VizRef Negative Reviews

VizRef App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

VizRef app received 25 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using VizRef? Can you share your negative thoughts about vizref?

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✓ Doesn’t let me add more than one imageTells me to “Delete Photos to free up space” after adding only one photo. I checked my system memory and definitely have enough..CantaloupefrogVersion: 1.1

✓ A Little FrustratingSince there haven’t been updates in 2 years, I’m not sure we’ll get any improvements. Which is a shame, because you never want an app experience to be “frustrating” or “tedious.” It lacks a lot of very basic functionality that doesn’t quite make it PureRef for iPadOS. There’s no way to import multiple images other than from camera roll and I don’t really get why there’s an auto-arrangement button because you can’t select multiple images on your board to arrange them. So you, generally, have to import images one at a time and move them, one at a time, to arrange them manually. You can group them, more or less, as long as you keep importing them one after another with the first one selected, but as soon as you deselect or tap off an image, you’re stuck. So, sitting here, spending another 20ish minutes tediously arranging a board one image at a time, I asked myself, “Why did I spend money on this app when I could have just imported them to Concepts or Procreate or Krita or Clip Studio?” Any other image app that I’m not using and put that in split screen, you know? I just feel like I was sold on a PureRef alternative and got a kid’s versions that hinders my workflow and eats up my time. So, I’m feeling the remorse big time..FravjkghkofcbkoVersion: 1.1.7

✓ I was set to give this app a five star but now....Well I was very excited when I learned about this app. I was able to put my pics, PNGS etc and transfer them as this app intended to my Procreate etc. I was organizing setting etc and tonight I went to add some more items to a new file and now it crashes everytime I try to move a batch form camera roll to Visref. Some files even becoming permanently crashed and unretrievable. Very disappointed and have lost hours of work and documents. Some very important documents have been lost, destroyed. Hoping to retrieve a couple things but likely not. This app had such promise, and what a benefit but now I can’t do anything. I have restarted my iPad etc. short if removing and reloading the app, thus loosing everything I have set up I have not odne that. Hoping I can get off a couple files but likely those important things are gone forever too. Very very very frustrated and disappointed as I was finding this so helpful. Now I’m just feeling betrayed..SillicacherVersion: 1.1.5

✓ Amazing App! Theres so much potential here.As a freelance artist, this is an absolutely NEEDED app for me as i have a whole lot of references in Pinterest and Twitter. I dont download my references, but I tend to just retweet them or pin them in my account as an archive, but i ALWAYS hated switching between references. I dont download images for the sake of storage and keeping my photo gallery free of clutter. If I were to make a recommendation; I would ask to include the drag and drop feature from not just the web, but from different app sources like Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter etc. This would really help us artists with a complete digital presence online!.Jimm9vVersion: 1.0

✓ No auto pack showed in the video?I got it thinking there is auto pack, but don't think it has it yet? But it is in the app preview video?.LamZinnaVersion: 1.1

✓ App needs some workI would rate this higher if the app didn’t charge anything, but it’s nice that it’s not subscription-based! I liked this app initially, it helped clear out my photo album and the image quality isn’t affected much when uploaded. But, I noticed a huge problem w photos getting lost whenever I loaded a board, especially one w a lot of images on it. Sometimes they’d re-upload if I restarted the app, but then another group of images would get lost in their place. The app also crashes sometimes and loses images after, but it’s not very often. The app hasn’t been updated for 2 yrs still, but I’d rly love to see these in the app as well: multi-selection w/in a board would be great to help better organize different references, text box/ sticky notes option, greater range for image rotation, basic drawing pen feature similar to the annotation option in the iPhone photos/ notes app. Any other features that could help enhance mind-mapping in the app would be perfect..$up pplVersion: 1.1.7

✓ You can't move images/gifs from vizref to vizrefI put too many images in my vizref document, so i wanted to move them to a different one, only to my disappointment find there is physically no easy way to do it, exporting them in batchs makes the transparent png turn into a solid png. Tried selecting multiple and copying and pasting them. Doesn't work. I put to many images in it, shame on me, but this feature would help in more then that, so shame on you..ZZTroubleVersion: 1.1.7

