Comparison

Collage Maker vs VideoLayout

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

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About

Collage Maker

Create stunning photo and video collages with over 20,000 layouts, effects, and stickers. This all-in-one editor offers AI tools for background removal, image enhancement, and artistic filters. Design unique scrapbooks, animated collages, and personalized cards for any occasion.

Highlights
  • 20,000+ stylish layouts
  • AI tools (background removal, art generator)
  • Video collage and slideshow maker
  • Exclusive stickers and backgrounds
  • Freestyle scrapbook mode
  • Pro selfie editor
  • 3D and curve text design
Features
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#1 All-In-1 pic collage maker, photo editor, collage maker, photo collage, carousel collage, video collage, AI sticker maker and AI Tools for your best moments & memories! Make perfect collages, videos with 20000+ layouts, effects, stickers & tools. 100 million+ installs, Collage Maker - LiveCollage is the #1 photo collage maker & photo editor app. Download the best, the easiest app for editing photos and videos, making perfect free cards for birthdays & holidays, slideshows, photo dumps and creative carousel collages for Instagram. Choose from trendy collage grid layouts, collage styles and sizes, awesome effects, exclusive stickers, background patterns, gradients and doodle on collages to TELL YOUR STORY with one framed picture, video! And edit & touch up your pics, videos with powerful editing tools, filters, beauty retouch essentials. Awesome Features - 20000+ STYLISH and FREE Layouts in different shapes, sizes, styles! Mix-match your photos, crop, rotate, move and set them up as you like - NEW Free Layer Stacking: Make a FREESTYLE COLLAGE! Unlock the grid and stack photos, stickers & text in any order - perfect for scrapbooks of special moments & memories - NEW Mini Me Stickers: AI turns your photos into cute Mini Me characters & fun stickers in seconds, in different art styles - share them or add them to WhatsApp - NEW AI Text Effects: Bring your words to life with AI-powered text effects - All in 1 AI tools: AI Remove background, AI Image Edit, AI Enhance and AI Art Generator. - Carousel Collage: Create unique and creative photo collages by layer photos and videos across multiple frames for a seamless Instagram layout. - Powerful & Easy to use Video Editor, Video Collage, SLIDESHOW Maker. Including Trim,Crop,Reverse,Split,Adjust video speed, volume, Add animations, Music tools. - Make animated collages with one tap - Stunning AI ARTISTIC FILTERS turn photos into artworks in styles of famous artists: Picasso, Van Gogh, etc - NEW Background Adjustments: Fine-tune scale, opacity, blur, brightness & saturation of any background so your photos stand out - Thousands of EXCLUSIVE and FREE stickers, backgrounds, patterns, frames to beautify your photos & stories - DOODLE and write on your photos in your own unique handwriting - CUTOUT photos by tracing shapes with your finger - NEW Text Styles: Make words pop with rich fonts, strokes, textures, 3D & CURVE text, plus tag, torn or slice label backgrounds Features: - Adjustable Layout Fully ADJUSTABLE basic layout by adjusting the FRAME,COLORS and PATTERNS. - Remix more than 64 Shots Combine 2 ~ 64+ photos into a single awesome pic and video - Stitches Combine more than 16 photos into a long story picture - Cards & Posters Choose from 5000+ preset layouts for every occasion such as Christmas, birthday, holidays, newborn babies, weddings, anniversaries and graduation - 100+ Fonts Add colorful TEXT & next trending MEME with funky FONTS to make them even more expressive! - Photo Frames Beautify your photos into framed artwork with CREATIVE photo borders - Aspect Ratios for Instagram post & story, fb cover/post, twitter post, iPhone wallpaper - Photo Editor Trendy filters, touch-up tools(CROP, DRAW, REDEYE, BLEMISH...) and more - Selfie Editor Smooth out skin, reshape face, whiten teeth, remove blemishes & pimples and more - Video Editor Create MUSIC VIDEO, Add text on Videos and make photos into stunning SLIDESHOW with free musics. Trim, speed, crop, rotate, move, flip, apply filter, add COOL effect Download LiveCollage and turn your best moments into collages worth sharing! VIP LiveCollage VIP is a subscription that provides access to all templates, layouts, effects, backgrounds and more! And to access our exclusive set of Features. With the 3-day trial, you can try it for free! Terms & Privacy: https://bit.ly/term_privacy EULA: https://bit.ly/appleeula

About

VideoLayout

Create unique video and photo collages with customizable templates and a free-style mode. Add special effects, filters, and text to personalize your creations. Easily resize, rotate, and zoom elements for a dynamic final product.

