Takeray vs Frame Elf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Takeray
Enhance your photos with unique artistic borders and watermarks. This app offers a camera library to improve your photography experience, allowing you to add custom logos and effects to your images.
- Artistic icon borders
- Watermark effects
- Logo borders
- Camera library
- Photo enhancement
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Takeray app is a powerful icon border assistant that adds unique artistic effects to your pictures. Whether it's watermark borders or logo borders, we can meet your needs. In addition, we also provide a camera library to make your photography even better. Come and download it and try it!
Frame Elf
Enhance your photos with a vast library of frames, watermarks, and collage layouts. Create custom calendars and apply batch edits with over 1600 fonts. Save your designs to the cloud for easy access across devices.
- 100+ frame templates
- 100+ collage layouts
- Customizable watermarks
- Photo calendars
- Batch editing
- 1600+ fonts
- Cloud template saving
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A treasure of an app for photographers, supporting batch addition of borders and watermarks to photos, adding borders to Live Photos, and creating collages. Over 200 beautifully designed frame templates and 100+ grid layouts (with customizable EXIF information). Multiple batch operations and free editing are supported, along with common graphic design software features like pinch-to-zoom, single-click selection, and flipping. Multiple export options are available, including lossless export to Moments, Xiaohongshu, and Douyin. We strive to continuously improve the app's functionality while ensuring ease of use. If you like our app, please give us a thumbs-up. [Create your own frame and watermark photos] Over 200 frame templates are preset, continuously updated, and automatically recognize EXIF. [Supports live photo] All EXIF templates are supported. [Create collages + watermarks] Over 100 grid layouts and multiple templates are preset. Both grid and custom collage styles are supported. [Colorwalk] Quickly create Colorwalk images, automatically recognizing parameters and colors. [Create vibrant calendars] Multiple templates are available, with customizable features like calendar size, lunar calendar display, calendar layout, and formatting. [Supports Overall Ratio Adjustment] All templates support this feature! [Save Templates] Save templates to the cloud, so you don't have to worry about losing them when you change devices. [Custom EXIF Recognition Format] Customize the recognition results based on your preferences. [Easily Add Custom Text or Images] Add and adjust your own text and images with high operability, including alignment guides and text style font adjustment. [Batch Function] Apply fonts and backgrounds in batches, with any background color. Automatically adjust the watermark color for solid backgrounds. [1600+ Fonts] With over a thousand fonts from Google, there's always one you'll love. [Auto-Layout Watermark] Adjust watermark text and line breaks at will without messing up the layout. ———— Frame Watermark Wizard Membership Guide ———— - Access member-only templates - Batch edit images - Save templates to the cloud - Export at full resolution Premium membership available as lifetime purchase or auto-renewable subscription. —— Auto-Renewable Subscription Details —— Payment: Auto-renewable monthly/yearly subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes Account upon confirmation. Renewal: Subscription automatically renews 24 hours before expiry. Your iTunes Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Cancellation: To cancel auto-renewal, turn it off in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Member Agreement https://frameelf.com/apple/MemberServiceAgreement-en.html Terms of Service https://frameelf.com/apple/userServiceAgreement-en.html Privacy Policy https://frameelf.com/apple/privacyPolicy-en.html Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Takeray at 100% against Frame Elf's 0%. Takeray also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Frame Elf's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Frame Elf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Takeray asks for nothing beyond the download.
Takeray holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Takeray's written reviews are positive against 0% of Frame Elf's.
Takeray ships an update every 2 months, Frame Elf every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Takeray | Frame Elf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 郑州等资网络科技有限公司 | 冠庆 陈 |
Customer experience
Takeray
Frame Elf
In-app purchases
Takeray
No in-app purchases
Frame Elf
- Monthly$6.991 Month
- Yearly$17.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99









