Retrica Reviews

I paid for Retrica once to eliminate the ads and just recently discovered I have to pay again. I guess I’ll be using a different app. How many times do I have to pay to get what I already paid for?

Edit: I must update my review for accuracy. I paid for the “Pro” version when that option was offered. This allowed access to the full library of filters. Recently, this app has updated Retrica to require a subscription to use Retrica with no ads. Although this practice seems to be a permissible practice for a company like this, and I understand the desire to make money, I believe it does a disservice to established customers who have been loyally using this product for years. By introducing ads to an ad free product I’ve already purchased, you’ve essentially said you no longer appreciate my years of being your customer. For this reason, I will discontinue to use this app and move on to a more ethically minded photo app company.

The problem is that it focus too much on the filters and the camera. But it seems you have a whole social media app behind, which seems much more attractive than the boring filter app. Sorry but this could be a commercial success, specially since Instagram/Facebook is failing to be a trusted platform, this could be an awesome alternative, but it lacks a focus on that. As a simple camera filter app, there is not much features compared to other filters apps. Great potential, but complete waste of time.

I’ve been using Retrica for many years when it was free and now Retrica is set as subscription only. So I bought the subscription and all of a sudden Retrica stopped working properly. Either the screen to edit will exit out and save a photo unedited automatically to creat essentially duplicate photos of the original copy or if I somehow get to the screen to edit the photo filter won’t apply no matter how I adjust the % control bar. Disappointed. Will be asking for a refund.

I was using this app app loooong ago, way back in its first days. For a long time I had whatever “pro” upgrade there was. I recently started to use my newer phone for photography a lot more, and so I remembered this had been one of my favorite go-to apps for in-camera design.

Sadly, however, they’ve decided to jump on board the latest fad of “keep paying forever or lose all.” I’m aware that there are still free filters, but the proper way would be to have me grandfathered in with everything to which I had access to, and while it’s ok to offer me pro subscription for me to decline, it should be able to be locked away and out of sight so I don’t try to use one of those features and then have to deal with the subscription push.

I have been using this app for over 6 years. Back when it first came out I paid for add free and for “all” of the filters. Since then many changes have happened. More filters, different formats. But now I have adds that inable me to take pictures. When I go to take a picture, a 6 second add pops up and when it’s done then it takes the picture. 6 seconds too late. This happens with every picture I take. For having actually paid money for multiple upgrades in the past with Retrica and now I miss old filters and am blasted with horrible adds that prohibit me from even using Retrica , I am actually disgusted with Retrica. It has been dear to me for 6 years and now I just feel really disappointed. Shame on you for taking money and then treating a paying customer this way.

I used (the old) this app almost as often as I did the iPhones default camera app. I’m talking years... I was so disappointed when I went on a hike the other day and noticed ALL of my favorite features are GONE! I used the blur vignette feature on most of my photographs- even the ones I didn’t capture with this app. I can’t find a single app now that comes close to blurring backgrounds with the ease of the adjustable ring that they decided to ditch. Same with the regular darkening vignette ring. I can use Photoshop well enough for my regular vignetting but I still can’t fathom why they got rid of these two simple, highly effective, and perfect features. Retrica is now just another name in the sea of filter photo apps. Shame.

Retrica used to be great, now it has just become money hungry.. No free photos anymore…. And you can’t even share purchase with family!!

- Adding to my review after developer response. Okay - you say it has so many free filters, then why isn’t there an easy way to know which filters are free and which aren’t… I can randomly select any filter and only after clicking a photo do I get to know I need to pay to use it !! This is pure evil design thought … meant to annoy anyone into purchasing!

I’ve had Retrica for years, like 4, and loved it. Now in order to save ANY of my photos I have to pay for it? This was my go-to photo app, the filters are good but nothing worth paying for. I have Lightroom mobile, this was just my quick one. And I THOUGHT I was capturing some memorable moments, but unfortunately NONE were saved in my phone... after years of loyalty I’m disappointed and am unfortunately going to delete. You were good, but not THAT good to get rid of your free features. Wack.

I felt like this was worthwhile or I wouldn’t have it but every time i open it i basically shrug and walk away. No way I’d try to take a picture with anything but the native camera or an app specifically developed as a feature-rich camera but this was apparently supposed to earn its space in my memory.

I’d never allow automatic updates so I see regular updates on this but they’re never improvements. Maybe I’ll check back if I’m reminded about it sometime... you have your chance, developers. Figure it out.

The annual subscription model of making money with apps is a great idea if the apps are truly your regular, “go to” solution for whatever Retrica does. But as an app that gets launched only on occasion for specific needs, adding this to the ever-growing list of annual subscriptions just isn’t worth it. Thank you, but no.

UPDATED: Developer responded and said I could simply watch an advertisement every time I wanted to use a filter instead of subscribing. That shows complete disregard to the value of my time and a complete misunderstanding of the point.

Regardless, there are plenty of filter apps, many of which allow me to create and save my own filters. I’ll gladly select one of those options instead.

I have had the RetricaPro app since 2014, I believe. Retrica has been the best app, but due to my current IOS update, the previous app no longer works. So I had to download this one, and while it is somewhat similar, it’ll never be the same. My only complaint is that on the original RetricaPro app, I could adjust the percentage of how much of the filter I wanted on there. Please add this feature. Some of the filters are incredibly too noticeable and I would like a more natural effect. Thanks.

Update: Thank you for your timely response. Retrica is just like the original now. I can’t wait to continue to use and support this app.

