# Leonardo - Photo Layer Editor

> Photo & Video

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id656090065](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id656090065)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id656090065`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Pankaj Goswami
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (129 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.7.2
- **Last updated:** 2022-05-19
- **First published:** 2013-08-01
- **Size:** 63 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/leonardo-photo-layer-editor/id656090065)
- **Website:** [http://www.superimposeapp.com](http://www.superimposeapp.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.leonardoapp.com/privacy.html](http://www.leonardoapp.com/privacy.html)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #130,151 — Overall

## Review summary

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

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id656090065)