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Adobe Lightroom for iPad App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ If only.All l want is to be able to buy the free version so l can keep it and use it like any normal one time payment app. Not worry about using up the free GB included. I don't need any of the creative cloud stuff, just a paid version of the free mobile app. I guess once I've used up the free GB l will have to delete the app and go back to only using my other editing apps. I won't be paying about $200 a year just to use an app worth maybe a $50 one time payment..Version: 3.2.0
✓ Please fix the new ‘Edited’ RAW files bug!An old bug which was fixed some time ago has been reintroduced: when importing images from an SD card directly into the iPad/iPhone app, RAW files are all marked as ‘Edited’, despite no import presents being used. I use this app on two different iPads every day. This bug was originally fixed last year, but has now been reintroduced in a recent update and hasn’t been resolved since. It makes sorting properly edited images for export extremely frustrating. Please fix it (again!).Version: 6.3.0
✓ Generally goodMy main complaint is that the heal brush is pretty poor on even an M1 iPad, it’s slow and difficult to work with. I would prefer something more like desktop Photoshop’s heal brush, the outlines and draggable points are distracting in LR. I would also like the ability to edit in programs such as Pixelmator and have it save back to the LR library, which would also solve this problem, as Pixelmator’s heal brush is nicer..Version: 6.4.0
✓ Constant Issues and Missing FeaturesThis is hands-down the worst app on my iPad. On numerous occasions it has frozen and crashed, wiping out 10+ minutes of edits that were supposed to have been saved to the cloud but weren’t. I’ve had to re-edit a bunch of pictures because Lightroom simply didn’t save any of the changes I made. It has constant issues with importing photos from an SD card, too. It will report that there is no space available when there is plenty, or it will simply fail altogether with no indication as to why. Just a few minutes ago I tried to import 82 photos from an SD card into Lightroom. It successfully imported only 17 of them. I tried importing all of them again in smaller batches of 10-15 photos, and each batch appeared to be successful. Upon removal of the SD card, however, I discovered that not a single one of the photos actually imported. On top of the constant technical issues this disaster of an app suffers from, it also lacks basic features that are present in the desktop app. Lightroom has been available on iPad for years, and yet essential functionality like HDR merging, panorama merging, and custom file naming schemes are still absent. The total lack of care put into the development of this app is astounding..Version: 8.0
✓ What’s going on?Why can’t you purchase bundles on Apple IPad mini? It’s getting way to expensive paying $15 just for rush every month ,when I use your other Lightroom and photoshop? Not very customer friendly! I also wish to know WHY Can’t I fade music on RUSH? It’s a basic necessity when editing video with music ,yet you guys are not adding it to your app! Am very seriously considering changing completely my editing suite after being a customer of yours for 2 years!.Version: 6.0.0
✓ Direct import of RAW files still uselessThe direct import dialog, which would be most useful with RAWs if properly implemented, is in it’s current form totally useless. Not only does it not show the embedded jpegs from the source files but it doesn’t even show the filename. So there is literally no way of being able to selectively import items as there is no way to disambiguate between them. This is hugely frustrating and I’m frankly questioning why I pay adobe a monthly fee. In general too much focus on driving engagement vs actual quality of life. Feels like the people who design the app don’t actually use it. For example, widgets are about discovering other peoples photos and edits, not actually viewing my own photos..Version: 7.1.1
✓ Don’t Waste Your TimeI should have known better after reading the reviews, but due to their age I gave the app the benefit of the doubt. Opened it and sure enough… pathetic time line of a free trial. This app should be free, or one a time purchase for a lot less money! Needless to say, I deleted it right after opening it. #disappointed.Version: 7.5.2
✓ Sync problems after all this time?It is utterly unbelievable how while Adobe keeps adding meaningless new features, their so called ‘cloud’ keeps suffering from endless syncing problems. And this has been the case for years now. Complete disappointment.Version: 9.0
✓ Free to download Pay for useThis app is just a 7 days trail. You have to pay a subscription to use it. Who needs a subscription when you have excellent open source image editors like Gimp? You should let the users know this is just a trial BEFORE downloading it..Version: 8.0.1
✓ Marketing TeamThats not the best idea to charge money from people every MONTHS 👎🏻 Dissapoined about Adobe “MARKETING TEAM”.Version: 3.1.0
✓ 15 Photo Export Max? What the...I downloaded Lightroom mobile as I’m really wanting to move away from desktop and laptop editing, and LR Mobile seemed promising. I LOVE the UI and functionality of this app, and can do about 95% of the work I need to right from my iPad Pro, and I was actually a bit blown away by its speed and capabilities. Then I went to export about 100 photos I had taken with my Panasonic G9 and edited in Lightroom Mobile. I thought the iPad was glitching, or I had toggled a setting that I didn’t know about, because I wasn’t able to export more than 15 photos at a time. After doing a bit of digging I’ve found that this is done on purpose. The reason being that Lightroom isn’t able to render in the background, but that doesn’t make any sense as I’m sure we’re all more than willing to leave the app open and running in the foreground until the export is complete. This is a preposterous number of images to export at one time. Give us at least 100 images, as we could work with that limitation; but only 15? That quite literally renders this entire app, and all the hard work these developers put into it, totally useless. A 5 star app turned to a 1 star app due to a major oversight. I’ll most likely be looking for ways of leaving Adobe after about 15 years of exclusively using their products, if they don’t get their $#!+ together asap. FIX THIS RIDICULOUS LIMITATION ADOBE, PLEASE!.Version: 3.2.0
✓ Horrible customer serviceApp without paid subscription is okay. I tried to buy a subscription, but the app refused to recognise it, so I went to the adobe forums, they were not helpful, so I contacted chat and spent about an hour on there, where they were rude and constantly undermining me, until they directed me to apple. So i went to apple, they were completely lovely and helpful but explained that they had my subscription but it is the developers issue that the app wont recognise the subscription, and that i should contact adobe. So i contacted Adobe... again...they kept me for ages without giving me much, eventually trying to send me back to apple again... so at this point i am very frustrated and explain again for the zillionth time so they send me a link to “how to use Lightroom”, I tell them i would love to IF I COULD ACESS IT! Would not recommend this app or this developer terrible!.Version: 3.2.0
✓ RAW upload not working anymoreIt’s a really fab App and I have loved using it ...but ....since the last App update which coincided with the Apple Mojave Upgrade, I cant upload RAW files now from my synced photo albums to Lightroom. This is the function the subscription pays for. It will upload JPG files but I can do that for free without upgrading and paying for it. I’ve had 3 hours of call time with Adobe and an hour with Apple Care and no one knows what the issue is..Version: 4.0.0
✓ Don’t download unless you get premium.The free version offers the exact same features as the Apple Photos App. Only benefit of downloading this is if you go premium for $6.99 per month. Not worth it considering other apps are one off payments that offer basically the same features..Version: 3.1.0
