IStock makes it easy for me to find exactly the right expression for my blogs and posts. The search methods help you zoom in and find the right medium for your self expression.
Pretty Pictures, But You Can’t Do Anything With Them
I used to use iStock years ago, but eventually went with Fotolia (soon to be merged into Apple Stock) because the monthly subscription was SO much more affordable. But, seeing this, I decided to investigate, only to discover it’s utterly worthless. There’s NO way to purchase images, no way to buy credits or subscriptions, and no way to check on purchased images. This is nothing but a teaser app, as you HAVE to visit their website to do ANYTHING. If you’re interested in iStock, which I don’t recommend anyway, DON’T download the app, go directly to the webpage. Why even waste time looking when it won’t even tell you how much anything costs? What a waste of time.
I like the iStock service, but the app isn’t done well. I’ve had a subscription for months now, and downloaded the app to make mobile posts on social media. Last week I downloaded previous pictures onto my phone while I had credits. And it didn’t charge me any credits of course. But now, I have no credits, and I can’t download any of the images I already own! Makes no sense, so now I have to wait until my subscription renews to download images I already have?
Once iStockPhoto gets your credit card number they’ll never stop charging you
Whatever you do, DO NOT GIVE THE YOUR CREDIT CARD. Before using iStockPhoto I had a great impression of Getty as being ethical, but no more. You’d think that iSTock would be a lower cost version of Getty suitable for grabbing an image for your website, but its actually a scam to keep charging your credit card no matter what. I downloaded an image for a project figuring I’d cancel the subscription, but iStockPhoto customer service outright says they’ll keep charging my card unless I close my credit card account. I’ve tried reporting the credit card stolen and getting a new card number, but somehow iStock got my new card number from Amex. Disputing the charges also didn’t work. Do yourself a favor and find a reputable supplier of stock images.
It drives me nuts when a website is better than the app. This is an example of that. When I search in the app, I get photos and can’t seem to filter for vectors? But I search for the exact same thing on the site and I have tons of options. Also, you can only delete one photo at a time from your board. You select it, but you can’t select any others. It’s ridiculous.
I needed to purchase a layout from my phone/my account and email it to someone. It downloaded as a JPG. I needed the vector file. So they could edit. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be an option from the mobile app.
I did a free trial with this company. I never ended up using the subscription because the photos on the site were outdated. After my trial ended I went online to unsubscribe along with deleting all my card information. The company continues to charge me and now I have to dispute it with my bank. It’s NOT worth it.
I just downloaded the app today for the first time, clicked the “sign in” button, and got this error message: {“error”:”invalid_request”,”error_description”:”The Requested redirect_uri must be registered.”} I have an account, but never got to the point of putting in my credentials. Just the error. The app is useless if I can’t even sign in.
You guys don't mess up unsplash with your bussiness. Extremely would NOT RECOMMEND. customer service never help you. it is 70$ each month just for downloading images???!!! And if you want to cancel the plan, cancellation fee is 70$ as well ))) They want just EARN MONEY EARN MONEY by anyway. And even images are don't worth for the prices.
Absolutely do NOT get! The subscription is $700 for the year! If you try to cancel it, you have to pay a $70 administrative fee. You can’t talk to anyone over the phone and everything is done via email and the “customer service team” does not provide any helpful service to the customer. What a scam.
Very bad glitching app, was unable to buy the subscription I wanted to as the system just wouldn’t let me do it. Tech support first said they would fix it, then asked double the payment just to do it, then stopped replying all together. Horrible service and experience.
I have never given a negative review. This is my first EVER. Making a purchase should be simple as could be. You should NOT have to search and read helps to be able to make a purchase. The app is NOT user friendly at all. It did not used to be that way here. I have purchased hundreds of dollars of photos here in the past.
I thought I would be able to use istock on my cellphone but apparently this app is just useless to me. I can't even see my recent searches or search for what I want (it just says they can't find anything, but how??? doesn't make sense) I'm very disappointed. The website is MUCH better.
Paid $12 each for 3 photos and all of them have watermarks all over them. I reached out to IS - no response. Huge disappointment since this was time sensitive.
I installed the app on my iPhone today, clicked sign in, and received a coding error: {"error":"invalid_request","error_description":"The requested redirect_uri must be registered."}
Great app, for a great source of royalty free stock images. Am thrilled. I am using on iPad and while the app is not yet optimized for the iPad, the images display well, with very little pixelation. Search is fast. Adding to my iStockphoto lightbox is easy, for purchase outside of app itself. Again, am thrilled!!
UPDATE: Crashes are fixed but, performance still lags. It seems as if the developers and UX-UI Team were designing this app for the Getty client versus the people who would actually use this product. Even on the newer iPads (Retina Airs) the performance is sluggish. Rather than having a view that needs to redraw every time something needs to be added to a lightbox, would it not be more efficient to have a peek state or a selector view (devoid of thumbnail images that need to reloaded)? An interface that allowed users to make multiple selections and quickly add images to a lightbox from a simple list view would be ideal. This is what designers, art directors and creative directors need, a tool that allows us to work efficiently -- not a pretty UI or preview states during simple tasks. PREVIOUSLY: In an app that was not only greatly anticipated it becomes exceedingly clear that Getty has no idea how navigation stacks work in iOS. Furthermore, it lags in performance in nearly every major function it is supposed to accomplish. Missing are elegant touches like lazy load and background loading of images. This means you the user end up spending more time for search results to load than necessary. The tool is so slow it makes more sense to do your image searches on the website.
The app is only good for searching, storing “boards” of images, and staring at the results. There is no purchasing function. At least, there’s not one I’ve seen, because if you leave the search engine part of the app for the “account” section, the app locks up. Same thing happens if you attempt to create a “board” while looking at the results of an image search. The best part of the whole app to me is being taken to the Terms of License thing/section, scrolling to the bottom, and finding amongst the broken links and frozen functionality, a button allowing me to go to the App Store and download the app I AM CURRENTLY USING. This very broken app was not tested. I don’t even think it’s been to school. This is just an iStock webpage does-not-workaround. Use your web browser instead.
Seems like people are ripping this app for features that it doesn't offer, not features that it offers but fails to execute on. It's a free app. It let's you search through images, and let's you view some contributor stats like daily/monthly downloads and royalties. It does both of those things pretty well. All though I might like to see more features, im certainly not going to give them a 1-2 star review because of it. If they charged me $5 for it sure then id be disappointed. But for Free there's not much to argue.
I've downloaded and tried to log into this app multiple times. It rejects the login I use on the website without a problem every single time When I try to hit the forgot password link it tells me that there is no account with that email address, even though the website works just fine. Finally, when I give up and try to sign up for a new account, the stupid sign up form is off screen and impossible to center. I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but you win, I give up.
Inspiration can strike anywhere. With our new, refreshed iStock 4.0 app, you can find the best images that speak to your inspiration, wherever you happen to be. Easily search, save and share, create Boards and more. SEARCH - Search the entire iStock image collection, now including video FILTER - Filter on the complete set of iStock image criteria, and now you can save several filter settings for future use VIEW - See larger images in full-screen view with rotation and pinch-and-zoom, and now see more images from the contributor SAVE - Save images to your existing lightboxes (now called Boards), create new Boards and use the same Boards on your iOS device or your computer SHARE - Share images and Boards via email and messaging
