--- title: "Fotor Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Fotor. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Fotor is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/fotor-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Photo Editing Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/photo-editing/) / [Fotor](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/fotor-profile/) / Fotor Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/fotor-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/fotor-profile/alternatives/) # Fotor User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 1,096 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.1/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 738 reviews (67%) - 4 stars: 270 reviews (25%) - 3 stars: 52 reviews (5%) - 2 stars: 10 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 26 reviews (2%) ### Most mentioned pros - Another huge plus is Fotor's cloud-based system, which allows you to access your projects from anywhere. Whether I'm editing on my desktop or quickly touching up a photo on my phone, the experience is seamless. - The AI Upscaler is by far the best tool to use for taking tiny jpegs and making them look like the original, the image to video feature is a great feature - I'm looking forward to it's AI perception evolving to a point where it understands simple prompts - It helps save time when producing or editing images and sharing them with the team without having to rely on additional tools. ### Most mentioned cons - The biggest issue is the subscription model, which automatically renews after a trial and makes refunds extremely difficult even if the service does not meet expectations. - Charging a customer for a service they will never use simply because they missed a cancellation deadline by a single day feels unreasonable and customer-unfriendly. - I attempted to enlarge some images and when printed, the quality was disappointing. ## Fotor customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 1,096 (page 1). ### Great generator for the money. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alice M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I play with many different AI generators. Fotor is still strong on my list of choices. I love seeing what the same prompt will achieve in different styles and generators. Just good fun #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Fotor has improved many aspects for creating. There are more choices for styles and different AI creators. I still prefer the original format though. It’s still a great app for the price. You have a choice of different levels according to what you want to spend #### Cons You can’t save images in bulk and you can’t save image’s with the prompt. I do screenshots if I want both --- ### High-quality image generation - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Koichi S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Fotor offers a number of image styles and did well with different cartoon styles. It struggled with generating Ghibli style images, but for other purposes it was very useful. The similarity control for image to image generation was quite accurate and responsive. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Per-credit value such as 2 credits for high-quality image generation. #### Cons Not good at creating Ghibli style images. #### Reasons for switching to Fotor They didn't accurately generate images based on the reference images and prompts. They were also not good at certain image styles such as bobblehead toy, Pixar style, Ghibli style, etc. --- ### New & improved Fotor app - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stephen R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Animation - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Fotor seems committed to keeping upgrading and staying competitive. The user's experience ranges from beginner to professional. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros VEO3 has been added, along with lip-sync, with the option to upload audio files. The UI improved, so it's now easier to use and more organized. #### Cons The cost has increased. There is not enough warning or documentation, such as a tutorial, before new features are added. --- ### Fotor: The quick AI-powered photo editing tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Romain G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I use Fotor primarily on my smartphone or as a light web version when I need to quickly edit studio ambiance photos for immediate posting. Its automated AI enhancement modules allow correcting exposure, smoothing details, or applying stylized filters in a single click without requiring advanced post-processing skills. #### Cons Fotor remains far too superficial. the free version is saturated with aggressive banner ads, and high-resolution export options quickly mandate upgrading to the paid tier. --- ### Great value software, especially for using templates - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Benjamin C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Good value, lots of good templates and user friendly. Especially good for social media - YouTube thumbnails, Instagram posts etc. #### Cons Not much to dislike, AI image generator not great. #### Reasons for choosing Fotor I actually use this as well as Canva. Canva works best for photo editing, but for user friendly, quick designs - Fotor is great. --- ### Good Comperable Product - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Dawn S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Over all I give it a 7/10. Great app that can definitely be made much better. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I’m really surprised at the capabilities of this little app. The panel is packed with tons of capabilities. The ability to customize the home panel with most frequently used tasks is handy. #### Cons It’s made for the iphone and hasn’t yet been programmed for the ipad. So when you use it, it’s only a small iphone panel in the middle of the screen. As a result it’s hard to see the image you’re working on. The GUI could be a little better with shortcut something to make undo etc, more seamless. It would be also better if another payment option could be added. Subscriptions are a pain, honestly, so a perpetual liscense purchase would be really great. #### Reasons for choosing Fotor Suite of capabilities. I didn’t. It’s a companion app to my main products. --- ### Seriously going to blow your mind! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: brittany c. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered awesome besides the coins not being included in the pro plan.. ive been a loyal subscriber as well as a walking billboard and free advertising becaseu I tell Everyone! I feel alittle under values when I can afford to generate a video i or try a new feature because I dont have enough tokens but Im a pro planner. That sucks. