Image Size Reviews

i posted the previous review (included below) a couple days ago.

the developer’s response was inadequate. in its response the developer said i should resize in pixels. but I was already resizing in pixels when i uncovered the uselessness of ImageSize . when i tried resizing in pixels once again after receiving the developer’s response, the uselessness persisted.

also, since the developer’s response, i have tried resizing in inches instead of pixels. result using inches is same as using pixels - uselessness.

Previous Review:

downloaded latest version to my iphone 6 (ios 12.2) and paid the $3.99 to get rid of ads. only reason i downloaded app was to downsize flicks for instagram. it simply does not work to do this. A supposedly downsized flick from ImageSize when uploaded to instagram is the same size as the original before supposedly resizing with ImageSize .

ImageSize also does not work to even just resize flicks to save resized versions on the iphone. new supposedly resized versions are simply added as additional images to the same album as the original and with the same size as the original!

It's very suspect that this gets a 4,7/5 considering about 1/4 of the screen is a banner with a giant distraction that AMAZINGLY isn't visible on the screenshots,. I paid good money for my device & just to perform a simple resizing of an image I'm relegated to using this monstrosity?

Update; I know that I’m being a little critical here, but a “fast food burger” does not cost $5, and even then I would be getting more value for my money, and wouldn’t feel like I needed to take a shower. Funny how it wasn’t addressed about having screenshots that don’t show the banner when, after all, it is in the free apps section. I will use my laptop to work around this silly shortcoming by Apple.

Update: I did scroll down and saw tips and restore upgrades. Obviously when I clicked on restore upgrades, the tip $$ wasn’t an upgrade. I then had to go to ImageSize Store and purchase a no add version for $12+ plus the $5.00+. You shouldn’t have the list in the order that displays tips, restore upgrade and maybe upgrade. I’ve bee programming for 50+ years, so I do know a bit about programming and I wouldn’t have programmed your product that way. I am sure many people have done the same as I did and why do you have tips if you have an upgrade product?

I clicked on leave a tip to upgrade and the adds still show? Is there a different place to upgrade as I didn’t see anywhere else? When I clicked on restore upgrades, it indicated that I didn’t upgrade? Confused? It might be a bit confusing for anyone trying to upgrade as you indicated in one of your posts that an upgrade eliminates all adds? I will change from 1 star to 5 stars with an answer explaining if I did anything incorrectly. Thanks.

If you have the same idea of resizing an image as I do, your in for a rude awakening. ImageSize can only reduce or increase the aspect ratio but can not effective manipulate the image. An 8x10 can be reduced fine if you maintain the original aspect ratio (that blue paper clip looking thing). If that off your picture will either A) get cropped or B) leave white borders.

When I think of image resize, and I’m sure I’m not alone, I think of paint. You know drag by the corners and the picture blows up or shrinks down but the shape doesn’t change. Or, drag a side in to make the rectangle more square (yes I am aware that this is stretching and shrinking).

So if you need to make a rectangle picture slightly less rectangular but have the entire photo still showing, this isn’t a good app and is very misleading for us commoners. Also, I have seen and had, rude responses from the Dev’s basically discarding any negative critique. In fact my original review kind of hard to find..almost like it was removed somehow 🤷‍♂️. I can’t wait to see the sarcastic, routine, patronizing response I will get this time.

When I first downloaded ImageSize it was to find a way to reduce the size of a photo I was attempting to post in an Etsy review. My photo important far too big to post even 1/3 of it. Looking at ImageSize in the beginning I was very impressed and paid right away to remove the adds. Yet time after time following and rereading the instruction and each time the photo imports into Etsy the very same, too big, no difference. Even though ImageSize showed it to be smaller by any of it parameters. Yet it still does not work for my purposes. Somehow I’m sure this must be an operator error, on my part. I’m obviously far from tech savvy, so I admit freely I don’t likely know enough about what I’m attempting to do. Yet my final complaint comes at attempting to contact anyone associated with ImageSize or any support of any means. The only support link takes you to advertisements and instruction but no way to actually communicate with anyone, so I’m reduced to leaving this lengthy diatribe here! Please advise if there is any advice to be had!

