Scam
★ · v7.0.701 · Oct 12, 2026You cannot use the app unless you pay a subscription.
Instasize Inc. · Photo & Video · Free · v7.0.701
View on the App Store (iPhone) ↗2026-Q1 3.40 → last 90 days 3.05, text reviews
2026-Q1, text reviews
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all 326763 ratings, incl. star-only
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#38 top-grossing, Photo & Video
Store ratings include star-only taps from in-app prompts, which skew high. The peak and recent figures come only from people who wrote a review, which skews low. Compare each against itself: the drop is the signal, and a big gap between the two usually means heavy rating prompting is masking unhappy users.
| Quarter | Avg stars | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-Q4 | 2.98 | 55 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3.40 | 117 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2.98 | 124 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2.97 | 180 |
| 2026-Q4 | 3.38 | 24 |
No low-star reviews on file.
You cannot use the app unless you pay a subscription.
Can’t even upload an image or do a single thing without them advertising the paid subscription. Brother, I came here for the free photo editing. Not ads
Used to be a good app used to use it all the time but now I cant use it without subscribing to it I don’t wanna sub. I’ve worked fine for 6 years why all of a sudden is it being blocked by a pay wall greedy is what that is
This app scams you into yearly subscription by first offering your free three-day trial, and then popping up a screen for the yearly subscription once selected. Attempted to request a refund through Apple subscriptions and was denied even after an appeal and sending them an email minutes after the purchase was initiated. A waste of $40 when resizing a photo is a free feature.
You have to fix the delay of processing
I subscribed to the app in June for a year but deleted the app because I needed storage space. When I needed to use the app again, I reinstalled, but I couldn’t get through the damn welcome screen without purchasing again. I thought “maybe the app is smart enough to detect my previous purchase” but nope. It just charged me again. I didn’t see any “restore purchase” option. It forces you to subscribe again to get past the welcome screen. Is it a bug? Poor design? Or intentional scam????
Still charged when I canceled
THEY SCAM PEOPLE EVEN WITH FREE TRIAL AND APPLE WILL NOT REFUND YOUR MONEY. Update 10/8/26: I did reach out to this email after seeing it in the response the to several other people with the same complaints. You admitted to me that there is a bug with the system that trips the free trial with Apple services- however you cannot refund me MY money and Apple has to. Apple told me “no the web developer has to do this”. I had to report this to my bank to have the funds returned. This is a TOTAL scam.
I cancelled the subscription within hours of getting it (there was a 3 day free trial period which I did) and apparently the payment is pending still…be careful everyone
This app has been free ever since it was first created. I’ve been using it since 2015. Greed is so pathetic. We can’t have anything. Not even a freaking app
Now what? I just want to post multiple images in the ORIGINAL size. That’s why I tried it. But despite this I still get a cropped image when posting in both portrait and landscape mode
I remember when this app was free you didn’t have to pay for anything now I can’t even do anything because you have buy to use it’s sad honestly you have to pay for everything these days and it makes me miss where there weren’t alot of advertisements on every app now you have to pay to use apps where back then we didn’t have to..
Why is it so hard to use this for free? I have to sign up for a trial to use this and no free option is allowed before i can continue? Do better
Was my go to app for years now I can’t even use it without needing to pay for a subscription, safe to say I deleted!
when i open the app immediately after downloading, i’m met with a screen asking me to start the free trial to access all of the features of the app and you literally cannot bypass it. there’s no skip button or X in the corner on this page so you have no choice but to start the free trial or you just can’t use the app at all. PLEASE fix this, i have never seen an app do this before and this was never an issue when i used this app in 2014.
Terrible I canceled within minutes of downloading app and I was still charged after the free trial period.
App forces you to buy the product and it deletes your edits. And their tech dept does nothing no restoration available.
I don’t know how i got charged for some subscription but i’m in desperate need on a refund. the subscription costed $19.99 and id appreciate if someone got back to me and fixed this issue.
Can’t use at all unless you agree to a trial (which will auto charge you after 7 days). Deleted.
I cancelled the subscription immediately and was still charged
you might as well make the app for purchase. oh wait they won’t OF COURSE they want to make it a subscription
You use to be able to use this app now you can’t unless you signup for their “free” trail, that’s not free, I shouldn’t have to input debit card information for something free unless their hoping you forget and then rob you
Used to be a great app, ai started to make it worse and now you have to pay for a 17 dollar trial, not worth a dollar let lone 17 a month
States on website that it will be “free forever” ts not free. You gotta pay to even get started.
I canceled my subscription and it still charged me $19.99? Not worth it lol.
What would it take to build a viable competitor, what would it cost to run every month, and a prompt to get started. Generated from the reviews on file; one LLM call per brief. Set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY for a real brief; the stub only fills in a template.
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