15 year olds are not paying a monthly fee to edit photos for Instagram, especially when Lightroom presets are a one time fee. Please, know your place in the industry.

Subscription Billing Without Subscription Service. This app crossed over into why-pay-monthly/yearly-for-it territory the last few years with VSCO X, it’s $20 annual subscription that unlocks all the features in the app. The feature set is robust, but it doesn’t/hasn’t changed in ages, other than a few new monthly filters (how many do you really need?). I get subscription billing is the new model, but most services have a feature roadmap or similar. VSCO does not. It’s worth $5-10 once if you got everything the app currently offers, but definitely not $20 yearly for VSCO X. I should add I did pay for it last year, but once I neared the end I didn’t really see a reason to renew. I guess if you like the community and photo challenges: launched in second half of 2018, this is their most recent feature. Many other apps offer the photo editing tools for way cheaper (some even as a one time purchase). I just really don’t know what perks you’re getting by paying a subscription.

Amazing App But Buggy Notifications. Okay, so this is literally my favorite app. I love how it’s based around art and photography compared to like Instagram that’s just about whatever. Another thing that’s better about this than Instagram is with insta, you’re constantly comparing yourself to other people’s accounts. How many likes do they have? How many followers? With VSCO, you don’t have that bc it doesn’t tell you. A+ to you guys. My only complaint is the messaging part. And I realize it’s new so I’ve been trying to give y’all credit and I’m sure you guys will fix it but a lot of times I don’t get notifications even though they’re turned on. Every person I message on there says the exact same thing and that it’s a constant problem. So if you guys could work on that, I’ll gladly change my review to 5 stars. I recommend this app to everyone. It’s wonderful and the community is great. I highly suggest downloading. If you plan on using messaging though, just keep checking them until it’s fixed.

Love this app, literally more than any other app. I have been using this app since 2013 and it only gets better. There have been features over the past years that I’ve had to get used to but overall I love it. I use it everyday. I think the idea behind this app is absolutely perfect. This app has given me the courage to explore my own creativity and open up to sharing it. I don’t worry about how many people notice my photos and I love that comments and likes are not a feature on this app. Every feature from the wide variety of presets, DSCO (ability to make your own gifs), taking videos AND being able to edit them and participating in challenges BRINGS ME JOY AND HAPPINESS! I highly suggest joining the VSCO membership, it’s worth every penny! Thank you so much to the creators and VSCO team for creating and continuing to update and evolve the VSCO app. It’s made an impact on my life so THANK YOU!

Best photo editing/sharing app!. Years ago, I found myself too concerned with likes and followers on Instagram. I deleted my account and soon after, I found VSCO. This app is exactly what we should be using. It’s all about posting photos you like and not having to worry about likes, comments, who unfollows you or anything of the sort. As advertised, this app is pro-content. Your followers on VSCO can interact by favoriting or sharing you posts, but only you can see who’s interacting, not the whole world. The free version is still more than adequate. I don’t have VSCO X, but I’m sure it is great. The filters and editing tools are extensive and contain just what you may need. You can also discover new ways to take and edit photos by looking at the discover page. I wish my discover page didn’t cycle the same photos repetitively, but that’s a minor issue.

Update is a total fail. I’ve used VSCO (even back when it was VSCO CAM) and have experience many updates. All of them were improvements and created a streamlined ease of use. Even as a professional photographer, VSCO beat out Lightroom in my ability to import photos I want to edit, make edits, paste edits to multiple images, make adjustments to specific images, then export those images for use on social media (both for business and personal). The UI was streamline and efficient over any other app. The new update is inefficient in every way that it was previously efficient. Editing is clumsy. Edit an individual photo? You can save that one to camera roll as a copy with your edits or save it as a draft. Once that edit is made you can copy and paste to multiple images, OVERWRITING THE ORIGINAL. This is like image file management 101, the basics, the fundamentals. Never get rid of your original file. I know, you’ll say “you can undo the edits in VSCO”. Yes, in a very difficult and time consuming manner. Don’t be so proud that you can’t admit you made a mistake with this new set up, take a step back and adjust!

