Unfold: Video & Photo Editor Reviews

by No Name Nickname 123

Unfold is so amazing with simple, beautiful layouts. I wanted a place to “journal” and preserve all the photos and videos on my phone (I have over 10,000!), and I’ve tried other apps and not loved them. So I created a beautiful “story” from our month with plans to start doing them each month to share with family..... share with family.... ooops! THERE IS NO WAY TO SHARE THE STORIES!!! Except on Instagram I guess... ? But my story is over 100 pages and my family isn’t on Instagram. I spent hours over the last month creating this with the intention to share, and now can’t share, even if I had everyone download Unfold (which I would be totally cool with!) Oh and when I “saved” it to my phone, it just threw all the pages into my photo library individually WHICH IS WHERE I WAS TRYING TO RETRIEVE THEM FROM TO BEGIN WITH. Once this is fixed I will absolutely give a 5star review because Unfold is amazing. I just need a way to save and share, like a slideshow or something.

by Remaxastar

Charging fo a great app is fine, but in this case they charge a lot for very little, often close to 3 dollars for a few story blanks that are soon recognized making stories predictable. I paid for one such add on because I wanted to keep things fresh, but what I received was only a few more templates, within a few weeks I left Unfold and went to an annual plan on another and for much less than buying one theme, I received all of the themes and have had over 7 themes added without additional cost, including themes with motion/automation. That App, “StoryArt” is amazing and they constantly improve their app. Go ahead and buy one of what this app offers and you too will be switching soon. I wish I could get my 3 dollars back, it was a poor investment. this app is easy to use and has great potential but very little creativity is offered and what is offered is very limited.

by Cowlesk

I really love using this app for planning Instagram stories. It’s super useful for organizing long stories because it can get confusing knowing what comes next. I’m giving it 4 stars because there are a lot of issues that I was surprised to find, as well as embarrassed because I discovered the issues after I had posted for a client.

If the videos aren’t 15 seconds long then they replay over and over instead of skipping to the next story. I posted a 3 second video which plays 5 times in a row...

There’s not much room for customization. For example, you can’t use your own custom colors and you can’t move the text diagonal. The templates are what they are and even though I have purchased every pack it is a struggle to not reuse the same templates over and over. You don’t have the option to adjust the size of the squares so it would be nice if they offered variations of each template.

It’s time consuming changing the text for every slide! I wasted so much time going setting the same font,color, size, spacing, etc. for every single slide. There should be the ability to set a default text style for a story.

I recommend this app and think it’s a great app but until they fix the items listed above I’ll be looking for an alternative.

by Techno-nut

Update: I stand corrected, I didn’t notice it last night, but Unfold automatically saves low resolution (2.2mp) images of each page. For social media, e-mai, etc., that may be fine, for printing anything bigger than 5x7 it just won’t be sufficient. There is no reason why it can’t save at a higher resolution. There are plenty of apps that will combine infidelity images into a single PDF, but if the original resolution is bd, the PDF will be no better, and in most cases even worse. The Dev needs to work this issue out, and take Unfold Universal, and then he/she will have a winner.

Original Post: While Unfold is very easy to use, and offers a lot of predesigned templates to make “story telling” simple, the lack of any output option is a real disappointment, making the end product functionally useless. A simple “save as PDF’ option would go a long way to making Unfold truly functional. Even being able to print the pages would be helpful, at the moment their is nothing. Let’s hope the developer can make this work.

