Comparison

PicFrame vs Photo Collage Maker & Creator

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

Head to head
About

PicFrame

Create stunning photo and video collages with over 100 adjustable templates or design your own. Easily combine multiple images and videos, add text, filters, and stickers for social media or print. Offers full creative control and high-resolution exports.

Highlights
  • 100+ adjustable layouts
  • Custom frame design
  • Combine photos and videos
  • Text, filters, and stickers
  • Drawing and shape tools
  • Multiple aspect ratios
  • High-resolution export
Features
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Turn your photos and videos into collages and grids with PicFrame, the free photo collage maker. Create beautiful layouts, digital scrapbooks, and before-after comparisons in seconds. With over 100 adjustable templates and the ability to design your own custom frames and layouts, your photos will always look their best. Whether you're scrapbooking memories, crafting a photo book, printing layouts, or designing grid posts for Instagram and TikTok, PicFrame makes every collage simple, fun, and professional-looking. Why creators love PicFrame • 100+ fully adjustable layouts, or design your own custom frames • Combine up to 16 photos or videos in one collage • Make before-after comparisons or side-by-side photo grids • Resize, rotate, zoom, and mirror each element • Add text labels with custom fonts, colors, outlines, and tape effects • Draw directly on your design using touch or Apple Pencil • Apply filters, shadows, rounded corners, and borders • Use shapes like circles, hearts, and hexagons • Add stickers and comic-style details • Include music in video collages • Choose any aspect ratio (square, 16:9, 4:5, and more) • Advanced print layout preview for perfect results • High-resolution exports and easy sharing to social apps • Drag & drop photos on iPad for fast editing • Works on iPhone and iPad, with Dark and Light Mode Perfect for • Photo collages, video grids & digital scrapbooks • Instagram, TikTok, and Threads posts • DIY crafts & creative projects • Before/after photo comparisons • Comics, photo stories, and cards • Print layouts, grids, and picture frames Rated 9/10 in the Wired App Guide. Download PicFrame, the free photo collage editor that makes your pictures and videos stand out! Terms of use: https://activedevelopment.co.nz/terms-conditions/

About

Photo Collage Maker & Creator

Easily combine multiple photos into a single, framed picture. Offers over 1000 free layouts, extensive customization options with stickers, text, and borders, and seamless sharing to social media. Create stunning visual stories or product displays.

Highlights
  • Over 1000 free layouts
  • Combine up to 20 photos
  • Extensive stickers, text, and frames
  • Customizable borders and patterns
  • Photo effects and filters
  • High-resolution saving and sharing
Features
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Quickly combine multiple photos into one beautifully framed picture. Join over 3 million users who love to tell their story with collage and share with friends & family via social media or email! Photo Collage Creator packs a simple design with a powerful editor to give you everything you could possibly want to make your photo's simply amazing. All 1000+ layouts are FREE!!! In fact almost all the features are FREE! You'll really love the creativity with endless combinations of patterns, stickers, text, borders, filters, shapes,frames and more. Save to Camera Roll or share your masterpiece on your favorite social media networks including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Support for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, plus High Resolution up to 3264 x 3264 for newer devices. Create a before-and-after sequence, combine up to 20 great photos of each of your kids, or produce a photographic series. Also super useful for online businesses to display product! Heres what our users had to say: Fantastic love it! Having lots of fun with this app it makes my photo's look beautiful. Its a free app which is a bonus because it is so full of fun stuff, frames and colors and its cool. Awesome Really great! The best of it's kind! Well done... Love the background/frame and text choices! FEATURES: LAYOUTS (ALL FREE) - Over 1000 layouts - Choose photos first - Combine up to 20 photos - Regular and Irregular Layouts (Funky) BORDERS & DECORATION - 150 Patterns(96 FREE) - Unsplash and Pixabay for image search - Blur, Scale, Lighten & Darken Patterns *Super Creative (ALL FREE) - Full spectrum color picker for borders (ALL FREE) - Set photo as background (FREE) - Blur Background (FREE) - Shadow bordrs (ALL FREE) - Rounded corners (FREE) - Background, Inner and Border all adjustable (ALL FREE) - Over 400 stickers (80 FREE) - Over 40 Frames (ALL FREE) TEXT (All FREE) - Over 80 fonts - Full spectrum color picker - Move, resize and rotate easily - Snap to 90 degree PHOTO EDITOR (ALL FREE) -Apply amazing photo effects to individual photos - Zoom, pan, pinch, rotate for better control - Mirror each photo - Apply filters - Apply Shapes - Shadow each photo SAVE & SHARE - Save to Camera Roll - Export to Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote or any other installed application that will accept JPEG images. - Email - High resolution export up to 3264 x 3264 for newer devices PREMIUM You can subscribe to PREMIUM for unlimited access to premium content, including: Unlocking all Stickers, Over 50 Pro Patterns, Pro Fonts, Custom Photo Backgrounds, No Ads, and much more - The subscription is with a 3 day free trial, then charged yearly - You'll be able to use unlimited features for the duration of your subscription - Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off for at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription Terms of use: http://cushwayapps.com/app-privacy/collagecreator/terms.html Privacy policy: http://cushwayapps.com/app-privacy/collagecreator/privacy.html Have you found a bug, got a suggestion, or want a new feature? Email us at: support@honkhonkpunch.com