✓ Nice editor,but...don’t buy Premium!This is a fine editor for photos on the iPad, in fact I liked it enough that I thought I might try working on my pro camera raw photos via Adobe Cloud while traveling. However, my Adobe Cloud account (arranged by my employer) only has 2GB max, which is very limited. When this LR CC mobile app prompted me to buy the Premium version, offering additional Adobe Cloud storage, I jumped on it. But after trying it out, I found that my Adobe Cloud storage was still capped at 2GB. Trying to get help, I was diverted to unrelated Adobe help forum topics. And when I tried to talk to Adobe directly, they told me I had to go through my employer...even through this premium upgrade was a purchase I made out of my own pocket, under the stated promise that it would include additional cloud storage. I feel like I was ripped off, and I would demand my money back but my time is more valuable than the amount I paid. I guess I will just have to find another solution, but there aren’t many options. The market is dominated by a few mega-corporations who don’t care about serving their customers, they do everything they can to prevent us from getting help when needed, and they always err on the side of denying us the product we thought we were entitled to when making the purchase..Version: 4.0.0
✓ Landscape Photographer - HelpGreat app, use the desktop version as part of my Adobe photography plan, now using this app on my new M1 iPad Pro, as a landscape photographer I bracket my shots for better exposure of sky and foreground, also do panos, this app badly needs merge to HDR and merge to PANO for landscape photographers to really enjoy using this app in the field, Please adobe help with these features soon, would make me a very happy creative cloud user. P.S. this would be a 5 star review with these features added..Version: 7.2.1
✓ Needs more loveI recently moved to an iPad as my only device, so Adobe Lightroom is the only thing I use now to edit my photographs. The foundation is good, but it lacks a lot of features from the desktop version, like photo merge (panorama and HDR). A lot of minor things, like the popup that shows up when you are pasting presets on a lot of photos or exporting images. You can't really do anything, only wait until it's done processing. On desktop, it does it in the background and you are able to keep working. There are filtering options missing, you can't navigate by date... as I said, good foundation but it needs more love from Adobe. They aren't taking it as seriously as the desktop apps, which is bummer given how many people are using their iPad as their main computing device nowadays..Version: 6.0.2
✓ Waste of timeI got this for my new iPad Pro to hopefully ease the time to edit my photos. There is no way to rename files in bulk and when saving to files on iPad it loses its original time stamp as a photographer on the go I thought using Lightroom for the iPad would be easier to use and easier to carry around but this app is pointless to me. Back to the desktop version :( I am not happy with this. With iPads and laptops only steps away from doing the same thing you would automatically think that the iPad versions would do the same as a desktop version!!.Version: 6.2.2
✓ Great, simple, easy BUTBut the app has died at least 3 times in the last 10 minutes if it continues I will have to uninstall (2/5 stars) For the editing itself, it’s pretty good very easy to use (4/5 stars).Version: 4.4.0
✓ NeverShameless corporate GREED.Version: 8.2.1
✓ Excellent app, except the exportExcellent app, works lightning fast and has all the needed feature to do quick but great edits. Only big letdown is the export as you can only export 15 photos at the time (even with premium), hope you will fix this in the future..Version: 3.1.0
✓ Not worth itTried this app thinking it would be better than the regular editing features of the iPad Anything you want to do cost money Advertizing as a free version that is useless feels like a scam.Version: 4.4.0
✓ Useless import functionBug means after selecting photos, they are instantly deselected when pressing “done”..Version: 5.3.1
✓ Not bad...So I got this for the iPad Pro hoping it would work the same as on PC I use at work for editing portraits, it’s very fluent and gives me similar overall results, however there are some tools misssing that would stop me transferring to the pad version full time, there is no brush tool, no skin softening (this can be worked around but the effects cant be limited to specific areas) I have used several free apps like face tune or airbrush that offer this ability, hopefully updates will improve the tools offered, overall I am happy with the app..Version: 5.2.4
✓ Not ReliableSubscribed to the 100GB plan for iPad cause I needed to import like 20 GB photos of mine, it stopped letting me import after 200 photos. What a waste of time!.Version: 7.5.1
✓ Had to give a new one star ratingI have to unfortunately rate this app again after a year and half of usage, and sadly, I’m dropping it from a 5 star to barely one star. It’s 2024 and Photomator has managed to singlehandedly outperform your buggy, slow and outdated software. I asked a year ago if was it possible to add individual HSL color controls within selected mask areas. Would love to adjust individual colors within each masked area. Photamator has this feature. I no longer have to sacrifice adjusting one color in a certain area and have it universally affect the entire photo. You can even apply presets within each individual mask. Their color replacement feature is neat. And straightforward. Individual clarity and texture controls which affect shadows, midtones and highlights individually. The healing tool is slow and ridiculous to manoeuvre in Lightroom. The latest version keeps crashing even though I have an M2 iPad with plenty of storage. Takes Lightroom forever to switch fully to HDR. Takes about a minute or so for it to do so 😡 Adobe has not introduced the new Denoiser feature they have introduced in the Mac and PC versions. Why? The old Noise removal option is weak. I regret having to had subscribed for a full year when Photomator has a one time purchase option.Version: 9.1.1
✓ Amazing for amateurs. Not ready for prosThe interface is great and operates smoothly and the processing is as good as the desktop version. Unfortunately, there are a few basic problems that make the product borderline unusable for pros. 1. Sorting by capture time is broken because it doesn’t go to the millisecond. Therefore, if you shoot at more than one frame per second (eg. sports, action, kids, weddings), your photos will be out of order. 2. There does not seem to be a way to batch apply a preset to multiple photos. You instead have to select the preset on one of them and then paste it onto each photo individually. 3. No ability to make a virtual copy or easily duplicate a photo. 4. This is the biggie that is the number one thing keeping this from being a professional tool. You can’t batch rename photos either on import or export or any other time. Like all professionals, and I’m sure many amateurs, I rename files with the date, subject, and a sequential counter so that they can be identified easily and don’t look like I just copied them straight from my camera. I hope that everyone that reads this tells Adobe they need to add this feature!.Version: 4.1.0
✓ Extremely limited compared to the desktop versionUseful when it comes to saving and viewing photos across devices; however it pales in comparison to the desktop version of Lightroom. Editing images is unsophisticated and limited: there are no selective modifiers (color, luminance, etc.) for selective editing and the zoom-in functionality totally inhibits access to the corners of the photos, making it nearly impossible to carefully deselect the areas needed to compensate for the lack of modifiers. This is a rudimentary app, useful only if you’re only looking to utilize the basic general functionalities (light, color, detail, effects). That being said, this app comes nowhere close to the full range of functional capability demonstrated by the desktop version and is generally lacking if your desire is to obviate reliance on a desktop/laptop editing process..Version: 6.3.0
✓ Surprised by the positive reviewsThe desktop app is great, the iPad app is still really poor. The search features are really poor - I can’t say find all photos taken on a certain date, many things take way too many taps (for example deleting a photo), when you press share the first time always fails, importing is not always reliable, I have lost data when Lightroom said photos are imported but they actually weren’t due to not enough space. Terrible :(.Version: 7.4.2
✓ What Adobe ID did you actually link to?Bought the upgrade subscription...great until I logged out and then log back in with my adobe ID (yep same email address) and no “premium features”. Go to restore purchase and I get “Duplicate Purchase. This subscription has already been purchased from the App Store with a different Adobe ID” SO WHAT ADOBE ID IS IT ASSOCIATED WITH? Adobe support are more useless than the app, told me to go back to Apple...the purchase is pending and has no order number...meanwhile, app is unusable. Will be looking for a refund ASAP!.Version: 4.1.1