DO NOT PAY FOR ImageSize!!
Resizing photos is a standard editing feature of EVERY photo app included within your devices camera software.
Crop and save. The only shortcoming with most software is that posted pics my not translate at desired size, which ImageSize does not achieve either. Or the interface is so clunky and hard to navigate that it’s potential is lost in a dashboard that the developer is familiar but users have no clue, which needlessly implemented a steep learning curve to ImageSize.

View the developers responses to critical reviews particularly the response to my critique. Instead of learning and correcting the issues raised from complaints regarding ImageSize, the developer UNSUCCESSFULLY attempts to defend the product as is.
I rest my case.....👎🏻

Update: To answer your question....
Please be specific in detailing precisely what you’ve done to simplify the user interface and describe exactly what ImageSize is supposed to achieve besides redundancy.
ImageSize may indeed provide some sort of function although I’ve yet to determine what it is.
The icon symbolism has no resemblance to standard interface definitions so the user is relegated to trial and error to navigate the process and only after much effort does the end result look nothing like anticipated.
In it’s current state, in my opinion ImageSize is unfinished or broken.

Update Review: The developer contacted me about ImageSize . Telling me ImageSize doesn’t cut of pictures. I just have to hit the chain & it turns blue. I don’t think they really get the idea of picture resizing. I want to resize the picture to what size I want without the image being cut off. Not have ImageSize tell me what size the photo should be by what numbers I put in either spot. I need specific sizes so that chain option isn’t working for me. The picture ends up being to big. I end up having to use paint for certain pictures. I really hope they update it and make it more like paint. Where you can change pixels, MM, CM, and inches without what I said before losing part of the image. The chain only works if you don’t need a specific size. So my review stays the same.

First Review :

So I have the full version app. But I feel like things need to be updated. When you resize a picture you don’t want half of it to be cut off. That isn’t really resizing it? Of course it making it bigger but it’s leaving apart of the bottom of the picture and side of picture cut off. They really need to fix this because it defeats the purpose of ImageSize . I might as well get a refund and just use paint to resize my pictures which enlargers the entire photo without cutting something out of it.

I’d really like to see a setting on the MAIN SCREEN (not in settings) to adjust the image size by percentage. Let us type in an adjustment for that on the main screen so we can actually see the difference before printing. I’ve adjusted the percentage in settings and there is no change on the main screen so I can’t tell if it’s the correct size. Using pinch to adjust is nice but not accurate enough for professional work. I work in the graphic design industry and printing several copies until it’s the right size is getting annoying. I’d also like to see adjustment for the grid. Right now you can divide it into thirds both ways. I’d like to see quarters or other divisions added for better placement on images. Other than that this is one of the better printing apps for iPad.

I don’t know why anyone would pay to resize a picture all you have to do is email the picture to yourself and make a choice how big do you want it when you go to email it presto you get what you asked for just download it take your email to yourself and there you got it all for freeAs far as I know emailing pictures to myself is also about the only way an apple that you can save your original most of us including anything done by Apple itself over writes your original which is nonsense now respectable photo editor would do that but Apple does what Apple wants so you need to save a copy email it yourself before you make any edits and now that you can put comments below your pictures you can know which one is original which one is resized and how it’s resized sure if it’s edited.

First off, after using this product for a while, I can tell you it is probably worth the $12 it costs to remove ads. It does a lot and it is very easy to use.

I have no problem with a couple ads here and there to try to generate revenue. Now it is to the point where:

-launch the program, get an ad
-open a photo, get an ad
-change a single setting, get an ad

These ads are full-screen videos AND banners that already sit in the apps header and footer when you are using it. The videos include a timer to stop them.

In the end you make the product unusable, in the most irritating way. I get it is to “encourage” the user, but don’t use a cattle prod.

Kill the ads (let’s face it, you aren’t making much on them, no one is now) give someone 10 full-featured conversions, then lock ImageSize until they buy it. If the product is good enough (it is) people will buy it.

