Hot take: That $12 face filter app was a complete waste

I dropped $12 on that FaceTune knockoff app last month because everyone in this sub kept saying it fixed Snapchat filter glitches. First try, it turned my nose into a cartoon potato. Second try, it made my eyes look like they were melting down my face. I figured maybe I was doing it wrong, so I watched three tutorials. Nope, the app just sucks at handling the janky filters from TikTok. My buddy used the same app and said it fixed his weird eyebrow glitch, but for me it was a total loss. Has anyone else thrown money at a filter fix and just made things worse?

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allen.ivan7d ago

I saw this one review on the App Store that said the same thing about the potato nose problem. Guy claimed he contacted support and they just sent him a canned reply about restarting his phone. I tried it on an older Samsung and the filters looked like someone smeared Vaseline on the lens. Makes me wonder if these apps are just copy-pasted code with a pricetag slapped on.

charlie_ellis7d agoMost Upvoted

Forget the potato nose thing for a second, what gets me is that these apps are probably stealing your face data and selling it while you're busy laughing at your own ugly nose. Nobody talks about the privacy angle. You load up a selfie, it processes it on their server, not your phone, and now they have a high quality scan of your face tied to your device ID. That's way more valuable than the $5 you paid for the app. Plus, the Vaseline look you saw? That might be a cheap way to hide how bad their face mapping actually is. They blur it so you don't notice the edges don't line up right. It's not just lazy coding, it's probably intentional.