Comparison

Photo Lab PROHD picture editor vs CreatorCodex

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

Head to head
About

Photo Lab PROHD picture editor

Transform your photos with over 900 creative effects, filters, and frames. Easily create fun montages, collages, and artistic edits with automatic face detection and a user-friendly interface. Share your creations instantly.

Highlights
  • Over 900 photo effects and filters
  • Fun photo montages
  • Stylish artistic filters
  • Beautiful frames
  • Automatic face detection
  • Collages for multiple photos
  • Customizable text on images
Features
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Photo Lab PRO – a full-featured Photo Fun Generator for your iPhone and iPad! Photo Lab PRO contains more than 900 awesome effects for your photos including: * fun photo montages, * stylish photo effects, * beautiful frames, * fun face montages, * lovely backgrounds, * hilarious human-to-animal montages, * holiday e-card templates, * caricature effects, * collages for multiple photos. The PRO version does not contain any ads and does not watermark your resulting images. Besides, it comes with extra groups of premium photo effects that you will not find in the standard version. You will love the neat interface and how easily effects are created. You needn't do any cropping or adjusting. You just choose an effect or a frame, then select a photo from Camera Roll (or take a new photo with your phone camera) and ta-da!.. you get a unique photo montage or collage! Photo Lab PRO includes: - Photo montages with automatic face detection. Become an astronaut, a medieval knight, a gangster or a beautiful fairy – all with a single tap! - Photorealistic effects. Put your face on a billboard or a banknote; put your photo into an ancient book or airbrush it on a posh car. - Photo filters. Neon Glow, Fire, Chalk & Charcoal, HDR, Pencil Drawing, Oil Painting, Impressionist Art, Jigsaw Puzzle, and more. - Lovely backgrounds. Change the background of your photo to make it look really romantic and beautiful! - Human-to-animal montages. What would it feel like being a tiger, a rabbit, a lion or a bird? Upload your portrait photo and check it out for yourself! - Magazine covers for the ambitious and the fashionable. Put your face on a magazine cover like Cosmopolitan, Vogue or Playboy and feel what it's like to be famous! - Headwear. Try on a King's crown, Elf hat, St.Patrick's Day hat or the most popular Santa hat! - Caricature effects. Animate faces and turn your portrait photos into amusing caricatures! - Collages for multiple photos. Put yourself together with your sweetheart or even all your friends into one photo collage. Most of the effects let you add your own text onto the picture. Text style is designed particularly for each template. Finally, you can save your masterpiece to Camera Roll, share it easily to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or send it as a message (iMessage, MMS or SMS) to your friends. More than 15,000 photos are processed with Photo Lab PRO every single day! Here are some of the testimonials that we have received: “Great app This is a great app and I have used it to make cards for birthdays and celebrations. It is easy to use and there are a lot of effects. Anyone who enjoys making personalised cards would love this” Craigbourach “Dizzy I cannot believe how good this app is...so many app's are very iffy but this is 100% GOOD. I thoroughly recommend this app, everyone should download it without delay !!!!” Dizzy from Worthing “Brilliant I spend many hours image editing and I've used many image editing apps over the years. But sometimes i want to, you know, just touch the screen a couple of times. So I downloaded this app. Job done. Excellent creative fun as well. A 'Must Have' app for anyone who uses their camera. 10/10” Brenatom “Pho-to lab is brilliant Brilliant app well worth the small amount of money to buy it. A real fun app, lots of laughs plus some really good effects. A first class app. Do yourself a favour and invest in this app. Ten stars” Alan Ransley Photo Lab PRO provides photo effects for all preferences and tastes. But if you want still more, feel free to suggest your ideas! All your suggestions of photo effects, filters, frames, collages and anything you can come up with are kindly welcome! We will be happy to create new effects inspired by your ideas!

