YouPic Reviews

A couple of days ago I got banned without any warning or explication - just 'your account has been banned'

This is after 2 years of (unpaid) free membership there.

Very strange - maybe it's because I never answered to the sirene calls of spambot-girl 'lisa' to join with a paid account?

Don't bother with this site. 500px is 1,000% better. YouPic has TOS that prohibits adult content but when you flag them, half the time they do not delete them. When you call them on it they do nothing.

This company has a very bad subscription method. When you join they offer a special price very low, but the subscription for the following year is much higher and they don't warn you that they are billing your account. It's impossible to revert back to normal user and they bill you anyway.

If there were an option for ZERO reviews, I would post that. I joined up in 2015. Cost for the pro level was 50 bucks and change. Did not get another hit until 2019, when the charge went to 127 bucks and change. On September 10th of 2020 I got a charge of $359.88. But here is the kicker: My CC number has changed four times since 2015. I never gave them new CC information. I have seen no benefit from membership. Of COURSE they refuse to credit my account. They are crooks. Do NOT send them any money and I would strongly recommend to NOT even sign up for a free account. You may regret it.

I was told from a woman names Lisa she would give me a code for a 30 day trial of what they call PRO. I filled in the form, asked for bank info. They charged me for a full year subscription, $359.88! I email, messaged for 5 days, no response, I sent a message the CEO Navid Razazi, nothing. I then went to Youpic.com and on my account I posted a list of reviews I got off the internet, then said, I want my money back. They ban my account. It's a scam, all of it. It's artist judging artist. No one makes money there unless your work for the company. Stay away!

It seems to be run by absentee millennials who are in love with their oh-so-cool informality. Join for free and standby to be inundated with dumb exhortations to waste a hilarious amount of hard earned cash ‘upgrading’. The Upgrade is so overpriced and they are so desperate that they will persistently offer 60% discounts.

No amount of declining their offers or requesting they desist from pestering you will stop these poorly composed auto-emails.

Maybe it’s not millennials after all, but a damaged bot with poor grammar skills.

Definitely not recommended.

I just joined YouPic a few days ago. Someone dm me on instagram and it looks like a spam because she wants me to send her my profile link when I join. I still joined 'cause YouPic looks really decent. Just didn't send my link to that girl.

If you like navel gazing, and accumulating "favorites" ( akin to likes on facebook), "repics" where someone saves your photo to their profile, and maybe getting lucky and having your photo selected as an "inspiration", then you might like YouPic. I joined free for about 10 days, over which I posted 145 ofmy photos, which were viewed over 45K times. I also had almost 4,000 "favorites", almost 2,000 "repics and 2 inspiration stars. I was at Level 11 when I deleted my account. Why did I delete, you ask? Well, Youpic takes a lot of work to advance levels, get fav's and repic's, and inspirations. I started out only going on the site each morning and evening, but quickly found myself checking it more and more during the day. Keeping up with the comments left by others becomes a real chore. You can also buy a premium membership, which gives you perks including supposedly better exposure, but I didn't bite. In the end, all it is boils down to hitech "navel gazing" You might like it, but not for me...

This is a 500px clone, plain and simple. Like 500px, they try all kinds of ways to monetize the site, but the main way is to sell packages that "increase exposure." It is what it sounds like.... you're basically paying money to have more people see your photos so that you can get higher ratings. You get some other stuff like tutorials or whatever, but youtube is better. So if you like stars next to your photos, paying helps get you there. I can pay for views on Instagram, and it's more useful.

They have spammed me on my instagram DM multiple times about signing up for their services. I've told them time and time again that I'm not interested in signing up for their service nor do I want free publicity as I'd rather get payed for my work or sign up for a service myself.

I've blocked I think about 50 or so of their accounts, it's starting to really piss me off, really unprofessional of them.

i don't know why my account is banned on youpic.

I am a Premium member of YouPic and since upgrading from Free to Premium, my profile and photos has got a great jump in exposure. Just easy to use and fast with HR photos. I always have trouble using large HR photos on my own website because it takes like tons of time to load. And we all know that speed is a killer! :-) But they seem to be having some nice technology they created, that solves this nicely.

I never signed up for their emailing list, yet keep getting emails from them inviting me to try YouPic. The unsubscribe button doesn't work, it simply takes me to their site. There's no email address or anything listed on the website. I don't know who these people are or how to contact them.

Tried the courses, explore and a little feedback from the community. This is amazing. I have gained 10 inspirational stars in less tha 2 months ... I think this is the best website ever!

I have been with YouPic since the beginning and have watched the site grow and change and finally being monetised.

