Comparison

Photowerks vs Mosaic

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

Head to head
About

Photowerks

Effortlessly organize your photos and videos into dynamic Smart Albums based on criteria like date, location, or media type. Automatically add new photos that match your album settings. Quickly find any image with intelligent sorting and detailed metadata viewing.

Highlights
  • Create Smart Albums by date, location, media type
  • Automatic photo addition to Smart Albums
  • View photos on a map with location details
  • Display full EXIF metadata
  • Create Apple Photos albums from Smart Albums
  • Automatic date and location captions for sharing
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Photowerks makes it easy to organizes and view your photos and videos via Smart Albums – create albums based on criteria you specify, such as: date, location, media type, camera type. New photos that meet an album's criteria are automatically added to the album. From the magical milestones to the utterly mundane, you can now quickly find, organize and create albums using photo metadata attributes such as date, location (city, state, country), camera make and camera model, containing Apple Photos album, and matching keywords (for photos tagged with keywords.) Photowerks seamlessly scans your existing camera roll and then groups and displays your photos by when or where you snapped them. No more scrolling or guessing to find that exact photo!  Use the photo detail viewer to see the exact location a photo was taken on a map, in addition to other details such as aperture, focal length and lens model, and containing Apple Photos album. You can also view the full, raw EXIF metadata for each photo. Benefits: • Smart Albums - easily create and edit multiple albums. When viewing a Smart Album, it's easy to create an Apple Photos album based on the Smart Album contents. • Serves as a photo timeline and diary of your life: Your daily life in pictures, displayed in multiple view formats.  • Takes the guesswork and scroll-time out of finding a specific photo. • Makes creating time- and/or location-oriented mobile photo albums a snap. • Lets you easily share, post and tweet your photos -- includes the added bonus of automatic date and location captions for every photo. • Dropbox support: Upload your photos to any Dropbox folder. Features: • Automatically catalogues photos by date, media type, city, state, country, camera make, or camera model.** • Automatically tags date and location captions for every photo.** • Photos are displayed in both grid or list views. • Tap photo to view date taken and location (city, state, or country) • Sharing capability for email, Facebook, and Twitter (with photo captions listing photo date and location) • Create new albums in the Apple Photos app. • View photo details with standard pinch-to-zoom gestures and swipe to view previous/next photo. • Sync any smart albums your create across all your devices with built-in iCloud sync. **Location stamp only works if Location Services were enabled on your device camera when you took the photo.

About

Mosaic

This app transforms Flickr into a visually stunning and fluid photo gallery. It showcases the best daily photos in a full-screen mosaic, ensuring no cropping and a seamless browsing experience. Explore diverse collections, dive deep into photo details, and enjoy smooth transitions and slideshows.

