Comparison

Freckle vs Text behind image

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

Head to head
About

Freckle

Easily design unique polka dot wallpapers for your iPhone. Customize icons, colors, and gradients to create beautiful homescreens. Support indie app development with optional upgrades.

Highlights
  • Create polka dot wallpapers
  • Shuffle presets
  • Choose custom icons
  • Select colors and gradients
  • Support indie development
Features
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Freckle is a fast, easy and fun way to create beautiful polk-dot wallpapers for your iPhone. You can shuffle between a range of different presets until you find one that works for you, or purchase Freckle+ to unlock all the customisation features. Freckle+ lets you: - Choose from a wide variety of icons - Choose your own colours and gradients - Support indie app development That’s it! It’s a simple app, designed to do one thing well.

About

Text behind image

Create eye-catching visuals with this photo editor. Easily place text behind subjects, blur or remove backgrounds, and add doodles. Design posters, stickers, and story posts in seconds.

Highlights
  • Text-behind-image posters
  • Instant sticker creation
  • Blurred or colored backgrounds
  • Advanced text styling
  • Doodles and annotations
  • AI background removal
Features
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Text behind image: Peekaboo is a playful photo editor for stickers, story posts, and poster-style edits. Put text behind your subject, blur or remove backgrounds, doodle on photos, and make eye-catching visuals in seconds. What you can make • Text-behind-image posters with subject-aware layers • Instant stickers from your photos • Story-ready posts with blurred or colour backgrounds • Bold text layouts with curves, outlines, glow, and Liquid Glass styling • Doodles, sketches, and annotations on any photo • Fast exports for Instagram Stories, Reels covers, WhatsApp Status, and more Why creators use Peekaboo • Put text or drawings in front of or behind the subject • Blur background or remove it for cleaner edits • Turn photos into stickers with custom colours and shadows • Style captions with playful fonts, curves, glow, and outlines • Use Story Mode for polished 9:16 posts • Edit with natural language using Apple Intelligence on supported devices • Generate backgrounds with Apple Image Playground on supported devices Free plan • Text, doodles, and subject-aware layering • Basic colours and gradients • Export with a Peekaboo watermark Peekaboo+ • Unlimited exports with no watermark • Sticker Maker tools • AI background removal and scene generation in beta on supported devices • Natural-language edits with Apple Intelligence on supported devices • Extra story options and advanced text effects Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ AI note: On-device AI uses Apple Foundation Models where available, so feature availability varies by device.

Screenshots

Freckle4 screens
Text behind image4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Text behind image at fortnightly against Freckle's every 8 months. Text behind image also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Freckle's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1). 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. Freckle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Text behind image sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Text behind image holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Freckle has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Freckle ships an update every 8 months, Text behind image fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Freckle versus Text behind image: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFreckleText behind image
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (13 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBen McCarthyParth Antala

Customer experience

Freckle

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Text behind image

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Freckle

One-time1
  • Freckle+$2.99
3 purchases

Text behind image

Subscriptions2
  • Peekaboo+$4.991 Month
  • Peekaboo+$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Peekaboo+ Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is Freckle free?
Freckle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Text behind image free?
Text behind image is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Freckle or Text behind image?
Text behind image is rated higher. Freckle averages 4.7 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Text behind image averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Freckle or Text behind image have ads?
Neither Freckle nor Text behind image shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Freckle or Text behind image?
Freckle ships an update every 8 months, and Text behind image fortnightly. Most recently, Freckle was updated on November 3, 2026 and Text behind image on November 5, 2026.

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