GoDaddy Studio (Over): Design Reviews

by Mom+4kids

*updated*
If I could give less than one star I would. Still trying to use GoDaddyStudioOverDesign. I still loved all it offered in the beginning. I opened it today to use for Mother’s Day to find all of my purchased stuff is MIA and will not reload. GoDaddyStudioOverDesign has become infuriating to me and I have used it since the very beginning. I don’t want to pay monthly, I want to pay for what I use.d being back that option. I don’t need it all the time nor do I need another monthly fee. Also stop redesigning GoDaddyStudioOverDesign itself; again all my purchased stuff is Missing, all I have no is the recent freebie downloads of the last year. Truly disappointed.
*updated*
Only 3 sultans now. As I said previously I used GoDaddyStudioOverDesign for years. It has gone through a lot of changes recently and honestly I have tried to stay supportive but I am ready to delete it. It is wanting to charge you for everything. Some of my stuff I purchased pre-redesign is gone some is still there. GoDaddyStudioOverDesign is messy, not fast and friendly and longer and really is about wanting you to upgrade to a monthly or yearly deal. I miss the option of purchasing what I liked. I also miss al the freebies. Now each freebie is you need to update or write a review, tweet about, etc... there is a catch. Overall it's NOT WORTH the HASTLE.
**5 stars! I have been using GoDaddyStudioOverDesign since it first came out. I love it. My kids love it. It's great to throw a photo with a caption for work too.

by HorrorFanAddict

I’ve been using Over since it was first available on GoDaddyStudioOverDesign Store however many years ago. It’s features are amazing, and I often found myself asking “how is this free?” I have no problem supporting GoDaddyStudioOverDesign monetarily because its functions are quite amazing. However, $10 A MONTH is out of the question. Especially since at one point, you had the option to purchase whatever features and packages you wanted for a one-time fee.

I don’t care about extra fonts or preset graphics. All I want is to have access to the shapes, a feature that at one point, was free. It just seems ridiculous to ask for $10 a month when I can get a monthly subscription to Adobe Photoshop for just $10 more, and have access to about a thousand times more content.

Either offer the option to purchase things at a one-time fee, or add more features that make $10 a month worth it. Better yet, scrap the subscription idea altogether and just add more features and charge $15 a piece for them. I’d rather do that than spend $120 a year just to be able to use the shapes tool.

by K.Yuel

After the recent update, my fonts which I have bought before the pro version of GoDaddyStudioOverDesign vanish and was now locked as a pro feature font! Over... are you really doing this? Despite your good improvements, which I enjoy and it makes editing easier... but please... you removing the things that we have spent our money for in the past. It is like you slowly abandoning us, your first customers, with your upgrades. I hope you can restore the lost fonts as well us give us more opportunities to avail pro locked features in a more convenient way. I for one, don't have a good source of income and paying for $10 just because I need to be a pro subscriber can be too expensive, as well as availing the $50 for one year, which I don't use GoDaddyStudioOverDesign daily - may as well be unwise or impractical. So please consider and make more options for everyone. Hopefully you can return the in-app purchases for bundle/packs of objects and fonts. Thanks. For now 3 stars.

by TamaraMonkey

A rep responded to my earlier review criticizing GoDaddyStudioOverDesign ’s changes. I appreciate that a real person responded. I have increased my review to a neutral 3 stars as a result. That being said, my suggestion is that the company directs the people they have giving these responses to forward the comments to the company directly rather than having customers go through the same process twice.

I have another suggestion. I think GoDaddyStudioOverDesign should make it apparent what GoDaddyStudioOverDesign does on the front page of GoDaddyStudioOverDesign . Now it just says to log in or make an account, but there doesn’t seem to be any incentive to do that. No examples of designs, nothing noting what GoDaddyStudioOverDesign is offering. Unless you guys are junking it, you might want to have actual designers letting us know what it does.

