Comparison

Diptic vs Superimpose X

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

Head to head
About

Diptic

Create stunning photo and video collages with a vast array of customizable layouts and editing tools. Personalize your creations with text, filters, and borders, then share them across your favorite social platforms.

Highlights
  • Photo and video collage creation
  • 194+ customizable layouts
  • Text captions with font/color options
  • 14 filters and image adjustments
  • Video editing with music
  • Import from multiple sources
  • High-resolution export
Features
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Diptic, a former App Store App of the Week, helps you create and share beautiful photo and video collages. See for yourself why millions of people have downloaded this app!

 "A simple, elegant way to use pictures to tell your story." – Macworld DIPTIC 101 • Create collages with photos and videos • Super Customizable — Tons of layouts to choose from plus tons of ways to enhance each one. Save your own customized layouts for re-use • Add text captions, filters, colored borders, textured borders & more LAYOUTS AND BORDERS • Choose from 194+ layouts (additional layouts are available as in-app purchases) • Combine up to nine photos and/or videos in each layout • Customize your layouts to better fit your video or images by sliding interior frame lines or moving joints along the line • Create rectangular Diptics (great for printing) with Expandable Layouts (in-app purchase) • Round the inner and outer borders, as well as modify thickness and color, and apply textures to videos and images IMAGE ADJUSTMENTS • Choose from 14 filters, as well as adjust brightness, contrast, hue and color saturation • Pan, rotate, mirror, flip, and zoom individual photos TEXT CAPTIONS • Personalize your Diptic photo and video creations with a text caption • Adjust the font, style, color and size of the text VIDEO ADJUSTMENTS • Add music to any video collage and adjust audio start and stop time • Pick any song from your Music library • Customize video start and stop time IMPORT/EXPORT OPTIONS • Create Diptics with photos or videos from your library, Instagram, Dropbox, Facebook or Flickr, or take a photo on the spot with the camera • Save Diptics for safe keeping or share them with friends. You can send via email, or share by uploading directly to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or any app that accepts JPGs and/or video files • High-resolution export for pixel-perfect images • Import multiple photos and videos at once and swap media between frames • Add music from your music library to any of your videos 

 Let’s connect!

 Twitter: @dipticapp
 Instagram: @dipticapp
 Facebook: facebook.com/dipticapp 
 Flickr: flickr.com/groups/diptic  Please reach out to us at support@dipticapp.com if you have any suggestions for the new video features or anything else you’d like to see... we’d love to hear from you!

About

Superimpose X

Create stunning photo art with advanced layering, blending, and masking tools. This powerful editor offers a wide array of adjustments, effects, and brushes for both professionals and amateurs. Save your work in sessions and reuse masked images as stickers.

Highlights
  • Multiple layers (up to 24)
  • Extensive adjustment and blending modes
  • AI-powered masking
  • Masking Library for reusable stickers
  • Session Library for project saving
  • Non-destructive editing and effects
  • Export PSD with layers
Features
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Superimpose X is a serious photo editor, and the editor is yours with the app — layers, masks, blend modes, brushes, effects, shadows, text and precision tools, with no subscription to use any of it. When you want more, two studios are built right in and unlock with a subscription: an AI Editor that generates and transforms images, and a true multi-track Video Editor. THE PHOTO EDITOR Build complex edits by hand with the control of a desktop app and none of the complexity. Cut out people and objects, combine images, paint masks, adjust colour, add depth and shadow, then refine every detail. • Layer-based editing with up to 24 layers • Magic Wand, Magic Lasso, brush and shape masks • 18 blend modes and 16 adjustment layers • Non-destructive layer blur and adjustments • 63 photo effects, plus clarity, colour, tone and detail controls • Text and curved text • Motion, Zoom, Spin, Lens and Selective Blur, and gradients • Warp, perspective transform and distortion • Paint, smudge, clone stamp and effect brushes • Shadow and Light Wrap tools • Camera fill with real-time masks and blend modes • Masking Library for reusable cutouts and stickers • Session Library that saves your projects automatically • PSD export with layers • Over a million royalty-free stock photos AI EDITOR Start from a photo, a sketch or a sentence and let AI do the heavy lifting, then take the result back into the layer editor to finish it properly. • Image generation from text • AI editing and inpainting • Background creation and replacement • Outpainting and image expansion • Enhance, relight and repair • Sketch to image • Headshot generation • Face swap • Image to image transformation • Image to video • AI people masking VIDEO EDITOR A real multi-track editor, not a template filler. • Edit video, images, audio and text on multiple tracks • Stack effects and animations for results that are yours • Masks for precise work, including green screen • Track objects through a shot and ramp clip speed • Animate text with elegant presets • Split, trim, rotate and freeze clips • Colour effects, blurs and distortions • Audio EQ, filters and transitions • Royalty-free photos, videos, music and GIFs • Export in a range of formats, including GIF ONE APP, ONE PROJECT The three studios share the same project. Composite a frame in the photo editor and drop it on the timeline. Generate a background with AI and mask it by hand. Pull a still out of a video and edit it as layers. Nothing is exported and re-imported just to move between them. Terms of use: https://www.superimposeapp.com/superimposex_terms_of_use.html Privacy Policy: https://www.superimposeapp.com/privacy2.html

