PhotoStickies App Reviews

Ive used and loved this app for almost 4 years. The quality of the image depends on the quality of the original cam, but with many cams choosing to broadcast high-res images, its often possible to have a beautiful and continuously-changing desktop. The user interface takes a very little bit of fiddling to get perfect, but once set, it requires almost no maintenance, never crashes, pauses or hangs, causes no glitches even with Apples excessive system updates, and is even respectful of memory and processor cycles on heavily-used production Macs. Cant recommend it enough.

I wish you could have the "Photostickies" icon in the menu bar instead of the dock. This app works. But it takes alittle more effort than i expect to get the Length and width of the photo on my desktop. It would be great to just make the photo i have bigger and smaller just by dragging. But Overall its a good app..

I installed the application and doesnt work. I dont even think its an application meant to do anything but exist on apple store. Dont bother downloading it!

Luckily I did NOT follow the rather INANE and reckless advice of the previous reviewer to not install this application. Likely, the previous reviewer did not spend more than 2 minutes trying to figure out how the software works (Give it a folder location, then open files from that directory). It works fine on my 2010 Mac Book Pro. Nifty program for displaying your fave photos on desktop, for the price.

A very nice way to display photos, without the lost space of title bars. There are some odd behaviours, though. Such as if the app is not in the foregroud and you click a photo, rather than coming to the front it goes behind all other apps. In general, window ordering is different from every other Mac app. And the the ‘Hide Photostickies’ menu item shows cmd-H as a shortcut, but it doesn’t work. But at least selecting the menu item does work.

I opened it and it had a a bunch of settings that you have to play around with. I can’t figure out if it’s supposed to be doing anything, but I didn’t work for me

This app is awesome, so simple and has tons of cool features. I now have a picture of Bart Simpson standing in the corner of my Desktop! Wow, such a simple app provides awsome capabilites. Personalizations galore! Another feature I like is that you can stream webcam live images. The only thing I am having trouble with is getting rid of the icon in the dock, I cant find a away of removing it without exiting the app. Why is this app free?! I would of been happy to pay $5 for this.

its very cool if you can figure out how to get a picture. it took me a while just to find out how to put a picture on my desktop and resize it. but very cool

I thought I would like this, but am having a bit of difficulty. I can save my photo stickies as favorites, but cant seem to save them as a State. I click on the stickie and the Add in the States dropdown, but it does nothing. Anyone else having this problem? And, I do have the box checked in Preferences for Revert to Saved State. Update: This app is even more frustrating. I tried slideshows, but not able to place randomly on the display . . . continues to display in same position of last picture. Unable to save slideshows. Unable to save states. Pay for this? No way!

I agree with ArichFL. This program could be much better. Favorites work, States do not. Every time I open this program I have to manually open my favorite pictures. The transparency filter is a cool option, but no matter how much I jack up the threshold, the transparency color is still slightly visible. The interface and options are not intuitive and require a lot of trial and error to understand. Its a great idea, but still needs some work. Free is the right price for this.

I looked all over for something like this. Im a digital artist, and I needed something that would allow me to open small windows with reference photos floating over Corel Painter and Photoshop. Well, here it is, and it does 90% of what I need it to do. Thanks, Devon, for making this and offering it for free.

This little app is great to stick pics on your desktop as references. Its way better than having preview open with images that you need to compare with, or using the Finder with zoom all the way turned up. This app features some pretty solid settings to customize the way it works. The biggest enhancement this app should get is the ability run from the menu icon.

I have used Photostickies for a frightfully long time, since the days when we needed it because it opened images quickly and other apps were much slower. I love the app but theres one small frustration -- apparently there is no way to make this app live in the menu bar, there is no preference in the app to hide the dock menu. Could this possibly be addressed by the developer?

When I select a PhotoStickies window while another app is active, the photo is sent to the back… behind every other window. Also, I can go into Mission Control and drag a photo directly to another desktop, but if I try to grab a photo and switch to another desktop with a keyboard shortcut, it just stays there.

This seemed like a fun program—at first, but then, the more I used it the more awkward I found it. Deleting a photo is especially hard to do and deleting a state—forget it. If there is a way to do these things, the authors don’t spell it out. I worked with this app for about a month, finally I couldn’t take the frustration anymore and I deleted the app. I’m glad it was free.

I needed floating windows to show on top of my canvas while painting in Photoshop. This app works fine. However it lacks the ability to zoom in and pan the image. Zooming resizes the window. If that feature where added, this app would be invaluable to digital artists.

Terrific tool, especially for references and watermarks. Wish list: gestures for zoom, rotation, and transparency. Save the settings, now is not working.

I need to write the content of pictures and write a summary. PS helps me to do that by keeping the pictures on the top. Very helpful for me.

I love PhotoStickies and have used it to serve up my favorite webcams in separate windows. Unfortunately it hasn’t been updated to current systems and no longer maintains sizes and positions of webcam images—when they refresh they go back to an overscanned size. Too bad.