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The Ai Affects have blown me away! I use every day #### Cons The extra coins I have to have for some features when Im already a pro planner #### Reasons for switching to Fotor I dig the ai affects in photo editing. meets my needs! --- ### good and bad experience - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Blake l. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I like it a lot because of the layout and the features #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros the image options and the layout on the home page #### Cons the amount that it cost to get credits and also the slow loading #### Reasons for switching to Fotor because the other app made me pay for to many things --- ### Great Value for Great Photo Editing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andrew L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use this software daily and chose it for the amount of options offered and the cost #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very easy to use, many options to make your photos stand out and look very professional #### Cons many of the options they offer for photo edits and AI use cost an additional fee on top of the subscription fee #### Reasons for switching to Fotor Cost of Corel suite was outrageous and only seemed to use the photo paint --- ### My go to AI Tool for making Content Videos - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Seamus T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Music - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Good and the best one out there for the quality of work, I have always been happy with my end results, and sometimes even shocked at just how good the project turned out #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It gets better every week or at least every time I use it, and is very good value for the money #### Cons It should be easier to make transparent Backgrounds in all projects #### Reasons for switching to Fotor While it seemed Canva offered more it was harder to learn and understand, also Fotor is worth the money and seems to care about the customer, if something works it improves it without changing it, as in how to use the feature this is for me is the real winner if I am trying to get a Video done in an hour, and switch to fotor to give the video it a unique look, I do not have time to learn how it works, every time I go into fotor it is the same all features do what they say. --- ### Relatively easy to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jay O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospitality - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I am only playing around at this point, but did decide to try to use AI to build a copy of my own body and then change it to what I want me (the real me) to look like in a year. It has taken several different AI systems to accomplish this, and Fotor is what I have used to make quick and minor adjustments. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is easy to use and intuitive. Everything is done with easy to use buttons as opposed to an AI prompt. Personally, I enjoy the prompts, but there are, I am sure times when I will want something to be easy. #### Cons I have ran across a few minor irritations. When you ask the AI to open the eyes, they end up looking in a strange direction, or just plain strange. The presets for the smiles and facial expressions are limited, and the hairstyles for me suck. --- ### Rewiew fotor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nolan P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I used Fotor to enhance my photos and quickly create visuals. The tool allowed for professional results without getting lost in complicated software. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Fotor offered an easy-to-use interface with numerous filters, templates, and preset effects. Automatic retouching and quick blemish removal saved a lot of time. Being able to work online or via the mobile app made the process very convenient. --- ### Fotor has potential - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Laurie S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Although I mainly use Adobe Programs for my work, I've been finding more and more that there are essential features from Fotor that either work better than photoshop or affords the ability to take photos or images from key art to an 8 second animated video. I wish the AI was a little smarter, but maybe my prompts are too confusing. The bummer is that if the image to video feature gets it totally wrong, I've still burnt 20 credits. But all in all, Fotor in conjunction with Adobe programs have definitely been a boon to my artwork and video editing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The AI Upscaler is by far the best tool to use for taking tiny jpegs and making them look like the original, the image to video feature is a great feature - I'm looking forward to it's AI perception evolving to a point where it understands simple prompts #### Cons The magic eraser almost never gets it right - even when the results should be obvious, the amount of credits wasted when the AI prompts don't work, --- ### first review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Robert S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Fine Art - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered very good to date. I am now 76, and still learning about AI and all its uses. I do find that the layout and explanations are easy to understand. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very fast results. Colorful photos, useable for my film photo story board, attractive to the actors and crew. #### Cons Plus cost to keep buying credits - I am on a pension and every penny counts , but I think that as long as I can earn credits, i can continue. --- ### A bit tired of everything being a subscription - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Madelene N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civic & Social Organization - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: September 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to understand. I need some practice with my prompt, but I don´t have enough credits for trial and error. It´s always most fun playing to learn :) #### Cons I would like to able to but credits without making it a subscription. Pleas give me the option of single buy. --- ### Creative Edit Suite - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jonah F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Fotor delivers a wide range of photo editing tools as cloud based creative suite #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This tool shine with loads of filters, bulk edit support and AI portrait retouch features #### Cons its freemium tier gives decent stuff but come with quirks like watermarks on downloads, limits on hi rez outputs and slowdowns when doing heavy edits --- ### About the user experience with FOTOR - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: junichi k. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It offers a wide range of features and is easy to use thanks to its web-based design. However, credits tend to be consumed quickly, and since the results can vary even with the same prompt, I think it would be better if credits were only deducted after confirming that the result is satisfactory. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros When compared to GPT (ChatGPT), places with fewer restrictions generally fall into these categories: #### Cons A point to note is that credit consumption tends to be faster.Since the results can vary even with the same prompt, I would prefer if credits were not consumed when executing the prompt, but only when I confirm and approve the final result. --- ### OUTSTANDING JOB FOTOR! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joseph U. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Medical Practice - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for free trial - Reviewed: September 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered EXCELLENT, just my first time here and honestly amazed. My first time to use this product and my overall experience so far is great! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lots of ways to earn credits and the AI is super fast and reliable. My first time here and all the guidance and instructions was very informative and helpful. #### Cons I don't see any negative about it so far. I will tell you surely if I find what is not acceptable to me. --- ### Get Fotor, you will NOT regret it - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Will L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Political Organization - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered fantastic. It is easy to use, inexpensive, fun, makes great video and audio, so what is not to like???? #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The best AU generator bang for the buck you will find. Top notch all the way. I have checked all of the available AI generators. Trust me Fotor is the best. #### Cons nothing, really. The features you get for the modest price are superb. Top notch all the way. I have checked all of the available AI generators. Trust me Fotor is the best. --- ### I was just blow away - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tabarak A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I was blown away by Fotor after my try. I was convinced by YouTubers designers' reviews and I don't regret it now. Fotor allows many uses like sending photo selections before and after editing #### Cons Like every software, it has its little flaws. It doesn't manage well, as far as I know, the RAW files and JPEGs lose quality post processing --- ### Feedback by a swan - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Anamaria C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Online Media - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It is amazing I am glad I found it on google when I did it is so cool and skibbity and sigma but could use some improvement #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It creates cool images for me when I ask and barely gets it wrong and has a anime option for me and it's just plain old cool. #### Cons Sometimes it gets my descriptions wrong sometimes and can mess it up by not making it anime when I ask --- ### Charged My Card EVEN After Turning Off Auto Renew - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Phillip W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I turned off auto renew and they still charged me after my yearly subscription. I had to cancel my card with my bank and file a charge back. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros Nothing, everything was lacking. MUCH MUCH better software and way overpriced for the weak features. #### Cons The text to image is horrendous, the automatic editing tools are a joke, and nothing functions correctly. --- ### Review of my experience - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kwan Kai O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Alternative Dispute Resolution - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered i got a school work about change photo to ai and do animation . i try to do that using all my credits #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Creating Animation and changing photos to ai and making animation using creadits . its free if use credits to make. #### Cons i think all thing is good is very convenient . i like it theres no cons i think because this website is free . --- ### Great photo editing App - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for free trial - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Since I only use the trial version, I enjoyed it so much I will highly consider getting Pro subscription if I have more usage. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Great and easy to use. I do not have technical knowledge in photo editing but Fotor made it so easy for me. #### Cons A little bit pricey for someone who does not always use the app. If there can be at least a pricing per day. --- ### Useless application - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Gernot W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for free trial - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Absolutely useless programme, the results are devastating. Most of the text is written completely incorrectly, out of 38 attempts to create a text logo, the text was only written correctly five times, some of the letters were fantasy letters or completely illegible, and everything up to the wildest spellings was present. Even when creating images, the programme does what it wants and negates the text instructions. Furthermore, the programme cannot produce scalable results, everything is left to chance. Even editing the text does not produce a memorable or reproducible result. I wanted to buy the programme because some of the gimmicks are useful, but there is a significant difference in functionality between the desktop and the browser application. for me, only the desktop application is interesting. Therefore, no purchase. Translated with DeepL.com (free version) #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros It would be the many editing options for photos, which are unfortunately very limited or not configurable at all. #### Cons Configurability of the individual modules is very limited or not possible at all. The text functions are absolutely unusable. The text instructions for image generation are not or only partially implemented and important instructions are simply ignored. Very large differences between the browser application and the desktop version. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/fotor-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Fotor Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice