Comparison

Comic Caption Meme Maker vs Bubbled

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

Head to head
About

Comic Caption Meme Maker

Transform your photos into authentic-looking comic strips. Add word balloons, stickers, and filters to create hilarious or clever visual stories. An intuitive interface makes professional-style comic creation quick and easy.

Highlights
  • Authentic comic book look
  • 11 types of word balloons
  • 88 unique comic book fonts
  • Over 1,000 stickers
  • Over 30 comic filters
  • Intuitive step-by-step interface
Features
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Transform your pictures into authentic looking comics! Add word balloons, stickers, and filters to turn even the most mundane photo into a hilarious / clever / cute creation! Take advantage of an intuitive, step wise user interface to make professional style comics within minutes! All of the above and more is possible with Comic Caption Creator, a comic creation app which is able to stand above the competition due to its unique features which include: (SHORT DESCRIPTION) • A licensed, authentic comic book look • 11 different types of words balloons • 88 unique comic book fonts • Over 1,000 stickers (many of which change color) • Over 30 dynamic, comic filters • A step wise, intuitive user interface (LONG DESCRIPTION) • A comic book look based on the stylings of professional comic book letterers John Roshell and Richard Starkings. Expensive licensing was obtained to ensure that all word balloons, fonts, and effects added up to produce a look which resembled the comic book lettering from major publishers such as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, etc. • 11 different types of words balloons. Insert a shout balloon to convey deep seeded rage, a thought balloon to express innermost contemplation, or a caption to narrate the happenings in your photo. Resize or rotate your balloon, or change the color of its background, border, or text. • 88 unique comic book fonts. Caption your photos with the same authentic, professional comic style lettering featured on the pages of Batman and other major comic book titles. The wide variety of unique type faces featured within the app allow you to express a full range of emotions when creating your masterpiece. • Over 1,000 stickers, many of which change color. Add a cat sticker to your photo and change the color of its fur, eyes, nose, or, ears. Sticker categories include: animals, bugs, cars, characters, dinosaurs, effects, fishes, food, glasses, hats, masks, memes, monsters, mustaches, rages, sounds. and weapons. • Over 30 dynamic, comic filters to add to your photos. Apply one of the many filters in Comic Caption Creator to transform your photo into a cartoon, sketch, painting, or poster. • A step wise, intuitive user interface that allows for the creation of comics within minutes and is fully supported with instructional alerts that appear throughout the app as well as a full set of help documents accessible from any screen. ------------------ “This app's design is very user friendly. Anyone can create an amusing comic in minutes using this app's functionality and great features.” - Apps Happens (http://tinyurl.com/n3qlo8v) “This is another one of those apps where reviewing it takes four times as long as it should because I end up getting sucked in and wind up playing with it for ages! Comic Caption Creator Lite is incredibly easy to use and is definitely capable of producing some fantastic results.” - App Picker (http://tinyurl.com/mzxjsc5) ------------------ Comic Caption Creator was created by Push the Edge LLC. The graphic design was done by Nevertheless (http://nevertheless.com.au). The comic font, balloon shapes, and effects were provided by Comicraft (http://www.comicraft.com).

About

Bubbled

Add speech bubbles and captions to your photos to create fun and expressive images. Choose from various bubble styles, colors, and fonts, or use the online gallery. Easily create photo collages for a comic book look and share your creations.

Highlights
  • Add speech bubbles and captions
  • 15 bubble styles
  • Customizable colors and fonts
  • Online photo gallery
  • Photo collage creation
  • Drag, rotate, and pinch controls
  • Share to social media
Features
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Add speech bubbles to any photo, video, or GIF. Bubbled is a caption editor built for speech bubbles, comics, and visual storytelling. Style them with hand-crafted templates, place them behind the subject, then layer on text styles, filters, stickers, and comic panel layouts to create something worth sharing. ◆ SPEECH BUBBLES Bubble templates for social replies, thought clouds, comic shouts, narration boxes, and more. Rich text editing with dozens of fonts, a curated color palette, bold, italic, underline, and alignment. Drag, rotate, and scale. Reshape tails to point exactly where you want. ◆ PAGES Tell a story across several photos. Each page gets its own bubbles, text, and filter, and all pages share one aspect ratio so the series lines up. Reorder, duplicate, and export the set in order. ◆ DEPTH Bubbled finds the subject of your shot, so bubbles, text, and stickers can sit behind people and pets instead of covering them. Works on photos, videos, and GIFs. ◆ BACKDROP Replace everything behind your subject with a color or a pattern, or treat the real background with blur, fade, and black and white. Your subject stays sharp and in color. ◆ TEXT STYLES Text presets spanning meme impact, clean sans, handwritten, script, and playful. Neon glows, outlines, shadows, gradients, and bold design treatments. Curve and warp text, or stack it in vertical columns. Layer styled typography directly onto your photos and videos. ◆ TEMPLATES One-tap compositions that apply a complete look (filter, frame, stickers, and text) to your photo or video. From moody noir and floral collages to arcade fighting screens and magazine covers. Just add your photo and caption. ◆ FILTERS & ADJUSTMENTS Handcrafted color grades with adjustable intensity, from vintage fades and noir to cinematic teal, cool tones, and portrait looks. Fine-tune brightness, contrast, shadows, saturation, sharpen, soften, and blur. Non-destructive: your original is always preserved. ◆ STICKERS & EMOJI Illustrated comic effects (BAM! POW! BOOM!), floral art, decorative frames, and arcade graphics. Full emoji library with skin-tone variants. Drag, scale, and rotate freely on the canvas. ◆ ANIMATIONS Give a bubble entrance and exit animations, a persistent glow, an aura pulse, or a particle burst, each with adjustable intensity and speed. Animate a still photo and it exports as a video. ◆ COLLAGE LAYOUTS Panel layouts for photo collages and comic pages: classic grids and diagonal comic-style cuts. Fill each panel, adjust spacing and backgrounds, then merge into one shareable image. ◆ FRAMES & BORDERS Decorative frames that wrap your photo in curated styles. Move and resize them to fit your shot. Solid-color borders with adjustable width and custom colors. ◆ SAVE & SHARE Unlimited drafts. Save your work and pick up anytime. Send a photo into Bubbled from the Files app or any share sheet. Export photos, videos, and GIFs to your camera roll or share with any app. ----- Bubbled Pro is available as an auto-renewable subscription. Plans are billed weekly, monthly, or yearly at the rate shown in the app. The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial. While subscribed, all Pro features are unlocked: premium bubbles, text styles, filters, comic page layouts, frames, backdrops, behind-subject placement, animations, longer video, more pages, and ad-free editing. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renewal in your Account Settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited upon purchasing a subscription. Terms of Service: https://getbubbled.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://getbubbled.app/privacy/

