Made - Story Maker & Collage Reviews

I downloaded the this app app and was excited about using it until I came across so many dysfunctions I was incredibly disappointed and stopped using Made altogether and will be cancelling my subscription. Here are my major issues with Made , and I’m sure that I’ll find more if I have the patience to use it again:

1) The this app watermark on some of the templates is just too much. Make it smaller please. It really effects the quality of the story page.

2) It is IMPOSSIBLE to type and update captions!!! When I click to update a caption the area gets really dark and I can’t even see the words I’m typing. Then I make typos and when I go to fix them, the cursor jumps to the end of the paragraph over and over again, not allowing me to edit. It is SO ANNOYING, I honestly haven’t used your templates because of this. I get incredibly frustrated and close your app and use another one.

3) It’s impossible to make the text box bigger or smaller. We need to be able to change the size of the text box. As it is right now, we can’t make it bigger or smaller to fit our formatting needs. Another reason I shut down your app and use another one.

Honestly makes me wonder if you all did any user testing at all?! Because surely they would have said something about these things!!

I have the paid version of Made, and while I love the templates, large selection of backgrounds and font options, I’ve been having a lot of freezing lately, glitches where my template doesn’t save after I save it (and have to completely recreate it). Aside from that, I have noticed that the save quality isn’t very good. When I upload my saved page, the colors are muted and not as vibrant (especially with text), and slightly blurry/softened instead of how crisp they appear in-app. I looked in the settings to see if there was an option for the image quality at which a page is saved and found nothing. This probably bothers me the most and I’m considering whether I’ll want to renew at this point since I want clear, crisp stories.

I love these story templates!!! It has the trendier variations that most stories templates apps tend to have (film, torn paper, etc.) but it also has some really unique ones (I love the gold frames 🤩) and best of all they’re ALL COMPLETELY CUSTOMIZABLE as you can add your own backgrounds (colors, patterns, and images) and text elements! I’m super excited to see what other template packs they have up their sleeves.

I’m a photographer and a creative enthusiast and I always like to be as creative as I can with sharing because presentation is important to me. Made popped up as a suggestion to me, and I loved the instant black and white, the fun typography that could be use with Made so I downloaded it. I can’t even use Made without being forced into a membership. I HATE forced memberships for anything, and don’t believe that one has to have a membership just to enjoy an app. I can understand if there was a one time purchase of Made or even paying extra to upgrade to a premium version but a forced membership? Nope. Not for me. I’ll have to remove Made since I can’t use it, and I’m not interested in the free trial either.

I decided to give Made a try and forgot to cancel the free trial before I got charge for 20 dollar subscription, for $20 dollars a year Made lacks a lot of functions. There’s such a limited amount of templates and they ones they have there’s very minimal editing you can do to them besides adding your photo adding a text and changing your background color! Most of the templates come with background which limits the amount of color you are able to add to the background. I think for 20 dollars the least they can do is let you design your own templates or at least let you change the text in some of the pre-existing template with the word/ “this app” logos on them. Extremely disappointed in Made would not recommend !!

I write this review as both an artist and professional content creator. If you’re either of these, or if you simply have. A lot of images you want to share, Made is a bad choice.

(1) Made occasionally simply fails to recognize an image in the photo library. E.g. you’ve exported 5 images that you want to put into a story, and this app will only recognize 4 of those 5. I recorded a video of this and shared it with support and support didn’t care and did not think this warranted a refund for the subscription.

(2) the story creation app only allows you to select photos from the photo library and not from folders. If you’re an artist, a social media manager, or any kind of content creator, or even if you just take a lot of photos, this workflow is simply too tedious.

I think the templates on this app are marginally better than the templates on Unfold. However, Unfold is priced comparably, doesn’t fail to recognize images, and allows you to select images from folders, and so it’s the better option.

I really like the variety of Made and the different styles of stories you can make! Except, I was really disappointed and upset when I bought the paid version and right after that it started glitching. When I would write out something on one of the templates and went to save it, it only showed half of what I wrote! It would leave out like the most important part of what I wanted to say. I tried using a different template, closing Made and starting over, and I even tuned my phone off and on again. If they could fix this problem, I would definitely use Made because I really like what is offered on the paid version.