This App Used to be Good. I was paying for an annual subscription to VSCO and used it for all my photos— until recently. The app has been glitching like crazy in the last few months. I can’t crop photos the way I want, photos upload sideways and can’t be rotated, the app crashes while I’m in the middle of editing, etc. I thought VSCO would fix these problems with an updated version, but it continued to go on for months, which left me wondering what I was paying for. The app also doesn’t allow you to upload photos to edit into your VSCO gallery like it used to, but rather has all your photos from your camera roll automatically added, which is majorly inconvenient. It used to save photos directly into a VSCO folder in the Photos app, but now it only saves to camera roll, which makes it harder to find my edited pictures. Overall, I am very disappointed with the decline of this app which I’d been using for the last 7 years, and therefore will be looking for other photo editing apps to invest my money in.

not lovin’ the update, man. this new update where it makes you either save or post edited photos, and delete the ones in your library when you delete them from your camera roll, makes everything way more complicated. what if you don’t want to post something to VSCO right away and then you have to go back to your camera roll, import to VSCO again and THEN post. i really like having all my edited photos on the app because it’s accessible for posting to VSCO, and likewise saving to camera roll when i need to. it would be a much better update if there was the option to save your edited photo to your VSCO library, alongside saving to camera roll or posting to VSCO, because not everyone posts all their photos, and not everyone keeps their photos in their camera roll. it would also be a lot better if there was an option before you delete a photo from your camera roll, to decide if you want to delete from your VSCO library as well. i love this app and use it literally all the time, but i’m really bummed by this update and it makes me want to use it a whole lot less.

You have to pay for basic tools that were free.. I am honestly disappointed with VSCO. Basic editing tools have been taken away and you can only use these tools if you pay for membership. This was my go-to editing app. Its annoying and inconvenient. Why would I pay a monthly fee to edit with tools that were once free ? I don’t get it, the tools were already limited enough, now VSCO has taken basic photo editing tools. Deleting the app. Here comes the generic, ignorant and unsympathetic excuse of a response from the VSCO robot. VSCO is a multi-million dollar company and for them to take away basic tools like GRAIN and CLARITY is beyond me. You want more money? My money? To be able to use something that has been FREE since I was in middle school? I’m a senior in college now. Keep it up VSCO, you are losing so much more and gaining nothing. Many of us have been struggling since early 2020, financially, and for your multi-million dollar empire to be greedy, ignorant and let’s just say plain right stupid to think changing these free options was a good move you are terribly mistaken.

Love hate relationship. I’ve had VSCO for many years in order to edit the pictures I post on Instagram and my food pictures that I post on my Yelp account. There are a lot of pictures that were saved in my drafts that were no longer in my camera roll and that I didn’t post on VSCO. The day I got the notification that they updated the app and that if you delete the app you’re drafted pictures would also be deleted, my heart dropped. But I was like okay, no problem, I just won’t delete the app... until I had to. Just this morning I went to edit my food pictures like normal and it WOULD’NT LET ME. I tapped the plus sign to start an edit, nothing. I closed the app and opened it back up, nothing. The only solution was to delete and reload the app. I KNEW I would lose all my drafted pictures but I was praying I didn’t. But as soon as I signed back in they were all GONE. Years of pictures just deleted all because the app malfunctioned and I had to redownload it. Yeah I’m still going to use the app but that update was dumb and super inconvenient.

good. the app is very very good. there are a few complaints or suggestions, however. most of the presets that will transform your pictures are part of the membership. VSCO close to never adds more FREE presets. i think that it is important to have more ways to express yourself and edit without having to pay. the few color presets are not as good and pristine as the ones that require a subscription. i am not suggesting that the entire app needs to be free, although that would be nice, VSCO still needs a way to make money. the videos and the montage effects should stay premium just because they are very cool features that should have the privilege of being premium. i am really just asking for more color pristine presets. other than that the app is very good. it runs smoothly and isn’t too hard to get the hang of. it requires creativity, but that is the point. overall, a very clean, good app.

