Comparison

Layout for Instagram vs Tilea

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

Head to head
About

Layout for Instagram

Create professional collage videos and animated stories for social media. Explore a vast gallery of templates to boost creativity and develop a unique style for your stories, increasing engagement. Export your creations for free.

Highlights
  • Animated story creation
  • Professional collage videos
  • Vast template gallery
  • Boost social media engagement
  • Free export
Features
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Ever wondered how those cool animated stories are created? Search no more. Our vast gallery of templates will boost your creative needs. Find inspiration and create professional collage videos for your social media. Create a unique style for your stories to boost engagement. Easy to use and free to export.

About

Tilea

Effortlessly create stunning photo collages with a clean, intuitive interface. This app offers a one-time purchase for full functionality, focusing on ease of use and creative control without ads or watermarks.

Highlights
  • Intuitive photo selection and layout application
  • Automatic photo arrangement and cropping
  • One-tap 'Magic' makeover for layout, framing, and filters
  • Split photo feature to create multi-tile compositions
  • Customizable filters, captions, and edge styling
  • Device-based processing for privacy and speed
  • Export in HEIC or JPEG without watermarks
Features
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Pick. Place. Done. Tilea turns your photos into a beautiful collage in seconds — no ads, no watermark, and the collage editor is a one-time purchase. Choose the photos, tap a layout, save or share. Most collage makers are stuffed with sticker packs, filter stores and pop-ups fighting for your attention. Tilea takes the opposite road: one thing, done properly. Every screen earns its place. Every tap does exactly what you expect. MADE TO GET OUT OF YOUR WAY • Start straight from Photos: select pictures → Share → Tilea. Your collage is ready before the moment passes. • Prefer to start in the app? A fast picker that feels like Photos: pinch to resize the grid, open any photo full screen and select right there. • Layouts appear the instant you pick your photos — classic grids, diagonals, even a circle with photos fanned around it. Tap to switch, drag the borders until it feels right. • Your photos arrange themselves as they load: the best shot takes the biggest cell, and every crop centres on faces. It happens quietly, before you touch anything. • Auto-tune gives every collage the full makeover as it opens — layout, framing, background and color chosen to match your photos. Choose Light, Medium or Strong in Settings. • Photos fill their cells by default. Switch to Whole Photo to see each image uncropped against the background, then move, shrink or rotate it freely. Choose the starting mode in Settings. • Touch and hold a photo to swap it with another or remove it. The grid adjusts to the remaining photos. ONE PHOTO, MANY TILES • Split turns a single photo into a grid: pick how many parts (2 to 9) and the photo is cut across them, flowing seamlessly from tile to tile. • Carousel cuts one photo into 4:5 slides for a seamless swipe post. Story turns several photos into a set of pages, each one yours to edit. • Move and zoom the photo under the whole grid at once, so the part that matters lands exactly where you want it. MAKE IT YOURS • Filters, contrast and sharpness — the everyday adjustments, applied to the whole collage at once. • Add a few words: up to three captions, dragged and rotated wherever you want them, in the font style, size and color you choose. • Soft edges melt each photo into the background. Spacing, corner radius and an outer frame set the rhythm between them. • Decor patterns lay stars, sun rays, birds, snow, hearts, sparks, mist or soft shapes over the collage — subtle, along the edges, in any size and color. • Pick the aspect ratio for where it's going: square, portrait, landscape, stories or widescreen. Background: white, black or any color you like. • Reimagine redraws your collage or photo in a theme — anime, comics, art, nature and more — or in your own words. Your first generation is free, then Tilea Plus, an optional subscription, gives ten a week. BUILT LIKE IT MATTERS • Export in HEIC or JPEG without watermarks, with a choice of quality settings in the app. • Your collage keeps the original date, location and camera details, so it lands in your photo timeline exactly where it belongs. • Editing, Auto-tune and export run on your device — no internet required. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account needed, no ads, no tracking. Your photos stay on your device: only when you tap Reimagine does the chosen picture go to Google's AI to be redrawn, and we keep no copy. With Tilea Plus, your works can sync between your devices — photos are end-to-end encrypted, so only you can see them. Speaks 24 languages, and there's a left-handed mode that moves the floating controls to the other side. HONEST PRICING Your first 5 saves are free — the whole editor, not a crippled trial. One small one-time purchase then unlocks unlimited saves for good, on iPhone and iPad. With Family Sharing your whole family shares the unlimited saves too. Tilea. All collage, no clutter. Terms of Use: https://tilea.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://tilea.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Layout for Instagram4 screens
Tilea4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Layout for Instagram at 4.8 against Tilea's 4.0. Layout for Instagram also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (1.9K vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Tilea sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Layout for Instagram asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Layout for Instagram holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Layout for Instagram has 1.9K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Layout for Instagram ships an update weekly, Tilea every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Layout for Instagram versus Tilea: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLayout for InstagramTilea
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.9K ratings) — better4.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews82.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.9K — better2
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size189 MB53 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFitness LabsEvgeny Shatilo

Customer experience

Layout for Instagram

All ratings1,801 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral2.5%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral3.4%
Negative13.8%

Tilea

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Layout for Instagram

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Text feature sticking and causing loss of everything
  • Unable to go beyond the text screen

Requested features

2 requests
  • More layouts with 15 or 20 places to put pictures
  • Option to grid a picture without it being a video

Tilea

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Layout for Instagram

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Tilea

One-time4
  • 10 Reimagine tries$0.99
  • 20 Reimagine tries$1.99
  • 40 Reimagine tries$2.99
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  • Tilea Editor — Lifetime$7.99

Questions

Is Layout for Instagram free?
Layout for Instagram is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tilea free?
Tilea is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Layout for Instagram or Tilea?
Layout for Instagram is rated higher. Layout for Instagram averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while Tilea averages 4.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Layout for Instagram or Tilea have ads?
Neither Layout for Instagram nor Tilea shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Layout for Instagram or Tilea?
Layout for Instagram ships an update weekly, and Tilea every 4 days. Most recently, Layout for Instagram was updated on October 30, 2026 and Tilea on October 28, 2026.

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