Prequel: Photo & Video Editor

Prequel Inc.

4.74star341,443 ratings

Photo & VideoVideo color grading shelf$2.99–$14.99 · 4 tiersUpdated Aug 5, 2026

Biggest complaint · Limits & caps

13.1%

56 of 429 negatives · store typical 2.8%

Recent reviews negative

76%

its 9 shelf rivals run 26% · 561 reviews held

Counted from real App Store reviews · 2026-08-24 · nothing estimated or modelled

Read those two together. Ratings are cumulative, reviews are recent — a 4.74star average beside 76% negative is the finding, not an error.

Ratings.

4.5out of 5

341,613 ratings · Apple’s own count, fetched daily

5298,937

420,960

37,974

23,758

19,984

4 decisions.

Investigate limits & caps first

extreme · 13.1% of this app’s 429 negative reviews, against 2.8% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 13.1%; 56 of 429
its shelf: 3.4%; rivals only
store-wide: 2.8%; typical

Watch billing

elevated · 58.7% of this app’s 429 negative reviews, against 32.1% typical store-wide.

How it compares

this app: 58.7%; 252 of 429
its shelf: 29.9%; rivals only
store-wide: 32.1%; typical

Ads is at typical — skip it

8.6% of this app’s 429 negative reviews, against 10.7% typical store-wide, which is normal for the store.

How it compares

this app: 8.6%; 37 of 429
its shelf: 0.4%; rivals only
store-wide: 10.7%; typical

Protect ux, sync & data, login & auth, support, accuracy and performance

UX, Sync & data, Login & auth, Support, Accuracy, Performance all run well below the store’s typical rate.

n = 116. Too thin to act on — we recount weekly.

How it compares

UX0.7% of 429 · shelf 4.2% · store 2.9%
Sync & data0.5% of 429 · shelf 1.1% · store 2.2%
Login & auth4% of 429 · shelf 1.1% · store 13.2%
Support3.7% of 429 · shelf 6.8% · store 9.2%
Accuracy5.6% of 429 · shelf 9.5% · store 11.5%
Performance12.6% of 429 · shelf 22% · store 16.9%

The shelf in numbers

All 10 panel members · 2026-08-24 snapshot.

App	Ratings	Limits & caps
Prequel: Photo & Video Editor	341,443	13.1%
Color Grade Video - PeekLut	617	12.5%
Lightroom: AI Photo Editor	336,284	8.2%
VideoLUT	355	3%
Node Video	6,227	0%
ColorPix - Color Grading	35	0%
LUT Studio: Color Grading App	659	0%
Loot Color	2	0%
LUT Designer: Color Grading	3	0%
Ultralight: Photo Video Editor	43,697	0%

The whole shelf, counted

Every complaint across video color grading, frequency-ranked from real App Store reviews — the gaps nobody on this shelf has fixed.

Read the video color grading report

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly — nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. Shares are of this app’s own recent negative reviews; the shelf figure is its rivals with this app excluded. The graded words have fixed cutoffs against the store’s typical rate: elevated from 1.15, high from 2, extreme from 3.5 times it. The page says what is broken and how it compares — never how to fix it, and never whether this app can win.