Project Life

So the app is no longer $2.99, so those of us that paid that fee, should be exempt from the IAP cost of $2.99 for the free form text feature. Previous Review: 1) Great! Need to remove unwanted kits and re download as needed. It's a great update. I'm loving the new kits. That being said, I have A LOT of kits. Too many. WAY too many and I'd like to be able to hide some or only show my favorites first, some type of sort/filter or a way to reorder them as I see fit so I can access the ones I actually use. 2) And I want to be able to write on any photo and use overlays on any photo regardless of dimensions. The ability to simply remove an overlay would be great too. Currently I have to delete the entire entry to do so if I decide I don't want an overlay. Positioning overlays would also be welcomed. I'm also eagerly looking forward to the following enhancements: I would like to have the option of round vs square corners on collages and an option for images to be either be flush or to have the bordered appearance that pages have. Sometimes I would prefer the look of the standard pages with a white or colored border and that isn't available in collage format. I would love to be able to journal on any card and I would love to embellish cards via the app with a photo layered on a card. Thank you!

I love this app dearly. I’ve made three years of books with it and I’m working on number 4. Becky Higgins recommends keeping up with your albums weekly (Project 52), but the monthly kits are often delayed. It’s February 17 as I’m writing this, and the 2019 Project 12 kit for February is nowhere to be found. My guess is this is partially Apple’s fault with release, but kits should be scheduled a couple of weeks ahead of the month not only to prevent an Apple snafu, but it sure would be nice to start page layouts before the month begins... especially because the Project 12 kits have cute cards for fun lesser-known “holidays”, and there’s no way to know what those are ahead of time. By now, I’ve surely missed some if not all. So yeah. I’ll keep using the app, but this isn’t the first time these monthly kits have been delayed. I honestly don’t know why they don’t just release them all at once like Project 52. I’d pay the whole $24 up front just to not have to worry about it.

As an avid scrapbooked and family storyteller, the app is awesome! I use it as my main scrapbooking now. On my phone or IPad, I can use photos from my camera roll, a bit of journaling, and a couple of kits in the app and all my stories are in writing. I use it on vacation and all my travel memories are in writing before I have the chance to forget! Even kids can help tell their stories with minimal help! I even make recipe books! You can print pages straight from the app. You can now print PHOTO BOOKS straight from the app! And now with the text feature it’s everything I used to use Photoshop for! I recommend it to all my friends!

Ease of use and editing is awesome. Love the layouts and a lot of the design packs. The biggest problem is that there is no correlation from the app to a website. They have a desktop option, but it’s much more tedious and no purchases transfer. Everything must be done on a phone or a tablet. I love the ease of scrapbooking whenever wherever, but I also appreciate cozying up with a cup of coffee and computer when I really want to hammer out pages. The other odd feature missing is stickers. There is no way to add embellishments except for a couple photo overlays, and they’re clumsy. I would give this app 10 stars if I could use this with a web-based page and feel like my design pack and font purchases would be worth buying, so I could use them in both places!

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(See update below) The app hooks you in by promoting monthly kits and the entire Project Life schtick is to keep current on your scrapping. Great, I’m behind that 100%. Happy to pay something every month for a monthly kit to use; I’d even be happy to pay for a year’s worth of kits in advance. Only problem .... kits are several weeks to a month late. Makes it hard to stay in the moment. However, the developers seem happy to charge an exorbitant amount for cloud storage, many times iCloud or Dropbox rates ... that makes me wonder about where their priorities are. Update (downgrade): monthly delays are killing this app. I realize that Becky Higgins has gone through professional and personal changes lately but the users have paid money based on what the business owners promised. Trying to be sympathetic but based on her Instagram, she’s spending her time/energy on other things. If she’s going to abandon supporting the app, I wish she’d tell us.