Comparison

Like A Frame vs Take a Stick

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Take a Stick

Features
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Take a Stick is a camera-first sticker maker. Point your camera at anything, line it up inside a frame, and tap the shutter. Your photo is stamped into a clean, bordered sticker, ready for WhatsApp, Telegram and any chat. No cutout tools. No background eraser. No fiddly editing. You compose the shot first, and the frame does the rest. MAKE STICKERS FROM REAL LIFE • Camera-first capture: frame the moment, then stamp it • Eight punch-out shapes: square, circle, heart, star, hexagon, diamond, cloud and blob • A crisp white border that pops on any chat background • Turn photos from your library into stickers too STICKER EFFECTS • Five looks: holographic, puffy, halftone, mosaic and cross stitch • Preview every effect for free, then apply the one you love A CALENDAR OF EVERYTHING YOU STAMPED • Every sticker lands on the day you made it • See the whole month as a collage, or tap a day to revisit it • Free for everyone ORGANISE YOUR STICKER PACKS • Group stickers into collections you name and colour • Add a private note to any sticker, and search your notes and collections • Pick the cover and the stickers you share in a pack SEND STICKERS ANYWHERE • Add packs straight to WhatsApp and Telegram • Use the share sheet or save to Photos, always free • Works with Messages, Discord and any app that takes an image NINE LANGUAGES English, Português, Español, Bahasa Indonesia, Türkçe, Русский, Deutsch, Français, Italiano. Pick yours in Settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no Take a Stick server • Your photos and stickers stay on your device and we cannot see them • No ads, no tracking, no analytics ONE-TIME UNLOCK, NO SUBSCRIPTION Take a Stick is free to use: capture, shapes, calendar, effect previews, saving and sharing. A single lifetime unlock adds unlimited collections and stickers, photo-library import, applying effects, search, curated packs and private backup. Buy once, keep it forever. Download Take a Stick and turn the world around you into a personal sticker pack.

Screenshots

Like A Frame4 screens
Take a Stick4 screens

Verdict

The call

Like A Frame and Take a Stick are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Like A Frame sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Take a Stick sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Like A Frame ships an update every 6 days, Take a Stick every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Like A Frame versus Take a Stick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLike A FrameTake a Stick
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (42 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews93.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings42 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicholas BedfordJong Yann Goh

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Like A Frame

One-time2
  • 7-Day Free TrialFree
  • Lifetime Purchase$1.99
1 purchases

Take a Stick

One-time1
  • Take a Stick Lifetime Unlock$5.99

Questions

Is Like A Frame free?
Like A Frame is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Take a Stick free?
Take a Stick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Like A Frame or Take a Stick have ads?
Neither Like A Frame nor Take a Stick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Like A Frame or Take a Stick?
Like A Frame ships an update every 6 days, and Take a Stick every 9 days. Most recently, Like A Frame was updated on October 25, 2026 and Take a Stick on October 26, 2026.

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