1967: Retro Filters & Effects Reviews

by Sarahhoward_

it’s 2019 people want less edited pictures, there is tooooooo much going on in the new update. I loved this photo editing app over the summer over 2018 when I got 1967 up until this update. it’s over saturated over edited the light leaks are unneeded. you had a beautiful app with beautiful vintage filters. I got sad when you change the name of the filters to acronyms in one of the updates bc they had really cool original names and it was easier to figure out which filters were my favorite and which ones I liked the most but now 1967 has so much going on it’s so overwhelming. unless you guys get back to the basics and realize people do like vintage and classic like your original model instead of over saturated, super edited, with dust effects covering every inch then you’ll probably lose users who enjoyed how simple and great your app was before this awful update... guess i’ll just have to look for another rare gem to edit my pictures until you guys make some changes to this TERRIBLE update.

by Mandybecca

I have used 1967 for a couple years and it’s always been fairly intuitive and user friendly. Yet, since the recent update it’s nearly impossible to add a filter to a photo and adjust the filter’a intensity to a finite degree. You still select a filter which will default to 100% intensity, however previously you were able to tap on your photo and move into a kind of “editing mode” where you wouldn’t be able to scroll to the next filter while running your fingers left and right to dial up and down the filter’s intensity. It seems like they’ve tried to integrate the swiping to get to the next filter and the photo adjustment options, and without any benefit to the user. I work in IT in software, networking, end user support, so if played with 1967 for 15 minutes and can’t get the tricks down since the update I’m presuming there’s not many other people who can either. Lol. I downloaded something else in the meantime. Hopefully they fix it.

by BNJ124

The update has made 1967 so terrible that it’s unusable. It blurs the edges so much that it looks like the subject was in motion when the pic was taken, which is not the nice subtle effect it had earlier. And there’s no way of making this new adjustment less visible. The texture feature doesn’t help anything, as there is no adjusting the effect, it just completely blurs out the images altogether or doesn’t let you use the filter..I’m super disappointed at the changes made. 1967 was perfect before this update. I don’t want blurry images that look like my phone needs glasses. Or want photos that look like I have to strain to see them thru the blurry filter. Super bummed as I had loved 1967 prior. And it has a lot of fun color effects and antiqued photos in the best retro ways. Now it seems more like an app to make your photos so blurry you’ll look like a misty ghost. ☹️

Pleasssse bring back the last version where the blurring effect didn’t exist and the clarity was still there! The new update is soo bad. Really wish it would have just been left as is. The intense blur was unneeded and there’s not even a way to lessen the effect. The adjustment bars just make it worse. Please go back.

by Fossylstone

I was so sad that you guys updated 1967, I loved it due to it it’s simplicity and aesthetic. It was so easy to navigate, and choose the intensity of the filter I wanted. All of the new additions to 1967 make my pics look like trashy photo booth edits from the 2000s. The original filters are there, but it won’t let me adjust the intensity of the filter. This was my all time FAVORITE app. I would recommend it to all of my friends when they asked me what photo editor I used. But no. Now I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone. It is such a shame. Something that isn’t broken and has no problems at all, SHOULDN’T BE FIXED. I’m actually so sad that I just paid the six or so dollars it costs to buy all the filters, what a waste of money. There are so many people that share my same thoughts, and so I hope 1967 goes back to the way it was soon. Ugh come on, you had to go and ruin something amazing.

by Rythima

I used to love 1967 and used to recommend it to everyone! I haven’t been using instagram in a while so I haven’t had the need to edit pictures, I finally opened 1967 again to edit a picture for someone else and I am extremely disappointed. This used to be the best app for adding filters easily without making pictures look heavily edited and tacky. I’m really sad that I no longer have an app to help post quality pictures like I used to. The new features aren’t as useful as they used to be. The filters are not as cute and you cannot get the right quality like you used to. Pictures using 1967 now keep looking extremely childish. I don’t quite understand the reason behind this update, I feel like I’m using one of those tacky editing apps that we used to have in the early days of smartphones. This is not an app update you would expect in 2019, especially from an app that used to be fantastic not too long ago.