Screenshots

Comic Caption Meme Maker4 screens
Bubbled4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bubbled at Free against Comic Caption Meme Maker's $4.99. Bubbled also leads on ratings volume (3.3K vs 448). Comic Caption Meme Maker's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.2) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Bubbled is free to download; Comic Caption Meme Maker costs $4.99 up front. Comic Caption Meme Maker sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Bubbled sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Comic Caption Meme Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bubbled has 3.3K ratings behind it against 448, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Comic Caption Meme Maker's written reviews are positive against 79% of Bubbled's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Comic Caption Meme Maker ships an update every 2 weeks, Bubbled every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Comic Caption Meme Maker versus Bubbled: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComic Caption Meme MakerBubbled
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (448 ratings) — better4.2 (3.3K ratings)
Positive reviews81.7% of reviews — better78.6% of reviews
Number of ratings4483.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB139 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPush the Edge LLCJose Sanchez

Customer experience

Comic Caption Meme Maker

All ratings448 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.1%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews142 reviews
Positive81.7%
Neutral4.9%
Negative13.4%

Bubbled

All ratings3,282 ratings
Positive79.7%
Neutral13.7%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews420 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative7.1%

User reviews

Comic Caption Meme Maker

From 448 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🤩 Lots of fun features
  • 💯 Great for creating comics and memes
  • 🎨 Flexible customization options
  • 🚀 Works well and reliable

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 📦 Limited control over text and bubble sizing
  • 💰 Some features locked behind paywall
  • 🔄 Inconsistent rotation and layout issues
  • 🔍 Difficult to navigate and find certain tools

Bubbled

From 3.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User-friendly
  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 💡 Customizable speech bubbles
  • 🎨 Variety of options
  • 💰 Free to use

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Limited bubble options
  • 🔒 Ads can be intrusive
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezes
  • ⚠️ Forced reviews to unlock features

Bugs and requests

Comic Caption Meme Maker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to save edited photos
  • Fonts disappearing after updates
  • Cropping tool not working as expected
  • Stickers and filters not loading properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to copy and paste text
  • Improve text wrapping and bubble resizing
  • Provide more font and sticker options
  • Implement cloud sync and project management
  • Add support for multiple images per panel

Bubbled

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Ads preventing app usage
  • Inability to save or edit bubbles

Requested features

4 requests
  • More bubble shapes and styles
  • Ability to flip or rotate bubbles
  • Option to remove ads
  • Improved performance and stability

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Comic Caption Meme Maker

One-time2
  • Unlock Premium Font Sets$4.99
  • Unlock Premium Fonts$4.99
8 purchases

Bubbled

Subscriptions4
  • Bubbled Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Bubbled Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Bubbled Pro Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
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  • Bubbled Pro Yearly$34.991 Year
One-time4
  • Buy me a coffee$0.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Buy me a beer$2.99
Show 1 more
  • Big support$4.99

Questions

Is Comic Caption Meme Maker free?
Comic Caption Meme Maker costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Bubbled free?
Bubbled is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Comic Caption Meme Maker or Bubbled?
Comic Caption Meme Maker is rated higher. Comic Caption Meme Maker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 448 ratings, while Bubbled averages 4.2 from 3.3K ratings.
Do Comic Caption Meme Maker or Bubbled have ads?
Bubbled shows ads; Comic Caption Meme Maker does not.
Which is updated more often, Comic Caption Meme Maker or Bubbled?
Comic Caption Meme Maker ships an update every 2 weeks, and Bubbled every 6 weeks. Most recently, Comic Caption Meme Maker was updated on September 27, 2026 and Bubbled on September 28, 2026.

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