✓ Raw editing removedUsed to love using to edit my personal photos, but Adobe got selfish and made Raw editing a very expensive feature. sorry but the app is useless in the free mode and shouldnt be advertised as free at all!.Version: 4.2.0
✓ Requires monthly sub for RAW editingThe Lightroom app allows you to adjust overall lighting, color, etc. like the desktop version. There are also many presets available for overall adjustments. If you want to do any spot editing or adjust perspective, you need a monthly subscription. You also need a monthly subscription if you want to do ANY editing whatsoever to RAW image files. RAW is not supported on the free version. For this reason, this app doesn’t meet my needs right now. If you’re looking for a good basic app to adjust tone and white balance, this is great. If you’re willing to commit to an indefinite monthly subscription plan, you’ll also probably get a lot out of this. If you’re an amateur photographer like myself who wants to get a little more experience learning to make the most out of editing programs before committing to a subscription, this probably isn’t the app for you..Version: 5.2.4
✓ No editingI can’t even say how good the app is it just won’t let me edit anything without paying. To use the app you have to pay monthly but they say it’s free. Wouldn’t recommend if not willing to spend a lot of money..Version: 5.2.5
✓ Many features are non existantCannotsave a file on file on iCloud in jpeg after modifying the raw file.Version: 2.8.2
✓ Expensive, and does not workWhen paying 72$ a year, or 214$ for three years which would be a reasonable lifetime for a software that I would buy, this application does not do the work it is required to do. The application freezes when using selective editing, and I am only shooting at 16 megapixels. I cant imagine what will happen at 46 megapixels, will the photos just blow up? As a expensive tool, and a tool that is expected to be used by professional audiance, lightroom on the iPad (in my case iPad Pro) is not worth it 214$..Version: 5.1.0
✓ No account upgrade optionBought a MacBook Pro today thinking I can start using it with my premium account for ipad app. At the very least, I thought I could upgrade it a step up to use across platforms for a an upgrade fee which comes up to 3$ a month. Nope. Have to set up new subscription for a full monthly amount so that I can use my mobile and laptop LR. I can’t even cancel my IOS subscription because I payed for a year. I guess I will keep using it on my iPad and go for something different..Version: 8.5.1
✓ Solid Application, no support for LR CatThis application is a fantastic demonstration as to why the iPad will never truly be Pro. The applications runs extremely fast, has great presets, a nice community, and a UI workflow that becomes second nature once you get use to it. It manages to overcome the UI limitations of not having a mouse…which large portion of applications fail to do. However, it forces you to go to the cloud. LR cataloge is not supported. That drops the PRO for me. You can take a few shots and thats it. If you are a true profressional you have two backups of your catalogue on seperate hard drives. I travel with one, take pictures and edit off that HD. I’m not going to start uploading 2 TBs of my photos to be forced to pay more fo a sync cloud and need to purchase a larger storage iPad. Adobe, please fix this and support your catalogue. Until then I’m stuck on a laptop. This is absolutely frustrating..Version: 9.0
✓ Failing to loadSince your most recent update, I am no longer able to load raw files from my SD card to my iPad as Lightroom just shuts down every time. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it twice but the shut down continues to happen. I have been paying for this service for a number of years without problem, but I am looking at changing apps now..Version: 8.4.0
✓ App is 12 years old, still can’t set custom crop aspect rationsIt astounds me that this app is now 12 years old and the function of setting your own custom crop aspect ratios is still not available. How many hoops must I jump through to do a simple 1:2 aspect ratio? I can only eyeball it within Lightroom. This is a massive killjoy to my workflow, I have to be honest. There’s lots to like, lots of technical things - but then something so incredibly basic is just completely overlooked..Version: 6.1.0
✓ There is no free featuresIn the description it says some presets that are free eg curve colour mixing etc but all I can do in this app is organise and label that is it ! When I click any button they direct you to upgrade so it’s basically useless...how do I the presets that they promised too scared to get a subscription as there are too many bad comments about it..... what features are free none !.Version: 4.2.1
✓ FIX THE CROP!!!!!This freaking glitch is incredibly annoying when you're trying to precisely crop the image and then it goes randomly elsewhere. Wth? You don't have q&a? iPad pro 11" m2.Version: 9.1
✓ CC = constantly crashingDo you want to spend your hard earned money on an app that crashes when you zoom in on photos, crop or whenever it feels like? Lock into a yearly contract now! As an added bonus the Windows program has the exact same feature, amazing parity between operating system!.Version: 5.2.2
✓ Not paying for this sh**Give us back the free app!.Version: 4.3.2
✓ Good, but…Okay, when i first got this i read the reviews, thinking it was alright. I then got it and i looked on ‘tools” i then saw that EVERYTHING was PREMIUM!! Why isn’t heal not? I don't understand why you make us pay money to edit our photos. I think if you carry on doing this then people will not like it, delete this app, then you won’t get much profit from this app. Thanks for reading. Bye!.Version: 8.4.1
✓ This app is not freeWhy Adobe has kept saying this app is free in the ad.? You have to pay monthly fee in order to edit raw file. I wish they have one time buy off like the one they had before. The monthly fee in Canada is way too much!.Version: 8.2.2
✓ Missing basic featuresIt is ok and loads the photos fast but Lightroom was traditionally for organising and as such it is missing basic features such as the ability to adjust what information is displayed I can choose from a variety of camera info and date (some of which I don’t need but can’t turn off) or exposure but not a combination of both. Also iPads are light for travelling but there is no way to adjust photo metadata on the iPad version for time zones - this is super easy on Lightroom classic. I found this program harder to learn to use perhaps because I was looking for stuff that wasn’t there. I found the whole sync situation difficult and couldn’t find an option that said store photo locally /transfer files to cloud - I would much prefer this to it automatically filling up the cloud - which I can’t work out how to fix without deleting photos (I would like the copies on the iPad they came from). For some reason my presets don’t load on iPad- I suspect because it automatically filled the cloud with photos but I bought a iPad with storage for a reason..Version: 8.5
✓ I don’t want it to have access to all my photos!I want to be able to just import the picture I want to edit, half the time I have to sit for all my photos to load and I just want to edit one out of a thousand of them so why are they all here?? Why not just do it like every other photo app where you just import the photo you want to work on?.Version: 8.5.1
✓ Crashing and we have to pay for that...each months...Wow.Version: 5.3.1
✓ Won’t sync locally over wi-fiWon't sync photos over the local network. All photos have to be uploaded to the Adobe servers. If you don't have access to an Internet connection with a fast upload speed (for example ADSL with less than 1 Mbps up) or a high data allowance then the application is useless to you..Version: 1.2.0
✓ We NEED a white backgroundI’ve been asking adobe to do this for years. When professionals are editing for web, most of the time we edit against a gray or white background to replicate what it will be shown against on a web page. Having Black as a background is no good for most publications. Having the ability to have a white editing background is a MUST and I can’t believe adobe still haven’t implemented this. Surely it can’t be that hard..Version: 5.2.5
✓ New version crashes on selective adjustmentsBeen a subscriber for a year now, and although more and more features have been added, since a few days ago, clicking on selective corrections crashes the app 100% of the time..Version: 4.0.2
