Square FX with Shape Overlay vs Overlay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Square FX with Shape Overlay
Easily fit full-size photos into a square format for social media without cropping. Customize your images with a variety of background options, including colors, gradients, and patterns, and fine-tune your photos with intuitive editing tools.
- Fit full-size photos without cropping
- Move, rotate, scale, and flip photos
- Customizable color backgrounds
- Gradient and pattern backgrounds
- Automatic full-size fitting
- Touch and drag editing
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You can easily fit full-size photo in square and post it to Instagram with SquareFX without cropping it. SquareFX also allows you easily move, rotate, scale, or flip the photo. You may also change the background of the photo to make it looks even more beautiful and awesome! You have different kinds of backgrounds to choose from the app including tons of color backgrounds, gradient backgrounds, and beautiful patterns. Try it now. you will like it! Features * Touch and drag the photo to move * Pinch to scale and rotate * Fit full-size photo automatically * Fit to the width / to the height of the photo * Flip & Rotate * Color Backgrounds * Gradient Backgrounds * Pattern Backgrounds Support Any of Your Photos Portrait Landscape Panorama
Overlay
This tool allows artists to overlay reference images or live camera feeds onto their drawing surface for accurate comparison. It facilitates precise figure studies by enabling direct visual alignment between the artwork and the source material.
- Overlay reference images
- Use live camera feed as overlay
- Compare drawing accuracy
- Supports photo or model overlay
- Flip overlay direction
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This is a simple but powerful tool for any artist that has studied figure drawing. Here's how it works: Take a picture of your reference image or model and the camera view will use that picture as an overlay. Now move the camera to your drawing to compare for accuracy. Note - this can be done the other way as well where you can take a picture of your drawing an overlay it with your reference or model.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Overlay at 4.4 against Square FX with Shape Overlay's 3.0. Overlay also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). Square FX with Shape Overlay's advantage is update cadence (every 9 months vs every 27 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Square FX with Shape Overlay sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Overlay asks for nothing beyond the download.
Overlay holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 16 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Square FX with Shape Overlay's written reviews are positive against 69% of Overlay's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Square FX with Shape Overlay ships an update every 9 months, Overlay every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Square FX with Shape Overlay | Overlay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (23 ratings) | 4.4 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 69.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months — better | Every 27 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ki Tat Chung | Derek Dawson |
Customer experience
Square FX with Shape Overlay
Overlay
Bugs and requests
Square FX with Shape Overlay
Reported bugs
6 issues- Ads still present after purchase
- Black line appears on saved photos
- App no longer allows picking photos after iOS upgrade
- Random black line on bottom and right side of pictures
- Green line next to photo after cropping
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- Icon image not displaying on iPad
Requested features
5 requests- Make Settings gear icon do more
- Options for sizing (pinch & zoom, vectors, pixels, percentages)
- Add holiday shape pack
- Allow selecting background image from camera roll
- Use eyedropper tool for background color selection
Overlay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Square FX with Shape Overlay
- Love Pack$0.99
- Animal Pack$0.99
- Frame Pack$0.99
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- Art Pack$0.99
- Flag Pack$0.99
- Arrow Pack$0.99
- Letter Pack$0.99
- Weather Pack$0.99
- Nature Pack$0.99
- Pro Feature Pack$1.99
Overlay
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Square FX with Shape Overlay free?
Is Overlay free?
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