Unfold also needs to be taken Universal. This type of app screams to be run on an iPad; I edit my 24mp DSLR images on my iPad Pro, and building a story book with an app like this that can be saved as a PDF would be marvelous.

by Jimboy Robles

This is a pretty good app and it gives my Instagram Stories different styles. The only thing that I don’t want about Unfold is it reduces the photo/Story quality. I have had Instagram Stories (didn’t use this app app) and all my photos in Stories have really good quality that they are better than the ones uploaded on Instagram feed because Instagram compressed it (yep, Instagram does that, BUT NOT on Instagram Story; they upload it with high quality or as is). I tried to check the quality of my photos exported from this app, the saved ones on my Photos also have poor quality, so maybe Instagram has nothing to do with the exported Instagram Story since they already have poor quality right before they get uploaded on my Stories. I love Unfold and I’m looking forward to seeing some improvements. Thank you!

by TheCapta1n

I loveee the templates on Unfold, but am very frustrated with the limited fonts, and the flexibility with using them. I don’t like how the font can only be in one direction. I can’t rotate it, change it to a different colour other than black or white, and I can’t apply italicize, bold, etc, to just one part of my sentence. As of the latest update, my app also stopped uploading “unsplash” images to its templates, and that’s frustrating to say the least considering it was working fine a few days ago. (I’ve already submitted my information to this app) Unfold definitely has the potential to be great, especially for those of us who enjoy a minimal look, but it’s got a ways to go before I start recommending it to other people considering I still use various apps for the fonts and styles. I mainly use this one for the layout.

by Jlin2044

I love the entire concept and what Unfold has to offer! I even purchased one of the film packs because I love it so much, and normally I dont even bother spending money on photo apps. The designs are great and its easy to use. However, I really care about the photo quality of my pictures after I process them with an app. That leads me to the only issue I have with Unfold. I upload a great quality picture to one of the presets, only to save it with really mediocre quality. As a photo app, I believe you guys should focus more on improving the quality of the pictures! Compressing the pictures to lower quality really makes Unfold less enjoyable as a lot of the details in the original picture are no longer sharp or as visible. I hope you guys can work on improving the quality of pictures after we save them to our camera roll!

by Cool Jey

Love Unfold and design of templates. I get super excited seeing my photos in a new way when creating pages. It really makes them standout. I do wish you could save the pages as a story set that you could share with someone where they could flip through the pages the same way you can in Unfold . I realize this would be difficult to achieve when sharing with people who don’t have Unfold (but I would be willing to ask friends to download Unfold to view) but maybe could be shared via a link and opened in a browser or something. I don’t know but I really love the way it all looks together when viewing the story. Saving as a set of photos doesn’t have the same effect but still beautiful. I also don’t know what the resolution is when creating and saving a page as an image but I am hoping it is not degraded too much as I will use these to create a small photo book using high quality pics from my dslr camera. Also using it for my artwork- taking photos of my paintings and then making a story here -makes them look way more impressive than they are;). Anyway I think it’s great and would invest in these kind of things before adding any additional templates or ‘create’ features. There are a perfect amount of fonts, layouts and features where no matter who is creating, it will come out good. Too much of these, apps tend to lose themselves and become overwhelming. Thanks for creating Unfold!

by Gabby Rigg

At its core Unfold is awesome. Really great design sense that is exactly the style I’ve been looking for. BUT they reallllyyy need to push out an update that allows Unfold to be more flexible for the user. You can’t change text colors or create any shapes yourself if you’d like to place dark text over a photo, can’t move the photos on a page or essentially alter their layouts in any way like add text to a layout that doesn’t have it, etc. I hope they release new features soon! As a business I can’t keep using the same layout for every story I post, as only 2-3 really work for my needs right now. Would love some more flexibility. Likely going to check back on Unfold in a month or two.

by Emotion_Blind

I have been using this app for a while now to edit my photos and print them and even use them for my Instagram page. It’s been great and everything about it is amazing. It makes my photos look aesthetically pleasing and all of the options that I have for templates and stickers are a lot. But the only problem that I have with Unfold is that to access almost anything, you need the premium. So I could’ve done a lot more if it was for free and people would’ve liked and shared it more. I suggest they make more things for free that are actually nice and even if they want a premium, at least add more things that we don’t have to pay for. Over all a great app though.

