Comparison

Frames vs Wall Gallery Designer Lite

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Frames

Enhance your photos with a collection of classical picture frames. Offers multiple high-resolution frames for easy selection and application to your images.

Highlights
  • Classical photo frames
  • High-quality picture frames
  • Multiple high-resolution frames
  • Easy to use interface
  • HD resolution
Features
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Make every photo a timeless masterpiece. Frames is designed for those who value quality, offering a curated collection of classical and modern frames that elevate your photos to gallery level. Whether it's a casual snapshot or professional photography, Frames adds the perfect finishing touch. Why choose Frames? Extensive Frame Library: From vintage wood to sleek metal, diverse styles for every occasion. Blazing Performance: Deeply optimized encoding ensures fast loading and smooth editing on any device. Simple & Intuitive: No complex steps needed — create professional-quality framed photos in seconds. High-Quality Export: Preserve original resolution so your photos look crisp on social media.

About

Wall Gallery Designer Lite

Visualize and design your perfect wall art gallery using augmented reality. Experiment with different art sizes, frame styles, mat colors, and arrangements directly on your wall before committing to purchases. Save time and money by previewing your gallery in its intended space.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality visualization
  • Art size and placement guidance
  • Frame and mat style selection
  • Color matching with room decor
  • Design arrangement and tracking
  • Freeze reality for design completion
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The best gallery melds the decor of the room, its furnishings, and its light with the picture layout, framing materials, and pictures. But there are a zillion possibilities. To find the best. answer these questions with "Wall Gallery Designer Lite" and augmented reality: • How big should my art be for display on my wall? • What is the best color mat for my framed photo that fits the colors of my room? • Would a narrow or wide frame face look better with my furniture? • Where should I hang the framed picture? • Should the colors in my photo be tuned to work better with my decor? • How should I arrange my art on the wall? • How do I record and track designs? Your wall gallery design is art. It takes thought and time to get it right. Preview it before investing in frames. Using augmented reality, you create and display arranged pictures on the screen anywhere, even outdoors with only a few minutes of work. You automatically arrange pictures with pack frames. The best color choices based on analysis of selected pictures are highlighted in green. With a few taps, pictures are quickly rearranged, frame sizes, colors, and material can be switched, and mat styles, colors and window sizes can be changed. Share photos from your Photos or Lightroom® Library to the app via the share sheet and find the best stock frames, mats, and print sizes for art on your walls in your room and with your colors. Millions of mat and frame combinations are stocked in stores. Choosing sizes and colors in bad lighting in a store, instead of on the wall where the framed picture will hang, often fails because it clashes with room decor. When you explore possibilities with “Wall Gallery Designer Lite” in the place where it will be displayed, you are more likely to choose an excellent print size, mat, and frame with less hassle, saving time, money, and stress. In "Wall Gallery Designer Lite", you choose the colors and sizes of the mats and frames from common ones similar to those stocked in stores in the US or custom colors. You can even pick up colors from the room or pictures to use on frames, mats, ​and walls. You can choose to "hang" pictures without mats and/or frames to visualize how float, frameless, canvas or glass pictures might display on your wall in standard or custom size windows. When you are considering art already in a custom frame, add its photo to your camera roll, then choose a frame with a frame face size of 'none'. To minimize fatigue you freeze reality and complete your scene design without pointing your device at the wall. With reality frozen, the background contains the last image captured, while the design capabilities remain active so you can move and change framed pictures as usual. When the design is complete, tap the restart button and reposition the scene with your completed design. "Wall Gallery Designer Lite" is an augmented reality app for iPhone 6s and later as well as 2017 iPads and later that use the A9 chip or better. Using your phone's camera, it takes photos from your Photo Library and frames them in virtual picture frames that you color, mat, and position on the wall. Compared to "Wall Gallery Designer Lite", the Pro-Version of "Wall Gallery Designer" has these additional capabilities: • Frozen Reality™ • Frozen Viewpoints™ • Color Triage™ • Color recommendations for mats based on the colors in framed pictures • Persistent Scenes and Galleries • Exporting archived Galleries and Scenes • Double matting • Float framing and clip frames • 4- and 8-ply mats • Fast single tap color and framing changes with MultiMenu controls • Custom mat, frame and wall colors, and sizes • Frame and mat colors can be picked from room furnishings • Move frames to guide • More than one wall in a scene • and more... Use the in-app help for instructions, tips, and more. Visit http://WallGalleryDesigner.com for video overviews.

Screenshots

Frames4 screens
Wall Gallery Designer Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Frames at 47% against Wall Gallery Designer Lite's 0%. Frames also leads on price (Free vs $3.99). Wall Gallery Designer Lite's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Frames is free to download; Wall Gallery Designer Lite costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Frames ships an update every 3 months, Wall Gallery Designer Lite monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Frames versus Wall Gallery Designer Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFramesWall Gallery Designer Lite
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating—3.3 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.616.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCHI HAO CHIUGeorge Purvis III

Customer experience

Frames

Written reviews15 reviews
Positive46.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative40.0%

Wall Gallery Designer Lite

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

Frames

No in-app purchases

None

Wall Gallery Designer Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Frames free?
Frames is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wall Gallery Designer Lite free?
Wall Gallery Designer Lite costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Frames or Wall Gallery Designer Lite have ads?
Frames shows ads; Wall Gallery Designer Lite does not.
Which is updated more often, Frames or Wall Gallery Designer Lite?
Frames ships an update every 3 months, and Wall Gallery Designer Lite monthly. Most recently, Frames was updated on October 5, 2026 and Wall Gallery Designer Lite on October 8, 2026.

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