best app ever. i am no artist. but ever since i got vsco it has made me want to be more creative and think outside of the box. the things people can publish on vsco are always incredible and even if it is just words they are always the most relatable things. my favorite part about vsco is that you can’t comment. people that post on instagram always have the fear of getting a certain amount of likes and who’s going to comment something, but vsco isn’t like that. you can be yourself. no one knows how many followers you have. no one knows how many likes you get and rebublishes (kinda like a retweet if u don’t have the app yet... get it though!) but anyway, thank you vsco for being my favorite app and i just have one recommendation; the posts that people publish saying things like “get this to 6 million republishes for my best friend to stop smoking or for me to do something, etc.” is it possible that the people who own there own accounts can see an actual number of the ppl who republish and like? not because any cares on vsco but because of purposes like that one. i’d like if nobody can see it but myself, just so i don’t have to count. even if this never happens, i wouldn’t be upset at all. i love the way vsco makes every person feel equal. it’s just a hastle counting when it could just tell you the numbers and only you. if you read this, thank you so much!! rock on!!

Used to be 5 stars…. I have always loved VSCO. It is a great app to edit photos and I love the layout and the ease of use. I have been a VSCO user and supporter since 2017 and I have had hardly any complaints about it until now. I’m not sure when, but recently they changed what was included in the “free version” (changed as in took many things away). Many of the features that I have used for years are now gone and I am required to purchase a membership if I wish to continue using this app. The one thing that VSCO had over other editing apps was that you could use the app and get the work done that you needed to with the free version. That’s not really possible anymore. VSCO has only gotten more and more popular over the years, so there is really no need for this update. It is extremely greedy and unnecessary. I support and use products and apps based on the company’s values. Clearly this company’s values do not include their customers/users.

I hate the recent change.. I have been using this app for years now so I finally gave in and decided to purchase a membership. I have loved it....until now. I hate the recent update. Now if you delete a photo in the camera roll then it is automatically deleted in the vsco app, this is extremely frustrating. I was unaware of this recent change. Which is odd because I use this app frequently. It was only brought to my attention once I tried searching the internet to find a way to recover the photos I lost. This new feature is an unnecessary change and I hope it is only temporary. Until then take my experience as a word of caution or just use the free features. If this was a feature Vsco had during the time I considered purchasing a membership, I would have taken my money elsewhere. Now that the change has been brought to my attention I will be more careful of what photos I delete. If it wasn’t for the new feature I would have rated this app five starts but no use in doing that if a photo editing app deletes my photos automatically.

New Studio is overly complicated, not intuitive, completely ignores user experience. You used to be able to copy edits from image and past into others, view the changes, edit them. Now you have to search endlessly for the one you edited, copy edits, go back and search endlessly for the one you want to test those edits on, paste them—- OH JUST KIDDING, it automatically saves as final edits to new photo. VSCO Has removed so much functionality that we used and gave us a convoluted, less functional studio. VSCO now completely ignores the date order of Recent Photos on iOS. I frequently edit an image in another app, export it, then import that new image, now the most recent image on my phone, into VSCO. With the update here, I can no longer see my most recent images, and I have to hunt and gather through my entire camera roll or create a new organization system just for importing into VSCO. My editing time has been increased and become much more tedious. Very upsetting they have ruined my workflow as a VSCO member for many years.

Horrible new UI. Latest design refresh is not intuitive and has made things much harder versus easier for mass editing, with little tutorial of how to use the new UI. I haven’t used vsco in a while and I couldn’t figure out how to upload multiple pics let alone 1 pic from my camera roll to edit. After finally figuring it out (you have to allow access to all photos - I had to delete and reinstall), you’re no longer allowed to select photos from your camera roll to edit. It instead accesses ALL your photos which means you have to scroll through all your photos each time. This has proven to be super frustrating since I’m downloading older photos to make a photo book. The UI is also super buggy. I’ve been a loyal user for the last 6 years and I may have to delete this app for the first time and try other photo editing apps.

Getting better but.... I’m really glad you guys listened to our complaints so I really hope you continue to do so. You made it so our photos cloned in app again which is really great!!! But I noticed when trying to paste an edit on multiple photos in the cameral roll section you ask to modify the original photo which is something we do not want or care for. You only bring up that option when we mass select but you just make a normal copy when we individually select photos, so it’s really confusing. It’s also incredibly time consuming because if I have many photos to put the same saved edit on then I have to do them all individually... when the point of the saved edits feature is to lesson the time you spend editing in the first place. Please change this!!! Honestly speaking a lot of things you could do to better this app again is to just go back to some of your old features. You didn’t have to fix what wasn’t broken.