Screenshots

Diptic4 screens
Superimpose X4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Superimpose X at every 9 days against Diptic's every 3 months. Superimpose X also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (86% vs 74%). Diptic's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Diptic costs $2.99 and Superimpose X $4.99 up front. Diptic sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Superimpose X sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Superimpose X holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3K and 3K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Diptic's written reviews are positive against 86% of Superimpose X's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Diptic ships an update every 3 months, Superimpose X every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Diptic versus Superimpose X: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDipticSuperimpose X
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.5 (3K ratings)4.7 (3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews85.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3K3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#41#26 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB377 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRhia BucklinPankaj Goswami

Customer experience

Diptic

All ratings2,997 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral2.3%
Negative9.0%
Written reviews1,368 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative18.8%

Superimpose X

All ratings3,019 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral2.1%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews891 reviews
Positive85.6%
Neutral4.6%
Negative9.8%

User reviews

Diptic

From 3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Versatile and creative
  • 👍 Useful for various purposes
  • 👍 Straightforward interface
  • 👍 Great for photo collages

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Freezes and crashes
  • 🐛 Photos not loading properly
  • 🐛 Exporting/saving issues
  • 🔒 Watermark removal requires in-app purchase
  • 🔒 Paid features not worth the cost

Superimpose X

From 3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Amazing editing capabilities
  • 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly
  • 💡 Powerful layering and masking tools
  • 🚀 Efficient and fast performance
  • 👍 Excellent value for money

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
  • 🐛 Bugs with certain tools (brush, text, etc.)
  • 🔒 Concerns over recent subscription model changes
  • 🔒 Frustration over loss of legacy features

Bugs and requests

Diptic

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to select multiple photos
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • Inconsistent performance across devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • More layout options and flexibility
  • Ability to save and edit previous collages
  • Improved text editing capabilities
  • Direct social media sharing
  • Removal of watermark without additional cost

Superimpose X

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Masking tool issues causing halos
  • Text layer bugs causing loss of text
  • Inconsistent behavior when merging layers
  • Crashes when using certain effects

Requested features

6 requests
  • More layer support
  • Additional font and text options
  • Improved color adjustment tools
  • Custom brush settings
  • Ability to rearrange layer order
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  • Expanded stock image library

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Diptic

One-time7
  • Expandable Layouts$0.99
  • Diamond + Triangles Layout Pack$0.99
  • Alphabet Layout Pack$0.99
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  • Numbers Layout Pack$0.99
  • Party Texture Pack$0.99
  • Fun Times Texture Pack$0.99
  • Video Watermark Removal$0.99
8 purchases

Superimpose X

Subscriptions6
  • Pro Membership (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Superimpose X (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • AI Membership (Yearly)7 Days trial$17.991 Year
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  • Pro Membership (Yearly)$17.991 Year
  • Superimpose X Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Superimpose X Pro (Yearly)$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • 500 Pro AI Coins$3.99
  • 1000 Pro AI Coins$6.99

Questions

Is Diptic free?
Diptic costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Superimpose X free?
Superimpose X costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Diptic or Superimpose X?
Superimpose X is rated higher. Diptic averages 4.5 out of 5 from 3K ratings, while Superimpose X averages 4.7 from 3K ratings.
Do Diptic or Superimpose X have ads?
Neither Diptic nor Superimpose X shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Diptic or Superimpose X?
Diptic ships an update every 3 months, and Superimpose X every 9 days. Most recently, Diptic was updated on October 15, 2026 and Superimpose X on October 14, 2026.
Which is more popular, Diptic or Superimpose X?
Diptic currently peaks at #41 in the App Store charts, and Superimpose X at #26. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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