Comparison

Pic Stitch vs Gradient Shape, Mask Editor

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

Head to head
About

Pic Stitch

Easily combine photos and videos into stunning collages with over 400 layouts. Enhance your creations with filters, borders, and powerful editing tools. Share your masterpieces directly to social media.

Highlights
  • 400+ collage layouts
  • 25 filter packs
  • 30+ border packs
  • Photo and video editing
  • Social media sharing
  • High resolution export
  • Stickers, text, and drawing tools
Features
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Transform your camera roll into stunning collages with Pic Stitch—the ultimate collage maker that easily stitches photos together for iPhone & iPad. With over 400 collage layouts, 25 filter packs, more than 30 border packs and robust photo & video editing tools, Pic Stitch offers a simple design with a powerful collage editor. Create a before-and-after sequence, combine multiple photos and videos into one beautifully framed collage, or produce a photographic series with music. Then share your masterpiece with friends & family on your favorite social media networks including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Pic Stitch is a must-have app for anyone looking to level-up their photography game, whether you're a social media influencer, blogger, content creator, or just looking to make unique collages to share with friends. Create professional-looking collages and make your photos pop with the same powerful tools and templates used by top photographers in the industry. If you have ever wondered how social media influencers combine several images into one glamorous frame, this is the secret tool they all use to make their content a masterpiece! * One of the Top 7 photo apps & Top 100 apps of ALL TIME according to Mashable * Overview: – Explore iOS Home Screen Widget Wallpapers featuring your most recent collages – Discover recent social media Trending Layouts – Browse 375+ different layouts – Explore 25 filter packs to enhance your photos – Design with 30+ border packs & customize layouts – Works with photos and videos – 15 different photo aspect ratios optimized for sharing (i.e. 9x16 format for social stories) – Customize photo borders – Easy to use UI – Amazing photo FX filters – Pan, rotate, flip, mirror and zoom – Share to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more – Save to your photo album – High resolution export Photo Editing Features: – Quick Enhance: hi-definition, scenery, food, portrait, night – Filter Packs: food, style, radiant, romance, noir, soleil, toy camera, wonderland, pop art, mystic, nostalgia, subtle, tital, wanderlust, jetset, spring, summer, beach, layer pro, cabin pro, grunge, brushes, visual fx, eeeeeats – Effects: exposure, brightness, contrast, structure, warmth, saturation, fade, highlights, shadows, vignette, sharpen – Stickers: decorate your photo collage with your favorite stickers powered by Giphy – Text Editor: insert text overlays and select your choice of font styles, colors, backgrounds, shadows and more – Drawing Editor: add your own touch to each photo by selecting a drawing tool of your choice – Meme Editor: turn your photo collage into a meme with a simple template that adds text where it matters most – Watermark Editor: add your own brand logos or create custom watermarks with text, date and time stamps – Frame Editor: white, black, vertical, horizontal, banners, bars – Overlay Editor: circles, pentagons, squares, rectangles, diamonds, grid lines – Rotate & Reflect: left, right, horizontal, vertical – Portrait Editors: blemish, blur, whiten, redeye, splash, sharpen, focus – Crop Tool: 1x1, 1x2, 2x1, 4x6, 6x4, 3x4, 4x3, 5x7, 7x5, 8x10, 10x8, 9x16, 16x9 View our Terms of Service at: https://maplemedia.io/terms-of-service/ View our Privacy Policy at: https://maplemedia.io/privacy/ Your feedback helps us make the app better! If you have comments or suggestions please email us at contact@maplemedia.io * Mashable Mentions * http://mashable.com/2015/12/13/best-iphone-photo-apps-of-all-time http://mashable.com/2015/12/08/100-best-iphone-apps

About

Gradient Shape, Mask Editor

Easily transform your photos by cropping them into over 400 unique shapes, symbols, and letters. Customize foreground colors, transparency, and size. Enhance your images with filters, frames, and text editing tools before sharing.

