Comparison

Slideshow Maker vs photo

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

Head to head
About

Slideshow Maker

Transform your photos into engaging video slideshows with music. Easily select, arrange, and add transitions to your images. Personalize duration and incorporate your favorite tunes before sharing your creations.

Highlights
  • Create slideshows from photos
  • Organize photos with drag-and-drop
  • Add photo transitions
  • Incorporate music from gallery or device
  • Customize slideshow duration
  • Share to social media or save to camera roll
Features
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Turn your memories into movies with music. The app helps you to create beautiful SlideShow from your photos. It's completely FREE. Simple steps: • Pick your photos • Organize them in the right order (Long tap a photo and drag to reorder it) • Select a transition to animate between photos • Choose your favorite music from our gallery or your own songs. • Select the slideshow's length to change the duration per photo. • Share it on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube or save it to your camera roll. So, let's make your memories even more amazing

About

photo

Easily transform your photos into branded artwork with text and effects. Add custom text, frames, and color tints to make your images stand out on social media or save them for later.

Highlights
  • Add branded text to photos
  • Apply color tints and greyscale effects
  • Insert picture frames
  • Add fun glasses to subjects
  • Save to camera roll or share directly
  • Simple pinch-to-zoom and drag gestures
Features
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The most simple way to turn a photo into artwork & share directly to social media or save for later. make your photos insta-worthy with well branded text memes. Photographers can use it for watermarking. Influencers can use it to improve branding. Designed By designers, FOR designers, the Photo Meme toolset is designed to give you great results fast. Simple to understand and use interface. Tap the save button to save design to camera roll, or use a long press gesture on the save button to show the social sharing options and share to social media or message, email, viber etc. Add text to photos in a variety of fonts and colours. Convert colour photos to greyscale with a single tap. - Keep tapping to make them more like black and white images. - Add a colour tint to photos with colour and strength adjustments. - Add text with selectable colours for text and background. - Add from a variety of picture frames, including retro instant photo style. - Add some interesting glasses to your subject for good, clean fun - simple pinch and zoom gestures for adjusting two text lines and glasses. - tap and drag objects to move around the screen. - tap buttons to show and hide objects to let you focus on a simple object - app remembers previously used colours and fonts

Screenshots

Slideshow Maker4 screens
photo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Slideshow Maker at Free against photo's $0.99. Slideshow Maker also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 37 months) and device support (4 vs 1). photo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). On ads 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

Slideshow Maker is free to download; photo costs $0.99 up front. Slideshow Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. photo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Slideshow Maker ships an update every 2 months, photo every 37 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Slideshow Maker versus photo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlideshow Makerphoto
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.7 (6.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 37 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size190 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer国媚 张Michael glucz

Customer experience

Slideshow Maker

All ratings6,378 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral4.6%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews276 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral7.6%
Negative14.1%

photo

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Slideshow Maker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Freezes when trying to load music
  • Inconsistent photo quality when saved
  • Ads interfere with app functionality

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow longer music tracks
  • Add more modern song options
  • Implement filters and effects
  • Enable adjustable slide durations
  • Permit re-editing of saved slideshows

photo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Slideshow Maker

One-time1
  • Remove Ads Now!$2.99
None

photo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Slideshow Maker free?
Slideshow Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is photo free?
photo costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Slideshow Maker or photo have ads?
Neither Slideshow Maker nor photo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Slideshow Maker or photo?
Slideshow Maker ships an update every 2 months, and photo every 37 months. Most recently, Slideshow Maker was updated on November 2, 2026 and photo on November 3, 2026.

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