Comparison

FrameMagic 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

FrameMagic

Create stunning photo and video collages with a vast array of layouts, filters, text options, and music. Enhance your images with intelligent editing tools like object removal, background blur, and color splash effects.

Highlights
  • Photo collage layouts
  • Video collage and slideshows
  • Intelligent photo editing
  • Object removal
  • Background blur
  • Color splash effects
  • Customizable text and stickers
Features
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[FrameMagic] enables you to create awesome photo collage, video collage and video slideshow within just a few seconds with tons of layouts, endless options, colors, patterns, powerful text editor, beautiful filter effects, flexible play options, musics and narrations. [FrameMagic] also supports powerful and intelligent photo editors including object removal, soft skin, dark light, bokeh, sticker, silhouette, outline, hole, background blur, motion blur and color splash. [FrameMagic] also supports magical funny photo editors including face morphing, crystal(refracted) text and pic warping effect. [Photo Collage] • The ultimate photo collage layouts. - Grid : Combine multiple photos with hundreds of rectangular and polygonal layouts. - Auto : Create fully automatic collage with a single tap. - Blended : Blend multiple photos and create stunning collage. - Free Style : No limitation on how you add and arrange your photos. - Vertical Stitch : Combine multiple photos into one long. storytelling collage. - Squared : Create squared photo and video optimized for Instagram. - Montage: Create montage photo collage with powerful object masking tool. - 3D Free Style : Free style collage with 3D perspective layouts. - 3D Mesh : 3D meshed collage with beautiful mesh layouts. • Load multiple photos at once. • Unique decoration with rounded corner, margin, border, shadow. • Background colors and patterns. • Gradient and shape background color. • Powerful text editor and beautiful stickers. • Download and install custom fonts from free font servers. • Edit photo with aviary photo editor. • Easy width and height ratio. • Portrait and landscape mode. • Save and share in HD (up to 3600x3600). [Intelligent Photo Editor] • Object Removal : Remove unncessary objects from your photo in single step. • Sticker Generation : Create sticker and montage with powerful object masking tool. • Silhouette Effect : Create beautiful silhouette effect. • Outline Effect : Create beautiful outline and edge effect. • Hole Generation : Create holed image and montage. • Background Blur : Create manual depth blur effect. (aka portrait photo) • Motion Blur : Create manual panning photography. • Color Splash : Create selective color and greyscale effect. • Soft Skin : Create soft skin effect. • Bokeh : Create circular and hexagonal background bokeh effect. • Dark light : Create selective light and darkness effect. [Video Collage & Slideshow] • 101 rectangular layouts with up to 9 videos • Photo slides with your own photos • Video in video with up to 5 videos (PIP) • Load multiple videos at once • Trim each video at any time and size • Apply beautiful filters to each video • Adjust audio volume of each video • Add your own song as background music • Adjust audio volume and start/end time of background music • Unique decoration with rounded corner, margin, border, shadow • Background colors and patterns • Gradient and shape background color • Powerful text editor and stickers • Easy width and height ratio • Portrait and landscape mode • Save and share in HD (up to 1080x1080) [Fun Photo Editors] • Create face morphing effect. • Add refracted text effect. • Create warp in/out effect. [Subscription for Unlocking all features] - You can subscribe for unlimited access to all features offered for purchase within FrameMagic. - Subscriptions are billed monthly or annually. Alternatively, you can purchase each item for the life time access. - Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/site/mobilabios/terms-of-use - Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/site/mobilabios/privacy-policy

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

FrameMagic4 screens
Photo Collage Maker & Creator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: FrameMagic at none against Photo Collage Maker & Creator's shown. FrameMagic also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). Photo Collage Maker & Creator's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (56K vs 890). 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. FrameMagic sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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

Photo Collage Maker & Creator holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Photo Collage Maker & Creator has 56K ratings behind it against 890, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of FrameMagic's written reviews are positive against 86% of Photo Collage Maker & Creator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FrameMagic ships an update every 5 days, Photo Collage Maker & Creator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
FrameMagic versus Photo Collage Maker & Creator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrameMagicPhoto Collage Maker & Creator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (890 ratings)4.8 (56K ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.7% of reviews85.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings89056K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size164 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDongwook ChoAlan Cushway

Customer experience

FrameMagic

All ratings890 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative10.6%
Written reviews1,070 reviews
Positive71.7%
Neutral6.5%
Negative21.8%

Photo Collage Maker & Creator

All ratings56,252 ratings
Positive96.6%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews791 reviews
Positive85.6%
Neutral4.9%
Negative9.5%

User reviews

FrameMagic

From 890 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fantastic app
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • ⭐️ Great layouts and features
  • 💻 Wonderful for collages and editing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Restore purchases not working
  • 💰 Paid features now required for basic use
  • 🔒 Locked out of previously purchased content
  • 💸 Expensive subscription model

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

FrameMagic

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Inability to access all photos
  • Restore purchases not functioning

Requested features

3 requests
  • Restore previously purchased content
  • Maintain free access to core features
  • Reasonable pricing for longtime users

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

FrameMagic

Subscriptions2
  • [Monthly Subscription]3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • [Annual Subscription]$29.991 Year
One-time8
  • [Use All Layouts]$1.99
  • [Unlock Add Song]$1.99
  • [Unlock Transition]$1.99
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  • [Vertical Stitch]$1.99
  • [Blended Collage]$1.99
  • [Auto Collage]$1.99
  • [Unlock All]$14.99
  • [Unlock All]$99.99
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 FrameMagic free?
FrameMagic 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, FrameMagic or Photo Collage Maker & Creator?
Photo Collage Maker & Creator is rated higher. FrameMagic averages 4.5 out of 5 from 890 ratings, while Photo Collage Maker & Creator averages 4.8 from 56K ratings.
Do FrameMagic or Photo Collage Maker & Creator have ads?
Photo Collage Maker & Creator shows ads; FrameMagic does not.
Which is updated more often, FrameMagic or Photo Collage Maker & Creator?
FrameMagic ships an update every 5 days, and Photo Collage Maker & Creator every 3 weeks. Most recently, FrameMagic was updated on November 10, 2026 and Photo Collage Maker & Creator on November 12, 2026.

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