Highlights
  • Video and photo collage creation
  • Rich frame templates
  • Free Style mode for custom layouts
  • Unique special effects
  • Filters for photos and videos
  • Customizable borders and backgrounds
  • Add music and text
Features
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Easily mix videos and photos into a fantastic and unique video collage. With rich templates, you can easily move, resize, zoom, change speed of your videos and put them into one collage quickly. With our special Free Style mode, you can also add your favorite videos and photos into collage not only in grid but also in any position, size and rotation angle. With the unique Effect function, you can easily add a lot of cool effects to your collage such as snow, bubbles, fallen leafs ..., which makes your collage beautiful and unique. The main features you may only find in VideoLayout: +) Extremely easy-to-use! +) Create both video and photo collages +) Rich frame templates to easily create collages in grid +) Special Free Style for endless combination (angle, position, size) +) Unique Effects are ready to add to video collage +) Creative End Title to show your name or any text at the end of play +) Filters for photos and videos +) Flip, mirror both photos and videos +) Fully customized borders, radius and background +) Play videos in sequence or together +) Tap to resize, rotate, zoom, very user friendly +) Add music from your own music library +) Mix both photos and videos as you want +) Add watermark +) ... There are a lot more useful and beautiful features in VideoLayout, try it yourself and create your own video collage now.

Screenshots

Collage Maker4 screens
VideoLayout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Collage Maker at 62% against VideoLayout's 5%. Collage Maker also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (179K vs 4). VideoLayout's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15). On price, update cadence, 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. Collage Maker sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and VideoLayout sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Collage Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Collage Maker has 179K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Collage Maker's written reviews are positive against 5% of VideoLayout's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Collage Maker versus VideoLayout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCollage MakerVideoLayout
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (179K ratings) — better4.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews — better4.8% of reviews
Number of ratings179K — better4
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#85 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1510.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size269 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVIDEO EDITOR PTE. LTD.磊 张

Customer experience

Collage Maker

All ratings178,371 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews1,015 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral6.8%
Negative30.7%

VideoLayout

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive4.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative95.2%

Bugs and requests

Collage Maker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Saving issues and lost work
  • Compatibility problems with older devices
  • Unreliable performance and frequent crashes

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free templates and layouts
  • Improved text editing capabilities
  • Better video editing features
  • Ability to use own fonts and backgrounds

VideoLayout

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Collage Maker

Subscriptions9
  • Collage Maker$4.991 Month
  • Collage Maker ▣7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Photo Collage Maker$4.991 Month
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  • The Best Photo Collage Maker ◈$4.997 Days
  • Photo Collage Maker AI$12.991 Month
  • Collage Maker ◧3 Days trial$35.991 Year
  • Collage Maker$39.991 Year
  • Collage Maker ◈$47.991 Year
  • The Best Collage Maker AI3 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time4
  • JointerFree
  • 200 AI Credits$4.99
  • All in one$9.99
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  • 1000 AI Credits$19.99
6 purchases

VideoLayout

One-time6
  • Frames$0.99
  • Music$0.99
  • Watermark$0.99
Show 3 more
  • End Title$1.99
  • Effects$1.99
  • Unlock All$3.99

Questions

Is Collage Maker free?
Collage Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VideoLayout free?
VideoLayout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Collage Maker or VideoLayout?
Collage Maker is rated higher. Collage Maker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 179K ratings, while VideoLayout averages 4.3 from 4 ratings.
Do Collage Maker or VideoLayout have ads?
Collage Maker shows ads; VideoLayout does not.
Which is updated more often, Collage Maker or VideoLayout?
Collage Maker ships an update fortnightly, and VideoLayout fortnightly. Most recently, Collage Maker was updated on October 22, 2026 and VideoLayout on October 1, 2026.

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