✓ Terrible customer serviceThe app itself is good, some issues but overall fine. The problem is the customer service which is appalling, you get asked the same questions over and over again, they don’t listen and clearly do not understand what they are doing unless it is part of the script. So if you don’t experience any issues it is a good app but hope and prayer that you don’t need the support. It is also interesting to note that you cannot raise a complaint, I suspect based on my experience that to allow this function would cost too much.Version: 5.1.0
✓ Crashes every time I maskApp is unusable, this has been ongoing since January Tried everything the bot messenger has suggested And to top it off everything you have done before the crash hasn’t been synced so you lose all of your progress I’ve been editing on Lightroom perfectly for a year no problems what so ever but now if it’s not the really bad lag it’s the crashing it’s just unusable I would give this application a miss until it’s resolved SHOCKING especially for something I’m paying monthly for..Version: 9.1.1
✓ Having troubleSo im subscribed and it hasnt opened the new features so i can edit my raw photos. Love this app and it was working just fine until i went to do my work and it says i need to pay for premium and when i clicked on it it says im already subscribed. Pls help or fix.Version: 6.1.0
✓ No Lens BlurPlease stop saying you’ve added lens blur when there is no sign of it in the app!.Version: 9.0
✓ Fatally flawed - limited outputsSo there are some great features in Lightroom for iPad, in fact it’s as good a management and editing app as the desktop version, but it has a fatal flaw for any sort of serious workflow, and yes, you can have serious workflows on an iPad. When you want to export images it only exports jpegs, or raw files one by one. This makes it unusable in so many ways. Want to do some serious editing?Want to archive? Want to do some printing? You won’t be doing it with Lightroom for iPad. It’s so frustrating as it is clearly done deliberately by Adobe to lock you in to Creative Cloud. I actually stopped using Adobe products a few years ago for exactly this kind of aggressive business tactic, but i like to give things another go once in a while. Glad i tried it again, but have since deleted it. Will stick with Apple Photos and Affinity Photos, as whilst managing photos with Photos is a pain, at least i can edit, archive and print in ways that don’t compromise the output quality or my backups..Version: 4.4.1
✓ What have you doneFollowing latest update I can now no longer hold a finger on screen while moving a slide bf to see the effect of making, whites, black etc. if starts to do this then jumps back to the photo after a few seconds. Makes this feature useless now. Also you can no longer see the percentage you are app,Yong as you only see the slide bar. Rated as 1 star u til this is corrected as it’s extremely annoying.Version: 9.0
✓ The best for amateurs but needs better debugging and supportMixed feelings. When Lightroom works, it’s spectacularly good. This is normally the case. When it doesn’t, there’s trouble. Recently I had lots of trouble with Lightroom cc desktop not synching, perpetually counting photos to synch, freezing and crashing. Lightroom support were impressively hopeless. Finally found the solution on a Lightroom Queen blog. Still the best program for amateurs, but not bug free..Version: 4.0.0
✓ False advertising on pricing?AppStore shows options for 40Go subscription ($2.79 CAD/mo or $23.99 CAD/yr). Yet, when activating trial, only 100Go subscription is available ($6.99 CAD/mo or $66.99 CAD/yr). This both deceiving and borderline illegal commercial practice..Version: 7.3.3
✓ Can’t export high res anymore...Have to load my photos from the cloud while they are on my iPad, support doesn’t reply on the forum, I’m sick of Adobe....Version: 5.4.1
✓ Almost thereThis app is really lacking by not including the functionality of panorama / HDR photo merging, any update on when this feature will become available ?.Version: 5.2.5
✓ GarbageThis app is pretty useless.Version: 4.2.1
✓ Pros on the go could make better use of iPad for Lightroom with catalogs, batch-editing functionsI’m a photojournalist. I often find myself in situations where editing photos with Lightroom for iPad would make my life a lot easier, but it’s just not practical at the moment. Half the time I’m traveling and don’t have the luxury of going back to the office to edit on tight deadlines, so I have to carry around my massive MacBook Pro everywhere I go (and unpack my life at the nearest coffee shops in my path). Now that iPad OS is out and external hard drives are supported, it would be wonderful to see an update with catalogs, smart previews and batch-editing functions so I can actually use this app and take greater advantage of my iPad Pro’s powerful capabilities and smaller package. Such an update would also allow me to comfortably edit from my car on location, rather than having to go out of the way and find a place to hunker down and edit. I can see this app being a fine editor for photographers who have looser deadlines and more time to make fine adjustments, but the lack of these essential features renders it obsolete to photographers who could most benefit from its promise of mobility..Version: 4.4.1
✓ Wish the iPad Pro had more optionsI’ve always really enjoyed using Lightroom. As a whole I would definitely give it 5 stars. However the iPad version seems lacking in areas that don’t make a lot of sense to me. I wish they’d at least have a better version for something like the iPad Pro. Though the application can do most if not all the same things that the desktop version can do from and editing standpoint, it seems to be missing some features. I can’t search “Not In Any Album” on the iPad Pro making it very difficult to organize new uploads into my own Albums. I also can’t seem to find a way to edit some of the Meta Data on the iPad Pro. It seems silly that some of these features are missing given the power the rest of the application seems to have. Given the new iPads and iPad Pros that just came out, I’m hoping to see some updates regarding this. Considering my newer iPad Pro is likely more powerful than my older MacBook I don’t see any reason as to why the iPad version can’t do all the same things as the full version on a MacBook Pro..Version: 8.0.1
✓ Has some features missing from iPad photoshop, but it’s weirdly excluded from the ecosystemComing away from being impressed with iPad photoshop, I was hoping lightroom would stand in as a nice raw processor that could work with it. But it seems like they made Lightroom for people who only use Lightroom. Why does it need to import photos before I can use them, and an even bigger question, why do I log into creative cloud with this but it can’t see the files saved to my creative cloud? I had to use the CC app to grab a raw to test this with. It also doesn’t have any obvious integration with photoshop, so unless I missed it, there’s no simple way to take your edit to photoshop for more work (like with camera raw on desktop) It does have features that iPad photoshop is currently missing, the biggest being raw processing and content aware (available via the healing brush.) Hopefully this means these features will be in photoshop soon, I wouldn’t want to get deep into using content aware on an image unless I had the ability to work with layers as in photoshop. Its core capabilities are good, but its exclusion from the ecosystem makes it awkward to use. There’s a very clear path for how I might use photoshop cleanly with the files on my iPad or on CC, and thus on my desktop. Lightroom feels more like it would rather live on the iPad, which I don’t like as much.Version: 6.0.2
✓ Essentials features left outLet’s start with the good: + OK for fun edits + Fast + Nice interface But absolutely essentials features where left out : - LACK OF COLORSPACE DURING EXPORT TO JPEG. I can’t believe Adobe missed this. You load your RAW, edit it, but can not choose your output colorspace. IT IS P3 BY DEFAULT. If you own an older iPhone, or a first gen iPad Pro (like me), your screen will show (and only) show sRGB. This means that your output color space does not match what is shown on screen ! Everyone developing for internet and mobile would probably like to pick sRGB for universal compatibility... - Lack of JPEG quality for export - Lack of other filetypes (TIFF, PNG) availability Other complaints: - Export to Google Drive is broken. It fails > 80% of the time to export. - If you export fails, it can’t resume from where it failed. You have to restart all over again. - You can’t turn the picture black-and-white during sharpening, one of the most useful features of desktop Lightroom. I have to say, as someone traveling with an iPad Pro, I find the subscription quite expensive for the current feature set. I recommend the app for fun edits of your pictures before sending it to a friend, but nothing else. For more serious work, you have to edit on your iPad, and then export from your PC, which is an absolute chore..Version: 4.2.1
