Leonardo - Photo Layer Editor

Name: Leonardo - Photo Layer Editor
Price: 4.99 USD
Rating: 4 (129 reviews)
Author: Pankaj Goswami

By: Pankaj Goswami

Photo & Video

Features & Capabilities

Leonardo is a universal photo editor featuring true layer support, precise selections, and versatile masks. It brings desktop-grade editing workflows to a mobile-friendly environment with fast, real-time performance.

Its toolset covers blending, opacity, transform, duplication, and flattening, plus a full suite of filters and effects (25 preset photo effects). It includes crop, clone stamp, color gradient, paint brush, red-eye, and text tools. You can edit Exif/IPTC/Geotags, export PSD with layers, and export JPEG/PNG. Projects can be saved and reopened with all layers intact, and you get undo/redo and copy/paste with selections. Tutorials are available to help new users.

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By:

Pankaj Goswami

Rating:

4.00

(129)

Version:

2.7.2 Last updated: 2022-05-19

Version code:

848712264

Creation date:

2013-08-01

Compatible devices:

Size:

62.98MB

Price:

4.99

URLs:

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Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

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# 143,545 ▼ 47

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Developed by:

Pankaj Goswami

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/leonardo-photo-layer-editor/id656090065

Website:

http://www.superimposeapp.com

User Reviews

Leonardo is praised as a powerful, lightweight, layer-based editor for iPad with strong value and intuitive UI, ideal for thumbnails and professional edits. Yet it suffers from recurring bugs, unstable exports, and unreliable layer handling, plus missing color-picker tools and a cap on layers. Lack of ongoing updates for newer devices further challenges reliability. Overall, it’s beloved when it works, but reliability and feature gaps limit long-term use.

Pros

Powerful layer-based editing with professional tools (layers, masks, effects, selections)
Lightweight and fast with a small footprint on iPad
Excellent value and free or low-cost given the features offered
Intuitive, straightforward UI suitable for both simple edits and complex composites
Great for thumbnails, overlays, and background work, often praised as a desktop-grade editor on iPad

Cons

Bugs and instability across editing, saving, and exporting (glitches, misrendered previews)
Merge Down and layer-management functions are unreliable or broken
Export/output quality often degrades (blur or low resolution on save)
Not updated for current iOS devices; limited ongoing development and compatibility issues
Missing essential color tools like an eye dropper/color picker and limited number of layers

Recent reviews

Crank up the star rating to 11 for Leonardo Photo. You can do virtually anything with this. That it's mobile is beyond amazing. I'm glad it's free, but can't figure why it is; It's that good. I use it every day on an iPad, and it's why I no longer bother with my desktop or laptop. The more you know, the more you'll get out of it. It's got layers, pro tools, effects, filters, press tools, and an astoundingly small footprint. My biggest fear is that a big competitor will buy and bury it like they've done with so many innovative apps they couldn't beat. Also, many times Apple has removed features or made programs unusable with its updates, and I would be in some sad trouble without Leonardo, so I have this on a dedicated iPad that I never update. PS I *think* it’s the best app for photo editing, but I never needed to look at any others after I found it.

by ar*****, 2026-05-05

Been using it for nearly ten years now, not even joking. It’s my best kept secret - so powerful yet lightweight - and for free. The only thing I wish it had was a color picker. Aside from that, however, I have nothing but praise.

by Pu*****, 2026-03-08

This app is absolutely legendary, and I use it for all of my photo editing. I create video thumbnails and all of my graphics using this, and I can avoid more expensive and complex editing softwares because this app has everything that I need