Easy Layout vs SimpleBackgrounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Easy Layout
Create unique photo collages and stories with a wide array of layouts and filters. This app allows you to add text, change backgrounds, stitch screenshots into long images, and combine video snapshots with subtitles.
- Hundreds of default layouts
- Variety of filters and themes
- Add text and change backgrounds
- Long screenshot stitching
- Combine video snapshots with subtitles
- High-quality saving and sharing
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Express yourself with Layout and make your story unique! Layout is an App with hundreds of default layouts, hundreds of filters. You can apply different filters to your photos, add text, change background easily. With the powerful function it provides, you can tell your life story like never before! Also, with long screenshot function, your can seamlessly stitch several screenshots into one long picture. Last but not least, with stitching function, you can put up to 9 video-snapshots with subtitle together, and adjust the subtitle area. ◎ hundreds of useful and interesting layout Free to choose the layout mode; free to adjust the size each image occupies; free to change the picture order and location ◎ a variety of filters to express mood Sweet, life, corner ... 12 kinds of themes to express your moods ◎ a dozen of wild background materials change the background color and pattern at will to go together with your photos ◎ fresh and pleasing UI design Smooth operation, intuitive navigation and professional user interface ◎ save and share your masterpiece in high quality Share with your social circles and touch your friends with the story of your life!
SimpleBackgrounds
Discover a collection of 48 beautiful, flat-colored backgrounds designed to give your phone a clean and simplistic look. Save wallpapers perfectly sized for your device, with more colors and features planned for future updates.
- 48 flat (matte) colors
- Normal and darker color versions
- Device-dimensioned saves
- Feedback option
- Future custom color option
- Future Apple Watch app
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Introducing...SimpleBackgrounds! If you're like me and are into more simplistic things in life and you want your phone to reflect that, SimpleBackgrounds is the app for you! It features 48 flat (matte) colors to choose from and more to come! Features: • 24 normal flat colors • 24 darker versions of the normal colors • Feedback option in the settings page • Save backgrounds as the height and width of the device you're on so no matter if you're on an iPad or an iPhone it'll always be dimensioned correctly Features to Come: • Custom color option • Apple Watch app or a place in iOS app for a watch background • Preview mode - shows what the background will look like behind apps or on the lock screen • Many more colors • Different color combination designs There may be a version to come out just for Macs also so stay tuned for that! Enjoy! - Eric Walker, Head Developer
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Verdict
Easy Layout and SimpleBackgrounds both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of SimpleBackgrounds's written reviews are positive against 50% of Easy Layout's. SimpleBackgrounds also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 18 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Easy Layout's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Easy Layout sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and SimpleBackgrounds sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Easy Layout against 5.0 for SimpleBackgrounds. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 10 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Easy Layout's written reviews are positive against 100% of SimpleBackgrounds's.
Easy Layout ships an update every 18 months, SimpleBackgrounds every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Easy Layout | SimpleBackgrounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 毅 朱 | Richard Walker |
Customer experience
Easy Layout
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In-app purchases
Easy Layout
- Background Bundle$0.99
- Filter Bundle$0.99
- Layout Bundle$0.99
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- Remove AD$0.99
- Pro version$2.99
SimpleBackgrounds
- SimpleBackgrounds Pro Features$0.99
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