Buyer’s Remorse

I am writing this review for 4 reasons: 1) I wish I hadn’t spent $4.99 on this app, 2) there aren’t any reviews below a “4” and I find that difficult to accept, 3) I’d like to prevent others from making the same mistake I did, and 4) perhaps someone out there can set me straight on the basic attributes that I believe are missing.

Uploading a pic straightforward, which is to say it’s a simple drag & drop method. Beyond that is where my gripes stack up. Among them:
- Drag & drop is the only option for inputting an image to the uploader window. In other words, you cannot copy & paste.
- When you drag & drop an image into the uploader window, the default view of your image is in hyper-zoomed mode. In other words, rather than giving you a maximized zoomed-out view you get just the opposite. Drop in a portrait of someone and *snap* you might be looking at a full-screen image of a nose or a button. This doesn’t make ANY sense to me, and I thought for sure it was an initial installation bug that would clear itself byt the second upload. (Wrong!)
- After the image is situated in the uploader window, the means by which to frame the image are extremely limited and archaic. On a Macbook, one would expect to have pinch or scroll-in/out fuctionality to adjust zoon. Not with this app! The only way to adjust zoom is by clicking the (+) or (-) magnifying glass icons at the top of the window.
- After you have framed the image to your liking you can set about to type the accompanying text, hastags, etc. However, don’t expect to set the Location as that functionality doesn’t exist from within the app. If you want to set the Location you’ll need to do so from another app or via Instagram.
- Want to tag people in the picture you’re uploading? That’s another thing you can’t do from within this app. Like with the Location setting, you’ll need to address your tagging needs using another app or via Instagram.
- Lag is another issue. For some reason response time from button I click is slow and, in some cases, clicking icons renders no response at all.

I have used one other Instgram Uploader app via a trial basis offer, and I’m VERY sorry that I didn’t buy that app instead. If there was a way to process a refund I’d do it in a heartbeat.

kaitokyo080 about PhotoGrids for Instagram - view images & videos, v1.4.2