✓ New update is SLOWThe new update is awesome but now it has made things like using the brush tool and other masking tools lag. It use to be really quick I edit on my iPad Pro M1 chip) but it’s taking me a lot longer to edit now. Hopefully it’s just a bug and can be fixed soon..Version: 7.0.1
✓ Edit panelResponse to developer: I didn’t ask for left handed editing. Why is there no option to move the edit panel to the left or the bottom of the screen? When editing portrait photos, the panel takes up half the screen which defeated the purpose of buying an iPad..Version: 7.3.3
✓ Says Trial despite Creative Cloud subscriptionI’ve tried signing in and out, made sure I am using the correct account etc, still it says on the app I have a certain number of days remaining on my trial. I’ve tried syncing photos from Lightroom CC on my MacBook. Nope. Doesn’t do what it’s supposed to..Version: 4.0.0
✓ It’s so frustrating.As a pro photographer, I am basically tethered to Adobe and I love the idea of syncing across devices and being able to edit on the go. This ipad app is great for making selects and edits but it’s basically useless bc their cloud service is trash. I’ve had so many issues getting my devices to sync up (syncing will stall eternally) that I’ve given up on it for extended periods. I decided to give another try after the release of iPad’s new OS and still no luck. Now, I’ve got a whole shoot stuck in LR for ipad that I can’t get on my laptop. Not to mention, the export options are pretty bad and they take forever, even when the files are stored locally. For instance, I recently exported over 200 files to share on Dropbox. ONce the export was complete, I only had the option to load one image to Dropbox. INstead I had to export to my ipad camera roll and transfer from there. Currently on hold with Adobe customer service for over an hour to see how I can unfreeze my syncing. Capture One is looking pretty good right about now!.Version: 5.1.0
✓ Crash crash crashAmazing when it works but all too often recently it just crashes when rendering or syncing images with the cloud. Pretty poor for a $15 monthly sub.Version: 7.0.2
✓ Used to be good, now it’s a messLightroom used to be a fantastic app, but over the last few months it’s become a total mess. HUGE lag time when applying edits, especially when creating and editing masks and creating named versions, crashing frequently, ipad no longer reliably syncing with my computer or phone — all this and more makes the app almost unusable, and certainly a huge pain to use at all. I don’t know what’s happened over at adobe to cause this, but instead of trying to roll out new features someone over there needs to fix the core app. All my OS versions are fully up to date, as the Lightroom version on each of my devices, so I’m fairly confident this is a problem with the app rather than with my devices. Performance used to be so good, I really don’t know what happened here….Version: 8.5
✓ Recent Update Killed ProductivityUpdate 8/2017: the latest update just broke the app even more. So unhappy. I'll be looking for alternatives to LR from now on. WHO was this built for??? Original review (2016): Recent reorganization of editing tools killed my productivity on iPad. Putting undo buttons at the top of the screen? Hiding ratings in a slideout menu? Adobe, stop breaking things. The app is cumbersome. It worked great the first time. Now I have to reach around the screen to accomplish things that were simple before, and on a 9 inch iPad, that's not always easy. Why not build out requested features rather than pointlessly tweaking the UI? Why not create different interface layouts based on task (e.g. rating, editing, organizing, etc.)..Version: 2.8.2
✓ One major issueLightroom CC has a lot of excellent elements going for it, however, the biggest issue makes for a very poor user experience. Every time one adjusts a setting, be it a color temp. adjustment, highlight, exposure, etc., the image blurs as the application processes the change. When this happens one’s eye tries to focus and cannot until the program complete the processing (which typically is pretty quick, however, when shooting with a 42 MP camera in RAW files tend to take longer to process). I cannot use this program long without getting headaches. I’ve learned to focus on the histogram when making adjustments to settings, which helps some, but it is difficult to evaluate the effect without seeing the actual results to the image being developed. Hopefully Adobe will come up with a fix pronto, especially for those of us who pay monthly for the program..Version: 3.1.0
✓ Speedflagging - thank youUpdate - a welcome return of speed flagging/rating. A feature I really did miss. However, my comments on layout still stand. The older version was more user friendly on an iPad screen. Perhaps have it as an option? ------------------------------ As others have stated, this was removed in the latest update and was easily my most used feature The new layout mimics the desktop, but at the expense of massively reducing the size of the image you're working on. This makes it almost unusable. The adjustment brush is a nice feature, but if I'm doing this seriously I'd do it on my desktop. I get the impression they're not sure what this app is supposed to be. Is it a complete mobile editor to compete with other apps, or is it an extension of Lightroom CC. They're currently falling between the two and getting the worst of both worlds.Version: 2.8.2
✓ No Removable Storage SupportIPads are marketed to replace laptops and to make life easier when you’re not at your Mac etc. But there’s no support for storing images externally, editing within the app and exporting them to external storage like you would using LrC on my Mac. Other than that, this is excellent and has all the tools you need..Version: 9.0
✓ Does not sun with old LightroomThis is great to edit while travelling BUT trying to get the edited photos onto the PC required purchasing more Adobe products, so the $7 monthly did not do the whole job. And it does not seem too easy to unsubscribe either... I will have to do more research how to stop payments!.Version: 4.4.0
✓ App is great but has many bugs.I use Lightroom to edit all my photos on my iPad Air 4. The app is great apart from when you use it with multiple selective edits. This is a pain because i use selective edits a lot and the issue at hand is that multiple uses of the selective edit tool and the healing brush causes the app to slow down. the brush starts lagging and the app becomes completely unusable. It freezes for minutes, and you wait to see if the app has crashed or if it is going to work. Ive tried all solutions and this was a known issue it seems back in 2018, but for me yet is to be fixed..Version: 6.1.0
✓ Since last update…What is going on? When I connect my Fujifilm X-S10 to my iPad Pro in order to upload RAF files… after a few seconds thumbnails start changing to black screens! After a while all the thumbnails turn black. Adobe - are you aware?.Version: 9.0
✓ Great, but…I love how Lightroom for iOS is optimised for touch, and it’s great to do things on the go. Really missing the lack of ability for pasting adjustments across multiple images — a massive time-saver for my workflow. The latest update, however, causes me grief while I use my iPad Pro; it breaks the ability to paste adjustments via a keyboard..Version: 4.3.0
✓ Here we go again.It’s a shame that such a great photo app is blighted and ruined again with a compulsory subscription. And yes, I know you can use a basic version free. I’m not asking for ‘Free’, I would merely like to be able to use the full range of features without having to pay a monthly fee. I do not need to use this app constantly; just when I need to edit and manipulate images. £4.99 monthly is unacceptable. I would much rather pay a one off cost of perhaps £20, or even a separate payment to unlock each feature that I require, as and when I require. The developers of this type of editor seem to aim it at professional users who use it on a daily basis. Thereby making a lot more money. That system discriminates against the casual user. I don’t suppose this will make the slightest bit of difference, but at least it did me some good to express my displeasure. C..Version: 4.4.0
✓ Learn Tab and Tutorials Removed?Upon opening the app after a few weeks, I could not find the tutorials for beginners. After doing some searching online, I found that Adobe removed them completely from the mobile version of the app. This is extremely disappointing as I was getting so much out of them and went through so many, with intent to revisit them if I needed a refresher. To find out now that tutorials are only offered on desktop makes me want to stop using the app. I don’t want to have to sit at a desk in a room to read about how to edit photos. I very much enjoyed the ability to have the hands on experience on my iPad ON THE GO since I’m very rarely home. This really ruins the whole app for me and defeats the purpose. Please put this feature back on mobile how it was a few weeks ago. :(.Version: 8.4.1
