Comparison

Kolaj vs FriendCircle

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

Head to head
About

Kolaj

Create stunning social media content without design experience. This app offers numerous templates, fonts, stickers, and editing tools to make your photos and videos captivating for platforms like Instagram and TikTok.

Highlights
  • 500+ ready-to-use templates
  • 300+ shape masks
  • Collage creation with layers
  • Extensive font and sticker library
  • Photo and video editing tools
  • One-tap social media sharing
Features
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You don't need to be a designer to create eye-catching content! Just use our app. Have you ever wondered why some influencers have a stunning response for their social media content? Well, the answer is mostly in their design and how their posts and stories look. The design and overall appearance can make or break your post or story. With Story Maker & Layout Templates, you have the necessary tools to create viral content. To become the next big thing. Create captivating story designs with photos and video in a few steps. Add sleek fonts and stickers, and get amazing responses that will boost your appearance, brand, and personality. All that without any knowledge or background in design. You just need your iPhone. HERE IS HOW YOUR CONTENT CAN SHINE USING OUR APP: ◉ 500+ handpicked ready-to-use Templates Take the guesswork out on what your story or post should look like. Explore an amazing collection of templates for every mood, and find the matching designs for your content, no matter if it’s business, travel, cute, class, or romantic. ◉ 300+ Shape Masks Differentiate yourself from the crowd by creating unique posts with the clipping mask feature where you can utilize thousands of shapes. ◉ Create dazzling collages With our in-built collage templates and collage editor, you get the chance to create stunning collages from your photos. But unlike the other hard-to-use collage makers, we implemented layers that allow you to easily edit every part of your collage. It’s so easy to make a perfect collage of photos. ◉ Huge library of fonts and stickers Use our unique library of hot fonts and stickers to add meaning to your posts. Whether you want to tell a story, express a feeling, or describe your content, you will find tons of stickers and fonts. From artsy and cute, to classic, bold, and modern, there is something for everyone. ◉ Adjust your content to perfection Make use of a powerful photo and video editor to perfect your content. Understanding that not every time your photos will be as you want them, we included a professional editor to give that final touch to set the vibe and crop/resize the content for the social media you plan to post to. Our powerful, yet easy-to-use editor features: - Enhance, adjust, and customize photos and videos: Change exposure, contrast, saturation, vibrance, warmth, tint, shadows, highlights, fade, sharpness, and blur - Create custom edge styles for photos and videos with the outline and shadow tools - Perfectly align photos, videos, text, and any element with auto-snapping - Control the shadow on your product to make it look real - Blur background or any other element with our AI-powered smart selection tool - Crop, rotate, resize, blur, and beautify your photos easily, you can even frame your images in Instagram's 1:1 aspect ratio! ◉ Share on social media with 1 tap You created a stunning story, video, or photo and you are ready to stun the world? You can easily share it to Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, or send it privately as text or email with just 1 tap. Now it’s time to utilize the powerful editing features of Story Maker & Layout Templates! ► Download our app for free and take your social media profiles to a new level with professional design and editing!

About

FriendCircle

Share photos and links privately with your real friends, without ads or algorithms. Connect using your phone number and see posts chronologically. Focus on genuine connections, not performance metrics.

Highlights
  • Private photo and link sharing
  • No ads or sponsored content
  • Chronological feed
  • Connect via phone number
  • No likes or engagement metrics
  • Mutual friend connections
Features
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Share photos with the people who actually matter. No strangers, no analytics, no ads. Just your real friends, your own FriendCircle. FriendCircle is a private moment sharing app built around one idea: social media should be about your actual friends. Not followers. Not fans. Not an algorithm deciding who deserves your attention. HOW IT WORKS Sign up with your phone number. No email, no password, no username. FriendCircle checks your contacts to show you who's already here. Send a friend request, and when they accept, you're connected. That's the only way in. Every connection is mutual, every friend is someone you already know. Your feed is chronological. Posts appear in the order they were shared, not ranked by an algorithm. Share photos and links with captions. Comment on your friends' posts. That's it. No likes, no reshares, no metrics telling you how well your life is performing. WHAT MAKES FRIENDCIRCLE DIFFERENT What you WON'T find here: • Ads or sponsored content • In-app purchases or subscriptions • An algorithm deciding what you see • Like counts, follower counts, or engagement scores • Public profiles or discoverability by strangers FriendCircle is Social media as it should be. Life Happens Offline.

Screenshots

Kolaj4 screens
FriendCircle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FriendCircle at none against Kolaj's 7. FriendCircle also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Kolaj's advantage is ratings volume (77 vs 13) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.5). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Kolaj sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. FriendCircle asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FriendCircle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kolaj has 77 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Kolaj's written reviews are positive against 100% of FriendCircle's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kolaj ships an update every 10 days, FriendCircle every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Kolaj versus FriendCircle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKolajFriendCircle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (77 ratings)5.0 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings77 — better13
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB47 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPlayorium LTDSETSUDO, K.K.

Customer experience

Kolaj

All ratings77 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral3.9%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

FriendCircle

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Kolaj

Subscriptions7
  • Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Weekly 3-day Trial3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Monthly$14.991 Month
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  • Monthly 3-day Trial3 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Yearly 3-day Trial3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Yearly 7-days Trial7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Yearly$39.991 Year
None

FriendCircle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kolaj free?
Kolaj is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FriendCircle free?
FriendCircle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Kolaj or FriendCircle?
FriendCircle is rated higher. Kolaj averages 4.5 out of 5 from 77 ratings, while FriendCircle averages 5.0 from 13 ratings.
Do Kolaj or FriendCircle have ads?
Neither Kolaj nor FriendCircle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kolaj or FriendCircle?
Kolaj ships an update every 10 days, and FriendCircle every 4 days. Most recently, Kolaj was updated on November 3, 2026 and FriendCircle on October 31, 2026.

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