VSCO went downhill. Ever since they updated the interface, VSCO just hasn’t been the same. I used to be able to import photos to the drafts area even if they weren’t edited yet! This was so convenient because I could import all the photos I wanted to eventually edit and post, and could come back to it when I had time to continue working on those photos. Now pictures only go into drafts once they have been edited.. And going back and forth between the “camera roll” tab and the “drafts” tab is even more frustrating because every time you go back to the “camera roll” tab, it doesn’t save your space, it just takes you back to the beginning of your camera roll! So I can’t import a group of pictures that I want to work on, and every time I want to retrieve a new picture from my camera roll I have to scroll through and find it every time. Infuriating !!!! Makes me not want to use VSCO to edit pictures anymore because of the immense amount of effort it requires now :( Very unfortunate and I hope they do something to fix this.

FAVORITE APP EVER!. Everything about VSCO is perfect. I use VSCO almost everyday and it’s so refreshing. I love the layout and how simplistic it is. I love how it isn’t very social unlike Instagram! Please don’t add in anything else social wise! The messages are a nice touch, but no comments please! That’s what makes it stand out in my opinion. There are a few glitches I’m sure you guys are working on, but I’d like to suggest a tiny feature that means a lot to me, and I’m sure other users as well— please add a “flip” photo feature in the editing tools selection. I like the way VSCO takes front facing camera pictures, but hate how my phones front camera flips the end result when I take a selfie with it. Please add a flip feature where I can flip a picture from left to right in the editing selection so it can be just like how it looks when I take one in the VSCO app directly.

VSCO *used to be* great. I have been using VSCO since 2016. Up until a few months ago, I had absolutely no complaints about this app. I’ve been a VSCO X member for 2 years now and have had no regrets. Unfortunately, the most recent updates have absolutely wreaked havoc on this app and ruined everything I love about it. Half the time I try to open the app, it glitches and won’t work. The way that the photos save into my library (as a burst of the original) is super frustrating and hard to use. I don’t know what the VSCO team was thinking with the past few updates, especially when we in the VSCO have so ardently shared our dislike of all of the changes (changes, might I say, that we’re not necessary and only hinder each user’s experience with the app). Needless to say I will not be renewing my VSCO membership and I am incredibly frustrated with this app as a whole. If the team can find a way to fix all these issues, I might consider renewing my membership but it’s unlikely. Overall, I would say use another editing platform like Lightroom.

Uninstalled. This used to be my favorite app to edit photos but now it’s glitchy and the constant updates don’t fix anything. They have changed a bunch of features and now the app is complicated and confusing to use. You can no longer upload photos, they edit them directly from your camera roll, so if you used to to use the “copy edits” function like I did, when you go to copy an edit to an unedited original photo it will prompt you (on apple at least) asking for permission to “modify photo,” which means it will overwrite the original photo completely. If you paid for an entire year of VSCO premium filters, it will say that the filters are locked and wants you to pay monthly for them. I cannot edit my profile or like and save other creators pictures to my collection because it constantly tells me to verify my email...but I already did when I signed up, when I press the pop up button that says “click her to verify” it disappears completely. If I’m ever going to use VSCO again they need to completely overhaul the user interface and make it easier to understand as well as fix their various glitches.

Draft feature. I’ve used this app for years and I seriously do enjoy it. It’s so much better than Instagram in terms of content and sharing and I hope this app considers that and doesn’t change to be like insta. However, there is something that has been bothering me for a little while. When you delete a photo in your camera roll—has been edited and is now in your drafts—it also deletes it from your drafts. Ugh, I think this is such a bad feature! I used to be able to have my drafts edited and organised and be able to delete the photos from my camera roll, and not have to worry about them disappearing from my library on the app. I hope one day they do away with this feature and all photos stay in your draft library until you delete them from there yourself!