✓ Lightroom is the gateway to the trap of CCLightroom is great, if you like to edit photos as a hobby. As soon as you delve deeper into the Adobe suite, you begin to realize the flaws. Essentially, to sum it up, it’s all built on code that’s over a decade old. Basic functions are often slow, or just non functional..Version: 7.3.3
✓ Great service, cursor support brokenLightroom is easily the best photo management platform on iPadOS, but it is completely broken using a mouse/cursor. Two updates and it’s still not fixed. This isn’t a feature, it’s a bug fix, and it’s needed badly..Version: 5.2.5
✓ So CloseI am a long time Lightroom User from CS4 to CC. I recently decided to stray away from my usual computer routine and go for a more hands on approach. So I bought a Brand New iPad Pro 11”. First there are a lot of latency and rendering issues, especially with the selective brush adjustment tool. At points it would take 6-10 seconds just to catch up to me. Even on a brand new photo with no edits, zooming in takes a second to process. I only used raw photos for this test. Also, the app is not designed for the new iPads because the interface does not even go edge to edge on my 11” iPad. The interface itself is well designed and very easy to transition from the desktop version. A couple VERY important features I am missing is auto-mask and the ability to export as a raw or .tif. It completely defeats the purpose of having the paid mobile app if I have to jump back and forth between my iPad and my desktop to do trivial functions like export as tif. Please optimize this apps performance for the new iPad 11” and 12.9”. Please add export options!!.Version: 4.0.0
✓ Great for editing JPEGs not RAW files.Having owned lightroom on an old iMac for many years I figured I’d love to have the ability to use it on my iPad But with the only option of one at a time importing of images along with the requiring a premium payment plan for such simplistic editing of RAW files in comparison to the Mac/PC application it is not at all worth it. Great for simplistic JPEG editing but worthless past that..Version: 5.4.2
✓ Please read if you have issues. It’s an apple problem…There is an issue with iOS and iPad os 17 that makes nearly everything that uses photos, including the stock photos app, over heat or crash. Go to your photos app and zoom into a photo you’ve exported from Lightroom that has a lot of masks or an inflated file size due to Lightroom being garbage at letting us select what metadata we want to get rid of. When you zoom out it leaves a blurry mess of all of your photos and even thumbnails until you force quit the APP. same happens when scrolling your camera roll in twitter or instagram to find a photo to post. If you scroll too fast too it over heats and stops you from being able to select a photo at all. Pressure needs to be put on adobe and apple to address this because it is going to hurt BOTH companies in the long run. Adobe needs to let us select what metadata to keep or exclude but apple also needs to fix their OS so it behaves like it did in iOS 16 and before..Version: 9.1.1
✓ Can’t export photosThis app is beyond frustrating. After spending hours on edits I can’t export them and have spent days trying to figure out how to export these to my camera roll. I would not recommend this app to anyone that is using it for large quantity of pictures.Version: 8.3.1
✓ No local storage option makes it useless to me.It seems absurd to me that my photos must be stored on adobe servers with no option to store locally. After being compromised by adobe previously for such, be assured I won’t be caught out that way a second time. With no local storage option this app is pointless. Adobe is shameless..Version: 9.1
✓ Can’t sync photos/presetsJust bought an IPad Pro as my new mobile editor, however I can’t believe this version of Lightroom doesn’t have the ability to sync settings across multiple photos, that’s a basic necessity as a streamline batch photo editor, without it what’s the point of Lightroom when there’s so many better apps for editing single images.Version: 4.0.0
✓ Not very productiveThis app needs batch editing to be a better service for on the go like Lightroom classic and then adding HDR and panoramic tools would be a great feature like in Lightroom classic.Version: 5.2.3
✓ Crashes, terrible on battery life, poor Pencil recognitionThe title says it all. I’m using a 2021 iPad Pro 12.9” (M1). The app crashes on every photo, sometimes multiple times on a single photo. Editing with the Apple Pencil is very frustrating as the app doesn’t recognise small motions with the Pencil. I don’t have these issues on other apps (eg Procreate). Using this app for longer than 15 minutes eviscerates battery life. My iPad will drop about 10-15%.Version: 6.4.1
✓ Crashes constantlyEver since the last update it’s unusable, crashing literally every 5 seconds..Version: 8.4.0
✓ Garbage.Can’t edit raw images even after purchasing a subscription. Contacted app support and they told me to contact the New Zealand App Store. WTF. Garbage service..Version: 5.3.0
✓ Great but no location info...All really good except the location info for photos is not shown. No idea why. It is available on the web app..Version: 5.1.0
✓ Missing FujiFilm Film Simulations for XT5I imported photos I shot on my XT5 but the camera doesn’t show up in the filter menu when I try to filter by camera, and RAWs shot on the XT5 are missing a number of film simulations that should be there, such as Nostalgic Neg..Version: 8.1.1
✓ Confusing import/delete workflowThe review prompt popped up as I’m in the middle of recovering the deleted photos of my sons birthday. I imported them all from my CF card, then deleted them from the CF card. It appears that also has the effect of deleting them from the library. Utterly perverse..Version: 5.2.4
✓ Good concept, very unstable, unusableThe app is very buggy and unstable on my iPad. 1. Suddenly I can’t use masking at all the last couple of days. App crashes any time I go into masking section for any photo. 2. App consistently crashes when I transfer into photoshop and back. Completely unusable for this. I’m paying extra for additional photoshop functionality that I can’t use. 3. I previously had the ability to select the subject or sky on my iPad when I subscribed. It worked sometimes without crashing, but often crashed. I now no longer have that functionality. I guess they decided to remove rather than fix that functionality that made me subscribe. I’m paying a monthly subscription for all this stuff that doesn’t work. The whole point for me was the ability to go mobile but the app is essentially unusable. With the cool stuff broken, I feel like I’m paying a premium for basically a way to sort and store photos..Version: 7.1.0
✓ Love this app, butFeb 20, 2024 update: If you max out the lens blur feature, the photo will not be able to render and save. It looks fine in the app, but when trying to save a copy to the drive (M1 iPad Pro with 1TB harddrive and 16GB ram) it just renders FOREVER and then saves a completely unedited photo instead. Original review circa Dec 2023: Lately, it has been crashing quite a bit. They’ve added a lens blur feature which is honestly pretty garbage and I don’t think any actual photographer was asking for. I’m using a 2021 m1 iPad Pro with 1tb storage hence 16GB ram (so with the new iPad Pro feature should be able to utilize up to 32 GB ram). App on the whole is fantastic and I’m so happy with everything I can do in it, but the crashing is really frustrating as it doesn’t even locally save the changes I made prior to the crash. The crashes happen constantly when masking the background. Specifically when selecting the subject, then duplicating and inverting the selection and then brushing in the rest. As soon as I swipe to a new photo it crashes and none of the mask nor changes are saved. This has only started to happen since they added the lens blur feature which I don’t even use..Version: 9.2
✓ Excellent app but needs a bug fix after recent updateThe tap and hold feature while sharpening and noise reduction previously used to show a masking filter in black and white to show the adjustments applied. After the recent update. Its not working anymore. Otherwise an excellent app to edit the images..Version: 9.0
✓ What other version - this is nobsemseSays I need to download a different version from what used to work. I am confused amd have no purchase option. There are other options. Delete.Version: 8.0.1