I’m just going to chalk what I was working on down as a loss. I don’t feel motivated to take additional steps. I don’t pay for subscription art/design software. Totally fine with one time fees when the software is worth it. Sorry. Thanks again for responding thoughtfully. Good luck with your transition. Have a nice day.

by Replay Me

I’ve been using over as a creative outlet and to make quick graphics for a few months now, and I can definitely vouch for the quality of the pro features (although I do agree with many previous reviews that 100 a year is quite steep). HOWEVER, there is one giant problem that I find beyond vexing. There is ZERO way to contact someone when there’s a problem with your app. I found that my exports suddenly (within the last week or so) started to decrease in size whenever I would look at them outside of Over. Some pictures would be resized dramatically (from 10MB to 2MB, exported as a PNG 2048x2048, but somehow also resized down to 1280x1280). When I tried to find ANY troubleshooting for this problem, I was taken to a bit of a oversimplified FAQ. Despite combing through every section, hoping to find a “contact us if you need more help” of some sort, there was none. They have direct email links for influencers, collaborators, employee hopefuls, among other things, but NO help or direct contact for their customers (even with a pro subscription). I’m still sitting here unable to use GoDaddyStudioOverDesign properly now and I can’t contact anyone other than by writing this review and hoping a developer takes notice.

by Papercutjake

GoDaddyStudioOverDesign is for the most part well executed. Like many others my main issue comes with the cost associated with “pro”. While I think GoDaddyStudioOverDesign is very useful and would gladly pay for more access, the asking price is too high.

The pre designed image files are super helpful, even the free ones, but they lack any sort of organization. The lack of the shape tool in the free version is annoying and perplexing. The idea of paying $10 a month for access to an unmanageable library of images, a shape tool, and more fonts seems crazy. For most people using this for their online business that probably costs more than they pay in hosting each month. Having access to this type of functionality on your mobile device is definitely worth some money, but at $10 a month I don’t think a lot of people can justify this.

I would like to see a way to access more functionality without such a high subscription fee. The move from purchased content to subscription has obviously angered many here. I’m just not sure what the thinking behind it was. Most users are probably stuck somewhere in the middle of wanting to support GoDaddyStudioOverDesign but not being able to commit to that cost.

by NattyK7

I guess I want to start off by saying that I love GoDaddyStudioOverDesign. I started using it to make designs for a t-shirt company that I wanted to get off the ground. I had GoDaddyStudioOverDesign when you were able to purchase individual packs of fonts and things and bought almost, if not all, of the fonts they had available and some other packs and then they changed it to an app that you had to pay for monthly or yearly to gain access to everything. I wanted to use GoDaddyStudioOverDesign for my business so I paid the $50 for the one year subscription (even though then I thought that that was a lot of money). I then had to take a break from my business because me and my wife had a baby. It’s been some time and I was looking at starting my business again using the Over app to help me out. I come to find out that they raised the price of the yearly subscription from $50 to $100. I can’t do it guys. I mean honestly. I’m frustrated because I really like GoDaddyStudioOverDesign and I’m not sure that there is another one like Over out there. But I can’t bring myself to pay $100 for an app on my phone. I’m just really disappointed. So that’s why I can only give GoDaddyStudioOverDesign a 3-star review at this time.

by LeapingHare

I’ve used GoDaddyStudioOverDesign for many years and paid for all of the bells and whistles (fonts, etc.) on the original version. I don’t use any of the photos that come with the current version as I prefer to use my own. The only reason I used GoDaddyStudioOverDesign was for the fonts. In the past you could just buy the fonts that you liked or if I remember correctly I dropped a chunk to opt in for all of them? (It’s been so long I forgot). The bottom line is that I don’t want to have to pay 9.99 a month for font packs and photos that I don’t use. I think you should keep the subscription for those that want it but have an option to purchase fonts without a subscription. I know this is the new business model but everybody is doing it now...and all of these subscriptions add up! I would consider paying a premium for GoDaddyStudioOverDesign and it’s font but will not subscribe. I will still use it because it is nicely designed but feel like the time (and money) I invested in the past is somewhat wasted now. I want to get back to loving you guys again!

by Olivia Koch

I have tried a lot of apps, and this one is by far the best. I really love the templates you can use when you need ideas or inspiration. And they update according to the upcoming holidays or events. There are also many unique fonts and graphics, I can always find so many different things to use in my designs.

I gave it 4 stars because I wish there was a way to put different graphics and fonts into folders so they can be easily found and categorized. You can save them but it all goes into one collection. I do really love the way all the fonts are into groups but I really wish I could make my own. Same with the graphics. I also feel like there are so many cool graphics and the only way to find them is to type key words, but I wish there were different categories like how the fonts are. Along with being able to save them into my own folders.

