Comparison

Microsoft Designer vs Invitation Maker Card Design

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

Head to head
About

Microsoft Designer

Visually create and edit anything imaginable with AI. Generate unique images from text, design personalized cards and wallpapers, and enhance photos by removing distractions or backgrounds.

Highlights
  • AI image generation
  • Custom sticker creation
  • Generative erase tool
  • Background removal
  • Custom wallpaper design
  • Greeting card creation
  • Photo restyling
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Unleash your creativity — visually create, design, and edit just about anything you can imagine with AI. Use the power of generative AI to create eye-catching images with your words, craft next-level designs that pop like personalized birthday cards, holiday cards, wallpapers for your phone, and even use AI to edit photos like an expert - removing backgrounds and erasing distractions from photos. Create what you want, when and where you need it. Key capabilities: • Images: Create any image you can imagine. Sci-fi art, surreal scenes, funny images? Dream it, describe it, and create it with AI. Your imagination is limitless! • Stickers: Create something that sticks. Make custom stickers that help you stick out on messaging apps, social, and more. • Edit with AI: make your photos and images picture perfect with AI. o Generative erase: Erase distractions to make objects you don’t want in your image disappear. o Remove background: Say bye-bye to bad backgrounds. Easily remove unwanted image backgrounds in one step. o Blur background: Bring what’s most important into focus. Blur the background of any image to make your subject pop. o Add filters, adjust brightness, resize: Customize to fit your creative vision, including resizing to turn your creations into a square or custom size that fits just right. • Wallpapers/Backgrounds: Put it all on display. Create custom wallpaper or background to fit your current mood, make a statement, or to keep a special occasion front and center on your phone screen. • Greeting cards: Craft the perfect greeting for any occasion. From birthday cards to holiday cards and beyond, create a thoughtful greeting card with personalized messages and images even if you’re at a loss for words. • Restyle image: Transform photos into a work of art—like turning portraits, landscapes, and pet photos into artwork. • Monograms: Make your mark. Add some personal pop to your everyday life or for a special occasion like a wedding with custom crafted monograms that use letters and more to define your mark. • Invitations: Create invitations that wow. Customize your invitations for every occasion and any event like birthdays, weddings, and anything else big or small. • Social posts: Stand out online. Elevate and craft your next social post with Designer to create the perfect image and text to share online. • Icons: Express yourself visually. Create icons to easily communicate your vision and decorate your designs. • Emojis: Express yourself! Have the perfect reaction on hand with custom crafted emojis to fit any mood. • Coloring book pages: Color it in and get in your flow. Create custom coloring book pages to make coloring more exciting. Great for all ages. • Frame image: Turn your photos into a customized framed memory that you can share everywhere. • Collages: Bring your favorite photos, styles, and descriptions together create a custom collage from your favorite memories. • Banners: Create banners for newsletter headers, social profiles, and more to grab attention and stand out. Microsoft Designer is available for free with a Microsoft account. Your Microsoft account provides 5 GB of free cloud storage that you can use to save your designs, files, and photos across your devices. Additional information about terms of use can be found here: https://designer.microsoft.com/consumerTermsOfUse/en-US/consumerTermsOfUse.pdf Download Designer and create something new today!

