Comparison

Make a Face vs FacePicto

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

Head to head
About

Make a Face

Create unique, animated composite pictures and videos of faces by dividing photos into quadrants and merging them. Share your creations with friends and family, or explore facial characteristics in new ways.

Highlights
  • Create animated composite pictures
  • Merge facial quadrants
  • Share creations with friends
  • Explore facial characteristics
  • Import and crop photos
  • Adjust alignment
Features
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Make a Face® is photography software to create unique, animated composite pictures and videos of faces. If you like taking pictures of yourself (on a good day), and if you like creating interesting photos and animations of the faces of your friends and family, then Make a Face® gives you a way to create photos taken from an interesting array of perspectives, from the sublime, to the artistic, to the ridiculous. Versions of Make a Face® with many additional features are also available for Mac desktop and notebook computers. The additional Mac OS X features include software to create colorful portraits, analyze facial symmetry, produce multi-colored videos of artistically combined and stylized faces, and produce innovative and unique movies. Make a Face divides photographs of human faces into quadrants whose common point is the center tip of the nose. These quadrants are then merged into an animated display that creates a smoothly aligned video of the combined, but individually recognizable, facial images from multiple facial graphic sources. Make a Face is also a great social networking platform used by friends, family, and people everywhere who enjoy looking at facial pictures of themselves and others joined into an infinite number of interesting and animated combinations. Any picture of any face, including historical figures and well known personalities, can be integrated into the Make a Face display sequences. For people who enjoy looking at people, Make a Face gives them a way to see themselves in ways they have never seen themselves before. Share the composite images you have made with Make a Face, and the pictures you have taken of yourself and others, with friends and family. The process by which Make a Face operates is an entirely novel approach to the display of human facial characteristics in juxtaposition for the purposes of elucidation, entertainment, social networking, and the study of physiological differences and similarities. For best results use pictures that have been taken with a similar, neutral, background, with the subject facing directly into the camera. Ask your subjects to show medium sized smiles. Search for suitable facial graphics on the internet. Share facial graphics with others. Using the "+ Camera" button, import the picture you want, crop it so that goes lengthwise from the exact top of the head to the exact bottom of the chin (not the neck), drag the crosshairs to the tip of the nose, and then tap Done. If each of your cropped pictures frame the face with closely similar dimensions, there will be excellent results with quadrant alignment during animation. If a picture needs to have its alignment adjusted, tap its thumbnail, tap Edit, and adjust as needed. Drag and drop back and forth between the Library and the Active thumbnails to choose which images appear in the quadrant animations. Double tap on any thumbnail to display an individual face in the display window. Dragging any picture into any quadrant will insert the correct section of the picture into the quadrant where it has been placed. If all of the graphics you choose adhere to the above parameters, your blended faces will be symmetrical and align themselves almost perfectly, yielding a very interesting study of different facial characteristics, both of people related to each other, and of people with very different ethnic backgrounds. You can, of course, also create all sorts of weird, peculiar, funny, and dysmorphic effects by clicking in lopsided places on your imported graphic. A few experiments will give you the idea. Clicking the play button will start an automatic, random selection sequence of mingled faces. A click will stop it. You can drag and drop any face into any quadrant to make specific selections within the display. An expanded version of Make a Face® that creates hundreds of different styles of composite face pictures and animations is available for Mac computers at the Mac OS X App Store.

About

FacePicto

Easily identify and label faces in group photos, adding names, titles, and descriptions. Your photos remain private and secure on your device, with no limits on usage. Export your labeled photos as images or short videos for easy sharing.

Highlights
  • Face detection for group photos
  • Add names, titles, and descriptions to faces
  • Private and secure on-device processing
  • No usage limits
  • Multiple viewing layouts (list, grid, cards)
  • Export as image or short video
Features
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Ever shared a group photo and someone asks, “Who’s who?” This app makes it easy to identify everyone in the picture. It automatically detects faces in your photo. You can then add a name, title, and short description for each person. Once done, you can share it as a clean list, a neat grid, or detailed cards. You can also export everything as an image or a short video, making it perfect for sharing on WhatsApp, Instagram, or anywhere else. Your privacy is fully protected — all processing happens on your device. Your photos are never uploaded. Use it for family photos, team pictures, school events, friend groups, or even celebrity images. Simple. Private. Easy to share.

Screenshots

Make a Face4 screens
FacePicto1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Make a Face at none against FacePicto's 1. Make a Face also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.0). FacePicto's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 21 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. FacePicto sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Make a Face asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Make a Face against 5.0 for FacePicto. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Make a Face ships an update every 21 months, FacePicto every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Make a Face versus FacePicto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMake a FaceFacePicto
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKGAlphabing LLC

Customer experience

Make a Face

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FacePicto

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Make a Face

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

FacePicto

One-time1
  • HD Export$2.99

Questions

Is Make a Face free?
Make a Face is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FacePicto free?
FacePicto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Make a Face or FacePicto?
Make a Face and FacePicto are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Make a Face or FacePicto have ads?
Neither Make a Face nor FacePicto shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Make a Face or FacePicto?
Make a Face ships an update every 21 months, and FacePicto every 2 weeks. Most recently, Make a Face was updated on September 25, 2026 and FacePicto on September 24, 2026.

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