Comparison

Strip Designer vs Comic Touch 2

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

Head to head
About

Strip Designer

Create your own comic books using photos, text, stickers, and drawings. Design custom layouts, add speech balloons, and apply filters to tell your stories. Export your creations as high-quality PDFs or share them directly with friends.

Highlights
  • 100+ page templates
  • Custom panel layouts
  • Customizable speech balloons
  • 3D warped text
  • 150+ stickers
  • Photo filters and effects
  • Drawing and masking tools
  • PDF export
Features
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Create amazing comic books with your photos and share with friends and family. Tell exciting stories with balloons, stickers, drawings, and warped 3D lettering. Strip Designer offers the complete comic creation experience on iOS and macOS. And no in-app purchases -- Everything is included! You'll begin by selecting one of the many included comic book page templates or create your own custom layout. Next, you'll add photos from the camera, your album, or create a drawing. Apply filters, or even paint on and mask your photos for atmosphere, style and retouching. Add balloons and text anywhere you want and in any direction and size. Play with the colors and fonts until you get the perfect look. Add stickers like "Boom", "Splash", or "Bang" to spice up the action -- Even create your own library using photos from your photo-album and the built-in masking and drawing tools. Use 3D warped text with thick borders and gradient color-fill to give your comic the extra super-hero feel. Download and add additional free fonts easily within the app, to give your text a unique look! While you work, you can freely pan and zoom to control even tiny details. Once you have finished your masterpiece you can save it to your photo album or share it with your friends. Use PDF to share entire comic books in high-quality. -- All from within Strip Designer. Key Features: • More than a 100 page templates with 1 to 9 photo cells • Multipage books • Create your own panel layout with up-to 12 cells or use one of the standard layouts • Many balloon types with customizable tails and heads • Balloons can have multiple tails and be combined • Flexible text options with per-letter colors and fonts • Adjust ballon size, rotation, color, and transparency • Add text (3D, warped, and perspective) for a superhero vibe • Use any iOS font or install additional fonts for unique touch • More than 150 stickers to insert for additional impact • Page effects to give your pages old look • Dropbox and WebDAV download/upload support • Export to PDF to create real comic books • Import PDFs (for both cells and custom stickers) • Control scale, position, and rotation of photos • Integrated drawing and masking tools to create your own drawings, paint on photos, or make your own stickers • Auto mask and feather photos (to remove background) • Many different cell styles • Photo filters • Fluidly pan and zoom to manage even the smallest details • Insert maps for additional context • iCloud sync across devices • Support for iOS's third party document providers • Layers view to lock or reorder layers • Shared iPad (for education) setup through MDM configuration No in-app purchases -- Everything is included! - What the reviewers say - "Strip Designer is worth every penny it costs, and then some. I would pay a couple more bucks for Lifestrips. It's stable, it's easy, it's fun, and for all that I couldn't come up with anything witty for my comic text, I love the look of my comics. Someone with a better imagination than I apparently have could really do fabulous things with this app. I rate it a solid five stars out of five.", Pamela Flora, iPhoneography - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "We were simply blown away by this application and the detail that has gone into the editing options and templates. We enjoyed the fact that a comic can be created very easily with photos and simple text effects, however there is real opportunities to really drill down into the editing options where the user can explore the apps true potential. There are many comic strip applications available on the Appstore but this is by far one of the best and great value for money. This app comes highly recommended by The Educational Appstore.", - See more at: http://www.educationalappstore.com/app/strip-designer#sthash.2KqjbU5Q.dpuf" --------------------------

About

Comic Touch 2

Transform your photos into comic book art with various templates, filters, and creative tools. Add speech balloons, captions, and stamps to personalize your creations before sharing them with friends or ordering prints.

Highlights
  • Live preview camera
  • Photo filters for comic art
  • Customizable lettering and captions
  • Speech balloons and comic stamps
  • Template selection
  • Photo sharing
  • Print ordering
Features
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Show off your friends and family as the stars they are with Comic Touch. Whether it's totally awesome or epic fail you'll find a template to match the moment. Take the perfect shot with the innovative live preview. Apply killer photo filters turn your photos into comic art. Customize lettering for some SHAZAM! Speech balloons and comic stamps add some fun. Comic Touch 2 is the funnest app for creating comics out of your pictures. Swipe through templates while in the camera mode to see exactly what your comic layout will look like before you take the picture. Add your own balloons, comic lettering and captions to the templates with a tap. There’s a Comic Touch filter perfect for your shot, anything from grunge, to halftones to classics – 20 combinations in total! Choose from 28 comic stamps to give your creation even more excitement. When you’re done you can easily share with friends and family and even send to Kodak for beautiful prints you’ll want to keep. Comes with 16 portrait and 8 landscape professionally designed templates to get you started and more available via in-app purchase (with many more on the way!).

Screenshots

Strip Designer4 screens
Comic Touch 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Comic Touch 2 at Free against Strip Designer's $3.99. Comic Touch 2 also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15). Strip Designer's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 7). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Comic Touch 2 is free to download; Strip Designer costs $3.99 up front. Comic Touch 2 sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Strip Designer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Strip Designer holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strip Designer has 73 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Strip Designer's written reviews are positive against 57% of Comic Touch 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Strip Designer versus Comic Touch 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrip DesignerComic Touch 2
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (73 ratings) — better3.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews87.8% of reviews — better56.5% of reviews
Number of ratings73 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS159.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB86 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperVivid Appsplasq LLC

Customer experience

Strip Designer

All ratings73 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews336 reviews
Positive87.8%
Neutral4.8%
Negative7.4%

Comic Touch 2

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive56.5%
Neutral7.2%
Negative36.2%

Bugs and requests

Strip Designer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when trying to change comic name
  • Issues with photo import and orientation
  • Problems with text resizing in speech bubbles

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to create and save custom templates
  • Option to organize projects into folders
  • More advanced drawing/editing tools
  • Improved navigation for browsing past projects
  • Wireless printing or export options

Comic Touch 2

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Strip Designer

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Comic Touch 2

One-time7
  • Tradeshow PackFree
  • Love PackFree
  • School Pack 1$0.99
Show 4 more
  • Work Pack 1$0.99
  • Dogs Pack$0.99
  • New Years Pack$0.99
  • Cats Pack$0.99

Questions

Is Strip Designer free?
Strip Designer costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Comic Touch 2 free?
Comic Touch 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Strip Designer or Comic Touch 2?
Strip Designer is rated higher. Strip Designer averages 4.9 out of 5 from 73 ratings, while Comic Touch 2 averages 3.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Strip Designer or Comic Touch 2 have ads?
Neither Strip Designer nor Comic Touch 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Strip Designer or Comic Touch 2?
Strip Designer ships an update every 2 months, and Comic Touch 2 every 2 months. Most recently, Strip Designer was updated on September 23, 2026 and Comic Touch 2 on September 19, 2026.

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