Comparison

CollageBook vs Phosphor Press

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

Head to head
About

CollageBook

Create stunning collages with intuitive gesture controls. Expand your canvas freely, arrange layers easily, and export multi-page designs as PDFs or image collections. Access a library of stickers and save custom gradient effects.

Highlights
  • Intuitive gesture controls
  • Expandable and freeform canvas
  • Precise canvas size settings
  • Multi-page PDF/image export
  • Easy layer management
  • Photo subject recognition
  • Sticker library
  • Saveable gradient effects
Features
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+ A flexible and efficient design tool where all actions are completed with basic gestures like tapping, dragging, and pinching. + The canvas can be expanded, focused, and cropped freely. No more worrying about collage elements going off the edge or running out of canvas space. + Canvas size supports precise settings, allowing you to export pixel-perfect creations. + Supports one-tap export of multi-page collages as PDFs or image collections. + Easily drag elements to switch layers. Adjusting the layer order is now more intuitive and efficient than ever before. + Recognize photo subjects, enabling copy, paste, and flexible operations. + All collage elements support complex gestures like dragging, pinching, zooming, stretching, and rotating. + A wide variety of beautiful stickers are available. + Save gradient effects to a library at any time, applicable to photo outlines or canvas backgrounds. + Save your collage to the creation library, ready for export or further editing at any time. Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Phosphor Press

Features
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Phosphor Press turns a photograph into the kind of picture a machine would have shown you before it could show everything: a few tones, a visible grain, and hard pixel edges. Not a filter laid over your photo. The picture is taken apart and rebuilt on a palette of two, four or sixteen colours, with the dithering that made those palettes bearable in the first place. SCREENS AND PRINT Paper โ€” dark ink on warm paper, four tones. The one to start with. Ink โ€” the same, at two tones, for a woodcut edge. Amber and Green Terminal โ€” the monochrome monitors, at two levels or four. Inked 256 โ€” full colour under hard black outlines. CGA 1984, CGA Outline, EGA Adventure โ€” the hardware palettes, matched in a perceptual colour space so four colours still look deliberate. Mosaic โ€” your photo's own colours in big square blocks. CONTROLS THAT DO SOMETHING Pixel size, from a coarse mosaic to a fine grain. Period screen modes keep their original non-square pixels, so 320x200 looks the way it did on a real monitor. Outlines that follow shapes rather than brightness. The app segments the picture into regions and draws the boundaries between them, so a line closes around an object instead of breaking up wherever contrast dips. Even lighting, which divides out the light in a scene so a surface split by a shadow stays one colour instead of becoming two objects. Auto levels, contrast, saturation, flattening, and frame shapes from square to 16:9 with a manual crop. WHAT IT IS GOOD AT Strong shapes and clear contrast: architecture, landscapes, silhouettes, objects against a plain background, anything backlit. A photograph reduced to four tones keeps what a silhouette is made of. It is honest about the rest. Fine texture โ€” hair, foliage close up, crowds โ€” is what these palettes have to throw away, and portraits are the hardest subject of all. Monochrome handles them better than the colour palettes do. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no server. The app works with the network switched off entirely. Your photos are read, converted and shown back to you, and they go somewhere else only when you save or share them yourself. FREE, AND PRO Every palette, every dither mode and every frame size are free, forever. Phosphor Press Pro is a single one-time purchase. It removes the signature from exports, adds CRT effects โ€” scanlines, phosphor glow, aperture grille, vignette โ€” adaptive palettes picked from your own photo, exports up to eight times the pixel size, and your own saved presets, exportable to another device.

Screenshots

CollageBook4 screens
Phosphor Press4 screens

Verdict

The call

CollageBook and Phosphor Press are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. CollageBook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Phosphor Press sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
CollageBook versus Phosphor Press: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCollageBookPhosphor Press
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews75.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size41 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๅฐๆณข ๅธMICHAL ZAJIC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CollageBook

One-time1
  • CollageBook Pro$4.99
1 purchases

Phosphor Press

One-time1
  • Phosphor Press Pro$2.99

Questions

Is CollageBook free?
CollageBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Phosphor Press free?
Phosphor Press is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CollageBook or Phosphor Press have ads?
Neither CollageBook nor Phosphor Press shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CollageBook or Phosphor Press?
CollageBook ships an update every 2 months, and Phosphor Press every 2 months. Most recently, CollageBook was updated on November 3, 2026 and Phosphor Press on November 10, 2026.

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