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I use this app every day to peruse ideas when I’m away from my PC. I’ve had this routine for a few years now… Saving a file to a favorites folder sometimes takes several minutes. I’ve curated my favorites down to a dozen folders, yet it still takes forever to pull them up. Very frustrating to sit here watching the app plug away like cold molasses. What’s worse, typically after about ten minutes of using the app, it crashes and I have to start the waiting again. It clearly needs to be updated or streamlined.

Back when the internet was a kinder, more gentle place, when we didn’t have to worry about the extreme far right living in a fantasy {… yeah well, Reagan… that’ll never make sense …} *This* far right in *this* fantasy of another no-talent "actor" was made more dangerous because a crazy man & minions were able to babble about overthrowing the US government. They egged each other on, their contacts made possible by their overwhelming misunderstanding of reality, aka "paranoia" and the internet. Scraping (is that the word?) the web for public domain or unattributed images may not be as awful as planning a coup but it sure wasn’t a thing in the before days. I had the Best & Most Beautiful Dog Ever and found her images reposted often, many in Eastern Europe. I didn’t worry about ownership of my photos even though translation wasn’t straightforward and I couldn’t read the actual words. I’d worry more now about a for-profit entity that doesn’t care about ownership, only profit. —————————— —————𖥶𖦊𖥶𖦊𖥶————𖥶𖦊𖥶𖦊𖥶————𖥶𖦊𖥶𖦊 My suggestion? Search for images outside of this company. Do reverse image searches with some of many apps (free are fine), use Google Photos and “Lens” … lots of ways ————————— ———— 𖣂. 𖢃 𖢨 𖣇 ——— 𓃠 𓏧 𓈒 𓇸 𓇷 𓇳 𓃠 𓃦 𓃉 𓃥 𓊸𖨡𖨠𖨡—————— My suggestion to anyone reviewing an app they hate? Don’t have a temper tantrum crying "do not buy!". That’s not a review. 2nd: it’s disingenuous to claim "Worst App Ever!" because really, how would you know‽

A couple cents for hard work, uploading, a trained eye, a lifetime of education, tens of thousands of dollars in equipment that constantly needs to be updated and maintained, countless hours of editing, uploading, keywords, categorizing, and descriptions. Someone in this equation is very very greedy and taking what little bit of food in the best of times could be bought with the already low prices you paid out only to be slashed by 60% or more.. There is a big movement with all the photographers to contact all the photo buyers to explain our position of how we are being taken advantage of.. I have 15 years experience and over 3000 pictures on Shutterstock, thousand of hours spent getting my pictures on Shutterstock and I would have made more money today picking up a bottle off the road and getting the deposit on it.