VIEWBUG - Photography
reviews and complaints

The app has many intuitive features and a pleasant interface. I like how I can easily jump back to my photos from any screen much more conveniently than when using he website.

""""Problem: I can't access my photo album with photos that I have synched from my computer. This is a must if you do your post processing on a PC then transfer to iphone for upload later. Also just selecting different albums from the upload screen in general could be improved, perhaps having a thumbnail preview from the album?

Not a deal breaker because I can use the website to upload directly.

Conclusion, great app still room for improvements, DL and and enjoy!

This website has caused me to challenge my own skills as a photographer and image artist, in ways few things or people have. The gorgeous imagery my am eyes are met with on every mouse stoke satisfies a deep and abiding lust for heaven, in me. We live in such a beautiful world and it is captured so artfully by such a small handful of us, we the photographers. This app will facilitate the ease of uploading to contests that will both cause me to stretch and grow, and I'm glad it's finally here. Now if I can just survive school and find the time to pick up my camera and have the money for the batteries in it! Haha. Love you all and thank you

I just realized that I would really like to see my personal notifications; contest stats, likes, awards, comments *separatefrom reading/learning material, photo collections, etc. I sometimes I feel like checking one or the other but I get kinda antsy sifting thru everything.. I think I would spend more time using your app if it was organized a bit differently. Other than that Viewbug is a slightly different atmosphere than others. Good source of knowledge for free plus the bonus of a little competition with prizes.
..I've been a member since forever ago, but more so now than when I was on an android... Is there a Viewbug app for Android yet?

I would give the VIEWBUG service 5-star rating. But the app does not allow viewers to see NSFW images, even though users can specify whether or not they want that. So, for fine art photographers or others that may occasionally post Nude images, the audience for your work is SEVERELY limited for those users using the app versus a web browser. I have addressed this concern with VIEWBUG and they blame Apple App Store policies.. However, that excuse does not ring true when one looks at other apps like VIEWBUG WRT photos.. Although there are many users who enjoy VIEWBUG using a web browser, you have to wonder how many people will never see NSFW content because they use the app only.. Just providing this for your info.

This is such a great platform for the amateur photographer to a more experienced capturer of life.Very easy to maneuver very easy to participate very easy to support artists that your interest.I know crazy ads, nothing to make you feel like you’re a superstar and you can be featured in blasé blah magazine” “”, but really it’s just looking for money as evident byUnobtainable ways to enter contests unless it’s purchased. So far, no unwanted messages that tend to happen. As titled is. Enjoy the view! Hope to see your view on things soon n, if visiting mine, message a hello n perhaps mention you suffered a review too long as read along still. Great place to get your picture fills without complicated application hells.

The idea of this site is fantastic! Especially for beginning photographers. It's cool to be positively reinforced for work you think is awesome. However, I have two problems with the app: 1) I always have notifications, but when I open the app and go to my notification tab it never opens. This happens whether I'm in a spot with good service or poor service. And 2) apparently I won one of the contests a while ago, but I never received a notification. lol I found out over a year later when someone congratulated me on my win. lol so notification retrieval and actual notification of wins would be a good thing for them to work on. Other than that, I highly recommend this to all my friends and family who like to take pictures.

I like to take photos. I’m obviously not a pro, but I’m not a beginner. That’s why I look for a phone app to post my work and not try to make it a ‘full time job’ like half of my graduating class. This app unfortunately only ‘rewards’ the pros. If you’re a beginner there is literally no chance to do anything significant with your photos. If your photos are even half-way-decent they will be categorized with ‘Angela’ and her awful iphone pics of her kids and half-dead plants on her over priced patio. Anything better will be looked over for the photo on the accounts that people pay for. Really, just not a good app for anyone that cares about photography past their phone app and filters because it will make you feel bad and degraded.

Since I have downloaded this application I’ve been experiencing many bug issues. For example , whenever I was trying to “like” or to “reward” someone’s photo I wasn’t able to do so no matter how many times I was pressing on the “heart” or on the “star” buttons. Sometimes the number of likes/rewards on my photos were changing every day although there was no activity. Other times the number of likes/rewards were less even though I was getting more notifications on them for a particular photo. Also when I changed the password (25 times) for my account it never worked (!) and I had to log in through my email address. And when in the settings I turned off receiving any notifications at all on my device I was still receiving them randomly and etcetera...