✓ No external storage support is not for professionalsAdobe is severely limiting this app so that people buy their stupid and nonsensical online storage… It doesn’t allow the use of external storage so you always need to add/save the pictures to the limited internal storage of the iPad which is useless for bigger shoots or cases where you take many images… also it means that once you finish editing a shoot and export that final edited images you have to delete them from the library to have space for the next shoot so you lose all your settings of the edit! How unprofessional, frustrating and backwards is this when it has been a feature since the first version of the original Lightroom? I hate this app but Adobe has a monopoly on the sector and corner the customers. Shame on you Adobe, hate you and hope that a competitor comes out soon to create some competition so that you finally have to take care of the people that pay you… Shame.Version: 9.1.1
✓ Very deceptive app description!I used this sometime ago and forgot about it until I saw a review. Looking at the app store now, there is no mention that it is not free, until you sign in and start using it, THEN you see that there is a free TRIAL and subscription pricing. A company as big as Adobe should be more upfront about costs in their description, not just say “Premium” without showing the costs. Why can’t they offer a “lite” version that does everything not in the premium version and offer to upgrade? That might be there, but if so, it’s buried deeply. Deleting now….Version: 8.4.1
✓ It is a great startI have been using Photoshop and Lightroom for years. Finally having them on an iPad Pro is huge. I can leave my laptop home. I can use the Apple Pencil. This is the new model for the modern creative. That being said... There are A LOT of missing features from Lightroom Classic. Way too many to list here. The ones of note: there are no real print options (even ordering) or books, or any of the back half of a workflow. There are also no options for storing other places (Adobe Cloud only... we’ll get to that), and no smart collections or versions. If, these, or any others from the laundry list are critical for your workflow, stick with Classic for now. You can still sync collections to Lightroom CC from Classic. Adobe, here is the single biggest feature you need: unlimited cloud storage. Right now, you can only store to Creative Cloud, which is okay, except for the exorbitant costs you are charging for storage. 1 TB is one day shooting for many photographers, especially those with high end DSLRs. 10 TB should not be $100s of dollars a month. A 2TB hard drive is $80 online. Google GIVES away UNLIMITED storage. Here’s the deal: your AI, Sensei, needs images to learn from. You give us unlimited storage, and Sensei would have an enormous library to learn from. I believe Adobe will get there. If Lightroom CC gets unlimited storage at a reasonable cost, and other crucial features added, this will be the new best photo tool for photographers..Version: 3.0.1
✓ Lacking basic featuresCan we please have a keyboard shortcut for past settings from previous And please support command Z for undo And why is it alway saying ‘can’t paste settings’.Version: 7.2.0
✓ To expensiveApple photos is free does the same stuff why bother with this.Version: 8.1.0
✓ Disappointment after disappointmentI want to love it but can’t. The iPad Pro hardware is finally here but Adobe doesn’t seem to be listening to customers. Forum after forum, I see requests for simple every day tasks to be implemented and nothing is generally done to improve overall workflow and compatibility. Adobe products used to just work which is why many pros like myself have supported them for years. Every release in the last several years has felt beta and never fully developed. I never thought I’d be considering making a switch to other platforms but I’m just about there with the garbage apps they’ve been putting out. It’s almost 2020 and the best they can come up with for an external editor is an amateur version of Photoshop. I realize this is general feedback but hopefully someone is listening and developers can do better to produce products and features that we really need to do what we do best, create. I’m sick of workarounds for an expensive subscription based service. End rant lol..Version: 4.4.1
✓ Have to sign upI was expecting something great, I was exited to finally get a game that worked until.. it said you had to sign up, I do NOT recommend this at all, don’t bother getting this it’s just a waste of data and time I hope I will find one that you don’t need to pay/ sign up or need any details....Version: 4.3.1
✓ Unusable after 5 minutesLightroom is a solid photo editing app however on a new iPad Pro after 5 minutes of working on photos the iPad overheats and the screen is dimmed as a result making editing pointless on a dimmed display. In general Lightroom seems to spiral out of control after a little editing work, tools like healing become unresponsive, exports start failing. Why can’t adobe ever get their performance under control, for the last 5 years every device I use adobe software on has memory leaks and performance issues. Maybe focus on the core of the product instead of all the consumer level add ons. No photographer cares about AI adjustments or suggested content when your app is unusable..Version: 7.1.0
✓ Still learningThis application is not intuitive to me as I am now starting to explore video and photo editing and this app is useful in my learning process and compeltion of projects. In the future when I become more competent I am likely to increase my rating and provide an updated review..Version: 8.1.1
✓ Last update makes my ipad pro overheat and crash!I’ve been using Lightroom for the past five years on my iPad pros without any issues. I am now using M1 iPad Pro with 16 gigs of ram and everything worked great until this latest update. Now my iPad overheats so much you can barely touch the screen and it shuts down. I can edit a photo and scroll to the next photo and it all of a sudden shuts down and everything I just edited on that photo did not save and has to be edited all over again. This is absurd. I pay way too much money for something that is going to crash constantly. I can edit about four photos before my iPad Pro is so hot I have to shut it off. That’s about 15 minutes of editing I can get done. I will have to start looking for alternative photo editing software if this continues and does not get fixed..Version: 9.1
✓ Cannot sign into app using my Adobe accountThis won’t even allow me to sign in using my Adobe account which I have as a subscriber to Lightroom and Photoshop!.Version: 7.5.1
✓ Adobe is deceptive with its marketingLightroom, Lightroom Classic, Lightroom Mobile, yet this is false marketing by Adobe Lightroom Classic - has always worked only on Desktops, then along came “Lightroom”, first built for desktop, them same design moved over to Lightroom mobile. Now Adobe has dropped Mobile from the app name, no longer showing in app icon, such as LRC for Lightroom Classic, LR for Lightroom, and was LRM for Lightroom mobile, but no more, now just LR And then the next twist, Lightroom for iPad, originally I thought that Lightroom for iPad was the full fledged version of Lightroom, how wrong was I, no just alternative name for Lightroom mobile. Their went $3,699 NZD on Apple iPad, to not get the full version of Lightroom. No HDR merge, no ability to do panorama stitching, can’t export out original file format (Raw), and most recent salt in the wound, no AI Denoise, and since I learnt I am using Lightroom for mobile, and many hours of google searching, no road map to say when or even above features will ever come to lightroom for iPad. Adobe market strictly for their financial advantage, and don’t give a care in the world for their consumers.Version: 8.5
✓ Needs To Update Service Agreement :-(Downloaded this photo editor as it was only one that did not advertise itself using glamour photographs of female models. Actually, there was another that was sexism-free but it offered only to make collages and advertised itself using doggie pictures which was too twee to even consider. Downloaded app then forced to register before able to try it. To register you are required to read ‘terms and conditions’. I did. The intrusion into my privacy is just unacceptable. I halted registration and deleted the app unused. This is obviously an app stuck in the past when abuse of user data was an industry standard. Someone tell them its 2019!.Version: 4.1.1