About

CreatorCodex

Features
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Complete pre-production for video creators – from first idea to a ready-to-go upload plan. No subscriptions. No servers. Your data stays with you. THE REHEARSAL COACH – ONE OF A KIND Read your script through the teleprompter as a rehearsal: CreatorCodex measures your real speaking time per scene, your pace, and counts your filler words. Before you ever turn on the camera, you'll know: "Your video will be ≈ 8:40." Measured timings flow straight into your shoot planning. VOICE-CONTROLLED TELEPROMPTER – NOW WITH CAMERA No scroll speed to fiddle with: the text follows your voice. Speed up, slow down, take a pause – the prompter stays with you. And when you're ready: start the front camera right inside the prompter and record yourself – the script floats transparently over your video, and finished takes are saved straight to Photos. Mirror mode included for teleprompter rigs. YOUR STUDIO IN 3D Scan your room with LiDAR: walls, windows, doors and even furniture land in your light plan automatically – auto-aligned to north. Place lamps with color-temperature light cones, camera and subject, and see the real sun position at your location for any time of day. FROM IDEA TO UPLOAD - Ideas: notes, photos, links, voice memos (with transcription) and a freeform board - Script: write and reorder scenes, import screenplays (including Fountain), on-device AI polish - Shoot: shoot days with weather and sun times, shot list with aspect ratio and focal length, storyboard with reference images, on-set mode - Gear: catalog of 150+ cameras, lenses, mics and lights, per-project packing list - Audio: collect and compare music and sounds, keep licenses in check - Cast: contacts, scene assignments, release forms with photo - Publish: title ideas, description and tags from the AI assistant, real thumbnail, checklist, copy buttons for upload day FOR YOUR TEAM Call sheet and team report as PDF: scenes, shoot days, storyboard, cast and packing list – share via AirDrop or iCloud, no app needed on their end. THINKS AHEAD Reminders the evening before your shoot (with packing status) and before your upload date. Shoot days and publish dates in your calendar if you want. Duplicate projects as templates – perfect for recurring formats. YOUR DATA IS YOURS No account, no ads, no data collection. AI runs entirely on your iPhone (Apple Intelligence), backup lives in your private iCloud. PRICING 7 days free with every feature unlocked. Then a single one-time purchase – no subscription. Notes: Room scanning requires an iPhone with LiDAR (Pro models). AI features require Apple Intelligence. Weather via Apple WeatherKit.

Screenshots

Photo Lab PROHD picture editor4 screens
CreatorCodex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CreatorCodex at Free against Photo Lab PROHD picture editor's $29.99. Photo Lab PROHD picture editor's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads and in-app purchases 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

CreatorCodex is free to download; Photo Lab PROHD picture editor costs $29.99 up front. Photo Lab PROHD picture editor sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and CreatorCodex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Lab PROHD picture editor ships an update weekly, CreatorCodex every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Photo Lab PROHD picture editor versus CreatorCodex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto Lab PROHD picture editorCreatorCodex
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (11K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings11K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size158 MB5 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLinerock Investments LTDArnd Müller

Bugs and requests

Photo Lab PROHD picture editor

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Saved photos and profiles disappearing
  • Incorrect face detection and positioning
  • Freezing and crashing when applying effects
  • Inability to access previously used filters

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow editing of multiple photos at once
  • Improve search and organization of filters
  • Add more options for men and bald users
  • Increase resolution and quality of exported images
  • Provide offline mode for full functionality

CreatorCodex

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Photo Lab PROHD picture editor

One-time10
  • Autumn Pencil Drawing$14.99
  • 60s Retro Effect$14.99
  • Old Movie Film Effect$14.99
Show 7 more
  • Scratched Vintage Texture$14.99
  • Autumn Art Background$14.99
  • Blue Spruce Background$14.99
  • Portrait Of A Lady With Flowers$14.99
  • Oil Paint Brush Texture$19.99
  • Palette Knife Oil Painting$19.99
  • Drip Portrait Painting$19.99
1 purchases

CreatorCodex

One-time1
  • CreatorCodex Full Version$24.99

Questions

Is Photo Lab PROHD picture editor free?
Photo Lab PROHD picture editor costs $29.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is CreatorCodex free?
CreatorCodex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Photo Lab PROHD picture editor or CreatorCodex have ads?
Neither Photo Lab PROHD picture editor nor CreatorCodex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Lab PROHD picture editor or CreatorCodex?
Photo Lab PROHD picture editor ships an update weekly, and CreatorCodex every 4 weeks. Most recently, Photo Lab PROHD picture editor was updated on November 6, 2026 and CreatorCodex on October 31, 2026.

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