Screenshots

PicFrame4 screens
Photo Collage Maker & Creator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PicFrame at none against Photo Collage Maker & Creator's shown. Photo Collage Maker & Creator's advantage is ratings volume (56K vs 17K) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. PicFrame sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Photo Collage Maker & Creator sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for PicFrame against 4.8 for Photo Collage Maker & Creator. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17K and 56K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of PicFrame's written reviews are positive against 86% of Photo Collage Maker & Creator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PicFrame ships an update every 9 days, Photo Collage Maker & Creator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PicFrame versus Photo Collage Maker & Creator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPicFramePhoto Collage Maker & Creator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (17K ratings)4.8 (56K ratings)
Positive reviews77.9% of reviews85.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17K56K — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperActive Development LimitedAlan Cushway

Customer experience

PicFrame

All ratings17,103 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews417 reviews
Positive77.9%
Neutral4.8%
Negative17.3%

Photo Collage Maker & Creator

All ratings55,767 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews774 reviews
Positive85.5%
Neutral4.8%
Negative9.7%

User reviews

PicFrame

From 17K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Reliable and consistent
  • 💡 Useful for various purposes (collages, before/after, etc.)
  • 🎨 Lots of customization options (frames, layouts, etc.)

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Locked features behind paywall
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 🤔 Confusing UI changes after updates
  • 🔍 Missing key features (e.g. image resizing)

Photo Collage Maker & Creator

From 56K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Lots of collage options
  • 🚀 Efficient photo editing
  • 🎨 Customizable designs
  • 💕 Great for creating memories

Room to improve

  • 💰 Paid features can be limiting
  • 🐛 Occasional glitches and crashes
  • 🔒 Lack of privacy/security controls
  • 🔋 High battery consumption

Bugs and requests

PicFrame

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Saved photos not matching the on-screen layout
  • Inability to delete cells in a layout
  • Inconsistent behavior when adding text

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free layout and frame options
  • Ability to edit individual frame sizes
  • Improved Instagram integration
  • Ability to save and reuse custom layouts

Photo Collage Maker & Creator

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Photos become blurry or pixelated in collages
  • Difficulty finding and selecting photos

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to overlap/angle photos
  • More free stickers and fonts
  • Option to save collages for later editing
  • Filters and advanced editing tools

In-app purchases

10 purchases

PicFrame

Subscriptions5
  • PicFrame Create Monthly$1.491 Month
  • PicFrame Create Monthly$1.991 Month
  • PicFrame Create Yearly3 Days trial$12.991 Year
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  • PicFrame Create Yearly1 Year trial$12.991 Year
  • PicFrame Create Yearly3 Days trial$17.991 Year
One-time5
  • Food Stickers$0.99
  • Text Stickers$0.99
  • Custom Watermarks$1.99
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  • Templates$2.99
  • PicFrame Create Lifetime$49.99
10 purchases

Photo Collage Maker & Creator

Subscriptions1
  • Premium3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time9
  • Easter$0.99
  • Fun Stickers$0.99
  • Halloween Stickers$0.99
Show 6 more
  • Ransom Note Letters$0.99
  • Valentines Day Stickers$0.99
  • Vintage Elements$0.99
  • Words$0.99
  • All Stickers$2.99
  • Pro Upgrade$49.99

Questions

Is PicFrame free?
PicFrame is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Photo Collage Maker & Creator free?
Photo Collage Maker & Creator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PicFrame or Photo Collage Maker & Creator?
PicFrame and Photo Collage Maker & Creator are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 17K and 56K ratings respectively.
Do PicFrame or Photo Collage Maker & Creator have ads?
Photo Collage Maker & Creator shows ads; PicFrame does not.
Which is updated more often, PicFrame or Photo Collage Maker & Creator?
PicFrame ships an update every 9 days, and Photo Collage Maker & Creator every 3 weeks. Most recently, PicFrame was updated on September 24, 2026 and Photo Collage Maker & Creator on September 25, 2026.

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