by TaylorPlayer

After trying 1967 I saw a banner saying 80% off so the cost would be $2.99. I thought sure why not, for three bucks it may be fun. I clicked on the link and the purchase went through not at $2.99 but at $5.99.
I contacted the developer and was eventually told something about when you click one banner you unlock all filters but if you click another banner it only unlocks one filter but that is not at all what I saw. It simply said 80% off and that is not what I got. I tried to get a refund from Apple but It was refused.
I plan to delete 1967 because the filters just don’t look good and I don’t like paying more than I expected.

by K.marie_me

After using PicsArt for years for all of my filtered effect photos and being completely turned off by how expensive their pro upgrade is now, I needed to try new apps. This one appealed to me because it offers a great variety of filters and photo effects, for much less than picsart. My only issue, and it ends up being a big one is that even though we can remove the “dust” aspect of the filters, the actual photo quality is shot. It’s so incredibly grainy that many details are lost, so no matter how nice the filters look, I can only use them on photos of objects/landscapes and not on any of the photos I edit of myself and my family/friends. If we could utilize the filters and not lose the clarity of the photos, 1967 would honestly be perfect.

by Master-and-Commander

I’ve been shooting off and on for 35 years. It’s always been a wish of mine to shoot with something other than a Polaroid camera. As a gift from my wife was my first SLR Cannon AE1. Net net, film, filters, different lens, and serious camera setting allowed be to basically produce any result I wanted.

Now we are all shooting with the point and shoot and using software for polishing the results. I found your iPhone app that basically applies filters.

So, I purchased B/W filters. While I remain on the fence over your app (good or poor), I am not however over the filters. Besides purchasing an unknown. What’s even worst, only 6 or 7 filters are provided. Depending one the total number of filters, perhaps $30 or $40 for unknown, untested, not sure filters. Perhaps if you could apply the filter just to view (lock it down), until purchase, might take the sting off the grab bag purchase.

In addition, providing a small number of grab bag filters (6 maybe 7) doesn’t seem like such a deal.

by Athena Mia

The this app filter app is nice IF you don’t mind your photos to be over edited and a bit on the blurry side. On one hand, the retro effects are fun and easy to use with specific types of photos. On the other hand, some of the more basic filters don’t allow you to adjust the style strength to maintain a bit of the original quality. If it had this feature on all of the effects, I would be more inclined to actually use 1967 . For now, it only seems to be useful for vintage aesthetics. If you are looking for something for portraits and/or landscapes, this probably isn’t 1967 to purchase.

by Geekahertz

When I was using 1967 before I spent the $1, it seemed to work just fine.
I found that not having an easier way to go back when editing a picture to be annoying as heck, a back button or and “X” would be nice.
Also, there appears to be no way to send a photo directly into 1967 from iPhotos, another feature that is missing.
Then I bought the extra filters and now 1967 will not work for me at all. Every time I try to edit a picture 1967 crashes as it tries to load the image.
So either 1967 is just looking to steal a dollar form you, or there is a bigger issue here that has not been fixed in the last 4 months since the last update according 1967 Store site.

by Cmbenke

I’m not sure if 1967 is supported by the new iPhone operating system. I recently upgraded my iPhone 7 Plus and some of the apps on my phone have been glitchy. I downloaded 1967 after I updated my operating system and it will not pull photos from my gallery. As soon as I try (I’ve attempted to click on every folder, but it doesn’t allow me to scroll far enough to get to the top two folders), 1967 will just quit. I can take new pictures, but so much for editing any photographs saved to my gallery. Really disappointed. I clicked on 1967 support link and it just routes you to a godaddy website. I’ve googled to see if you can rectify this problem with no results. So, what do I do now?

by Amber Secola

I really love 1967 and the options for effects it has. It is a little frustrating that some filters you can’t change the opacity, and I really wish that there was a second opacity dial for the underlying filter used. For example if I chose a lens flare option, I can change the opacity of the flare, but not the overall color difference the filter adds. Sometimes I love the way I’ve edited a photo and just need a little something extra, but that’s where I am unable to use 1967 as it only functions at full opacity for many of the filters and there is no way to control the colorization opacity. I still love the filters, don’t get me wrong, but because of these things I don’t turn to 1967 as much as I would otherwise.

