Comparison

Composite Photo vs Acsta

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

Head to head
About

Composite Photo

Easily create new compositions by combining photos, drawings, and text. Enhance your images with frames, over 60 filters, and more than 1300 library photos. Perfect for photo editing, adding text, and creating custom graphics.

Highlights
  • Combine photos, drawings, and text
  • Add frames and scale images
  • Apply over 60 photo filters
  • Add customizable text with 150+ fonts
  • Draw directly on photos or in separate boxes
  • Create rage comics with library assets
Features
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Composite Photo can help you create new compositions from individual photos, drawings and text. Examples of the ways this app can improve your creativity: - Add frames to a photo: You can choose frames from the many available in the app’s library. Then you can add photos. Both the frames and your photos are easy to scale (both proportionally and non-proportionally). You can rotate; change the color, hue, brightness; crop and add transparency to ensure the frame and photo fit perfectly. - Add text to a photo: You can enter any text, then select from over 150 free font types; change the text size, modify colors and position text over the photo. If you want more control of the text, just simply enter the text into a separate box (textbox) to easily manipulate the text. - Add drawings: You can draw directly onto a photo or draw on a separate box (draw box). This features allows you to draw lines, erase, fill areas with highly customizable colors. It included dimensions, transparencies, filter thresholds etc. - Modify or fix a photo: Drawing is also a good tool for small photo edits such as making sections of a photo transparent or changing colors of some areas. You can also crop a photo to the size you want. - Apply photo filters: There are over 60 filters you can apply to any photos, added text or drawings. With filters you can change colors, hue, brightness, contrast, opacity or pixellate, emboss or posterize to create special effects. - Create composite photos: You can create a new photo from the photos stored in an album on your desktop or directly from the camera photos. With the Add Text and Add Drawings features you can enhance and manipulate existing photos to create new ones. New composite photos are easily manipulated. For example, you can move, rotate, scale proportionally or non-proportionally, flip, change their z-order, apply photo filters to create an entirely new composite photo that can be saved to your photos album, uploaded to Facebook, sent as an email attachment or copied to the clipboard (as the source file for other composite photo). - Create rage comics or add rage faces / icons into a photo: The library has more than 350 rage face photos, frames and speech bubbles. The app also has strong abilities to add texts, drawings and other library's photos... All could help you to create rage comics easily Composite Photo has over 1300 high quality photos, ready to add to your existing photos. The number of photos in the library and number of filters continues to grow.

About

Acsta

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This app uses image recognition AI to automatically cut out images and generate composite images with background images. - It instantly processes images selected from your photo album or taken with your camera and automatically cuts out the subject. - Automatically cropped images can be saved in albums or within the app. - A composite image of the cut-out image and background image can be generated and then shared on social media, saved to a photo album, or sent via email or messenger. - It syncs with iCloud, so you can sync data with other devices such as your iPad. And more... It supports Apple Intelligence Image Playground and can generate images. - The background is removed from the generated image to create an image for compositing. - The generated image can be used as the background for a composite image. Downloading the app is free. If it is determined that your device supports automatic image cropping using image recognition AI, you can use the function by purchasing an in-app purchase (Basic functions unlocked).

Screenshots

Composite Photo3 screens
Acsta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Acsta at every 3 weeks against Composite Photo's every 11 months. Composite Photo's advantage is iOS requirement (6.1 vs 26.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Composite Photo sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Acsta sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Composite Photo ships an update every 11 months, Acsta every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Composite Photo versus Acsta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComposite PhotoAcsta
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS6.1 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNguyen Phamshinichi tanimoto

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Composite Photo

One-time10
  • Album 9 - 41 Masks$0.99
  • Album 10 - 52 Military Planes$0.99
  • Album 11 - 54 Flowers$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Album 12 - 54 Wild Animals$0.99
  • Album 13 - 58 Cartoon fashion$0.99
  • Album 14 - 53 Scary things$0.99
  • Album 15 - 52 Scary things$0.99
  • Album 17 - 55 Clipart Kids$0.99
  • Album 18 - 50 Horses$0.99
  • Album 19 - 50 Military Vehicles$0.99
1 purchases

Acsta

One-time1
  • Basic functions unlocked$0.99

Questions

Is Composite Photo free?
Composite Photo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Acsta free?
Acsta is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Composite Photo or Acsta have ads?
Neither Composite Photo nor Acsta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Composite Photo or Acsta?
Composite Photo ships an update every 11 months, and Acsta every 3 weeks. Most recently, Composite Photo was updated on October 12, 2026 and Acsta on October 19, 2026.

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