Diptic vs Image Blender
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
Image Blender
Easily combine multiple photos into a single image using masks and various blend modes. Create unique visual effects, add textures, or even watermark your creations with this intuitive tool.
- Image blending
- Masking tools
- Multiple blend modes
- Multi-exposure effects
- Add textures and overlays
- Watermarking
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A simplistic and creative app for combining images with masks and different blend modes on your iPhone and iPad. While the use and basic idea is very simple, there's almost an endless list of things you can do with it. Some things worth highlighting are: - Multi Exposure - Choosing where and how much to apply of filter from other apps. - Adding or replacing objects. - Adding textures. - Creating your own personalised filters with overlays - Watermarking or adding logos Image Blender outputs the full resolution without any limits to the size of your source image. If you have any questions before buying, need help to get started or just want to share your work, don't hesitate to send a mail to blender@jhnd.me and I'll do my best to help.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Image Blender at none against Diptic's 7. Image Blender also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (85% vs 74%). Diptic's advantage is chart position (#37 vs #154) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Diptic costs $2.99 and Image Blender $3.99 up front. Diptic sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Image Blender asks for nothing beyond the download.
Image Blender holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3K and 3.4K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Diptic's written reviews are positive against 85% of Image Blender's.
Diptic ships an update every 3 months, Image Blender every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 18, 2026.
| Parameter | Diptic | Image Blender |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (3K ratings) | 4.9 (3.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews | 85.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3K | 3.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #37 — better | #154 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rhia Bucklin | JHND i Sverige AB |
Customer experience
Diptic
Image Blender
User reviews
Diptic
From 3K App Store ratingsWhat 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
Image Blender
From 3.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🙏 Thanks
- 💖 Enjoy creating
- 🎨 This app changed my art
- 🤩 Intuitive and Easy
- 👌 Simple to use good results
Room to improve
- 🐛 Waste
- 🐛 can't use mask
- 🐛 Images won't save
- 🐛 THEY GOT RID OF PASTE FROM PASTEBOARD
- 🐛 No instructions; bundle additions do not work!
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
Image Blender
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes while working
- Watermark application issues
- Blending text from photos comes out of focus
Requested features
5 requests- Masking tool improvements
- Ability to blend more than 2 photos
- Undo button
- Gradient tool
- Ability to choose certain frames from GIFs
In-app purchases
Diptic
- 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
Image Blender
No in-app purchases
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