Comparison

Squaready Pro vs Square Sized

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

Head to head
About

Squaready Pro

Easily transform any photo, landscape or portrait, into a perfect square for social media. Add creative backgrounds, borders, and effects to make your images stand out. Includes a full suite of editing tools for professional-looking posts.

Highlights
  • Crop photos to square shape
  • Post entire photos without cropping
  • Support for Instagram rectangle format
  • Colorful backgrounds and borders
  • Stylish filters and effects
  • Text input and meme creation
  • High-resolution export
Features
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*** For all Instagram Lovers!! *** Squaready Pro is a application you can crop the photo into square shape. Not only landscape but also portrait photo can be put in the square area. ► Highly recommend Instagram users! ▹ Post Entire Photos On Instagram Without Cropping !! ▹ Make a rectangle photo into square shape "Insta-size". ▹ Support for the Instagram-specific new Rectangle format. ▹ Choose a colorful background. ▹ Simple and Useful Effects. - BG Effects (e.g. Drop shadow) - Border Effects - Soft Edge Effects - Color Tone Filter ▹ In app sharing posting to Instagram. ▹ And also "Ads FREE"!! ► Built-in Full-featured and Poweful Photo Editor ‣ Various Stylish Filters with level control ‣ Color Splash ‣ Tilt-Shift Blur ‣ Vignette ‣ Draw Lines ‣ Text Input and Meme ‣ Crop and Straighten ‣ And many other features! ► Other Great Features - High-res export. - EXIF/GPS Location data ready - Load a image from Clipboard at startup. - One-touch Easy cropping - Easily correct centering. - Support for Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

About

Square Sized

Easily post entire photos and videos to social media platforms without cropping. Enhance your images with filters, text, shapes, and backgrounds. Offers a free trial period for full access.

Highlights
  • Add borders for social media
  • Import from albums, Facebook, Instagram
  • Add filters, text, and shapes
  • Layering options for text
  • Variety of backgrounds
  • Post full-size photos and videos
Features
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Optimized for iOS 8, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. More than 5 million people worldwide use SquareSized to post entire photos on Instagram! • Add borders on each size of the photo to get them Instagram-ready! Add borders to post full size photos and videos on Instagram. Easily import photos or videos from your albums, Facebook or Instagram accounts or tak it directly on SquareSized. Click the share button and your photo and video ready to be shared on Instagram • Add filters, text and shapes By using the layers option you can easily add awesome filters, overlays and typography to your photos. You can choose from a variety of amazing fonts with the ability to resize and rotate your text! You can also have multiple text layers so that you can have a unique picture! • Add backgrounds Shipped with loads of backgrounds, this feature, combined with text, filters and overlays, allows for many creative combinations SUBSCRIPTION • 1 Year of all features, first Week is completely free • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • 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 to that publication, where applicable Terms of Use: http://appholdings.org/termsofuse.html Privacy Policy: http://appholdings.org/privacypolicy.html Enjoy ! Gab from TheAppholes

Screenshots

Squaready Pro4 screens
Square Sized4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Square Sized at Free against Squaready Pro's $3.99. Square Sized also leads on ratings volume (8.2K vs 124) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). Squaready Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On rating, review sentiment, ads 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

Square Sized is free to download; Squaready Pro costs $3.99 up front. Square Sized sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Squaready Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Squaready Pro against 4.2 for Square Sized. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Square Sized has 8.2K ratings behind it against 124, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Squaready Pro's written reviews are positive against 60% of Square Sized's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Squaready Pro ships an update every 7 months, Square Sized every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Squaready Pro versus Square Sized: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquaready ProSquare Sized
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (124 ratings) — better4.2 (8.2K ratings)
Positive reviews66.9% of reviews — better59.9% of reviews
Number of ratings1248.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB81 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperFANG Inc.Daneco Ltd.

Customer experience

Squaready Pro

All ratings124 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral4.0%
Negative12.9%
Written reviews151 reviews
Positive66.9%
Neutral6.0%
Negative27.2%

Square Sized

All ratings8,154 ratings
Positive78.9%
Neutral9.0%
Negative12.1%
Written reviews581 reviews
Positive59.9%
Neutral11.0%
Negative29.1%

User reviews

Squaready Pro

From 124 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface
  • 🎨 Versatile framing and border options
  • 📸 Perfect for Instagram photo formatting
  • ⏱️ Quick and efficient processing
  • 🎯 Maintains photo quality and resolution

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
  • 📱 Poor optimization for larger screens (iPad, iPhone Pro Max)
  • ⚠️ Quality degradation on export
  • 🖼️ Blurry output in some cases
  • 🎬 No batch processing capability

Square Sized

From 8.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💻 Useful for editing photos and videos
  • 🎨 Variety of editing features and filters
  • 🌟 Great for Instagram and social media
  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive

Room to improve

  • 💰 Paywall for many features
  • 📢 Excessive ads and pop-ups
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔍 Limited access to camera roll

Bugs and requests

Squaready Pro

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • App crashes when opening images
  • Black screen when accessing camera roll
  • Freezing and unresponsiveness during use
  • Photo loading failures requiring reinstall
  • Blank thumbnails on iPad Pro
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  • Gyro crop feature overly sensitive
  • Export resolution issues despite full resolution setting
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
  • Ads appearing in paid/Pro version
  • Image quality loss on export

Requested features

10 requests
  • Batch processing for multiple photos at once
  • Frame positioning option (inside or outside photo borders)
  • Larger screen optimization for iPad and Plus-sized iPhones
  • Ability to save custom border templates with logos
  • Direct Instagram export functionality
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  • Color picker to select background from photo
  • Saved settings/templates for repeated tasks
  • Support for images larger than 2048x2048 pixels
  • Option to disable gyro/scissors crop feature
  • Additional frame designs and styles

Square Sized

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App freezes when trying to add text
  • Inability to restore in-app purchases
  • Incompatibility issues with newer devices
  • Watermark reappearing after removal

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free editing tools and filters
  • Ability to remove watermark permanently
  • Improved video editing capabilities
  • Better organization and management of edited photos

In-app purchases

None

Squaready Pro

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Square Sized

Subscriptions1
  • 1 year subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time9
  • ad free + remove watermark$0.99
  • Remove Watermark$0.99
  • SquareSized$1.99
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  • Unlock all patterns + lines$2.99
  • Get 47 fonts$2.99
  • Unlock 96 Shapes$2.99
  • Upload longer video$2.99
  • Unlock Music$2.99
  • UnlockAll$4.99

Questions

Is Squaready Pro free?
Squaready Pro costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Square Sized free?
Square Sized is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Squaready Pro or Square Sized?
Squaready Pro is rated higher. Squaready Pro averages 4.3 out of 5 from 124 ratings, while Square Sized averages 4.2 from 8.2K ratings.
Do Squaready Pro or Square Sized have ads?
Neither Squaready Pro nor Square Sized shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Squaready Pro or Square Sized?
Squaready Pro ships an update every 7 months, and Square Sized every 2 months. Most recently, Squaready Pro was updated on October 3, 2026 and Square Sized on October 2, 2026.

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