✓ PLEASE add sticky notes3 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ because… I have hundreds of visual references, all in their own categories. The problem, i’ll have ideas for several images and later when i revisit them, I forget what the idea was. because… sadly - Vizref does not offer some kind of sticky notes feature that would allow me to type or write down my ideas via apple pencil or finger. It really makes no sense to me, how they don’t have a feature like this. 🤔 I even checked the reviews on here, and… many are asking the same. HOPEFULLY… with today’s release of iPad OS 15 we can use the new contextual apple notes, and hopefully jot our ideas down that way.. since the new contextual note will “allegedly” link text that was typed or written… directly to the app you contextual linked it too. Therefore, just tapping on the text will automatically open the VIZ REF app and take you directly to the image. Of course this all according to apple, however.. may require a vis ref developer update. We may have to go about it this way folks.. since clearly the devs have not responded to any of the reviews on here asking for a note taking feature… which leads me to think, the devs have moved on, and are done here..Lost in TacticsVersion: 1.1.7

✓ Good but abandoned. . .Hasn’t been updated in two years. Their twitter is no longer posting updates. . . Cannot have folders for your boards. No Webm support. Need to multi select images within boards. It’s not infinite images, if too many images inside it will crash. . . Unlike other apps. But it’s a good app. Just needs to be updated and seems like it’s abandoned. If you like to buy abandoned apps, then get this, if you like updates and new features try something else..Skeeted4KVersion: 1.1.7

✓ Great First Start, No ExportThe app is really snappy and easy to use with just the right amount of features and controls and it’s a great tool for quick research and visual concepting. The lack of a universal app however makes it’s usage needlessly obtuse between devices and the lack of any export features means it can only stay on my iPad even when for my visual research work it’s important to be able to then tag and make the visual reference board available in my local database of files. It’s great to see an app so specifically targeted for this usage, but I really need the ability to export the moodboard and reference images included in a bundle so I can archive and re-use them across platforms, which makes it hard to use in my work beyond simple projects..Takanu KVersion: 1.0

✓ Waste of moneyApp only allows you to at like 14 images to a board - not worth paying for - its a shame though, because its a great idea.Zaka223Version: 1.1.2

✓ Love it but one big setbackIts a huge help and streamlines my process by a ton, its a simple tool but saves the clutter from my actual canvas. I love how it lets you scroll through gifs for animation studies, and being able to move the images around freely feels easier than scrolling up and down a pinterest board. The only frustrating thing is sometimes my boards will crash and theres no way to recover lost images (as far as I can tell) It doesnt matter if theres a 100 images or 10 on a board it just Happens randomly and deletes pictures. I had to knock my rating down because I had just had a board crash and lose half the pictures, re-add in as many as I could find in my camera roll, only for it to crash again 10 minutes later and lose even more refs. I've also noticed the crashes happen when I try to export selected images. But yea this app gets the job done, I just hope the crash + erasing refs problem gets fixed.Kk31krVersion: 1.1.7

✓ Springboard - well not really.So I saw this on the ergojosh Channel and was intrigued, so bought it. In keeping with the concept (reference material, saves on layers in procreate etc), I was looking for some way of picking up a colour from the reference image, it doesn’t. You can import an image into your drawing and Sample colour using the drawing app (I use Procreate and and also Clip Studio for Ipad and Mac) use that as the reference image. Ok, so the app makes use of the iPad dual display. So what; the app does nothing else. The developer came out with an update last week. Well all that does is tidy up the display of images on a board. So what. This app is functionally very limited and practically useless. Don’t waste your money..Shuggie_209Version: 1.1

✓ No iCloud supportI just wish there was cloud support for VisRef. This is where other platforms like Pinterest make more sense, because I can save boards across multiple devices independent from local storage. I wish I could save pinboards in the same way. Apart from that it’s good for building temporary collections arguably better than Pinterest as an example. I just wish it wasn’t tied to a device. When you get a new iPad/iPhone you lose your pinboards. Not very intuitive..Boo_beesVersion: 1.1.5

✓ OkayNot bad but it blocks all my tools in procreate simply because it is slightly too tall- and can’t seem to change it. Otherwise it would be great..EchorionVersion: 1.1.7

✓ Lovely, but NEEDS text labelingThis is a great start and a handy tool for artists. But it desperately needs the ability to add text and label both individual photos, and groups of photos. It should also let’s us create a highlight box around photos to keep groups organized. For example, if I have 100 photos, each into 10 groups of 10, I would like the ability to create a color coded box behind each group of 10, label that group, and even label / caption individual photos in that group. Organization tools like these would be extremely helpful. This app is great to have though! My only other suggestion is perhaps more snapping tools, like a illustrator-esq smart snap, and the ability to drag photos from Pinterest (might not be within the control of the app developers). It might also be helpful to scribble on the ref board. Thanks for reading! I hope you consider these changes :-) great app!.Apprater404Version: 1.1.5

