Like A Frame vs CaptionEdit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Like A Frame
Easily add professional frames, text, and effects to your photos for social media. This app offers a variety of editing tools to enhance your images and create stunning visual content without complex software. Export your creations in high resolution for both online sharing and print.
- Add photo frame borders and mattes
- Incorporate text and emoji layers
- Adjust cropping ratios and corners
- Apply 3D bevels and shadows
- Split panoramic photos for carousels
- Resize photos for sharing
- Save custom presets
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Edit your photographs into lifelike frames with text layers and share them on social media effortlessly. Like A Frame is crafted by a photographer for photographers and digital artists. Try Like A Frame FREE for 7 days before deciding to purchase a lifetime license. This is required to continue using the app after the trial periods ends. Whether you're adding a photo frame border, matte, rounded corners, 3D bevel, internal and external shadows, or adjusting cropping ratios, with layers and color choices, Like A Frame 4 makes it simple to present your work professionally online without needing additional editing. Incorporate text layers and emojis to design marketing or promotional materials. Transform your photographs into a stunning photo gallery, generate images for multimedia projects, or unleash your creativity. Save your presets and export your compositions at up to 8K resolution for print. Other Features: • Split Panorama: Easily divide your panoramic photos into multiple images to post to social media platforms as scrolling carousels. • Resize Photo: Quickly resize photos for sharing at lower resolutions or to save bandwidth.
CaptionEdit
Easily add captions and enhance old photos without obscuring the image. Preserve important details and context for family history with simple, fast editing tools. Captions are saved directly into photo metadata for seamless organization.
- Add captions without covering the photo
- Multi-line captions
- Captions saved into metadata
- Improve brightness, contrast, and clarity
- Works with scanned and born-digital photos
- Permanent license
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Add captions without obscuring any of your photo Write names, dates, places, or notes using a clean two‑part caption layout with auto-sizing. Captions are saved into metadata so your photos stay organised across devices and apps. Fix and enhance old photos Improve brightness, contrast, and clarity with simple adjustments designed for scanned or historical images. Perfect for family history and genealogy Add context to old photos, label people, and preserve important details for future generations. Designed for speed and simplicity CaptionEdit focuses on the essentials — no clutter, no complex tools, just fast, reliable editing. Features - Add captions without covering the photo - Multi-line captions - Captions saved into metadata - Improve brightness, contrast, and clarity - Works with scanned and born-digital photos - Permanent license - no account required
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CaptionEdit at 5.0 against Like A Frame's 4.6. Like A Frame's advantage is ratings volume (40 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and 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
Both are free to download. Like A Frame sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and CaptionEdit sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CaptionEdit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Like A Frame has 40 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Like A Frame's written reviews are positive against 100% of CaptionEdit's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Like A Frame | CaptionEdit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicholas Bedford | Aleka Consulting Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Like A Frame
CaptionEdit
In-app purchases
Like A Frame
- 7-Day Free TrialFree
- Lifetime Purchase$1.99
CaptionEdit
- CaptionEdit 1 Month7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- CaptionEdity 1 Year7 Days trial$2.991 Year
- CaptionEdit Permanent License$19.99
- Caption Edit2 variants$19.99
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