# GuruShots: Photography Game

> Photo Community with Contests

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1111221823](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1111221823)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1111221823`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gurushots Ltd
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (5,163 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.41.9
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-20
- **First published:** 2018-02-06
- **Size:** 494 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gurushots-photography-game/id1111221823)
- **Website:** [https://gurushots.com](https://gurushots.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://privacy.gurushots.com](https://privacy.gurushots.com/)

## Description

GuruShots makes your photography more fun, exciting and rewarding. Join a global community of over 7M photography lovers and elevate your craft through daily challenges, voting, and feedback from fellow photographers.

Submit photos to themed contests, team up for team vs. team challenges, showcase work in exhibitions and magazines, and track your progress in real time as you earn badges and recognition.

## Rankings

- #26,284 — Overall
- #47 — picture
- #57 — quality
- #59 — upload

## Review summary

The app’s concept of photo-sharing contests is appealing, but reviews consistently flag pay-to-win monetization, unfair voting, and technical flaws. Users also worry about AI data usage and intrusive prompts. The frequent performance and fairness issues undermine the community aspect, despite the potential to learn from others.

### Pros

- Fun concept with themed photo competitions and sharing.
- Ability to see other photographers’ work and gain new perspectives.
- Strong community and learning potential for photographers.
- Overall concept of photo contests and exchange of ideas (artistic focus).

### Cons

- Pay-to-win and heavy monetization: coins, boosts, turbos, and paywalls to enter challenges.
- Perceived unfairness: rigged results, guru favoritism, and possible bot activity in voting.
- Frequent app performance issues: freezing/crashing, unresponsive screens, and login/sign-in problems.
- Privacy and data-use concerns: photos potentially used to train AI models; long contests and opt-out limitations.
- Intrusive in-app prompts and pressure to pay on startup.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1111221823)