Diptic vs iColorama S
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!
iColorama S
Transform your photos with over 500 artistic effects and advanced image adjustments. Repaint images using a variety of brushes, including imported Photoshop brushes, to create unique digital art. Perfect for unleashing your creative vision.
- Over 500 photo effects
- Image adjustments
- Brush painting
- Import Photoshop brushes
- Art creation tools
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Unleash your creativity with iColorama, the ultimate photo editing, and art creation app! There are too many effects to be listed here, more than 500! The effects are from simple image adjustments to complicated graphic transformations. Images can also be repainted with many different brushes, and you can import and use Photoshop brushes! Just check the tag #icolorama on Instagram and find more than 300 000 images that have been edited using this app! Start creating your own art today with iColorama!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: iColorama S at Free against Diptic's $2.99. iColorama S also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). Diptic's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (3K vs 178). On review sentiment, 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
iColorama S is free to download; Diptic costs $2.99 up front. Diptic sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and iColorama S sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Diptic holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diptic has 3K ratings behind it against 178, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Diptic's written reviews are positive against 72% of iColorama S's.
Diptic ships an update every 3 months, iColorama S every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diptic | iColorama S |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (3K ratings) — better | 4.1 (178 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better | 72.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3K — better | 178 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #44 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 1.1 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rhia Bucklin | Enrique Garcia |
Customer experience
Diptic
iColorama S
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
iColorama S
From 178 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Powerful and versatile photo editing capabilities
- 👍 Allows for creative and artistic expression
- 🚀 Constantly updated with new features
- 👍 Comprehensive set of tools and effects
- 👍 Produces high-quality, professional-looking results
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezes
- 🔒 Concerns about recent changes to functionality requiring additional purchases
- 👎 Unintuitive or difficult to use interface for some users
- 🐛 Compatibility issues with certain devices or iOS versions
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
iColorama S
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to save edited photos without additional purchases
- Unwanted watermarks or overlays appearing on saved images
- Sudden changes to functionality or loss of previously available features
Requested features
5 requests- Improved undo/redo functionality
- Better masking and layering tools
- Zoom and detail options
- Foreground, background, and depth masking
- Support for animation or video editing
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
iColorama S
- iColorama S PRO3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- iColorama S PRO3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- iColorama S PRO$14.99









