Comparison

Collage Maker vs Best Nine 2025

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

Head to head
About

Collage Maker

Create stunning photo and video collages with a powerful, all-in-one editor. Features AI tools for editing, sticker creation, and background removal, plus a vast library of layouts, effects, and text options.

Highlights
  • AI Edit Assistant
  • Animated Stickers & GIFs
  • Remove Video Background
  • 20000+ Stylish Layouts
  • Free Layer Stacking
  • Mini Me Stickers
  • AI Text Effects
Features
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#1 All-In-1 pic collage maker, photo editor, collage maker, photo collage, video collage, AI sticker maker, AI Edit Assistant and AI Tools for your best moments & memories! 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 - AI Edit Assistant: just ask - it edits, retouches and edits your collage - Animated Stickers & GIFs: photos into cute GIFs - Remove Video Background: drop the background - 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

Best Nine 2025

Recap your year or any past period with a personalized collage of your top Instagram photos and reels. Easily generate a 3x3 grid of your most popular content, customize backgrounds and borders, and share your highlights with followers. You can even create collages for any Instagram profile without logging in.

Highlights
  • Top 9 photo and reel collages
  • Generate posts from any past year
  • Customizable time period
  • Reel-only collages
  • No Instagram login required
  • Create collages for any profile
  • Add like counts
  • Customizable backgrounds and borders
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The Best Nine app is the best way to recapitulate the current or previous years with a layout of your top nine Instagram posts. Using the app is easy, just insert your Instagram username and wait for your best 9 collage to be generated. Then make the finishing touches like adding the tag with total likes or likes per post number, changing the background, or adjusting borders for a more pleasant look. The final layout will consist of a 3x3 grid displaying your most popular photos and reels on Instagram. Whether you’re joining the classic top nine for Instagram trend or sharing your top nine Insta highlights, the final layout will consist of a 3x3 grid displaying your most popular photos and reels on Instagram. Your followers will love it, and you will, too. Download the Best Nine app to get these features: Essentials you will love • Make top 9 collages containing photos and reels from your Instagram. • Generate best posts from any of previous years. • Customize the time period to display your best memories from any chosen stretch of time. • Highlight your favorite video moments with the collage consisting purely of reels. • Generate your collages without logging in, ensuring your Instagram account stays safe and private. • Create 3x3 layouts for any Instagram profile you want. • Export your top9 collage with ease to any social network of your choice. • Let everyone know about the popularity of your topnine posts by displaying the total number of likes or numbers of likes for each post separately. You can even explore your top9 results from any year. Customize the way you want • Change the background color and adjust the border settings to make it more personal. • Rearrange the order of your pictures and videos so your post will stand out. • Display your reels in motion or as static thumbnails only. Privacy: The necessity of inserting your Instagram username into the third-party app can make you think about privacy and security. Let us assure you there is no need to be concerned when using the Best Nine app. First of all, we take the privacy of our users very seriously, and we never share any of your data with other third parties. And we don't even have access to your Instagram password since all the authentication will happen on the Instagram side. Feedback: Feedback is driving us to bring more features, better features, and to improve the overall experience. Let us know what you like about the Best Nine app or what you don't like. We would love to hear your opinion. Purchases: To use some premium features in the app, you need to purchase Best Nine PLUS. We offer two options with unlimited access to all Best Nine's features: - Yearly subscription - One-time payment If you choose to get a Best Nine PLUS, then your payment will be charged to your 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. The cost of the renewal depends on your Subscription Plan. Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. When canceling a subscription, your subscription will remain active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. Do you want to see more? For information about the Best Nine app, visit https://best9.app Privacy Policy: https://legal.apptoro.support/hc/en-us/articles/10140276028689 Terms of Service: https://legal.apptoro.support/hc/en-us/articles/10140631906833

Screenshots

Collage Maker4 screens
Best Nine 20254 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Best Nine 2025 at none against Collage Maker's shown. Collage Maker's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (180K vs 152). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

Both are free to download. Collage Maker sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Best Nine 2025 sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Collage Maker against 4.8 for Best Nine 2025. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Collage Maker has 180K ratings behind it against 152, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Collage Maker's written reviews are positive against 67% of Best Nine 2025's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Collage Maker ships an update fortnightly, Best Nine 2025 every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Collage Maker versus Best Nine 2025: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCollage MakerBest Nine 2025
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (180K ratings)4.8 (152 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.3% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings180K — better152
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 7 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#88 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS1514.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size260 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVIDEO EDITOR PTE. LTD.SPNA

Customer experience

Collage Maker

All ratings179,109 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews1,027 reviews
Positive62.3%
Neutral7.0%
Negative30.7%

Best Nine 2025

All ratings152 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral0.7%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%

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

Best Nine 2025

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 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-time1
  • 200 AI Credits$4.99
4 purchases

Best Nine 2025

Subscriptions2
  • Best Nine PLUS$1.491 Year
  • Best Nine PLUS$1.991 Year
One-time2
  • Best Nine PLUS$2.99
  • Best Nine PLUS$3.99

Questions

Is Collage Maker free?
Collage Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Best Nine 2025 free?
Best Nine 2025 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Collage Maker or Best Nine 2025?
Best Nine 2025 is rated higher. Collage Maker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 180K ratings, while Best Nine 2025 averages 4.8 from 152 ratings.
Do Collage Maker or Best Nine 2025 have ads?
Collage Maker shows ads; Best Nine 2025 does not.
Which is updated more often, Collage Maker or Best Nine 2025?
Collage Maker ships an update fortnightly, and Best Nine 2025 every 7 months. Most recently, Collage Maker was updated on November 8, 2026 and Best Nine 2025 on November 7, 2026.

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