Comparison

Wall Gallery Designer vs Cobalt Image

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

Head to head
About

Wall Gallery Designer

Design and visualize gallery walls using augmented reality. Virtually hang and arrange photos, experiment with frame styles, colors, and mats, and get color recommendations to match your decor. Save and share your designs with confidence.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality visualization
  • Drag and drop photo import
  • Frozen Reality™ mode
  • Automatic picture arrangement
  • Customizable frame sizes, colors, and mats
  • Float, canvas, and frameless styles
  • Color Triage™ for mat color recommendations
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Using augmented reality, "Wall Gallery Designer" accelerates gallery design by framing and hanging pictures on gallery walls. Drag and drop photos directly from Photos or other compatible apps. Freeze reality to design without holding your device up. Automatically arrange pictures using pack frames. Share photos from your Photos or Lightroom® Library to the app. With a few taps, quickly change frame sizes, colors, and mats or rearrange pictures. Choose the best colors from lists where the best are highlighted in green based on an analysis of selected pictures. Don't want a frame? Choose float, canvas, and frameless styles. Millions of mat and frame combinations are stocked in stores. Choosing sizes and colors in a store with bad lighting, instead of on the wall where the framed picture will hang, often fails because beautifully framed and matted pictures clash with the decor of the room where they were intended to hang. Use "Wall Gallery Designer's" augmented reality to create a gallery with confidence that it works with your room decor. When you explore possibilities with “Wall Gallery Designer”, you are more likely to choose excellent print sizes, mats, and frames with less hassle, saving you time, money, and stress. Can you answer these questions? • How big should my photos be printed for display on my wall? • What mat color is best for my framed photos and the colors of my room? • Would a narrow or wide-frame face look better with my furniture? • Where should I hang the framed pictures? • Should the colors in my photos be adjusted to work better with my decor? • How should I arrange my art on the wall? • Frameless, canvas, metal, or wood framing? • How do I organize my ideas for walls and galleries and then share them with others? • How do I record and save designs? With "Wall Gallery Designer", you answer these questions and more to make art displays for walls, galleries, homes, businesses, and outdoor art shows. Each arrangement is a multi-wall scene within a gallery. Instantly switch scenes in a gallery to compare different designs for the walls. Create separate galleries for different clients or locations. 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 may even pick up colors from the room or picture to use on frames, mats, and walls. Analyzing the picture, the app even suggests mat colors. Virtually "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 it for a frame that has a frame face size of 'none'. The special features of "Wall Gallery Designer" include: • Frozen Reality™ • Viewpoint snapshots™ • Color Triage™ • Mat color recommendations are based on the colors in framed pictures • Work quickly:  1. Changes apply to all selected framed pictures  2. Related changes such as frame, mat, and overmat colors, can be seen and changed with a single tap • Persistent Scenes and Galleries • Export 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 • Leveling lines • Many walls in a scene • Add custom frame profile patterns • Share a single wall gallery with Quick Look AR • and more... "Wall Gallery Designer" is an app for iPhone 6s or newer iPads that use the A9 processor, but it is best with LiDAR. Use the in-app help for instructions, tips, and more. Visit http://WallGalleryDesigner.com for video overviews.

About

Cobalt Image

Enhance your iPhone photos with advanced AI, HDR, and smart portrait modes. This app offers unparalleled control over non-raw images, featuring cutting-edge white balance and Luma curve adjustments. Access renowned digital and film emulations for professional-level editing.

Highlights
  • AI-enhanced picture processing
  • HDR and smart portrait modes
  • Advanced color models for HEIC files
  • Unprecedented control over non-raw photos
  • White balance and Luma curve adjustments
  • Renowned digital and film emulations
  • Direct editing from Apple Photos
Features
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Please note that Cobalt Image PHOTO is available through subscription plans. The Full Access Yearly subscription provides a 7-day trial period during which you can try the full app and decide to cancel at any time. Our Digital and Film packs are renowned for their accuracy and are now available for all images taken by your favorite device. Your AI-enhanced pictures with HDR and smart portrait mode will be the starting point for our emulations. Cobalt Image PHOTO introduces a new advanced tool powered by the latest color models, specifically designed for treating AI-enhanced iPhone HEIC files. Leveraging the best color science available, it enhances and edits your cherished memories captured by the iPhone. Experience unparalleled freedom with our image editor, where you’ll be astonished by the unprecedented level of control over your non-raw photos. Our advanced color pipeline, featuring cutting-edge white balance and Luma curve adjustments, elevates the app to extraordinary heights, setting a new standard in photo editing. Features: - A complete set of renowned emulations made by Cobalt, both Digital and Film (Film available on Full Access subscription) - Advanced BW scientific conversion - Advanced White Balance - Luma curve on CIECAM16 - RGB curves on ProPhoto - Brightness, Contrast, Saturation all on CIECAM16 - Clarity - Structure - Advanced grain - Vignette The app can also be accessed directly from Apple Photos through the sharing function, allowing for direct editing of the selected photo. Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Wall Gallery Designer4 screens
Cobalt Image4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cobalt Image at 56% against Wall Gallery Designer's 0%. Cobalt Image also leads on price (Free vs $24.99) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). Wall Gallery Designer's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 2.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On update cadence, ads and device support 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

Cobalt Image is free to download; Wall Gallery Designer costs $24.99 up front. Cobalt Image sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Wall Gallery Designer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wall Gallery Designer holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Wall Gallery Designer's written reviews are positive against 56% of Cobalt Image's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wall Gallery Designer ships an update every 10 days, Cobalt Image every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Wall Gallery Designer versus Cobalt Image: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWall Gallery DesignerCobalt Image
Price$24.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better2.3 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews55.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size648 MB203 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorge Purvis IIICobalt Image LTD

Customer experience

Wall Gallery Designer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%

Cobalt Image

All ratings6 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.4%

In-app purchases

None

Wall Gallery Designer

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Cobalt Image

Subscriptions3
  • Cobalt Image Pro Digital$3.491 Month
  • Cobalt Image Pro Monthly$5.491 Month
  • Cobalt Image Pro Yearly7 Days trial$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Wall Gallery Designer free?
Wall Gallery Designer costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cobalt Image free?
Cobalt Image is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wall Gallery Designer or Cobalt Image?
Wall Gallery Designer is rated higher. Wall Gallery Designer averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Cobalt Image averages 2.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Wall Gallery Designer or Cobalt Image have ads?
Neither Wall Gallery Designer nor Cobalt Image shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wall Gallery Designer or Cobalt Image?
Wall Gallery Designer ships an update every 10 days, and Cobalt Image every 5 days. Most recently, Wall Gallery Designer was updated on October 11, 2026 and Cobalt Image on October 8, 2026.

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