This app and community is really addictive, especially if you enjoy photography. There are soooooo... many different perspectives of the many genres of photography. This I have vowed to become a better photographer. So I started joining the photography contest as an assignment. Follow me, if you will, each contest has an image or example of the kind of image they are looking for. So the contest sponsor is my client and my client has given me an assignment, and they given me an example of the type of image they want me to produce for them. If I succeed I when real prizes, if do not I still get to see what image beat me out. The competition is tough, just like real life, which will make me a better photographer. Enjoy the app, I am. Impressions_by_perry.

I have been with ViewBug for 3 years and just recently became a paying Pro member. I believe the concept is great and am very excited for the app!

The app itself is incredible. Very smooth look and incredibly easy navigation makes it top notch as far as integration goes. Entering contests is much easier than before from a mobile device.

But the one thing I've always wished they would do is correctly notify you of your placement in the contests. I won "People's Choice" once and the only way I found out was clicking through all the "See how you did" notifications and individually looking at each contest. I'd like to see a more personal notification process now that the app is out. Maybe a "Congregations you're a finalist!" Or "You won!" Would be great.

This app is the highest form of spam. After ditching the app because I didn’t like anything about it (contests rigged, favoritism, etc.) and unsubscribed from emails I still get them all the time. And even though I always unsubscribe AGAIN I still get emails.

Not to mention those emails are spam. They say things like “congrats your photo was chosen in a competition! You have won probably a contest so log in now and see your photo! If you have not uploaded any photos do so now to win” or something like that. I’d send a screenshot if I could because it was so terrible. Never ending “you’ve won” or “you’ve been chosen” emails that are just general copy and paste emails sent to everyone.

Quit it ViewBug. I don’t want anything to do with you but you won’t leave me alone, a pest.

These photo contests don’t rely on the Chemical addiction we all have to receiving “likes”. You can get them and give them but it isn’t what decides the winner or the amount of exposer you get. Some think it isn’t right that you must purchase an account to participate in more contest, but the contests are fair with actual judges. I feel that paying for the member is ship far better than the in app purchases other sights have that make even one “free” challenge actually cost $50 bucks. Not being able to get online for a week doesn’t lessen your chances of recognition or even a win.
The app really does need some work. There are things that can only be done online. That makes it hard to run a challenge or see 100% of the available features. However I love the being a member of ViewBug.

I like to use my iPad to view images for the larger screen, and would much rather view it in landscape orientation than be forced to use portrait orientation (same goes for iPhone). It would also help with the fact that when I try to type in a description into an image I wouldn't cover up my typing with the screen's keyboard. It's also frustrating that (to my knowledge) the app does not have all the same options or selections that there are on the actual viewbug website, and I cannot use my internet browser on my iPad with the ViewBug site since all of the options on the viewbug site are located at the top of the screen and you have a constant banner add to download your app in the App Store covering all of the controls. I enjoy viewbug, but don't enjoy it on my iPad or iPhone in the app for those two reasons.

Terrible communication between the website and the app. Emails from Viewbug don’t really correspond to...anything, at least anything relevant to your account and actual activity. “See if your pic won the blah blah blah contest!” when you didn’t even enter one of your photos in that contest. “Or see how your photo ranked this week...” When click on that it takes you to the website, and asks you to login. It doesn’t take you to the app you already have installed. That’s probably because the app has no relevant information either about title contest rankings either. It just tells you how many contests you’ve joined. Why even have the app? My cover photo on the app doesn’t match my cover photo on the website. My photo with 1.2K awards doesn’t even show up on the app. I’ll assume it doesn’t show up for people viewing my profile on the app either.

I was wondering when viewbug would finally come up with an app. So far I'm finding it easy to navigate, lots of fun, and have not come across any bugs (no pun intended) or glitches. I will be sure and update as I move along. I'm still pretty new to using the app, but so far, as I said, everything looks great! Nice job, team!

*** major problem. Only one photo is showing up in my gallery. When I look at my profile they all show up, but when I go to enter a contest, only one photo is showing up in my entire gallery. I cannot find a help area, or a contact page, this is frustrating. Weeks. This has been happening for weeks. Both the app and the website. What's happening here? What's going on? Is anyone else having this problem? It only happens on my phone. When I enter on my desktop computer there are no problems. So somethings happening on a mobile level.

