Photo Studio Pro For Android Is Now A No Go!
A terrible company the makers (developers) of the Google Play Store's Photo Studio Pro application.
Once an impecible app now a complete joke it had previously been half the work flow to design with it it looked better and through a deliberate ploy to obtain more money the dev decided to update it with a complete visual and layout overhaul that completely metamorphisized the app into something visually confusing and totally detached from the original source it's now just some ugly looking mish mash of icons without the dev even thinking about how users workflow is affected, he simply just walked all over everyone to make a buck.
He didn't care because it meant he could get more money out of the app through simple aesthetics changes (which were never necissary at all) and embedding extra paid content garbage to gauge people for more money, he is a dishonarable dev at best with his attitude towards his original customers who had already paid £19.99 as he decided also to kill the original apps design off and prevent installation of the original app eventually and at the same time the original app versions embedded server that used to point to the inclusive downloadable content packs that came with your purchased copy making it a purchase in the first place so after this if you chose never to update Photo Studio Pro to a newer version then you ended up with no fonts (no fonts were available to download message appears) to use or any other downloadable content packs available on the old app and that's the story here, the dev likes money he does not care about making customers happy, he will also likely do it again continuing the trend as he seems like he's willing to shut anything he makes down if it means making more money by re-publishing or modifying the he original product to aquire a newer audience vs providing the original customer base with their purchases.
IMHO It looks disgusting now, it's simply just a poster child for what looks more like an icon pack for children than it does the gui to a professional photo editor for Android like it did initially, it's now entirely far too gimmicky focussing purely on eye candy and not on practicality or usability what so ever like it used to, the price has more than doubled since...but the content is far less impressive and the app is way more opressive with it's aggrivating popup mumbo jumbo annoyances everywhere demanding or encouraging you to add extras (addon packs) for you guessed it more cash, this dev is a pure capitalist with an attitude of I don't care about my customers.
Not a dev to trust not an app to part money with and yet another bad example of rogue trading behaviour occurring without consequence on the Google Play Store.
My advice is to wait until someone more honest makes something better or equal to the Photo Studio Pro app for Android, that can be relied upon not some unreliable now hardly usable mess of an app which is what it now is, it's gone from a 5 out of 5 quality app the hands down previous no.1 best in it's class for Android right the way down to probably the worst photo editing app on the Google Play Store all thanks to developer greed which yet again customers loose their one-time purchase on Google Play Store as they allow the developers to keep re-morphing apps into a pure waste of money for a second/third/fourth even a fifth re-publish.
Also again as always on the Google Play Store either Google them selves or the developer KVADGroup had repeatedly been pulling down the review I left and the reviews with negativities that others had left so nobody know's the apps true past and this is likely due to the dev adding the app to the Google Play Pass monthly subscription service, which means the app was no longer purely one-time purchasable any more it then means the IAP's (In-App-Purchases) are icluded in the subscription with play pass for free as well as ads removed in Google Play Pass.
So how can an app previously sold as a One-time Purchase app now be IAP based and ow is this not be defrauding the original purchasers by making the app defunct? That's my question if it isn't fraud it is absolutely way out of order behaviour as well as double dipping and manipulation to capitalize on the suffering of your original customer base is it not? Thus is that not uncontionable for a previous customer having paid for none of this annoyance or premium additional content previously as was initially stated in the original ad before purchase only then to have all paid not to have advertisements rammed down their throats every 5 seconds by a greedy dev.
That equals one bad dev