by Sammi1194719038wB

I have had Unfold for a few months now and I love to explore all the features it has to offer. I am absolutely in love with its templates and design options that allow for so much creativity and expression. I love using Unfold to create stories for Instagram but I have recently found I can make unique wallpapers as well. This is something I had been searching for, for some time now and am overjoyed I found my new go-to app for collages. That being said, I would be even more ecstatic if it were at all possible in the future to allow for horizontal templates or an option to convert from vertical to horizontal with the same format. I am still thrilled with Unfold how it is but a feature like horizontal options would be really useful for computer wallpapers or stories on other devices.

by Elledesgner

I love Unfold so much for posting to stories, turned a bunch of my friends on to it. But for the life of me I cannot figure out how to move a page to a different story without having to completely recreate it. I used Unfold with the ‘stories’ as folders for different content but when I started using it I just dumped everything into one ‘story’. Now I want to separate them in ways that make sense and I can’t do it. Also, I know this isn’t how most people use Unfold but using it like folders makes it impossible to navigate through without swiping through every page and I’d prefer not to have to do that. Maybe an overview panel that lets you scroll the whole story? I don’t know. I would give Unfold 5 stars if it wasn’t so hard to organize it afterwards though.

by Aaronnobu

Problem 1: Every time there’s a new theme...my custom template order gets rearranged. And this has been a problem for a long time now. So my nice and orderly CS1, CS2, CS3, RP1, RP2, ART, JN1, etc...gets changed to (like today for example) CS1, HOME, RP2, CS3, JN1, CS2, etc. It will move templates I have not bought up to the front (no shade, just not into digital wave) and also the 2018, which is no longer necessary.

Which leads to

Problem 2: when I see this rearranged template order, I go into the settings to rearrange them and the mechanism to rearrange them...pressing the two lines...is very very very finicky. I’ve used Unfold on different phone models before and after the Haptic Touch update. I’ve used Unfold from my 7+ all the way to my current 11 Pro Max. It’s always been finicky. And by finicky, I mean pressing and lightly holding or pressing harder or longer, nothing will activate it until it will just happen randomly.

by Palm_Supanut

I really love and enjoy creating posts for my Instagram stories via this application, the templates are really perfect and after only spending a few minutes on Unfold I decided I had to buy all the template packages available. I think it is really amazing as it is, however I do wish it could do more and here are some suggestions I think would be great if they could come with the next updates. For instance, it’d be great if one can simply move the order of the posts within an album from a further point of view instead of having to click on the left or right button until the post reaches where it needs to be. And if the posts could be moved from an album to another, too. Plus, the font and background colors are really limited, it’d be really nice if there are more selections and tones to them, etc. Anyways, thank you so much for creating this application for us to use, now that I have it I can’t imagine doing Instagram stories without this app anymore. 😅♥️

by Luxetnox13

Good app. Not totally intuitive but once you figure it out it’s solid. Crashes trying to export sometimes but it’s a minor inconvenience. However a few major additions are needed:

1. The ability to see and edit your entire story in grid format instead of only being able to see it page by page - if you’re creating a long story it’s really hard to remember what was 20 pages before! I want to be able to drag and drop just like reordering images in a desktop image viewer. Also if you could see your story in grid format, it would be much easier to tell if you have used the same layout too many times or accidentally used an image more than once.
2. The ability to duplicate the page - for example if you want to try the same layout which has multiple images but only swap out one image, it is annoying to re-create the entire page instead of just being able to duplicate, dame goes for a text page with which you want to try different wording.
3. Full screen (borderless) image layout

by Shiloesky

I’m in love with Unfold! I had been seeing people on Instagram use it for months, and just recently found out which app it was. Unfold has taken my Instagram stories to the next level. It is so fun to create unique and different pages! I am a creative, and love that I can customize my stories using this app. It’s a gorgeous app, simple to use, and I love that the layout is clean and to the point. I haven’t posted to my story without using this app since I downloaded it! I’ve been telling all of my friends about it. I purchased all of the templates, and am so glad that I did. The value is also great, which I appreciate! Thanks for creating such a cool app for those of us who want something different.

by Mikee81

As a designer and photographer, I can really appreciate the aesthetics of stories Unfold creates but also the overall UI.

