Comparison

Collage Frame Widget vs Depthlock

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

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About

Collage Frame Widget

Display your favorite photos directly on your iPhone Home Screen with customizable widgets. Create collages with multiple pictures and easily arrange them to keep cherished memories visible at all times. Step-by-step video tutorials are included to guide you through the process.

Highlights
  • Home Screen widgets for photo collages
  • Mix and match photos in widgets
  • Multiple widget sizes available
  • Combine widgets for more photos
  • Step-by-step video tutorials
  • Supports photos from Apple Photos library
Features
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Collage Frame is like having a collage picture frame on your iPhone Home Screen! Create photo collages with your favorite photos of your loved ones. Mix and match photos on a small, medium, or large widget. By combining widgets, you can have up to 11 photos on one home screen. Your iPhone Home Screen will always have your cherished photos on it. Collage Frame provides easy-to-follow step-by-step video tutorials, so it's easy to create and display your photo collages quickly. Collage Frame is entirely FREE! There is no monthly cost, subscription, or membership required. + Collage Frame uses iOS Widgets to display photos + Create a small widget with 4 photos + Create a medium widget with 5 photos + Create a large widget with 6 photos + By combining widgets, you can have 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, or 11 photos on one screen + Includes easy-to-follow step-by-step how-to videos SUPPORT: For support, go to https://www.digiguys.com FAQ: Q: Is the Collage Frame app FREE? A: Yes, the app is free! We will keep it free forever! Q: I don't know how to use widgets. Does the app provide help? A: Yes, we have helpful video tutorials explaining widgets and how to display them. Q: What photos can I add to my iPhone Home Screen? A: You can add any photos in your Apple Photos library. Q: Can I use the Collage Frame app on my iPad? A: Yes, you can use the app on your iPad. As the iPad has more screen real estate, you have more room for widgets. Q: Will the Collage Frame app work on any iPhone? A: The app will work on any iPhone running iOS 14 and newer. Note that iOS 14 was released in 2020. MORE APPS: Check out all our apps at https://digiguys.com FACEBOOK PAGE: Join our Facebook Page for tips, ideas, support, and much more... be part of the community! https://www.facebook.com/digiguysapps

About

Depthlock

Preview how any photo will look on your iOS lock screen, complete with depth effects and clock placement. Automatically frames subjects behind the clock and simulates parallax. Offers tools to clean up distracting elements from images before setting them.

Highlights
  • Depth-effect wallpaper preview
  • Subject auto-framing behind clock
  • Parallax effect simulation
  • Image cleanup tools (inpainting)
  • Customizable clock typeface and size
  • Support for various image sources
Features
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Preview any photo as it will look on the iOS lock screen — with depth, motion, and the clock — before you set it. Depthlock lifts the subject out of your image using the same on-device Vision pipeline iOS uses, auto-frames it behind the clock numerals, and lets you tilt the phone to feel the spatial parallax close to what iOS renders on lock. No more setting a wallpaper just to discover the subject's head lands on the time. The preview is a close approximation, not a pixel-identical reproduction — small differences in clock weight, focal point, or parallax may appear once the wallpaper is actually set. The value is catching mismatches (head-on-clock collisions, awkward framing) before you commit. Bring any source Combine your own files with curated catalogs and preview every image for lock-screen viability: • Your files — Photos, on-device folders, Files providers (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive), Google Drive • Movies — TMDB poster catalogs (popular, trending, top-rated, in theaters, upcoming) • Space — NASA APOD plus Curiosity & Perseverance Mars rover photos • Games — RAWG curated video-game art • Wallpapers — Wallhaven curated + trending feeds • Art — the Art Institute of Chicago's open-access collection • Launches — SpaceX launch and mission imagery • Plus bundled samples for instant content Bring your own keys (optional) Catalog sources work out of the box on shared free-tier credentials. Want unlimited browsing or your own quota? Paste a free API key for any source in Settings; bundled defaults just work otherwise. A close preview of the lock screen • Subject lifted in front of the clock with depth occlusion • Auto-framed to mirror Apple — head under the time, body filling the lower portion • Tilt to see the parallax effect iOS applies on lock • iOS 26 Liquid Glass-style clock — refraction, specular, dark/light contrast • Customize clock typeface, size (drag handle), and front/back placement relative to your subject Clean up your wallpaper, on device The signature pain of poster wallpapers — distracting title text, watermarks, an extra person — solved without an account or a key. Brush or lasso the area, pinch to zoom in for detail work, and the bundled LaMa inpainting model handles it locally. Compose multiple passes with the erase loop; revert any step. Optional prompt-driven cleanup If you want more than mask-based inpainting — generative fills, scene rebuilds — bring your own Gemini or OpenAI key. Keys stay in your iOS Keychain and sync only through iCloud's encrypted channel. We never see them. Wallpaper edit mode Pinch and pan to position each image — persisted per wallpaper. Apple's "Extend Wallpaper" mirror reproduces natural-feeling edges. Discover and Favorites A randomized swipe stream pulls from your active sources. Favorite the ones you love and they follow you across devices via iCloud. One-tap set Install the prebuilt "Set Wallpaper" Shortcut once and it joins the share sheet from any preview — tap to hand the image straight to iOS's wallpaper picker. Privacy you can verify • No accounts. No analytics. No third-party tracking SDKs. • API requests go directly to upstream, or through a thin Cloudflare edge cache that sees URLs only — no user identity, no account to fingerprint. • API keys and OAuth tokens live in the iOS Keychain. iCloud Keychain syncs them through Apple's encrypted channel, never through us. • iCloud sync is Apple-to-Apple. Preferences and favorites ride iCloud Key-Value Store; cleanup image bytes stay device-local. Depthlock is independent and not affiliated with Apple, Google, NASA, the Art Institute of Chicago, SpaceX, RAWG, or Wallhaven. This product uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

Screenshots

Collage Frame Widget4 screens
Depthlock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Depthlock at every 3 days against Collage Frame Widget's every 12 months. Depthlock also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Collage Frame Widget's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Depthlock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Collage Frame Widget has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Collage Frame Widget ships an update every 12 months, Depthlock every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Collage Frame Widget versus Depthlock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCollage Frame WidgetDepthlock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (20 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings20 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size158 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigiguys, IncRocco Juliano

Customer experience

Collage Frame Widget

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Depthlock

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Collage Frame Widget

No in-app purchases

None

Depthlock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Collage Frame Widget free?
Collage Frame Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Depthlock free?
Depthlock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Collage Frame Widget or Depthlock?
Depthlock is rated higher. Collage Frame Widget averages 4.8 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Depthlock averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Collage Frame Widget or Depthlock have ads?
Neither Collage Frame Widget nor Depthlock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Collage Frame Widget or Depthlock?
Collage Frame Widget ships an update every 12 months, and Depthlock every 3 days. Most recently, Collage Frame Widget was updated on September 23, 2026 and Depthlock on September 28, 2026.

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