Comparison

Photo Collage Shape Maker vs Pattern HD

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

Head to head
About

Photo Collage Shape Maker

Create unique photo collages in various fun shapes, including animals and objects. Easily combine your favorite pictures into artistic designs and share them with friends. It's a free and creative way to express yourself visually.

Highlights
  • Create collages in custom shapes
  • Shape options include hearts, animals, and objects
  • Combine favorite photos
  • Share collages with friends
  • Free to use
Features
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Photo Shaper lets you turn amazing photo collages into awesome shapes like hearts, dogs, cats, paws, martini glass, teddy bears, and more. Free and awesome. Make collages out of your favorite photos, share with friends.

About

Pattern HD

Design unique patterns, backgrounds, and wallpapers using a vast library of stickers and colors. Customize scale, spacing, and rotation for personalized phone cases and home screens. Save and share your high-quality creations.

Highlights
  • Create custom patterns and wallpapers
  • Millions of stickers and background colors
  • Adjust pattern scale, spacing, and rotation
  • Save creations in HD and Ultra HD
  • Create phone cases
  • Support for iPad and easy sticker editing
Features
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Create cool patterns, backgrounds, wallpapers, and home screens with Pattern HD. Pick from millions of cool stickers, hundreds of beautiful background colors, and endless pattern options. Save your amazing creations on a high-quality phone case. With Pattern HD you can make a background and wallpaper for iPhone really really cutest. ==== Features ==== ■ Create a phone case cutest. ■ Create a patterned wallpaper for iPhone. ■ Choose a pattern from millions of cool stickers or from your photos. ■ Adjust the pattern’s scale, spacing, rotation. ■ Save your pattern in HD, Ultra HD for high quality. ■ Save to your photos. ■ Share on Instagram, Facebook, etc or save to Photos. ==== New Features ==== ■ Support iPad. ■ Easy to edit stickers. ■ Easy to edit colors with RGB, HEX, HSV... What are you waiting for? Try Patter HD - Create the cutest background now and impress your friends with your cutest background, wallpapers! ==== Love Pattern HD ==== If you enjoy using Pattern HD, would you mind taking a moment to rate it? Share and review apps. Thanks for your support. ==== Pattern HD Contacts ==== Please follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cheepapps-684007881726733 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patternhd/ Email: cheepapps@gmail.com

Screenshots

Photo Collage Shape Maker4 screens
Pattern HD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pattern HD at 76% against Photo Collage Shape Maker's 24%. Pattern HD also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.1) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months). Photo Collage Shape Maker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Photo Collage Shape Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pattern HD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pattern HD holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Photo Collage Shape Maker's written reviews are positive against 76% of Pattern HD's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Collage Shape Maker ships an update every 8 months, Pattern HD every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Photo Collage Shape Maker versus Pattern HD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto Collage Shape MakerPattern HD
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.1 (8 ratings)4.8 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews23.8% of reviews76.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings816 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFast Hatch AppsDuong Bac

Customer experience

Photo Collage Shape Maker

All ratings8 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews130 reviews
Positive23.8%
Neutral6.9%
Negative69.2%

Pattern HD

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews72 reviews
Positive76.4%
Neutral5.6%
Negative18.1%

User reviews

Photo Collage Shape Maker

From 8 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and efficient
  • 💡 Unique and creative shapes
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Allows many photos in collage

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Doesn't work on older devices
  • 🐛 Limited shape options
  • 🐛 Low photo resolution
  • 🐛 Annoying ads

Pattern HD

From 16 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Beautiful design tool
  • ✨ Creative and pretty app
  • 🖼️ Lively phone backgrounds
  • 💰 Worth the low cost
  • 👍 Great for making patterns

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes frequently
  • 📉 Resolution loss when scaling
  • 🔀 Parameters misconfigure
  • 🚫 Cannot use transparent pictures
  • ⏳ Outdated, not updated

Bugs and requests

Photo Collage Shape Maker

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when selecting photos
  • Crashes when trying to create collage
  • Doesn't work on iPad 1
  • Freezes when using on iPhone
  • Doesn't allow access to photo library

Requested features

5 requests
  • More shape options (squares, rectangles, etc.)
  • Ability to move photos within collage
  • Option to choose photos from multiple albums
  • Higher photo resolution
  • Ability to remove ads

Pattern HD

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Parameters misconfigure when changing another
  • Flip changes orientation of all elements
  • Scaling image saves at lower resolution
  • App crashes when trying to do something
Show 7 more
  • App crashes when editing stickers
  • App crashes when trying to save
  • App crashes when importing photos on iPad
  • App crashes when clicking search online
  • App crashes when selecting any sticker
  • App closes by itself when clicking anything
  • App crashes when trying to click wallpaper or stickers

Requested features

10 requests
  • Ability to use emoji as stickers
  • Ability to import own background image
  • Ability to change sticker opacity
  • Fix crashing issues
  • Fix parameters misconfiguration
Show 5 more
  • Fix resolution loss on scaling
  • Fix flip changing orientation of all elements
  • Fix online sticker search
  • Fix transparent picture functionality
  • Update the app

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Photo Collage Shape Maker

One-time1
  • Unlock All Features and Backgrounds$1.99
1 purchases

Pattern HD

One-time1
  • Remove watermark$1.99

Questions

Is Photo Collage Shape Maker free?
Photo Collage Shape Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pattern HD free?
Pattern HD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Photo Collage Shape Maker or Pattern HD?
Pattern HD is rated higher. Photo Collage Shape Maker averages 1.1 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Pattern HD averages 4.8 from 16 ratings.
Do Photo Collage Shape Maker or Pattern HD have ads?
Pattern HD shows ads; Photo Collage Shape Maker does not.
Which is updated more often, Photo Collage Shape Maker or Pattern HD?
Photo Collage Shape Maker ships an update every 8 months, and Pattern HD every 3 months. Most recently, Photo Collage Shape Maker was updated on November 1, 2026 and Pattern HD on November 6, 2026.

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