The sites founder Navid still controls the inspiration flow having quickly abandoned the "let the members choose the photos with the stars" which showed people will vote for anything if they think you will reciprocate.

The site is really just a tit for tat voting platform where you gain awards for achievements only those achievements mean nothing in the real world.

Youpic is very bandwidth hungry on both the web or phone app versions so unlimited internet access is a must.

Sadly the promised exposure Youpic claims it will give you is all within the site itself. Google search list nothing from Youpic in photo search and facebook just buries photo's shared to facebook so no one sees them I guess facebook would rather you pay them to boost the post.

The new membership plans whilst not a suprise have been set at a level that will cost more than 50% extra than Youpic's main competition 500px which seems like a bad move

As a summary I would say if you are looking for a bit of fun on your phone then Youpic will entertain you with a free account.

Considering a paid account, I would hold on to your money even double points are not worth $9.99 a month.

About a year and a half ago I was a part of the YouPic community and really enjoyed it. Sadly I had to delete my account. Back then it was more about the photography. Two weeks ago I rejoined under a different account and was surprised at the changes. it seems as though the rating (Star of Inspiration) is no longer controlled by your peers. That's a negative.

YouPic has become just another social media under the guise of photography. Facebook, Twitter & other media has no business on YouPic. If you want to gain a level then earn it. Facebook friends and Twitter followers should not be allowed to connect and have a say just because it's their friend's photo.

YouPic also needs to set a category apart for "Digital Art". I have nothing against it, but it becomes an interpretation of a photograph and is no longer a photograph.

The art of photography is to capture what is "real".

And now the big problem for me is that I can no longer access my page. I can access my account, but that is it. I can't view my page because I'm told it can't be found. I have contacted YouPic admins and all I get is "We'll get back to you as quickly as possible". That response does not work for me.

So who knows when I'll be able to access my photos again and be able to delete my account, which by the way, I did tell them to do so since I couldn't.

There are too many negatives about YouPic and it's a shame. They started out with a good idea and turned it into crap.

It's free and a good place to put your best of photos and share them with your friends who aren't on this site.

But, I recommend viewbig.com over this one. View big has basic adjustments that you can use to improve your photos. The quality of the photographers who enter contests is amazing!! Also, viewbug lets you upload more than one at a time. Another advantage of viewbug is that they answer your mail a LOT quicker

YouPic has proven with their own star system that the most and highest ratings, awards, honors, stars, etc go to the ones who uses iphones and instagram apps the most. The "top photographers" are mobile phone point shooters who edit their pics with pastel and fog. It is a shame that those folks call themselves "photographer".

The YouPic admin himself has no achievement whatsoever in real photography, yet he is the one to star evaluate all pics. His own gallery is just a pathetic collection of loose point shoots. What a shame.

YouPic is NOT for the serious photographer. YouPic is a kindergarten for household point-shoot folks who on,y hunt for followers, likes, repics, stars, XP points, etc. Like Facebook. Has nothing to do with real photography. Even YouPic's "Tips" are written by rookies who know nothing about real photography. There's even an article that promotes B&W photography as "monochrome" photoshopping and no mention about real B&W techniques such as optical filters.

Most YouPic users score only pints by copy/pasting comments all over the place, knowing that this earns them points to move up to higher "levels". As though commenting makes them better photographers.

I have deleted my YouPic accounts and moved to National Geographic where things are more serious and without all that egotrip crap.

The YouPic Dev team keeps on revamping reblinging the site with absolutely useless bells & whistles that serve no purpose other than slowing down the site and disturbing the navigation and functionality. Now they implemented a blog for the users that no one asked for and that the blog form is not even browser cross compatible.

Soon YouPic will put ads and ask money for their "services". YouPic has already started to sink into the ocean of clones and failures.

User levels go from 1 to 30. The highest levels show the worst pics. There's even an smartphone instagram point-shooter who made it to star champion. His pics are absolutely crap. The admin of YouPic is the only one who assigns stars. So of course he stars anything that matches his own crap level. The admin of YouPic is NOT an authority in photography whatsoever, yet he plays god at his ever decaying website. YouPic ads new GUI and modules but none of it is of any use. I left YouPic because of all of the above and joined NatGeo and 500px where the level is a bit better.

I have been on since the beginning. This site was about the quality in the beginning, now its about how many Facebook fans or followers you can get. Crappy photography gets tons of likes because of the many followers one has.

Just like the contests that let your family and friends vote for the winners. This site has nothing to do with good photography anymore, but its probably fun for beginners or people that have a lot of time to build up followers to get likes.

Same concept as facebook