Highlights
  • Full-screen photo mosaic
  • Daily interesting photos
  • Explore by date and location
  • Smooth zoom and swipe gestures
  • Customizable slideshows
  • Flickr account integration
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Mosaic turns Flickr into a beautiful, fluid gallery. Every day millions of photos are shared on Flickr; Mosaic brings the very best of them to you in a full-screen mosaic that fits each photo's shape, so nothing is cropped and everything flows. EXPLORE • Today's Interesting: Flickr's most interesting photos of the day, laid out edge to edge • Explore by Date (Pro): jump to any day and see what caught everyone's eye • The Commons (Pro): photos from the world's museums, libraries and archives, with no known copyright restrictions • Recent Uploads: the latest photos from around the world • Photo Map: find photos taken near you or anywhere in your country, then open a whole area as a stream • Search the way you think: "Show me photos of mountain lakes from everyone, most interesting first" DIVE DEEPER • Tap any photo for the full story: description, tags, comments and where it was taken • Follow a photo into the albums and groups it belongs to, or the photographer who took it • A browsing trail remembers where you've been, so you can wander freely and always find your way back MADE TO BE ENJOYED • Smooth zoom from the grid into each photo, and swipe through at full size • Slideshows with a gentle Ken Burns effect, or simple fades, at the pace you choose • Video playback, with picture in picture • Pinch the mosaic to make photos bigger or smaller • On iPhone, follow any stream as a feed, one photo at a time, with the mosaic a tap away • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen, including a photo frame YOUR FLICKR Sign in with your Flickr account to see your photostream and contacts, comment on photos and join group discussions. You sign in on flickr.com in a secure window; Mosaic never sees your password. MOSAIC PRO Mosaic is free to explore, with a few limits: the first 50 photos of every stream, five searches and five Photo Map searches a day (within your own country), the streams you've opened today, and widgets of Today's Interesting and photos of sunset. Try everything in Pro free for 14 days, or upgrade to Mosaic Pro with a one-time in-app purchase to unlock: • Unlimited photos in every stream • Unlimited searches, with every filter • Unlimited Photo Map searches, anywhere in the world • Albums, groups and galleries • The Commons: every institution's collection • Explore by Date: Interesting from any day • Every stream you've opened, not just today's • Favouriting photos, and saving them to your device where the owner allows • Full-size photos, from 1600 px to the original • Camera details: when each photo was taken, and with what • Adding tags and contacts, and following photographers • Widgets of any search, and of your own photos and favourites • Activity & Stats: who faved and commented on your photos, and their views • Comments without the "via Mosaic" line MOSAIC PRO STUDIO A subscription for looking after your own photos on Flickr, with a 14-day free trial on the yearly plan: Auto-Upload sends new photos to Flickr by your rules (which albums, private or public, places kept private, albums by month), upload and edit photos (replacing the original on Flickr needs Flickr Pro), share photos to Flickr from any app or with Shortcuts, change titles, tags, visibility and location for many at once, organise albums, and add photos to groups and galleries. Studio is available monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mosaic.devedup.com/privacy/ Mosaic uses the Flickr API but is not endorsed or certified by Flickr. Flickr is a trademark of SmugMug, Inc.

Screenshots

Photowerks4 screens
Mosaic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Photowerks at 78% against Mosaic's 0%. Photowerks also leads on ratings volume (24 vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.7). Mosaic's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price, ads, 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. Photowerks sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Mosaic sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mosaic holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Photowerks's written reviews are positive against 0% of Mosaic's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photowerks ships an update every 2 months, Mosaic every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Photowerks versus Mosaic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhotowerksMosaic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (24 ratings)4.3 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.7
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB47 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSorth LLCDevedUp Limited

Customer experience

Photowerks

All ratings24 ratings
Positive79.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.8%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive77.6%
Neutral2.0%
Negative20.4%

Mosaic

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Photowerks

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • App crashes halfway through photo parsing
  • App crashes and restarts
  • Freezes up (M1 chip new ipad rebooted)
  • Keeps glitching and Crashing
  • New iPhone X update eliminated option to choose photo library
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  • Crash crash crash
  • Crashes every time when scanning the photo roll
  • Won't open
  • Closes before upload of photos
  • Crashes, then crashes, then crashes
  • Terrible, and cannot delete
  • Recently all my photos disappeared
  • App has asked me to rate it one hour after I purchased the Smart Folder option
  • Only works with camera roll or synced photos
  • The new update eliminated the option to choose photo library

Requested features

9 requests
  • Add possibility to add a range between two dates
  • Insert a "smart album" into the Photo app
  • Ability to add a photo to an album by selecting it, not just typing the name
  • List all Photos albums to choose from
  • Allow selection of photos on iCloud and other albums
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  • Filter pictures by country, year, etc.
  • Ability to delete a photo from within Photowerks
  • Have photos information
  • More time to explore the app before rating

Mosaic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Photowerks

One-time5
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$1.99
  • Unlock Premium$2.99
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  • Large Tip$4.99
  • Mega Tip$9.99
4 purchases

Mosaic

Subscriptions2
  • Mosaic Pro Studio$2.991 Month
  • Mosaic Pro Studio14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • 14-day TrialFree
  • PRO package$9.99

Questions

Is Photowerks free?
Photowerks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mosaic free?
Mosaic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Photowerks or Mosaic?
Mosaic is rated higher. Photowerks averages 4.0 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Mosaic averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Photowerks or Mosaic have ads?
Neither Photowerks nor Mosaic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photowerks or Mosaic?
Photowerks ships an update every 2 months, and Mosaic every 2 weeks. Most recently, Photowerks was updated on November 1, 2026 and Mosaic on November 1, 2026.

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