✓ Long time user - WARNING not saving or updating changesOk first off prior to this I would have given this app and the whole Creative Cloud system BRILLIANT. UPDATE Aug 7: not once, not once in a while, but EVERY time now I edit on Lightroom CC it fails to save changes either to thr iPad or to the Cloud. Even after exporting the photos in question the photos somehow revert all the way back to import settings even with a strong fast wifi connection present. Seriously. You are killing me. I can’t keep re-editing on PC. Make it work. Contact me if you need to. Your forums aren’t helping However as a working pro... heck even as an ambitious amateur I have recently (as in JUST NOW) experienced NUMEROUS (sometimes in the hundreds) instances of the app failing to retain or save updates to images. Even after they’ve been exported WITH changes applied. Move a few images on, keep editing and then at the end to your dismay they have NOT been saved. On top of that the previews frequently DO NOT update on the Lightroom desktop. Making it VERY frustrating when you go to make the high res exports. Finally: please include numerical fields for export resolution. 2048p and the mysterious “maximum available” is not acceptable. Adobe you may contact me to resolve this. I would otherwise be an evagenlist..Version: 3.3.1
✓ Limited storageLightroom is obviously fantastic. I subscribed via the App Store and this is where my problem lies. It comes with 100GB adobe cloud storage. I asked Adobe how to increase and they said to contact Apple. I contacted Apple and they said contact Adobe. I cancelled due to that and thankfully had a refund. I shoot in raw and I’d not want to tie myself in with Adobe for a year hence my choice of subs. No where near enough storage for me and no way of apparently increasing , or maybe there is but Adobe was not interested..Version: 6.4.1
✓ No parity with the desktop app!?I’m enjoying this app quite a bit. It’s refreshing to be able to edit photos on the go on files backed up to my CC account. Things that annoy me: Curves and split tone are available in the app on iOS but not on the desktop app... Switching between the tools on the right side bar is frustrating. You have to tap a done or close button at the bottom of the screen. Why can’t you just tap onto another tool? Seems like a simple UX thing, and can’t think of any reason why it’s not possible to allow this. Exporting photos is limited to 15 at a time. You have to remember where you selected to. Would be nice to at least select batches and do them sequentially..Version: 3.0.1
✓ Crashes on launchThe app forces you to login, and crashes when you try to log with Apple..Version: 6.1.0
✓ Fundamental flawsSync is broken, if you open Lightroom on another secondary device when there is a partially synced album on your primary device it will delete the photos from that album both locally on the primary device and in the cloud. Do not keep your *only* copy of photos in Lightroom cc they may disappear due this bug, or given the lack of quality control this implies other bugs still to be found. Edit: 7 July 2018 Adobe have been very helpful discussing this issue, the causes the workarounds and their plans to address the underlying problem - which was caused by an iOS install ‘cloned’ from a backup..Version: 3.3.0
✓ Only one Monthly Subscription Available ???The App Store page shows a variety of subscriptions in the “In-app” purchases section , none of which are available in the app apart from the £4.49 per month offering. Also it shows TWO premium yearly 40GB offerings - both at different prices! Highly confusing. you need to be more clear on what a subscription gets you and what you can then use it on - eg If I went with £4.49 a month 100Gb - I cannot use that on my Mac !! Instead i have to get £9.99 a month to use on the Mac & iPad but get LESS storage!!!!.Version: 6.2.2
✓ Fundamentally flawedI have used Lightroom on a desktop for many years but this IOS version is fundamentally flawed. It’s primary purpose is for photo viewing and management. But the presentation of thumbnails in the grids is such low resolution that it cannot be used for photo viewing any kind of collection. Many of the other features of this app is great. But it fails at the basics, in short, this is a photo viewing app with low quality experience for viewing photos..Version: 2.8.2
✓ Stopped workingIt has been working great until today. Now I can’t do anything n the app, it won’t even let me import photos.Version: 4.2.1
✓ I canot access my external hard drive un LightroomI want to use my ipad to edit off my external drive but i cannot.Version: 8.1.0
✓ Adobe, just do it right the first timeLike all Adobe products, there’s always something wrong that ruins your experience. Please release an application on either Mac/PC or iOS that just works to begin with. We’re all tired of this endless disappointment.Version: 8.1.1
✓ What the *#@! is Adobe up to?I can’t write a positive review because : • it has to be written in black text on a black background… genius!! • After retaining the LR for iPad app when I got rid of the full Adobe CC subscription, I thought I’d re-subscribe to the premium features of LR (iPad), but after paying through the App store, the app decided it could/would not accept the payment & would not let me access the premium features. At least if no money is taken within the next 7 days, I’ve lost a ‘Stately Home’ — **** ‘all 🤬🤬.Version: 5.2.5
✓ Garbage - This is a trialIs this really only a 14 day trial? Every other Adobe app on the App Store is free and now I have to become a CC member just to use a dumbed-down mobile version of a desktop program. No thanks..Version: 2.8.2
✓ Great app howeverThis app is great for touching up on any photo i need to however when it comes to time lapse i can not seem to figure out how to do it (if possible) on the desktop version it is simple to make a time lapse from lots of interval timed pictures however i now have no desktop and switched to iPad assuming Lightroom would be the same but it really isn't. I tried to google for help but didn't get anywhere apart from that everything else is great!.Version: 4.1.0
✓ App always freezesFix ur app before asking for money!.Version: 8.4.0
✓ Not for$$$I use LR 6.5 every day on my iMac however I refuse to pay $14. Mo (can) for subscription. When I decide to stop using I am left with nothing. I will try Affinity at a one time price for my iPad..Version: 2.8.2
✓ Unacceptably BuggyMaybe it’s just me, but Lightroom crashes constantly. Importing photos from my camera’s SD card crashes it... I just imported a few dozen photos and it crashed three times. Afterwards, it crashed while uploading too. I’ve also had it freeze my entire device. Sometimes the device stops responding for a long time and then just reboots. (It’s been frozen so thoroughly that even holding down the power button did nothing.) I’ve also had it run my iPad battery from full to empty in 30 minutes. The features are nice, but the quality is keeping me from switching to it. That, in turn, is keeping me from shooting RAW because Apple Photos doesn’t support my Fujifilm X-S10 camera’s RAW format very well. I’ll try again in a year..Version: 6.1.0
✓ Did not get past the terms and conditionsDeleted the app after attempting to read the terms and conditions. Do not intend to go back to school to become an expert in contract law. Did not even get to the cost of the app. The regulations appear way over the top for an IPad app. Will not rate it as the legal jargon turned me off before I got to look at it..Version: 4.1.0
✓ Without the desktop export options I’m still tied to my macI can now do most of my editing on the go on this tiny and light device but once the edit is complete I am still tied to my mac for exporting files. I have to import photos, edit them on ipad, let the edits sync and then jump back to Lightroom on my desktop or control it remotely and export the files. Whyyy.Version: 4.3.1
✓ No option to source files on iPadHorrible offline working app. No option to source files on ipad after uploading. Make it more MOBILE friendly..Version: 8.5.1
✓ Good app, confusing subscriptionsApp Store description shows a lot of options for subscription that you can’t have. Premium Monthly 100GB or Premium Yearly 100GB are the only ones you can actually buy. In-App Purchases Premium Monthly 100GB (1 Month) $6.49 Premium Monthly 100GB (1 Month) $6.49 Premium Yearly 100GB (1 Year) $66.99 Lightroom plan 1TB (1 Month) $12.99 Premium Yearly 40GB (1 Year) $26.49 Premium Monthly 40GB (1 Month) $2.79 Premium (1 Month) $6.49 Premium Yearly 40GB (1 Year) $26.49 Premium Yearly 40GB (1 Year) $23.99 Premium Yearly 40GB (1 Year) $23.99.Version: 7.4.2
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Adobe Lightroom for iPad works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or contact Adobe Lightroom for iPad.
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