I use GoDaddyStudioOverDesign everyday and overall really enjoy it!

by Exilirs

Words cannot explain how much i love using over, I’ve used it for so so long i dont know how many years it’s been. I do hate how you often change the layout of GoDaddyStudioOverDesign though, it’s often confusing and makes me don’t want to update at all because what i have currently is already great, doesn’t make me feel like i need an update. I really do love and want to support GoDaddyStudioOverDesign, however the prices of subscription are honestly so high. This isn’t even a very complicated app/program like, for example, clip studio paint which a way more reasonable subscription price considering how much GoDaddyStudioOverDesign can do rather than over. I understand it might be because of all the available clip art licensed on GoDaddyStudioOverDesign , but we don’t even really... use even half of it. Maybe change the system to pay the clipart’s artists based on how much their cliparts are used? And slash the subscription price. I would definitely subscribe if the yearly price were like, 25$? 30$? Or around that number. Just a more reasonable price than the current one because the current price would only be reasonable for a professional designer, which mostly doesn’t use apps like over professionally. Regardless, GoDaddyStudioOverDesign is still amazing and i will still be using it.

by FuriousinSeattle

I use this as my go-to app whenever I’m creating mock up draft ideas for graphic projects. In fact, I recently created a business card using a beautiful photo that I took from my iPhone 7+. After getting the clients approval, I then uploaded the JPEG file to an online printing site. Sometimes I end up just using GoDaddyStudioOverDesign without having to go to my Mac and open Photoshop or Illustrator. Having an app to layer photos with text is pretty helpful. And some of the trendy fonts aren’t free if you search for them online such as LULU. So it’s convenient and easy.

However, I wish there were more fonts added for free and others that weren’t as expensive. The hand writing script fonts are quite popular now such as Beautiful as well as fonts such as GOON. I wished there were more of these type of fonts. I did read from one reviewer that you can unzip a font file into the proper program/app and install into Over. So, how do I do that with Drop Box or Google Drive which are installed on my iPhone and iPad? Over is also installed both mobile devices. Or do I do install the fonts on my Mac as it has a desktop?

Thanks for reading and your input!

by Alyssa_15243

This is by far the best app I’ve used in this category, it’s easy to use and has a huge content library that really puts it above the rest!

That being said, it would be really nice to have better ways to organize saved graphics because it takes a while to scroll through and find the right saved image every time you want to add something! The search feature could also use some major help! It’s really difficult to find content using search. It seems like a lot of the images aren’t linked to related words, so you might not be able to find a cactus graphic that you saw earlier by typing in ‘cactus’. My only other complaint is that anytime you add an image to a project, it starts your search over when you go back to add more. It adds a lot of unnecessary and repetitive scrolling.

I still give GoDaddyStudioOverDesign 5 stars because it’s honestly pretty great! I haven’t found anything that compares to Over so far!

by Ahmar Ashraf

Over is an amazing app. I run a sports page on Instagram (pesrealm), and Over never lets me down whenever I make graphics. They have a variety of fonts when you’re using the application for free, and there are even better ones to use when you pay for “Pro.” There are a few things that I would like to request from ‘my friends at Over’, and that is more features with text. For example, I would really love to be able to add stroke to my text. That would really put Over over the top (no pun intended). One other thing is Tb e ability to add gradients to text. Adding these two things would enable me, and many others, to be more flexible with my designing. I am not sure if these are Pro features, but if they aren’t, I would love to have these options even when I’m using the free version of Over.

Overall, Over is the best app I’ve used, but there’s always room for improvement!

by GodsKid94

GoDaddyStudioOverDesign used to be so accessible and affordable. It used to be that you could buy font packages separately and keep them forever, but I’m now noticing that there are fonts that I previously bought that were somehow moved over to the “pro” feature font category and that honestly is upsetting. GoDaddyStudioOverDesign used to be a la carte that way, and I honestly loved that set up. It made the program different from all the other overpriced nonsense that was out there. And granted, the UI is impeccable. I love it. I just hate that it turned into a thing where stuff I’ve already paid for under previous versions I have to now pay to use again. Also, there isn’t a grouping function. Grouping would be so helpful, but at the risk of GoDaddyStudioOverDesign becoming more expensive, I’m content to just move things around by hand.

by Mrsmccloud

Okay, so like many I admittedly have a very skewed negative to positive ratio when leaving reviews. However, as this pandemic has warped me into a creator, I have to give credit where credit is due. I literally used 2-3 of my 10 favorite graphic design apps to create one good looking graphic. Most of these I had to create in one shot because the apps lacked the ability to actually save more than one project at a time.

