Sumopaint Chrome Extension Analysis
Developer & Designer ToolsStore listing title: Sumopaint - Online Image Editor
Chrome extension ID: dpgjihldbpodlmnjolekemlfbcajnmod
An online-based creative suite for digital painting and photo manipulation. It provides users with selection tools, image enhancement features, and various artistic effects directly within the browser.
Overview
Installs
200K+
Rating
★ 3.5
1,923 reviews
Languages
1 locales
Includes English
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Developer & Designer Tools
Pricing friction
Moderate review signal
Complaint intensity
High review signal
Listing positioning
Sumopaint positions itself as a full-featured online painting and image editing application. It emphasizes professional-grade tools such as layers, blending modes, and a diverse array of brushes and filters.
Inferred product pattern
A legacy creative tool that has transitioned to a restrictive freemium model, resulting in significant technical instability and user backlash.
Review-backed pain points
Users report significant frustration due to work loss caused by crashes, the removal of previously free essential tools, and technical issues that make the extension difficult to remove from Chrome.
Observed feature gaps
Users report the loss of essential tools in newer updates and the inability to save layers or files locally without paying.
- Digital Artists
- Casual Photo Editors
- Content Creators
- Digital painting
- Photo retouching
- Image enhancement
- Previously highly valued by long-term users
- Diverse set of features and brushes
- Frequent software instability and crashes
- Paywalling of essential tools
- Difficulties with uninstallation
- Unresponsive customer support
- Free-tier complaints detected
- Performance complaints detected
- High friction due to users feeling 'lured' by free tools that are later locked behind a subscription or pro account.
Support
Users report that the developer is unresponsive to support inquiries and emails.
Reliability
Severe reliability issues reported, including frequent crashes, glitches, and loss of unsaved work.
Privacy
No direct privacy breaches reported, though some users expressed extreme concern regarding the extension's inability to be uninstalled.
- Free entry with paid features
- Login needed for core features
- Limited free usage observed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 2
- Videos: 1
- Languages: 1
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Support link
- Version: 12.4
- Size: 23.83KiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Website: sumo.app
Privacy policy: https://sumo.app/privacy
Support links: https://sumo.app/support/
Videos: Watch