Highlights
  • Crop photos into 400+ shapes
  • Customize foreground color and transparency
  • Adjust shape size
  • Apply photo filters and frames
  • Add text and stickers
  • Meme generator
Features
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Transform your pics with a great tool redactor. Crop your photos into one of 400+ awesome Shapes, Symbols, Signs and Letters. Share your pics on popular social networks (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter) or save ti camera roll. How it works? - Take a photo or choose from gallery. - Choose your mask shape - Change the foreground color, from more the 500 colors! - Adjust transparency of foreground - Customize the size of your shape *****UNIQUE SHAPES***** - 450+ Total shapes + collage --20 + animals shapes - 20 + balloons shapes - 30 + original shapes - 20 + cartoon shapes - 10+ city shapes - 20+ comics symbols - 25 cool shapes - 24 + circles shapes - 20 + cute shapes - 15 + grunge shapes - 5 horror shapes - 15 iHeart shapes - 20 + invaders shapes - 30 + upper case letters shapes + original signs!!! - 20 + splatter shapes - 25 + superheroes shapes - 20 + weather shapes - many other amazing shapes **CAPTION & STYLE YOUR PIC&COLLAGE WITH AVIARY EDITOR** -- Tons of beautiful photo filters to choose from. Photo enhancer! -- Add Aviary frames to your photo -- Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness -- Remove redeye and blemish -- Draw on your picture. Change color! -- Add texts, stickers very quickly and easily -- Easy to change text color and size -- Easy to move, resize and rotate text -- Enhancement tool to style your photo to perfection -- Meme generator Let us know how you enjoy it. Share with us and your best friends.

Screenshots

Pic Stitch4 screens
Gradient Shape, Mask Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pic Stitch at 45% against Gradient Shape, Mask Editor's 0%. Pic Stitch also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (66K vs 1). Gradient Shape, Mask Editor's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pic Stitch sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Gradient Shape, Mask Editor sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gradient Shape, Mask Editor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pic Stitch has 66K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 45% of Pic Stitch's written reviews are positive against 0% of Gradient Shape, Mask Editor's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pic Stitch ships an update weekly, Gradient Shape, Mask Editor every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Pic Stitch versus Gradient Shape, Mask Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPic StitchGradient Shape, Mask Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (66K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews44.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings66K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#139 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size403 MB20 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMaple Media Apps, LLCNadejda Toma

Customer experience

Pic Stitch

All ratings65,631 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews634 reviews
Positive44.8%
Neutral4.4%
Negative50.8%

Gradient Shape, Mask Editor

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Pic Stitch

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to restore purchases
  • Frequent crashes
  • Editing tools not functioning properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Eye dropper tool
  • Ability to adjust border thickness and color
  • More free layout options
  • Restore previous free features

Gradient Shape, Mask Editor

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Pic Stitch

Subscriptions7
  • Weekly Pro Subscription$3.997 Days
  • Monthly Pro Subscription$6.991 Month
  • Pic Stitch Pro$6.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • Annual Pro Subscription3 variants$34.991 Year
  • Annual Pro Subscription1 Year trial3 variants$34.991 Year
  • Pic Stitch Pro3 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Annual Pro Subscription1 Month trial$34.991 Year
One-time7
  • Borders Pack$3.99
  • Nostalgia Effects Pack$3.99
  • Grunge Effects Pack$3.99
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  • Viewfinder Effects Pack$3.99
  • Frames Pack$3.99
  • Toy Camera Effects Pack$3.99
  • Mustaches Sticker Pack$3.99
10 purchases

Gradient Shape, Mask Editor

One-time10
  • Shape Maker - Basic$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Cities$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Cool$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Shape Maker - Grunge$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Horror$0.99
  • Shape Maker - I love$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Letters$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Random$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Splatter$0.99
  • Shape Maker - Pro version$3.99

Questions

Is Pic Stitch free?
Pic Stitch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gradient Shape, Mask Editor free?
Gradient Shape, Mask Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pic Stitch or Gradient Shape, Mask Editor?
Gradient Shape, Mask Editor is rated higher. Pic Stitch averages 4.7 out of 5 from 66K ratings, while Gradient Shape, Mask Editor averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pic Stitch or Gradient Shape, Mask Editor have ads?
Pic Stitch shows ads; Gradient Shape, Mask Editor does not.
Which is updated more often, Pic Stitch or Gradient Shape, Mask Editor?
Pic Stitch ships an update weekly, and Gradient Shape, Mask Editor every 4 months. Most recently, Pic Stitch was updated on September 30, 2026 and Gradient Shape, Mask Editor on June 4, 2026.

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