Strangling the user experience over time is such a turn off I may not buy this thing. Kill it early and leave the user wanting for more.

Four stars is for the quality of the product.

I had to downgrade my review to four stars as a critical feature has been removed. ImageSize used-to have the ability to shrink an image while keeping the total image size, filling-in the now showing background with the color of your choice. You can no longer do that. And if you are trying to downsize a logo for use as an iphone contact photo, this feature is critical. When you used-to shrink an image, doing so revealed the background, which you could fill-in with the color of your choice by clicking on the (color) “palette” icon and selecting a color. Now when you open a picture, the palette icon disappears, and you have no way to fill-in the background. Boo!

It was my misunderstanding that ImageSize had a subscription; it does not. I find ImageSize extremely easy to use and understand. I’ve printed several things with no problem at all.
My misunderstanding came from the ad popping up when I hit “print”. This does not interfere with the performance of ImageSize at all. I don’t mind the short ads as they don’t interrupt my in-progress print. I’m definitely keeping ImageSize and thanks to the developers of ImageSize and the timely response I received with courteous information. Nice job! Thank you!

ORIGINAL REVIEW:
Just got a new printer. ImageSize did everything perfectly —— until today.
I’m getting ads constantly and apparently I now have to subscribe to ImageSize in order to use it. I don’t print enough to pay $5 a month to use this.
I’m totally disappointed because it’s exactly what I need - now I gotta go search another way to do this.

I have used the paid version of ImageSize for about a month. And is easy to use once you get the hang of it but I have not found the developer as responsive as others. I do not how to clear ImageSize once I have filed a finished photo. There is not exit or delete button. One of my projects disappeared after completion another one hung around until I deleted and reinstalled ImageSize . An emailed question went unanswered.

The ads for this are so annoying that paying the money to get rid of them is well with it. But I bought a new iPhone and the ads returned. When I tried to buy ImageSize a second time to get rid of the annoying ads Apple tells me I already purchased ImageSize and I can’t purchase it a second time. That makes the ads even more annoying. Is there a way for me to remove the ads?

Update: the developer told me how to fix it and now I’m happy :)

I’ve been using ImageSize for some time and it’s been great for printing exactly the size I want to transfer a digital drawing or tracing to paper for watercolor, etc. Suddenly, it will no longer print the size I specify. Is this because of the update to iOS 11? What can I do to get this back? I’m using an iPad Pro and an iPad mini 4. If I could resolve this, it would return to a 5-star app, in my opinion. But it’s useless to me if it won’t print the specified size. Thanks.

I’m using the print button in ImageSize , which has always worked fine, over my home WiFi. I tried to print approximately 8x10, 5x7, and 4x6, and none came out the right size. I say approximately because it depends on the size of the image with the constraint for keeping the original proportions turned on. The only new thing on my end is iOS 11. I also made sure to update ImageSize and try before writing my review. Thanks for your attention to this.

Update: I’ve gotten it working again and I have to say their customer support is excellent. Highly recommended.

I’ve been using ImageSize for several years now. It is quick and easy to learn and get the desired effect. I love it. However, since the update yesterday, it just shows it’s loading. I tried to delete it and download again from ImageSize Store but it just keeps on spinning. I can’t do anything. Please fix whatever got messed up.

Finally! I was able to delete ImageSize and download again so it is working great again. I really did not want to search for another app to use. I’m a senior citizen and sometimes it’s hard to teach an old dog a new trick. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this simple app.

As an avid iPhone photographer, I’ve come to the realization that Apple isn’t going to increase the sensor size of the iPhone camera. It looks like 12mp is what we are stuck with. With that said, I’m glad I found ImageSize. I am so impressed with the quality of the resized files. They are so clear and clean. I usually enlarge my best iPhone photos to either 24mp or 33mp and both are fantastic! I have yet to print from these enlargements but plan to soon. My iPhone 11 Pro Max paired with Moment lenses and ImageSize = perfect. Thank you developers for this great resizing tool, it has been a blessing.

