500px-Photo Sharing Community
High quality photo sharing and contests
Total ratings
4.32
(Rating count:
182,287)Review summary
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Great community of photographers
- Encourages users to shoot more and gain feedback
- Quality of images has historically been high
- User-friendly interface for photo sharing
Cons
- Frequent technical issues and bugs
- Inconsistent photo licensing criteria
- Problems with logging in and account access
- App performance is slow and crashes often
- Deterioration in photo quality and lower engagement
Most mentioned
- Technical issues and bugs
- Login access problems
- Quality of photos low and unsatisfactory
- Frequent crashes and glitches
- Changes to the interface and functionality after updates
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User reviews
Recent rating average:
1.80
All time rating average:
4.32
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-03 |  | | The widget is terribly slow at displaying new images after turning the WiFi on, the app doesn't have a "hide" or "not interested" option for low quality photos or photos I don't like. |
| 2025-01-02 |  | | Update 1/1/25. The 500px servers seem like they're not up to the task. It's often unreachable. There's an annoying lag between posting a comment and then seeing it. The Quest feature is starting to feel like spam. Some features no longer supported, like for example location map. This app was much better several years ago before it was sold. A lot of things need to be fixed and no obvious reason why they're not, so I'm going down to 2 stars. Marginal app. |
| 2024-12-27 |  | | This app has become unusable. Extremely slow loading. Most of the time I just give up and wait to get to the website on the desktop. |
| 2024-11-04 |  | | The app itself is getting increasingly annoying and overall the quality of photos is much lower than when I first signed up. |
| 2024-10-29 |  | | I am not sure what's wrong with the app as it isn't allowing me to log in, it keeps throwing an error message stating either my email/username or password is incorrect, although I have used the same details on Web browser and was successful in logging in. |
| 2024-10-15 |  | | Awful! The feed seems to never change showing me the same content over and over, even from the push notification of new personalised content. Comments are full of spam! Crashes or glitches regularly! Cannot update profile picture! Licensing algorithm is nonsensical; photos of my dog in unrecognisable locations are sometimes accepted and sometimes not, shots from the same photoshoot are sometimes subject to a property release and sometimes not. Don't waste your time on this woeful app. |
| 2024-09-08 |  | | Unfortunately cannot access my account, says 'tell us a little bit more about yourself' and unable to progress from that page. Such a shame really as I've used it before without issue so suspect it is a recent update that has broken it? |
| 2024-08-14 |  | | Happy to see the app is working better since the last time I tried it. Has some glitches when scrolling thru galleries, seems to start duping the images. I am glad to see you guys working to improve the app, since that's the format I tend to use most. It's always been an amazing site for quality of images and to gain inspiration. Happy shooting☺ Years later back to try 500px app again. Still stunning images, as always. Much improved from last time I used it. 500px is top notch photographers |
| 2024-08-07 |  | | I can't log in. My account logs in with my Facebook account and it's not letting me log in. It says the app is not active, that it's not accessible right now, that the app developer is allegedly aware of the issue and that I'll be able to log in when the app is reactivated. It's been weeks and it's the same, I can't log in. When are you going to fix it? |
| 2024-06-25 |  | | Update. Astonishingly ... more problems! Regularly told 'update failed' only to find it has worked. Also plagued in comments by scammers wanting to licence your pics. Soft Porn eg crotch shots appear, as others have said. (porn just fixed... but wait for the next sh*show!). Great idea and fabulous community of photographers. But both the App and the website are plagued by technical issues - many referred to in the reviews here. It's never-ending. Rubbish, but could be great. SORT IT! Aaargh!!! |
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