I love Retrica and some of its unique filters although it has several bugs and the quality and the resolution of the photos aren’t matching with the actual camera(iPhone camera) so it’d definitely be super nice to see improvement on that so it can be my #1 photography app. also the logo/icon of Retrica itself could use a redesign... I liked the combination of the black and orange in the past and this current one isn’t that impressive to look at. Overall very great app! Much recommend.

I love it honestly. It is great. But I lovvvvvve face filters and Retricia doesn't have any. Please make this happen. And also sometimes when you try to focus the whole picture, the outside edges will be blurry. But I am not allowed to have social networking, so I just don't sing in, then I have a fun selfie can to use when I am bored. It's cool though. For people who are reading this, I would test it out. My guts are saying that I definitely recommend it, so just try it out people😄👍👍👍

Hey I have been using Retrica for about 4 years now and out of no where today it won’t let me log in or restore purchases even though I paid for my subscription it keeps saying “status is not 200” I am very confused as to what is going on also keeps on randomly saving my photos before I can even select a filter and when it does let me select a filter none of them are working :(

I would absolutely give Retrica five stars, because the filters are amazing and simple to use! They look so good. The only reason I give four stars is because sometimes when I go to edit the filters on a video, all of a sudden it causes Retrica to crash to the home screen. It doesn’t matter how many times I try to edit it again. Sadly this has affected my experience and I have to go and use another app for video filters. 😢 I would love for it to be fixed.

In my opinion I think this is a very good app I would recommend this to someone definitely
But I have some advice if you take it or not
Can you fix it where you can delete the chat Bcs it’s really annoying when you text a lot of ppl and and then there’s these other ppl you haven’t talked to in awhile and the chat is there🙄 I really hope you update Retrica and take my advice but other than that Retrica is amazing

why are the old pics not saved anymore?! I can’t open any of the old pics although Retrica is on autosave since i downloaded it and they used to be saved before
I am bummed tons of pics i can’t open either giving me an error message or the circles keep rolling forever and the pics don’t open!:((((( how can that be fixed ?

It seems to crash more than I would like, but Retrica is so amazing! Best app for selfies out there! It has so many filters and the black and white are sooo good! They actually added face filters but they aren’t super amazing yet although I know they will be. I’ve had Retrica for a long time and it’s the best trust me. You will like Retrica.

Update: thank you for the instructions on fixing this problem. I followed your instructions and Retrica works great now!

I used to love Retrica but today I’m getting a message that says I need to give Retrica permission to save photos (which I’ve done before, but whatever). I tapped the button to take me to settings, gave it every permission asked for, and I still get the same message. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

I bought an annual “limited offer” Premium in September but Retrica still acts like I’m using the free version. I’ve traded emails about the issue but the rep’s English is terrible and no progress has been made. They are EXTREMELY slow to answer. They have told me several times to “Restore Purchases from the pop up.” There is no pop up.

And what is a “limited offer,” anyway? No explanation that I can find.

The latest update says “Premium subscription problem has been fixed.” Not for me it hasn’t. I even deleted Retrica then re-installed—and lost my favorites of course.

Also, Settings should tell you exactly what the the two resolution options are—as in, pixel dimensions.

It started off great. Until it stopped saving pictures into "My Memories"
I take a picture and it says "saved!" But then I have nothing in my memories OR camera roll. What's going on :(
Also, I used to be able to use the video option while playing music from my phone and I was able to hear the music like it’s part of the video. The video doesn’t record, it does for 2 seconds then the video freezes and you can only hear the audio. Boo!

I emailed them 3 times and they NEVER got back with me... for some reason I keep getting the alert that someone has messaged me on Retrica , but when I go to read the message I can’t find it! I even downloaded it on someone else’s phone and signed in just to make sure it wasn’t my phone and it did the same thing so it must be some kind of bug. I just wish they would get back with me cause I LOVE this camera app. The camera is amazing but, sadly, they are not helpful at all.

Retrica use to be better back in 2014, right now I don’t like it at all and everything is complicated and not as easy as the old version that they use to have. I would have rated it 5 stars but this new version just disappoints me and when i take a selfie it just saves to my photos or camera roll before asking and before showing me a preview of the photo which makes it even worse😤I wouldn’t even rate it a star if possible 🤧 that’s how disappointed I am! ):

Look, I don’t know about you, but I use Retrica for some “me” time. Like, when I’m feeling myself, or just having a rough day or whatever. Seeing 500 other people makes me turn right around, and regret my choice. I don’t get why EVERYTHING needs to be social media anymore. This was one of the only things I could keep to myself on, and there’s not even a way to cut that off.
Legit, make it an options to see other people’s pictures, or to toggle it, or something of that nature. I don’t need that.

this app is a good app, but I had it ever since 2014 and I had a ton of memories and a ton of pictures, they were always there for the longest time and now that I redownloaded, you guys are a whole different app and you don’t even have photo album where all my pictures would be :( so I lost all my photos and everything!! Please bring me back my pictures I had 😭

Love Retrica ! I feel as though we should be able to have a password on our memories, and the new filters have become too much, they are also very hard to find. There should be a way to search your preferred filter without having to go through hundreds first.

Kind of confusing on the buttons and where to click but once you get the hang of it it's awesome, I was taking pictures of me jumping in the air doing gymnastics moves and it caught the movement better than my photographers canon camera. Great excellent app, although it does help I have a good apple camera but good app many filters..:)

Great for photography skills as well as communication. Only annoying thing is when it crashes 😩...I was on the edge of deleting Retrica before the update. I will never have that thought cross my mind again! ❤️

Do I have too purchase Camera filters too use the Retrica App. I don't have money.