PicCollage vs Frames
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PicCollage
Create personalized photo collages, cards, and video slideshows. Easily edit photos and videos with filters, cutouts, and animations. Personalize your designs with fonts, stickers, and backgrounds for any occasion.
- Create collages and cards
- Edit photos and videos
- Use ready-to-use layouts and templates
- Personalize with fonts and stickers
- Add videos to collages
- AI-powered background removal
- Curved text editor
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PicCollage - the app that lets you create anything to celebrate everything! With PicCollage, you can turn your photos and videos into memories you want to save and share. Whether you’re looking to flex your creativity with a freestyle collage, stitch together a photo dump of your adventures, or create a quick card for a birthday. PicCollage is the perfect app for the job. Plus, you can even add videos to your collages and create video collages and slideshows that will make your friends and family say, “OMG, where’d you get that?” It's easy, fun, and completely free. Start right now and create your first collage or card! PicCollage at a glance - Create collages, cards and much more - Edit photos and videos easily - filter, cutout, retouch - Use ready-to-use layouts, grids & animated templates - Personalize with fonts, stickers and doodles - Get VIP access for unlimited creativity Try PicCollage now! Our free starter pack is full of new stickers to help you edit photos and videos, create collages and design cards instantly. CREATE COLLAGES, DESIGN CARDS AND MORE You can let your creativity run wild! Whether you want to make a freestyle collage, create a picture collection, or design a card for a birthday, PicCollage offers you the perfect solution! EDIT VIDEOS AND PHOTOS - CUT, FILTER, RETOUCH You can personalize any creations to make your photo and video fit perfectly into your collages with features like cutouts, doodles and animations, and even add videos to your collages to create stunning video collages and slideshows. Enhance your creations by adding pages and save them as a video or slideshow. USE TEMPLATES OR CREATE FREESTYLE You can use a grid, or animated template to create unique cards for any occasion. Add frames around your photos and spice up your collage with fun animations. Our new AI-powered highlight detection keeps the focus of the photo front and center. Of course, you can also design in freestyle mode. REMOVE BACKGROUNDS WITH AI With our cutout tool, you can easily remove the background from a photo to isolate people and pets! But our cutout tool isn’t just a background eraser, it also has fun designs that let you cut photos into stars, hearts, squares and more. We’re always updating this feature to give you the sharpest finish possible. CHOOSE FROM A VARIETY OF FONTS Add more fun to your collage with text! We offer a variety of fonts for you to choose from, from handwritten to formal. If you want something special, explore our curved text editor to effortlessly display your text in a rounded arc, circle, around your photos, or in other creative ways. AI-powered font pairing in our speedy suggested layouts mode will take your designs to the next level. ADD BACKGROUNDS AND STICKERS Thanks to our worldwide collaboration with famous artists and illustrators, PicCollage offers you thousands of exclusive backgrounds and stickers. Add a background to your photos and collages and embellish everything with trendy stickers! PERSONALIZE WITH DOODLES To add a personal touch to your collage, card or slideshow, you can create your own drawings and doodles. This is the perfect way to add the finishing touch to your creation. USE TEMPLATES FOR YOUR INSTAGRAM STORY Whenever you're on Insta and want to create impressive posts, try our templates. Create an Instagram story or reel and share it directly with your followers! PICCOLLAGE VIP PicCollage VIP is a subscription that offers advanced features and removes watermarks and ads. With the 7-day trial version, you can test it for free! As a VIP, you get access to thousands of stickers and backgrounds, as well as exclusive fonts and layouts. Get the PicCollage photo and video editor and let your memories shine! PicCollage(TM) and “Pic Collage” are trademarks of Cardinal Blue Software. Terms of Service: http://cardinalblue.com/tos Privacy Policy: https://cardinalblue.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Frames
Enhance your social media profile pictures with unique borders and stickers. Easily create a more remarkable and distinctive look for your online presence. The app guides you through selecting photos, applying frames, and saving your creations.
- Add circular borders
- Apply stickers
- Change sticker colors
- Select photos from library
- Save edited pictures
- Monthly subscription for full access
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Create awesome profile pictures and increase your social media followers with the Frames Application. Create a different profile picture than the other social media users profiles and be more remarkable. Add stickers and borders or circular for your social media profile picture. Also you can change the colors of your profile picture's stickers. How To Use: 1. Tap + button and select photo from your device's photo library 2. Select borders and see it. 3. Tap "Save" button to save your new profile picture into the your photo library. 4. Open Instagram application and change your profile picture. That's it! Disclaimer: This app is not affiliated with Instagram App. This app only helps you making circular profile picture with borders or frames. *** Unlock All Profile Picture Frames *** Monthly subscription: $2.99/month About Subscriptions: After the 3 days trial period, Monthly subscription automatically renews for $2.99 per month unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the trial period. Your Apple ID account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the trial period. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. You can be inform to cancel your subscription by entering the following address: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 Privacy Policy: https://frames.esasmobile.com/privacy-policy Terms Of Services: https://frames.esasmobile.com/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: PicCollage at 1.8M against Frames's 9. PicCollage also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Frames's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. PicCollage sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Frames sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PicCollage holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PicCollage has 1.8M ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PicCollage ships an update every 3 weeks, Frames every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PicCollage | Frames |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.8M ratings) — better | 4.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.8M — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #26 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 201 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cardinal Blue | Emre Kaya |
Customer experience
PicCollage
Frames
Bugs and requests
PicCollage
Reported bugs
4 issues- Collages randomly disappearing or getting deleted
- Layered text elements getting hidden
- Slow performance and crashes on certain devices
- Issues with restoring in-app purchases
Requested features
10 requests- More free stickers and backgrounds
- Ability to change text outline color
- Underline text option
- In-app camera with filters
- Easier layer management
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- Option to toggle seeing premium items
- Ability to make your own stickers
- Sync collages across devices
- Folder organization for collages
- Improved search functionality
Frames
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PicCollage
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Annual1 Year trial$35.991 Year
- Annual VIP for Collage Makers7 Days trial$35.991 Year
- Party$0.99
- Christmas Pattern Backgrounds$0.99
- Words$0.99
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- Accessories$0.99
- XOXO shape pack$0.99
- *Bling Bling*$1.99
- Remove Watermark and Ads$1.99
- Glitter Party Backgrounds$1.99
Frames
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
Questions
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