Launch sale is over. Still has issues. Not quality software at this point.

Review updated for Priime Styles version 1.0.2 —

BE WARNED: Unlike the Priime app on iOS, Priime _Styles_ on Mac OS X is NOT a full-featured photo editor. ALSO, this a partly a web app. It really doesn’t like working without a network connection. It’s not even possible to open the information window for any filters (presets) without a network connection. The application doesn’t have any sense of when there is no network connection available, or when the connection has been dropped or is no longer available.

Within the filter information display windows (which require a network connection), the styled/original view toggle feature is so broken as to be useless, and often does not even initally display at all (OS X 10.11.3). Gosh, it would be nice if that actually worked.

Clicking on the avatar image next to the filter creator’s name, then loads a description that’s more obviously just a web page on the Priime website — without any obvious way to get back to the filter information, without actually closing the info window and reoperning it again. (You can, however, Control-click on the window to pull up a contextual menu with a Back option that works. But, you would have to already know that might be possible, after discovering that the most common keyboard shortcut for Back, Command-[, *doesn’t* work.) This is all simply poor application, GUI, and UX design. Lame.

Unfortunately — again, unlike in the Priime iOS app — very annoyingly, it’s not possible with this application to directly and conveniently browse the list of the photographer-creators of the filters, or view each photographer-creator’s filter collection as a set. There are also no links provided to each photograher-creator’s Instagram, either. It’s not even possible to view or display the applications list of filters at all, without first opening one of your own images within the application.

A far lesser complaint is that the application icons color palette simply lacks good graphic design colour sense. Although, of course, that’s not nearly as significant for UX in OS X, as on iOS. However, it does actually say something about the developers.

At this point, unfortunately, we still cannot recommend this software. Seriously. This is still half-baked. Sending it back to the kitchen again.

Time Squire-in-Training about Priime Styles