I wanted to write a review so I can provide feedback regarding how to make the experience even better:

- More layouts (I’m assuming this is work in progress)
- Include check for spelling, nothing worse then creating your story and seeing a spelling error once it’s live.
- Have an undo button. I’ve accidentally deleted a page and have also accidentally deleted a long description.
- As for editing text, make them in step increments so we can do the exact size and kearning of text for each page. I’m constantly having to make my best judgement with the sliders.
- Make a Mac App! Please! While the mobile app is easy to use, I can see making these stories so much faster on a computer because it’s easy to organize/find/sort/edit images.

Other than that, I’m so glad I stumbled on Unfold. It’s going to take my stories and highlights to another level. Thank you!

by TSanMateo

Unfold definitely helps you change the game for IG stories. It’s so much easier to build your narrative and also automatically helps show your photos in a polished way.

There are a few tweaks that I would love help on from the developer:
1. It would be great to share or transport pages between different stories within Unfold instead of having to rebuild it.
2. It would also be good to see your full story in a grid or tiled format so you can see your layouts holistically or rearrange your pages. Right now, if you’ve built a long story, you have to shift the order slide by slide so it’s really laborious.
3. App access through different devices. I have all my app content on one device. I can not access this on my mini IPad or my second phone. Most apps you can access from multiple devices.
4. The ability to export into keynote versus just a pdf is a pipe dream. Hoping this is in the future scope. It will change the game for on the go recaps.

Hope to get a developer response on this!

by Starrymegn

I love how Unfold is easy to use, it keeps things simple and straightforward. It has beautiful and classy fonts that are fun to create with and many amazing template options and unlike other apps, this one offers you many options for each package. As a writer who does their own illustration, I have fun using the templates that integrate areas for photography as well as text and it definitely has changed the way I’m presenting my poetry now.

I’m in absolute in awe with Unfold and it’s the main app I use for creating material, now.

Although it’s already amazing, I can’t wait to see how Unfold continues to grow! Awesome job

by Dina594

I've been using this for about a week now for my Instagram stories. My views and feedback have definitely increased since I started using this.

My only real suggestions would be having the ability to choose different colors for text and background. And the ability to customize layouts like being able to move things around,add/remove pictures from a template (when a template has 4 pics but you only need two, having the ability to remove the additional picture) and add/remove text from layouts.

Other than that Unfold is an amazing tool to have! Would highly recommend to every one who wants to up their social media game 😊💪

by Vivaladiamond

In the last update you can’t purchase the new template pack. There’s an error. Also, the this app parts in the pack should be optional if they’re not. You don’t want to have a branded template pack you paid for. You should be able to customize the window text. Speaking of text the way you’re able to move text bubbles is still glitchy. Like Instagram stories it should be easier to move them around wherever you want. A color picker to match the text and template color to whatever you like would be great too. That would up how the templates come together a lot more then just the options given. Love Unfold though! It keeps getting better.

There are lines through the fonts when the story is downloaded and the highlighted blocks aren’t center. There’s also a centering bug when using all the fonts. These issues have existed for a while now. A bug fix would be great to use Unfold to its full capability.

by Stephaniemontesdeoca

The charm of this app is that it is such a simple shortcut to the tedious photoshop work that photographers did to post on Instagram stories. And the team has done a stellar job in expanding Unfold ’s capabilities.
But there are a few things that they are yet to include or did poorly.

1: The export picture ratio is set for older phones like the iPhone 7, but with new screen sizes and shapes, this app should launch an update that supports screen sizes like the iPhone XS

2: The first 3 sets were kind of repetitive, people paid for new templates that simply moves a photo a bit higher or more to the right. Granted some of the template were fresh and new, but lots were too similar.

3: One thing that could really enhance the user experience would be to add in a creative mode where you could alter a certain template by moving your photograph anywhere on the page, not just the grey box with the + icon. Or even a creative mode where users could mix and match certain aspects of different templates they’ve bought.

These three things would set apart this app from other apps like Adobe Spark or Photoshop. And it would become the most sold choice for quick wallpapers, IG story posts, or photo stories.