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I just found out upon upgrading my iOS that this one app (out of 656 on my phone) requires my App Store login info. It was listed in my settings. When I went to the app to investigate, after pulling consent to use my login info, I found that I can still access my purchases without using the App Store login. So what is the need to use my login and they provide no other choice to use an email login? Also, the feedback section of the app requests that if there is a payment related issue to upload payment and contact info details when there is an issue. That sounds a lot like the developers are requesting credit card info and personal information for billing address that is unnecessary if we are forced to use the App Store details.

Before registering for an account with them. Their privacy policy states “we may collect personally identifiable information about you, such as your full name, ID/passport number, portrait, phone number, email address, IP address, device identifier, geological location, billing information, and so on, as well as non-personally identifiable information, such as messages, images, VoIP data, audio-video streaming data, other content you sent and other activities you done under the Services.” If you ask me there is no reason this much information is needed to use a camera filter app. Before registering I recommend you read the policy yourself!

Some of the filters here are really quite good, and I’ve bought a number of them over the past few years. I even had this app on my home screen for a long time. The developer’s move to a subscription model removed the ability to buy new “films” individually. I’ll keep the ones I have, but will certainly not be subscribing. (And for the price they’re asking, the app would also need more features, such as the ability to set image dimensions separately from the films.) I’ve also moved it from my home screen to a folder of other old camera apps. Maybe I’ll use it sometimes, but I’ll probably eventually delete it.