Oilist

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1. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

   Is it fraud?. I purchased the app and cannot find it functional at all. I wrote for help four times to there help center and never got a response. Did I actually get buncoed? How can I get my money back. This is both very irritating and a waste of a lot of time.

2. ★★★★★weak styles and features cut after updates

   Ugly styles. The styles of the paintings they give you look bad. I was hoping for more realistic painting styles and sketches / drawing styles

3. ★★★★★weak styles and features cut after updates

   Useless. Totally useless app. Distorts pictures where the pictures does not make any sense even when used with the setting very little distortion. It is like putting a multi colored paint bucket on your photo/pic and smudging it. Not recommended at all. I will not use it even if it was for free.

4. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

   App doesn’t work. It has stopped doing anything. I can pick a photo from my library & pick a motif but the app just goes white & nothing more happens. I never see the photo I chose modified. It doesn’t do anything

5. ★★★★★weak styles and features cut after updates

   Waste of $. Not sure why this app has so many good reviews? It’s garbage.

6. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

   Dosnt work. Dosnt work with photo library, keeps telling me I need to enable access that is already enabled.

7. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

   Crashes before it saves. So there’s an issue with this app. I am up to date on the latest iOS and the app still crashes. Every time I try to save a picture to my library it freezes up and crashes. Please, developers, fix this issue or I demand a refund.

8. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

   One star. Takes forever to make changes. Waste of time.

9. ★★★★★weak styles and features cut after updates

   Not worth it. I bought this app at midnight I should not have done so, I did not read all it did was just kinda blurr pictures and claim it’s like an oil painting.

10. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

    Glitchy, freezing, not what it appears to be. I've tried using this several times and it does make mesmerizing screensaver like art but you can't stop and restart. The brushes done seem to work and the whole app freezes. If it could do what the demo video said it would it would be amazing. But it doesn't

11. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

    Why has this app quit working???. So sad! I love this app!

12. ★★★★★weak styles and features cut after updates

    Not able to create images that look like art in App Store. Skip. I regret spending the money. Update after response: I use several apps like this to generate content for my multiple social audiences. None of the images I made were impressive so I gave up after 15 - 20 mins of tinkering. An app like this shouldn't require much time to learn. I used presets and attempted to customize. I'm a professional digital artist who has used photoshop since version one and use many, many apps like this such as Prisma, Pixelmator, Enlight, Snapseed, Alter, Phoster, Artisto as well as OSX programs and web services to generate AI digital art. Maybe you'll have better luck but I wouldn't risk purchase without a free trial. The app has high reviews (I hope they're honest) so maybe you'll have more success.

13. ★★★★★weak styles and features cut after updates

    A bit disappointed. I find the images to be unusable because there are either white spots of unused space, or when everything is colored in, the "painting" feels like a blurry painting of the original image ... I tried all the styles with a simple photo of a baby, and many times the styles would make her look like had the measles or mumps and make bumpy changes in the skin... I will definitely await updates and look forward to improvements ... I think you could have the app be $1 for three styles and then an IAP for access to other styles... also, perhaps styles could be named after impressionist painters? That would be easier to understand than try each on... also would like to have a simple finished painting option rather than watch the painting unfold, I don't want images with blank spaces . Thanks

14. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

    Was great, now slow. I agree with the comments made by American Legion. The app worked great at first but is now very slow and doesnt complete a painting even after waiting several minutes for some sign of activity, there is nothing. Im going to remove the app and reload it to see if it works better.

15. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

    Was awesome, quality has dipped.. This app used to be amazing, but a problem that has existed for a while and a recent issue have cause the quality to lessen. The most recent issue, is that the speed of the painting being created is now sluggishly slow. Whereas previously it would paint at a speed that was much faster and reasonable. And the issue that has persisted for a while is, that there’ll be white splotches or tiny white marks present in the painting often, even when no ounce of white exists in that specific area of the the picture. And so it leaves this rough, unfinished quality to the painting, which ruins an otherwise amazing painting. And letting it continue to paint tends to target other things. I really hope they can try to fix these issues, because I can’t devote so much time sitting around waiting for these paintings to generate with it moving as slow as it does and with all the blemishes that make them seem incomplete.

16. ★★★★★delight turning photos into paintings

    Hooked from the get-go. Love this app. Truly let’s you release the artist you always wanted to be. I can’t worth a darn but I can take great pictures and this app gives me the best of both worlds.

17. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

    Not Impressed. For the price I expected quicker application of image designs, not having to wait around. Played around for a little bit with various images with different styles and have decided it wasn't worth $2.99, but less than that.

18. ★★★★★mesmerizing real-time painting process

    Really cool.. My only gripe is a wish it would say when it’s done painting. Buzz kills

19. ★★★★★confusing settings with no tutorial

    Great app to create impressionistic oil painting from photos. Wish there are more u tube tutorial on how to use all their tools. If they include watercolor that would be great! Lazy Impressionist

20. ★★★★★confusing settings with no tutorial

    Trial & Error. Very cool app, which takes a lot of trial and error to really understand where it’s going with your picture.

21. ★★★★★confusing settings with no tutorial

    Great but how do you start new project??!!. See title

22. ★★★★★confusing settings with no tutorial

    Great But Needs Information About What Everything Does. I love this app but think it definitely needs a feature where you can see what each option does as it is very hard to test each one and takes a lot of time!

23. ★★★★★weak styles and features cut after updates

    Amazing App! Liked Version 1 better though!. I love this app, though I feel like the original version was better - it allowed for more control, a wider range of results, etc. Is there any way to bring some of that functionality back?

24. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

    Great App, minor fix needed. I love the app., but it could be tweaked a bit to make it easier to understand what each of the settings will give you (or provide some help/info),...and it may just be me, since I am not a painter. The main issue, is when I am creating a painting, the brightness of my phone slightly dims automatically. I check my brightness and it is still set to full brightness. I know it’s the App because after I finish the design and exit out, it comes back to full brightness. Otherwise, as I said, I love this App, so thank you!

25. ★★★★★freezes, crashes and slow rendering

    Great but... I love the app use it all the time. However recently the app has been running very slow. I have an iPhone 7plus and all other apps are closed. Any tips on way it is running slow is appreciated as I love using the app.

26. ★★★★★mesmerizing real-time painting process

    Cool but... Results are stunning. Just maybe add a skip button so the process feels faster. Totally worth the money.

27. ★★★★★delight turning photos into paintings

    Fabulous and remarkable. Just got yesterday and felt in love immediately, but what if it works for video one day, that'd be great thanks!

28. ★★★★★delight turning photos into paintings

    🌡☠️🔥. App good, but my iPhone is very hot😓🤔

29. ★★★★★confusing settings with no tutorial

    Too fun. I'm having a lot of fun with this. Looking forward to watching the training video to see how to finesse the images even better. Thanks!

30. ★★★★★delight turning photos into paintings

    Fun. We travel and I take photos. Love choosing a few and my daughter and I love to see them interpreted through Oilist. I often keep the results and they bring me happiness when they come up in the photo carousel.