Once you create your story or photo when you click on it to save the whole app closes and you have no access to the work you created. I paid for the premium monthly subscription and Made still has this glitch and the support offered no help. I had to call to tell them I paid for premium even when you click that you’re already premium and paid Made doesn’t recognize this either. So I this app my stories and can’t even save or have access to them, waste of time. Made needs all these glitches to be addressed and stop taking people’s money in the meantime.

I’ve been using this app for a while more and really enjoyed it until the developers simply removed 80% of the free templates you used to get and now this app them part of the subscription.

I get the fact everyone wants to make money but why offer something for free for so long and then take it away. If you have new templates that cost, that’s fine. However moving templates that were once free (even if it was just the first two of a set that used to be free) but moving these under the subscription model and forcing folks to pay makes for a bad user experience with Made .

I used Made for its variety and the fact they at least offered a decent selection of free templates. Not anymore. And hey I’m just one user out of thousands but I’ll say my piece anyway. New users won’t know the difference but long time users will.

Previous app rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Current rating ⭐️⭐️

Made used to clearly mark which frames were free and which required a paid subscription, but now you have to click each frame and see if it’s included. 95% percent of them require that you upgrade and pay monthly. It took me 10 minutes to find a free frame that would work for 3 photos.

I’m sure if you’re willing to subscribe then you’ll probably like it, but there are free apps that offer a much better result, and it doesn’t take 10 minutes just to find a frame. I recommend not wasting time like I did. Lol

Everything I want an editing app that’s free to be Amazing!! Downloaded not really expecting it to be much but was very surprise to the variety of things to choose from. Definitely makes all my pictures more exciting plus you can upload the photo straight to Instagram from Made !!

I like Made, it’s probably the only one that meshes the best with my companies feed.... but I really cannot stand the branding plastered all over the templates. I could have put my own company logo and name there. I don’t mind paying to remove the branding but I really don’t think that’s an option... I wouldn’t mind having the subscription! The unfortunate part is that I’m still going to use the templates but photoshop/replicate the branding out, it’s just more time consuming. I’d rather pay!

I was in the middle of using some of the filters to create my stories and they were free. There was a lag so I decided to update. When I opened Made all of the templates that were free, were no longer free and only available with premium. this app is an absolute JOKE. Not only that but because the templates that I was using were no longer free. My story area where they should be saved were all gone. The free templates they now have available are crap.

I used to really like this app when they had a couple of free templates from each collection. However, they this app most of them only available to subscribers now, so as a free user you basically have around 3 collections of templates to choose from, which, given the rest of the choices available, is pretty limited. I’m very disappointed and might have to find a new app if they don’t change things to serve the free users better...

I’d much rather prefer a pay per template ($1.99) than an annual subscription. (Example: Unfold)

Please make Instagram post templates versus only Instagram stories size. I’d rather put time into beautiful posts that are going to last on my feed versus stories that will disappear after 24 hours.

Hello,

I’ve only had this for all of two days, and the fact that some templates you cannot full customize is somewhat frustrating. I suppose long gone are the days of fully customizing your own content.

While I appreciate the time the developers have taken with keeping up with current social trends, and making beautiful templates. The fact still remains that it is for the mindless creator. Only interested in using other people’s works instead of creating something of their own.

I think the definition template should be customizable. I don’t want to use the 5 terms you have listed, I want to bring awareness to the other thousands of words that are in the dictionary.

Made is my absolute favorite way to create eye-catching graphics for my social media marketing. I’ve tried many others and this is my top choice, with out a doubt. Very easy to navigate, great add on options, and runs seamlessly! 10/10 would recommend

Made seems to be poorly this app. Most of the buttons dont work and there is no way to opt out or cancel subscription. Kindly help me cancel my subscription

This makes a “less artsy” person feel creative! The up to date templates help me create and design my own stories with my own photos easily and simply! Love it so much

Made was working really well for a few weeks and now all of a sudden I can no longer change the color of the text which is very annoying. I need consistency and that effects my business. Please fix this or I have to find a different app. My phone and apps are all up to date. So it’s on y’all.