✓ Same problem as other reviewersGood app but reaches maximum images too quickly if adding from web for some reason. Very frustrating. Using a 2018 iPad Pro so it’s certainly powerful enough to handle more..DeItoraVersion: 1.1

✓ Amazing Idea and foundation but has some major limitations on 2018 iPadI’m so glad an app like picref has come to iPads right now it however has a major flaw at least on my 2018 iPad for some reason I can only import 3 to 6 low res images from the web before a file maxes out and it asks me to delete images to free up space which makes it pretty much useless for my use case. This iPad has no issue running other apps that deal with large amounts of imported images like notability or much more intensive apps like affinity photo etc. so i assume this is down to optimisation and hope it can be fixed, right now if you don’t have the latest ipad model or a pro it’s pretty tough to recommend. Hopefully we could also get some way of annotating our image boards in the future too..ThephotoshopVersion: 1.1

✓ Nice app for basic gathering of ideas.Works very well for its intended purpose of creating a basic mood board with images. It’s kinda like a pinterest board without pinterest. The UI is very native iOS-like, polished, and very well done. now I do wish it allowed you to use the markup tool or pencil on your boards in order to jot down corrections or mark up ideas, that seems like a no-brainer on a device like the iPad, but unfortunately it’s very absent. same with the lack of any keyboard shortcuts as well. Functionality is very basic, but if you only need to copy/paste images onto a board to wrangle ideas, it does that very well..Mikel⚡️Version: 1.1.5

✓ Very limited and disappointingBought this after a YouTube recommendation and was disappointed to discover it does very little, I was hoping to build mood boards on a formatted page size with nice layout that could be exported, there’s no snapping, no auto layout, no options, nothing, why not just use Pinterest? this app has nothing I need and I wish I could get a refund.TheTechTankVersion: 1.1.5

✓ Resolution dropBeware, you are going to sacrifice some resolution when you upload your images. This app is not useful for storing high quality images. I scanned all my reference books and now store them in procreate folders to preserve the image quality. It’s all or nothing for me. I don’t use vizref because of this shortcoming but I’m sure it’s useful for someone who just wants references to look at. The organizational capability is simple yet very effective..CollectiveThoughtVersion: 1.1.7

✓ Not enough space?So the first board I made had only 5 references. On my second board I only have 1 photo, just something I screenshot from Pinterest , but when I tried adding another reference it told me to “Delete photos to free up space” but I only have 6 photos in the whole entire app. Is something wrong? So far that’s my only issue, I don’t want to keep deleting photos to add more if I only had 6 in the first place. I totally don’t mind changing my review later, I’d just want to solve this issue so I can keep using the app.DonndonnahoVersion: 1.1

✓ Great, but lack of mouse supportBeen using this for a year or two now and it’s been really great on my iPad, however when I try to use it on a second screen with stage manager it seems there are no keyboard shortcuts or ability to use with a mouse. This is a let down because I’m sure you can obviously see the utility of having a second screen for references while I’m working. Hopefully this can be added with a simple update in the future, otherwise great job!.ViletuffVersion: 1.1.7

✓ Nice but not even close to a cigarDon’t get me wrong. This app is really useful when it comes to pulling up references for drawing, piecing together pictures, and helped me out in class one time. It’s simple and easy to use, however that’s the app’s downside. You are very limited when it comes to how you mess with your boards. I couldn’t even draw on the boards when I was presetting pictures in a group forcing me to open up Procreate. There is a lack of transform tools to mess with your image forcing you to edit in a photo editing app even if it’s minor. The rotation tool only rotates the image 90 degrees one way and that’s all you can do and why is it in a briefcase icon with the flip-vertically tool while the rest of the tools are out on the small bar? The flip-horizontally tool is on there so why can’t the rest as well? You can’t even drag them out. Another thing that annoys me is there is no way to auto-sort your boards or put them in folders. You can drag them in between each other one by one while the board doesn’t tell you if it’s going to do so cause it flickers like crazy. I think app has potential but it’s not there yet. It’s hard to recommend this $3 app when your paint app can do better on the side of the canvas in a folder with layers. Hope the app gets the improvements it needs..Sean BailiffVersion: 1.1.6

✓ Cool, but not worth the money.I was really hoping to use this app while I do my day to day sketching, but the boards have a space limit which is really frustrating. It’s like having to pay for Pinterest and not getting the full program. While the gif controls and the image controls are all useful, you can still have all those controls without having to pay by just using the photos app. I wouldn’t complain if this program was free, but it’s not, so it’s pretty disappointing..Slug heh.Version: 1.1

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