Reviews of Flickr

By: Flickr, Inc. App

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3.26

Rating count: 34,151

Recent rating average: 3.20

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Review summary

Overall: Flickr's Android app is praised for being a strong platform for photographers, with a large, inspiring community and good cross-device usage (including older devices). However, users repeatedly report critical reliability issues: uploads often fail or duplicate, long wait times; analytics (Stats) frequently appear blank; performance problems like slow loading, blank screens, and occasional crashes persist across versions. Pricing changes and aggressive pro-upgrade prompts are a major grievance, with some users feeling priced out or forced into Pro to follow accounts. These drawbacks overshadow otherwise positive aspects for many power users.

Pros

Excellent platform for photographers to share high-quality images and get global inspiration from a creative community.
Great for showcasing your work and discovering others' photography from around the world.
Works on older devices, offering broad compatibility for a range of users.
Often regarded by users as a top photography site with strong community features.

Cons

Uploads frequently fail, are duplicated, or take very long to complete, with issues reported on various devices (including Pixel phones).
Stats/analytics page is consistently blank or not visible in the app across multiple versions.
General reliability and performance problems persist (crashes, blank screens, slow loading) across updates.
Pro pricing changes and aggressive upgrade prompts; many users feel priced out or pressured to upgrade just to follow accounts.
Sign-up/login onboarding issues and occasional difficulties getting started.

User Reviews 359

THE BEST

App is terrible, Every photo I view is blurry, Even mine are blurry double tapping does nothing. If This continues I'll be canceling my pro account.

Flickr phone app used to be good but since the latest update, that included a complete change to the UI, it went downhill, no longer intuitive - personally I struggled to get to grips with it. To top it off they've just increased the pro price to £9 month, which allowed for unlimited jpeg image storage. Retrieved all my images, deleted my account and cancelled the subscription. Bought a 4TB SSD which over a 3 year period is less than a Flickr subscription. Use Irys instead or Amazon Prime.

A very bad update for android IMO. Main buttons positions changed. Much slower than before in pulling and putting together data. No possibility to add images to more groups after posting. Impossible inviting photos to groups. on my tablet the commenting function does not work. Eventually uninstalled. Looking for the previous version...

update: So I see you have reverted back to the old version which is a good thing. Thank you! I will give you back the stars for trying to fix this - but to be honest, I am scared to update in case the app gets worse than better! -++ Am a flickr subscriber since 2004(!!) & PRO - The auto uploader is not working & greyed out, since new update, please FIX!

it was broken but now fixed.

very poor access from the app. it's very hard to upload from a mobile or tablet. Also accessing flickr mail is impossible.

Sometimes photos are not downloading.

Finally reverted back to the old UI!

I just opened my app and it looks like they have updated the app and most of the functions that were lost with the last upgrade are back. It seems to be working again and would to say thank you to the developers for fixing the issues. This was my go to app for photography but stopped using it because it lost a lot of its functionality. This works great and thanks to whoever is responsible for the new upgrade!

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