YouCam Enhance: Photo Enhancer

I’ve used multiple different colorizing and enhancing apps and they’re all basically the same. Some may have more options than others. The colorizer did not do it for me. The de-scratcher removes things it shouldn’t. Debluring was non existent. What I didn’t like the most about this app was the enhancement feature. AI is years away from true enhancement for old photos. The enhancements with this app were awful and so fake looking. The feature enhances only the face per se. You have this fake face on normal neck skin. The lighting feature doesn’t allow to reduce lighting easily. The most annoying part is choosing your next photo. I have folders for easy location of photos yet this app makes it hard to keep having to scroll since the app refreshes, re-scroll in a hurry so the refresh doesn’t get you again. Just couldn’t find the $79 a year price tag worthy for what I need and that’s an app made for old photos. Hopefully the technology gets there.

People need to read privacy statements on these apps and I think there wouldn’t be as many 4 and 5 star reviews. Overall the app looks terrific and really wanted to try it. When starting I went to ai lighting. It opened up my iPhone's permission setting for the app to access photos. I want to enhance 1 video, so I select “limited access”…select the 0:59 second video and go to enhance it but I can’t. The only way the app will allow me to enhance the video is if I grant this application complete access to my photo album. That is sketchy haha. Seriously think about this I downloaded this app to try it out before finding one to purchase and before even being able to try it, it’s trying to swindle complete access to my photos which is basically our lives people. By agreeing to full access it sounds just like it is. You ever take a photo outside of your house? Is the number of the house, street sign or registration (license plates) visible in the background of that photo? You take photos outside of clubs or restaurants? Are there license plates, street signs, and the businesses name in the photo? Now let’s say you live in Providence RI. Your in college so most your photos are from that city. Someone can take background info from photos and in 5 minutes find out where you spend most of your time. Then image search yours and your friends face to see if it matches any social media or linkedin pages. The US is one of the worst country’s when it comes to allowing basically any business to share any of your personal information. Why would an app need full access to my photo album when I only want to try 1 file?

I had purchased the bundle package awhile ago with all of the YouCam Apps. Love the upgrades, the cartoon edits are so cute for kids! However, when I try to update them (all five apps), some are not recognizing my purchase for premium. I checked my Apple subscriptions and they’re all there but listed individually at the individual prices instead, and “restore purchase” in the apps don’t seem to work for me. I’d really like to use Enhance today for a restoration project that’s a gift for family, so any help would be greatly appreciated! Love your products and the communities you’ve built! Thank you! xoxo