About

Invitation Maker Card Design

Create stunning invitations and greeting cards with customizable templates and powerful design tools. Manage guest lists and track RSVPs in real-time, making event planning effortless. Export and share your designs instantly for print or digital use.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of professional templates
  • Customizable text and fonts
  • Drag-and-drop design editor
  • Photo import
  • Live RSVP tracking
  • Guest list management
  • High-resolution export
Features
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Design beautiful invitations and greeting cards in minutes — then track who's coming in real time. Invitation Maker Card Design is your all-in-one party planning toolkit. Pick a template, customize it your way, and manage your entire guest list without ever leaving the app! Invitations & Greeting Cards for Every Occasion Browse 1000+ professionally designed templates organized by category to find the perfect style fast: • Weddings & Engagements • Birthdays & Milestones • Baby & Bridal Showers • Anniversaries & Dinner Parties • Holidays, Greetings, & Special Events Built-In RSVP & Live Guest Tracking Skip the manual spreadsheets. Create your event, share a custom link with your guests, and watch responses roll in live. Easily track who has Accepted, Declined, or is still Pending directly in the app. Powerful Design Editor — Total Creative Freedom • Custom Typography: Add and style text with a curated collection of designer fonts, then bend it into an arc with curved text. • Photo Cutout: Lift a person or object straight out of your photo — the background disappears in one tap. • Shape Crops: Drop your photo into a heart, circle, star, arch, flower and more, and position it exactly how you want. • Effects That Finish a Design: Outlines, shadows, brightness, contrast, saturation and rounded corners. • Full Canvas Control: Drag, resize, rotate and layer text, images and stickers — with alignment guides that snap everything into place. • Personalized Palette: Customize colors, background textures and element opacity. • Your Own Photos: Import from your camera roll as a background or a layer. • QR Codes: Add a scannable code for your venue, registry or RSVP link. Save, Print & Share Instantly Export in stunning quality — JPG, PNG, PDF or SVG, up to 4K — with transparent backgrounds when you need them. Print at home, send to a print shop, or share instantly via WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook or SMS. Download Invitation Maker Card Design today and make event planning completely stress-free! Free to download with optional premium templates and watermark-free exports. Note: Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Automatic renewals will cost the same price you were originally charged for the subscription. You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Read our terms of service and Privacy Policy for more information. Privacy policy https://janbark.com/privacy_policy.html Terms of use https://janbark.com/ios-apps/ios_products_tos.html

Screenshots

Microsoft Designer4 screens
Invitation Maker Card Design4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Microsoft Designer at none against Invitation Maker Card Design's shown. Microsoft Designer also leads on ratings volume (556 vs 9) and chart position (#146 vs unranked). Invitation Maker Card Design's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Microsoft Designer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Invitation Maker Card Design sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Microsoft Designer against 4.6 for Invitation Maker Card Design. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft Designer has 556 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Microsoft Designer versus Invitation Maker Card Design: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMicrosoft DesignerInvitation Maker Card Design
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (556 ratings)4.6 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings556 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#146 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB87 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMicrosoft CorporationEishaan Ahmer

Customer experience

Microsoft Designer

All ratings556 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral4.0%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews364 reviews
Positive76.1%
Neutral5.8%
Negative18.1%

Invitation Maker Card Design

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

Bugs and requests

Microsoft Designer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inconsistent performance and loading issues
  • Inability to view or manage past designs on mobile
  • Unexpected content restrictions and rejections

Requested features

4 requests
  • AI-powered video editing capabilities
  • More advanced image editing tools
  • Improved handling of diverse character designs
  • Better organization and navigation of past projects

Invitation Maker Card Design

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Microsoft Designer

Subscriptions7
  • Microsoft 365 Basic Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Personal Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Family Monthly1 Month trial$12.991 Month
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  • Microsoft 365 Premium Monthly1 Month trial$19.991 Month
  • Microsoft Copilot Pro$20.001 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Personal Yearly1 Month trial$99.991 Year
  • Microsoft 365 Family Yearly1 Month trial$129.991 Year
8 purchases

Invitation Maker Card Design

Subscriptions8
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Weekly Subscription$8.997 Days
  • Weekly Subscription Plan$9.997 Days
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  • Monthly Subscription Plan3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Weekly Subscription$10.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$11.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription Plan$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Microsoft Designer free?
Microsoft Designer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Invitation Maker Card Design free?
Invitation Maker Card Design is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Microsoft Designer or Invitation Maker Card Design?
Invitation Maker Card Design is rated higher. Microsoft Designer averages 4.5 out of 5 from 556 ratings, while Invitation Maker Card Design averages 4.6 from 9 ratings.
Do Microsoft Designer or Invitation Maker Card Design have ads?
Invitation Maker Card Design shows ads; Microsoft Designer does not.
Which is updated more often, Microsoft Designer or Invitation Maker Card Design?
Microsoft Designer ships an update every 3 weeks, and Invitation Maker Card Design every 3 weeks. Most recently, Microsoft Designer was updated on October 27, 2026 and Invitation Maker Card Design on October 25, 2026.

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