ImageSize is simple and produces a high-quality output. I like the ability to make minor adjustments to the photo. The only thing I wish it had, is the ability to change the JPEG quality so that the size of the output JPEG file could be reduced. If it had the ability to change JPEG quality, I would quickly purchased the ad free version. The ads are definitely a nuisance, but the cost to illuminate them is minimal.

Modified review - I have changed my review to a 5 after the developer improved the program within days of my request improvement. Very impressive! What would make this perfect now would be the ability to select multiple shots and resize them all at once.

I also posted my review a couple of days ago, copied below complete with Developer Response.

Here is my reply to the Developer’s response:

My feedback was what I experienced when using your app.

I will add that my statement of your app reducing images is not a guess or exaggeration, it is fact. After your app consistently returned the new tiny images to my Photo’s file, I trotted them over to PSExpress where the image info was available. This is no fluke, as it was NOT reproduced when using another app, just yours. And to note, the example I gave, .06k from 458k, was just one of the images put through your app.

I would suggest that you use your energy to fix the problems in your app, rather than denying the reality of what I and other users experience.

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My original feedback:

Worthless

One star

I need something to work on my iPad, this is not it. I need images saved at 300dpi for printing, this rather than increasing the image to 300 dpi it reduces the image down to I don’t know what, other than the size is saved to .06k. Yes, .06k from 458k. Totally worthless and a complete time waster.

Developer Response

Thank you for your feedback. The reduction of DPI doesn’t change the image size. It only changes the DPI value in the metadata of the image. The DPI value only determines the print size.

Sure, it only performs a single function, but that is exactly what I need from it. I write a product review blog that has been going for almost twenty years now, and my layout requires photos that are exactly 670 pixels wide. I have that as a preset size in ImageSize and can load photos from my phone right into and then load them into my blog writing app instantly. No more workflow of moving them to my laptop, resizing, etc. Just fast, on-the-fly write ups as I go. Great tool. No stability issues or problems in the years I’ve been using it.

Simple app, ad banner supported, fair enough as an infrequent user, I thought. I will watch ads and click on something interesting to support people. With a recent update, besides up top and ads in the user menus; after I save a photo, there is this a loud obnoxious garbage hipster gangster video ad playing or some commercial for a game I am not interested in. Then after a few times it asks if I want to remove ads and pay $3. Sorry. Every inclination to go ad free stopped with these AV ads screaming at me. I should not have to mute my device because I want to shrink a photo I want to share, while I have family sleeping next to me.

I can’t resize my PNG images and I often need to. Whenever I try to resize a PNG and save it, it sets the background to white. Can you fix this please? I’ve now read through many reviews and noticed many others who would like this feature added as well. A developer responded to my previous message about this and said, “They won’t add it.” Why not? It a good feature and very useful. Without it, I don’t have much use for ImageSize . I’m sure it’ll be a simple fix to add compatibility for PNG images. It would be so nice if you did that. Thanks 🙏

1. When I set, say, 3" x 2", I expect the photo to be about three inches wide when I email it (at least narrower than the original), but the results expand to the full width of the email.
2. When I save such an image (e.g. a comic strip selected from my Photos), it gets cropped instead of scaled down to fit the size I selected (the left and right parts are missing).
3. The built-in selections for Wallet and Enprint landscape and portrait appear reversed (landscape should be wider than it is tall).
4. I'd email this instead of leaving a review, but I don't see an email link in ImageSize .

I just needed to resize a photo. You would think that would be included in the stock Photos app, but that's Apple for you. Anyway, this took care of my needs and went ahead and became a paid user. Great app and nice interface. I just wish you could quickly choose resize by a percentage...like 75%, 50%, and 25%. You could insert a "%" tab next to the "Inch" tab. BTW, ImageSize is called Image Size...please de-bloat it by removing the filters, effects, drawing and other stuff that has nothing to do with resizing.

Edit = finally purchased😃responsive developer and excellent app. Need to figure out how to edit in batches, is that possible?

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Hey it looks like just what I am looking for. Hit the button to buy the ad free version 100 times and nothing happens. It looks like this is the only way to get an answer. Tried support it brings me back here so I guess I’m in the right place.