by Nick Iceman

I really do love 1967. It’s easy to use. There are only two things I wish were a little different. First, it would be nice if there was always an option to go back — once you get past the cropping stage you can’t go back and switch the cropping. Second, for some reason when I’m in the cropping function and I select a particular crop size/fit, the cropping feature doesn’t fit on the phone screen correctly so you can’t resize the fit of the crop. Does that make sense??? Sorry. I have unloaded and reloaded 1967 several times to see if that would fix the issue but it didn’t. Other than that, I really like 1967 👍🏻

by Ruburrito

I was about to download the regular app that I had been using when I scrolled down to find 1967 instead. I was surprised to find so many good rating and reviews and after reading the reviews I learned two sad yet partially true things. First being that if I wanted good filters I would have to pay for them ( which thankfully they weren't all that expensive) and second being that 1967 was hard somewhat hard to use. I personally had no trouble figuring out how to use 1967 and found it to be rather simple so for that aspect of the reviews I assume it will vary by person.

by Farts!

I absolutely love 1967 and use it for every photo I edit. I’ve had it for about two years now and I have always been able to find the perfect filter. However, before the recent update when it was just the original filters I loved how I could adjust the level of filter I wanted to use. Now when using this app I find it’s a bit harder to find a filter that doesn’t overpower the photo, but it gives enough filter to where I am satisfied. Please bring back adjustable filters.

by Little Ilana

I want to be utterly honest. Never do I write reviews, but it's rare that you discover an app with photo filters that is worth the free download AND the couple dollar upgrade for an extra dozen filters. The free download provides you with about half a dozen filters to start which doesn't sound like a lot, but they really are a fair selection & variety of actual-cute filters. You don't HAVE to upgrade, but if you want, it's totally worth it! Kudos to you, this app☺️👏🏼

by Mikmikmarie

I really dislike the updated filters. It seems a lot of others do to. This USED to be my favorite photo editing app, all of my instagram photos are posted with these filters and now they’re completely gone. I really hate these overly edited filters, bring back the original filters PLEASE. People literally paid to have all the filters and now they’re just gone. Granted it was only .99 all I’m saying is this isn’t what I paid for and I would literally pay more to just have the old filters back. This is super annoying.

Update: I had emailed them with my frustration and they emailed me back apologizing and said the original filters are restored back on 1967 . I looked in 1967 Store and sure enough, there was an update and they’re there! Thank you thank you! Updated my rating, this has been a long time favorite app for filters. The original filters are under the file name “ORG” some have the dust effect over them, you can toggle it off.

by Jfkkphvdal

I had left a “bad” review in the past due to an update that completely changed the entire point of why I was in love with 1967 to begin with. I deleted it and forgot about it for a while. The other day I Decided to download it again , when I had seen it while scrolling through my App Store, Out of curiosity. boy am i glad I downloaded it again. SHES BACK BABY🙏🏽 I could cry. I had to use multiple apps to get the effects I was looking for..... I can finally rest thumbs 😭 also i appreciate them listening to their customers and caring about what they give us .. I can’t believe y’all changed it back to the org. Format

by SauceMilliken

These filters are some of the best vintage filters I’ve come across. I give 1967 5 stars because it’s brilliant at what it does, which is putting on old school filters.

My only problem is that the max resolution the photos are saved at is 872x872. It’s still relatively big, but in situations where I need a crisp photo that is a high resolution, it doesn't cut it. I’ve had 2048x2048 photos thrown in there and it always reduces to 872x872 when I need it to stay at 2048x2048. If the filters could be compatible with larger photos, that would make 1967 a million times better.

Other than that, I’ll still use this filter app on the regular.

by Lovely Jenna

edit: i’ve never been so happy for an update!! thank you so, so much for restoring the original filters. 1967 is back to being my all time favorite filter app!

i regret updating my app. the filters BEFORE the update were so stunning and beautiful, each had a name that made it easier to remember. this new update has completely changed that. i can’t find any of the filters i’d grown to love. i used to love 1967 bc the filters were so different and unique compared to other apps.. but not anymore. extremely disappointed in this new update

edit: at least add the original folders back into their own separate category please. this was my favorite filter app for so long