Aloriam
United States
Reviews (2)
Promo is a very easy app to use, so I definitely give it a thumbs up for having virtually no learning curve. The reason for my 3 star rating however is that there are severe limitations to its functions. Here's my take: -- the character limit is too short -- does not allow user to add more text lines -- does not allow user to change text location or text size -- does not allow user to add more photos to feature more products (most of the templates only allow 2 or 3 photos - why so few?) -- does not allow resizing of video -- does not allow download of video (a dealbreaker for me because I couldn't get my Instagram to connect to this app, so the only way for me to post it is if I can download the video and then manually post it) -- does not support posting to Pinterest -- very limited selection of templates ------------ Overall, I think the developers have a good idea here. The templates have a polished feel and the paired music is good. It makes content creation relatively painless from existing photos in your Shopify store. I hope they will make more improvements to allow users a greater degree of flexibility in editing text, adding text, resizing and downloading video, and making longer videos to feature more products.
Developer reply ·
Hi Aloriam, Thank you for this detailed review. Reviews like these are exactly what helps us make Promo better! Our Shopify app was created with simplicity and speed in mind, to help Shopify store owners quickly and effortlessly create as many videos they need. While we are constantly improving our app, we try to keep it simple and straightforward. For users who require the advanced features and options you mentioned, we offer a fully-featured video maker at https://promo.com, with everything on our Shopify app and much, much more. We are looking into the Instagram issue you mentioned - thank you for reporting it! Team Promo
I have only used the app for one function -- to resize my images to help pages load faster. This works very well, except that the free version makes you do each one individually which is very time consuming. I would definitely upgrade to the pay version, except that when I press the button to do so, it seems to automatically schedule all my listings to be bulk updated at once (definitely something I *DON'T* want!). I would like to be able to do so in batches, so that I can change the settings based on the product type. The app doesn't seem to allow this?