In this day and age, it really reflects poorly on a company and its developers when a new update we’re expected to install consistently crashes the app. I updated Viewbug a couple days ago and now the app crashes regularly when I’m perusing. I was already lamenting the fact, as others have stated, that the Viewbug app only has about half the functionality of the website. Now, when an update renders the app useless, what’s the point? I have in nstalled the ViewBug app, reinstalled it, rebooted my iPhone, and it still does not work correctly. Either this will get fixed very soon, or I’ll end up deleting the app permanently, as this is highly disappointing.

Have you guys performed quality assurance before your update release? Do you need help testing? I’ll gladly assist with user testing, otherwise with a release like this, you’re expending valuable resources inefficiently.

Over my 20+ yrs 1/2 of which Digital tech has octolyplied, I really believe the addition of Viewbug's app, puts them atop the list of contest sites. There is an attitude that is fundamental throughout the community, and now the App. It's an amazing mechanism of peer & Co support, motivation, & recognition. The app It does everything you'd expect, but even from the invite to download, to one to review, ViewBug does nothing but strive to encourage greatness. The Artists, many of which are enthusiast photog's, all adhere to a common theme, community support. Give it, get it, it's everywhere. Photography is as personal as it gets for me, I'm fighting a battle with an autoimmune disorder, and I'm lucky if I can handle my gear 1/2 the time. I'll just say there are 100 reasons I can use to not shoot, ViewBug gives me 1 reason to continue, and that's all I need. Photography has given me everything of worth in my life, ViewBug is your best friend. LIFEGIANT1~

I really do love ViewBug...I don’t use it often enough but when I do, I am inspired. I’m definitely an amateur but I’ve been told that I have a good eye for composition etc.

Since I use my iPhone for just about everything, instead of my laptop, I also use it to take photos. The ViewBug mobile app is easy to use on almost every level; but it’s not perfect. When I get emails from ViewBug telling me someone left me a message, there is no way to view that email on the app on my iPhone. Also, the editing options have changed and offer less choices to improve or to inspire to be more creative when I download a photo.

I really have no complaints about the app, other than the two items I just mentioned. You know, there are other photography sites and, I admit, I’ve tried a couple of them, but none compare to ViewBug, in my humble opinion. I find ViewBug easy to use, easy to navigate and I enjoy hearing comments and suggestions from ‘real’ photographers and other amateurs that are more experienced than I am.

Thanks ViewBug!

I asked Viewbug for a refund straight after my credit card was used to pay for my subscription, as I wanted to go back to the free subscription plan and Viewbug deleted my account instead. I have contacted them and asked why this happened and they said it was a mistake. When I asked to have my account recovered they said it was not possible. That was very disappointing as I had uploaded a good amount of work, won 2 contests and had thousands of followers. What is even more disappointing is that Viewbug never apologised but they stopped answering my emails.

I had entered 5 different contests and uploaded a bunch of pictures, I voted others gave them trophies. I had done a lot .As I was scrolling through pictures the app froze and I exited out but when I came back onto the app everything I had done so far was gone. It deleted my pictures, my stats, my username, everything. It was like I had just downloaded the app and hadn’t don’t anything yet.

ViewBug is awesome, but their app doesn’t work very well at all. I submit photos on their website on a desktop, then I go into my app and those photos I submitted are nowhere to be found. The notifications you receive in the app don’t match up with their website on a desktop. I don’t really ever want to use the app now because so know I’ll get incomplete information. It just needs to be improved.

It’s incredibly easy to “win”.. but you’re really not winning anything. Or accomplishing anything. There is no statistical info to confirm it. You get a “privilege” they sell you which puts you to work for free. And the email notifications.. jesus christ. “You have 15 VERY IMPORTANT notifications!” Opens app and has no notifications.. This is garbage unless you are satisfied with instant gratification by being given absolutely nothing.

This looks to be a great app in a sense. But, it took me forever to load a profile photo. It won't let me load a cover photo. I loaded about 7 photos. I received responses quickly. But, after that anytime I try to share any pictures it just keeps scrolling and it won't load any pictures. I've deleted the app twice. Powered off the phone and such. And the app continues to not load any of my pictures.
Help, some feed back on this would be helpful. Thanks

I wanted to ask the following with support (https://help.viewbug. com/) and Safari warned me the site was NOT secure. So much for their support.
Instead I am posting it as a review.
While the app is good for uploading and viewing your page, I never received notifications via email nor posted on my notification page.
Lastly why can’t we sort our photos like on the website? If you can, why is it so buried.
I am looking forward to figuring out the solutions.