Enter Over and my life has changed!!❤️❤️ At first, I thought that GoDaddyStudioOverDesign wasn’t very “user-friendly” because there was so much to it that I didn’t understand how to use or even know was there, but I have been using it for almost a year now, each month finding a new way to use GoDaddyStudioOverDesign that I didn’t know that I could do. It’s like the gift that keeps on giving!! I am in love with GoDaddyStudioOverDesign!! If I could suggest anything to the developers, it would be to add the ability to erase the background in a graphic. It is literally the only thing left that I leave GoDaddyStudioOverDesign to do! Thank you!!

by Missyc77

I love all the new features from the latest update! I purchased GoDaddyStudioOverDesign shortly after it's release and I must say, it's gotten better and better with each update. I'm thrilled the developers actually take suggestions and add them to GoDaddyStudioOverDesign . I find myself anxiously awaiting each new update!

I have just two suggestion for the next update for GoDaddyStudioOverDesign to perfect!

1. While I LOVE the feature that allows us to import from Dropbox, it's VERY tedious and time consuming to have to repeatedly go into image>more>locations>Dropbox then to whatever folder I have my artwork in. If I'm doing a project with all artwork from my Dropbox folders, I need to do that AGAIN and AGAIN. Takes me several hours to complete a project. Please add someway to either set a default import location, or remember the last import location. This would save A LOT of time for some of us!

2. Have the ability to export layered file to Photoshop or other programs for editing that’s not available in Over. I.e. layered .psd or .ai.

3. Have the ability to hide layers! This is a HUGE issue when designing similar posters/fliers/etc. and you’re using similar backgrounds with just minor changes with one part. I have to delete the layer and create new one. Then the original is gone. It’s a huge inconvenience to create multiple projects and TRY to make them exact.

by Moerocden

If I could be an affiliate for GoDaddyStudioOverDesign, I’d do so in a heart beat. Currently building a website and there’s nothing better than creating unique art and graphics to enhance what I’m doing. I can’t imagine using any other app. Caveat: I pay the monthly fee. But I didn’t always. I had GoDaddyStudioOverDesign for months with the free items and even then I still had fun with it. If you are investing in your business right and want to make your own personalized images, this is a small price to pay. Enormous amount of collections to page through. Tons of beautiful designs to start from/tweak & make your own by adding a picture, changing the phrase, etc. Only con (more of an adjustment) is the search isn’t like Google. Just because you search “flower” doesn’t mean every flower will show up. Not everything is labeled the way you think. Example: Search ‘botanical’ and you’ll find very different flowers.

by PatriceMB

I use this all the time for personal use and business. Once you get to know your way around it's easy and it dose everything. I can design things on my iphone7plus easily just as I can with GoDaddyStudioOverDesign with my iPad Pro. I didn't even know what masking was in the beginning I just knew how to use it. For awhile I didn't realize Over could so it. Then one day I figured it out. As you use it you will realize it can do so much more through your own creative instincts. You get updates constantly new media back drops. Don't be afraid to make your own back drops. I'v used fabric and rocks, grass in my own back yard. I figured that's what some of them do when their updating so why not try it out. Tons of font. Be sure to explore every button and option to learn. Really over is all you need. I'v tried all the apps out there and this is the best deal out of all of them and the easiest to use. Customer service is good you can text them and they will respond with in 24 hours. But really you can figure this out on your own. Just by playing with it.

by CORELIZ13

I love GoDaddyStudioOverDesign...like a lot. I hate having to open my laptop and go onto Photoshop for every single project. For smaller ads I can use Over and it’s incredibly helpful. I have had GoDaddyStudioOverDesign for awhile but didn’t start using it until a couple of months ago and I’m just so happy there is such an amazing and free program that is so much like photoshop. I don’t know whose idea this was, or who created the user friendly app, but thank you! My one request would be if they could make more free options, but I know it’s free so I can’t complain. Or if they could explore some sort of tiered membership, because I looked into their membership option and it was too much for my needs. But if they had something less, or had a few different tiers, then I could look for something that was more tailored to my needs and a little less expensive.

by Cortex11

I use GoDaddyStudioOverDesign a lot and i retype the same words a lot and recently I’ve noticed that GoDaddyStudioOverDesign will try to predict and auto add in what it thinks I’m going to say without my confirmation so when I’m in the middle of typing it will automatically try to finish what I’m saying and when i back space to fix it, it just does it again and when you keep typing after it auto inputs the predictive text and you want to highlight the part that was incorrectly inserted, it will select the whole sentence in red highlight not allowing you to only select the section you want to delete. I don’t know if you can turn off the predictive feature or not but I love GoDaddyStudioOverDesign, Ive been using it since 2013 and this so far is the only annoying issue I’ve experienced for my workflow.

by Josephcookxxx

GoDaddyStudioOverDesign is subpar at best, it has templates, but none of them are very good or useful. My issue is with its subscription plan, 60 dollars a month? for what? Adobe Creative Cloud is 34 a month with access to 12+ apps, not to mention their free mobile apps. I was billed 100 dollars without my knowledge, despite me declining all of their requests to upgrade. GoDaddyStudioOverDesign is a complete scam and the anger and betrayal I feel right now can’t be measured. 100 dollars, for what? These apps make a living off of scamming people who are just barely getting by. I downloaded this to assist me in pursuing graphic design full time, so I could be able to draft ideas off of my phone. Like, why? Why try to scam someone just trying to make ends meet with the content they create? It’s disgusting, it’s sickening, truly. Apple themselves are disgusting for allowing an app to have a subscription plan priced that highly, and for allowing the charge to hit without any type of notification.

There’s no excuses for this. The creators are bottom level scum who deserve no praise. Any positive review you see of GoDaddyStudioOverDesign is false, and most likely made by people who have not had it longer than a week.

DO NOT DOWNLOD.

by Shaq7astic

GoDaddyStudioOverDesign used to be so accessible and affordable. It used to be that you could buy font packages separately and keep them forever, but I’m now noticing that there are fonts that I previously bought that were somehow moved over to the “pro” feature font category and that honestly is upsetting. GoDaddyStudioOverDesign used to be a la carte that way, and I honestly loved that set up. It made the program different from all the other overpriced nonsense that was out there. And granted, the UI is impeccable. I love it. I just hate that it turned into a thing where stuff I’ve already paid for under previous versions I have to now pay to use again. Also, there isn’t a grouping function. Grouping would be so helpful, but at the risk of GoDaddyStudioOverDesign becoming more expensive, I’m content to just move things around by hand.

by Simplyfatim

When I first tried GoDaddyStudioOverDesign, I didn’t think it was that great. Fast forward to maybe a few months after, I thought GoDaddyStudioOverDesign was super cool! Fast forward to today, this is by far my number one design app. By far! I use GoDaddyStudioOverDesign for like all my design needs, I love making wallpapers in GoDaddyStudioOverDesign ! There are so many things I can, so many graphics to choose from which brings me to my next point. Is there a way you guys could bring an update so we can organize our graphics? I downloaded so many, but I don’t think it’s too much of a hassle to scroll not to far down! If I were to scroll through all my downloads however, that would be quite a damper! I’ve got a feeling the graphics would look cleaner (not that it’s messy) if the user chose to organize the ones they have downloaded! Also! Maybe out the graphics in categories and treat how they are right now as subcategories? For example, liquid, put packages under that which have liquid—and make the liquid the first thing that pops up when clicking on said pack! Please come out with these features, preferably the first one!

by Kait C K

I honestly that the subscription fee was pretty steep and was a free user for quite some time. I eventually did the free trial so I could access extra stuff for what I intended to be a one time project. Well after using GoDaddyStudioOverDesign in so much detail for my “one time” project, I couldn’t stop. Let me repeat. I. Could. Not. Stop. I started going crazy with exploring all of the other things I could create with GoDaddyStudioOverDesign. It’s endless. As an inexperienced, amateur artist, the accessibility and simplicity GoDaddyStudioOverDesign offers, is an incredible gateway into a more creative and fun life! But it’s flexible and detailed as well for the more experienced artists out there! I really think GoDaddyStudioOverDesign has so much to offer.

Also, the support team is the BOMBDOTCOM. They actually care and are so super cool with all of their feedback and resolutions, that I literally want to be their BFF’s. 💛🤟🏽😻