# Max Photo Frames — Retro Frames & AI Skin Beauty

> Retro Frames & AI Skin Beauty (iPhone/iPad app by Oscar Lim.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/max-photo-frames/id6751881820 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Oscar Lim](https://appshunter.io/developer/1129098783)
- Category: Photo & Video, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 50 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2025-09-16
- Data updated: 2026-08-25
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/max-photo-frames/id6751881820/reviews.md

## What is Max Photo Frames?

Max Photo Frames makes your photos shine with clean borders, retro looks, beautiful frames, and polished layouts.

Create your own style with:

• Frame presets, custom borders, gradients, shadows, and canvas layouts
• Retro and instant-film inspired designs
• Filters and Layer Magic for blur, cutout, and original backgrounds
• Captions, dates, watermarks, and memory trackers
• Face-aware 3D Props and playful decorations
• Full-resolution or optimised export sizes
• Fast saving and sharing
• Light and dark themes
• A focused iPhone and iPad editing experience

Keep the looks you build:

• Save a look as a preset and apply it to any photo in a tap
• Share a favourite preset with a friend as a file
• Back up your presets, captions, and settings to a single file you keep
• Optional iCloud Sync carries your presets and captions between iPhone and iPad

Max Photo Frames is private by design. There are no ads and no tracking. Your photos stay on your device. iCloud Sync is off until you switch it on, and it carries your presets and captions only, never your photos.

Simple, elegant, and free to use.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A coffee | $3.99 | one-time |
| A small tip | $0.99 | one-time |
| A bubble tea | $7.99 | one-time |
| A round of drinks | $29.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.1.0 — 2026-08-15

NEW: iCloud Sync

Your saved presets and My Captions now follow you between your iPhone and iPad, using your own iCloud account. Off by default; nothing leaves your device until you switch it on in the Hub. Whichever device you edited last wins, your work in progress is never touched by an incoming
change, and personal details such as birthdays stay on each device. Offline is not an error: keep working, and your edits sync when you are back.

Backup & Restore

Save everything, your presets, your captions, your settings, to a single file you keep. Reinstall the app or set up a new phone, import the file, and your work is back exactly as you left it.

Captions that sit behind your subject

Behind Subject text now tucks neatly under the frame border when 3D Pop is on. If you prefer the old look, with the caption crossing over the border, choose the new "Behind subject, over frame" layer. Captions you have already placed are left exactly where they are.

Smaller saved photos

Framed photos with 3D Pop or a background effect now save as JPEG instead of PNG, around 1.5 MB where they used to be 14 MB. Same picture, same size, a tenth of the space. Photos that genuinely need transparent corners still save as PNG.

Also in this update

• Set The Big Day date straight from the Hub. No Date Stamp needed.
• Three casing choices for every piece of text: AA for capitals, Aa as written, aa for lower case.
• Day counts now start at Day 1, the way a trip counts days.
• Choosing a date for a photo that has none now works properly, and the date belongs to that photo alone.
• A caption could lose its colour and size the moment you opened its Style tab. It keeps them now.
• Presets that used built-in captions could stop finding them after an update. They are repaired automatically on the next launch.
• Empty caption slots left behind by deleted captions are cleaned up automatically.

### 3.0.1 — 2026-08-03

This update fixes two issues on Mac (Designed for iPad):

- Opening Layers, Details, Filters, My Presets, Export Preview, Support, or the in-app guides could close the app unexpectedly. These screens now open reliably.

- After saving a photo, the Share button on the confirmation screen had nothing to share. Sharing straight after a save now works.

Your photos always saved correctly. iPhone and iPad were not affected by either issue.

### 3.0.0 — 2026-07-31

Version 3.0 is a complete rewrite and redesign of Max Photo Frames.

- New Studio, Frame, Caption, Decor, and Hub experience
- New frame presets for building a polished look quickly
- Improved filters and Layer Magic tools
- New caption shortcuts for faster editing and placement
- Improved dates, watermarks, and memory trackers
- Face-aware 3D Props and decorative elements
- More reliable export with better preview and saved-photo consistency
- Improved iPhone and iPad layouts
- Updated App Guide and onboarding experience
- Stronger privacy-first design with no ads and no tracking

### 2.8.1 — 2026-02-18

What’s New in v2.8.1

The "Beauty & UX Polish" update is here! We’ve spent our latest spare cycles adding powerful new tools to help you track and beautify your memories:

- AI Beauty Smoothing: A pro-grade algorithm that subtly softens blemishes while preserving natural skin texture and crisp details.

- Milestone Growth Tracker: Track pregnancy, newborn days, habits, or growing projects. Set a start date and the app automatically increments a clean "Day X"
  counter on your photos.

- Sticky Identity & New Profiles: Your personal dates (birthdays, milestones) are now "sticky." Switch between your custom saved profiles and visual styles
  instantly without losing your data.

- Full Backup & Restore: Your custom profiles and captions are now portable! Safeguard your entire configuration with a single file to move between devices.

- Smart Category Selection: Turning on a feature (like Kindergarten or Growth Tracker) now automatically selects the most relevant captions for your photo.

- Master Festive Toggle: Celebrate the Lunar New Year 2026 with our "Lucky Red" theme, or use the master switch to instantly silence all seasonal trivia and
  greetings for a minimal look.

- Vision Intelligence: Smarter AI photo analysis for context-perfect captions and instant hashtags based specifically on what’s in your shot.

### 1.2.0 — 2025-12-29

Happy New Year! We're sending off 2025 with one last, big update to make your photo framing experience even better.

Go Frameless!

We've heard your feedback, and we're excited to introduce the most requested feature: a "no frame" option! Now you can save your photos with just your captions, watermarks, and date stamps, without any frame.

This update also includes:

- Original Quality: When you choose the "no frame" option, your photo is saved in its original resolution.

- Improved UI: We've polished the display to give you a better "what you see is what you get" experience.

- Bug Fixes: We've squashed some bugs to make the app more reliable.


Thank you for your support this year! We're excited to bring you more features and improvements in 2026.

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## More apps by Oscar Lim

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All apps by Oscar Lim: https://appshunter.io/developer/1129098783

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