Originally I signed up via Facebook but do not want to use that way anymore. However, I can’t use the app to do some things because it wants me to log into Facebook. I get emails telling me a photo has been selected for contests or other things, but I can’t view that info on the app, only through Facebook. And it won’t let me create an account without using Facebook. I also wanted to delete my account but it won’t let me do that either. It is a very frustrating app.

I got the app a while back, and didn’t like it too much, so I uninstalled it. A week later I got emails from view bug saying I got several awards. I don’t know how this would have happened since I deleted my account. I supposedly deleted my account and unsubscribed from their email list several times, yet I still get emails. This app is basically a huge money grab and they’re desperate for some reason to make people stay using the app. Would not recommend to download.

CHARGED FOR FREE TRIAL.
If you download this app for the 3 day trial, and cancel within 5 minutes because it’s sub-par app, you’ll find out that they have ALREADY CHARGED YOU and will not refund your money. They will tell you to deal with iTunes, who says no refund is available for this app. That is SO scammy, I can’t believe Apple would allow this. I will definitely be fighting for my 8.99 (just what I want. to spend time on), because that is stealing. Not a way to do business, kids.

Don't get me wrong, this is a good app. Offers lots of opportunities to submit photos to photo contests. Great community of people but in order for a photo app to work you have to be able to upload your photos. ViewBug's upload method works about 30% of the time for me. If you upload from Instagram it automatically crops it to a square, which was good for when Instagram was square only but it isn't anymore. Update the import method and this could be a great community based app for amateur and professional photographers alike.

This app is extremely limited compared to the website. I don’t understand how a design could feel so limiting. The buttons lead to almost nothing and there’s hardly anything you can do with this app compared to the actual webpage. A total redesign is called for because there needs to be better overall functionality!
This app is lame. There’s nothing to engage you, always says there’s messages but there isn’t any in the inbox. Contests are mostly for paid users (not paying to provide my work to you- sorry)
It’s just a lame design.

Hello, to anyone who is reading this” if you happen to see this app. Just know this my phone which is in fact an :I-phone 6 i guess is not compatible with this app, let me tell you why it crashes like crazy! It will not let me upload pictures or better yet change my profile in general and the app I only bought it because I wanted more social media to keep me entertained. But all I got out of the horrible app was flat out dissatisfaction. So if you are reading this just know and be aware of this problem, would NOT recommend to anyone. Thank you.

I understand my type of photography isn’t appealing to everyone, that’s fine, but 3 likes in a whole year. The insulting part is 300 hundred DM’s about how awesome my images are. The community there is retarded, no growth, no real interactions, just dead. The part that really enrages me is I tried numerous times to delete my account and was lead on a wild goose chase. The directions send you to parts of the app and website that don’t exist. My advice—don’t waste your time with this one. It’s so bad they have to hide the delete button to keep you.

I received an email that said "My name is Laura, content editor at viewbug. I saw your photos and would love to feature your work." I thought who are these guys and where did they get my email. I searched their system to reset my password and it says that I dont have an account. So they are buying email addresses from somewhere and sending unsolicited SPAM messages to get people to sign up and "try" their services. I can't support shady companies that are doing this. So I'm giving you a 1 star. I encourage everyone else to give this company a 1 star rating!

I absolutely LOVE the concept behind ViewBug. But unfortunately the site is a big disappointment. The site is extremely amateur, very buggy, and the whole thing has the appearance of being unfinished. This app is essentially a lite version of the site.

I was a full paying member a few years ago but was eventually disenchanted with the site and deleted my profile. I returned recently to find that nothing has changed. It's a pity, as this site can be addicting and fun. But in the end, it all leads to frustration. The photography and sharing is great. The complete lack of technical know-how and savvy-ness make this a let down.

Got an email; can’t respond. iPhone app freezes up every time I try to upload a photo.

Everything works except changing my username I literally just downloaded this app paid for the membership and I cannot change my username for anything

Their app and website do not parallel each other, while the app will not reflect photo uploads or awards seen on safari or alike. I’ve won two contest and have never received the prizes nor was I properly notified that I won. Emailed the staff, they gave me the run around and still no prize. Also, their Instagram reflects favoritism of what individual is monitoring the profile, not what the public finds worthy. Save your money and don’t expect reciprocal communication when an issue arises.