Comparison

Canvas vs ImageBuddy

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

Head to head
About

Canvas

Create eye-catching posters, flyers, and social media graphics using a wide range of customizable templates. Design visually appealing carousels, photo collages, and even animated videos to tell your story.

Highlights
  • Template customization
  • Carousel creation
  • Photo collage maker
  • Animated video export
  • Menu design
  • Social post creation
Features
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Turn your photos and ideas into posters, flyers, social posts and more with Canvas. Personalize a template in the built-in editor, connect images across a seamless carousel, or turn your design into an animated video. Start with a template. Make it yours. Promote an event, introduce an offer, or create a post for your next update. Choose a template and edit its content and design directly in Canvas. From posters and flyers to everyday social content, give your message a visual style of its own. Tell a story with every swipe Build a carousel with images that flow from one slide to the next. Arrange photos and content across connected slides to show a project, share a collection, or tell a longer visual story. Bring your photos together Combine your favorite shots in a photo collage. Capture several moments in one composition, collect inspiration, or show different sides of a project without choosing just one image. Give your menu a fresh look Start with a food menu template and personalize it for your dishes. Edit the menu content and design in the same app you use for your other visuals. Add movement. Export as MP4. Give a post or promotion an animated finish. Add movement to your design with Canvas animation, then export the result as an MP4 video to share. Choose a template and make your next post, promotion, or photo story with Canvas. Privacy Policy: https://karangmanggisstudio.site/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://karangmanggisstudio.site/termofuse.html

About

ImageBuddy

Features
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ImageBuddy is a fast image-prep tool for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Bring an image in — drag it onto the Mac window, or pick from Photos or Files on iPhone and iPad — and it lands over a checkerboard preview, so any transparency you create is obvious at a glance. Camera RAW files (.CR3, .NEF, .ARW, .DNG and more) open too; edits save as a TIFF beside the untouched original. Work one image or a whole batch: they queue up, and saving one moves you straight to the next. On Mac, Edit ▸ Undo steps back through settings, exclusion marks, rotations and removed images. One app, three devices The same pipeline on Mac, iPhone and iPad — the same queue, the same stages, the same save formats — laid out for whichever one you're holding. Trim, straighten & crop Auto-detect the artwork's bounding box, and shave off the transparent or matching-color edge. Rotate and flip in 90° steps. Straighten levels any angle and corrects Vertical and Horizontal perspective: Auto levels by the image's straight vertical lines, or its horizon, and Draw lets you mark a line that should be vertical or horizontal (or one of each) and sets the angle and perspective to match. Drag any edge of a manual crop, with a loupe and arrow nudges for precision. Remove the background Simple mode figures out the real background color, whatever it is, and knocks it out to transparency — including matching-color pockets inside the artwork — while genuinely different interior details like eye whites and letter counters survive. Or switch to Photo mode, which lifts the subject off any background with an on-device cut-out. (Photo mode needs macOS 14.) If Simple mode keeps eating a detail you want, paint exclusion marks straight on the preview to protect it. Stylize Wrap the cut-out in an outline, give it a shadow, and round off the corners — three independent switches. The shadow is one click: Low, Medium, High, or Glow for a soft halo in any color (detailed controls live in Settings on Mac). The canvas grows to fit the shadow and crops tight to the result, so it looks the same with trim on or off. Backdrops Grow a transparent margin — uniform or per-side — then composite over a solid color, a two-stop gradient, or an image scaled to cover the frame. Or blur the backdrop for a portrait-style finish: behind the subject of an untouched photo, or behind a cut-out you've placed on a new picture. Titles, captions & watermarks Set a title above the image and a caption below, in bands of space added outside the artwork rather than printed over it — your choice of typeface, color and alignment. Stamp a text or image watermark over the finished result at any size, margin, and position. Resize & vectorize Resize Image and Adjust Canvas are independent steps: scale to an exact width × height with an aspect lock, reframe the canvas without scaling — pick an origin, an absolute or relative size, an optional fixed ratio like 16:10 — or do both. Trace the silhouette, or every flat color, into clean scalable paths with any background color discarded automatically, and export or copy an SVG. Split collages Drop a sheet of images and, when ImageBuddy spots the gaps between them, split it into separate files in one click. Save it your way Save over the original, or save as new in PNG, JPEG, TIFF or HEIC with a quality slider for the lossy ones — and a warning before a format that can't hold transparency flattens a cut-out. Presets Every stage you've dialled in — the cut-out, the outline, the backdrop, the type, the watermark — saves as a named preset you can drop onto any image. Native, fast, private Pure Swift. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. It only ever touches the files you hand it, and writes only where you tell it to. Localized into 10 languages English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Português (Brasil), Русский, 简体中文.

Screenshots

Canvas4 screens
ImageBuddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Canvas at Free against ImageBuddy's $4.99. Canvas also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). ImageBuddy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On device support 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

Canvas is free to download; ImageBuddy costs $4.99 up front. Canvas sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. ImageBuddy asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Canvas ships an update every 3 weeks, ImageBuddy every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Canvas versus ImageBuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCanvasImageBuddy
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.0 (141 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews10.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings141 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNoor SiahBenjamin Dansby

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Canvas

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Weekly Discount$4.997 Days
  • Weekly Free Trial3 Days trial$9.997 Days
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  • Weekly1 Month trial$9.997 Days
  • Mountly$12.991 Month
One-time1
  • Life Time$59.99
None

ImageBuddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Canvas free?
Canvas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ImageBuddy free?
ImageBuddy costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Canvas or ImageBuddy have ads?
Canvas shows ads; ImageBuddy does not.
Which is updated more often, Canvas or ImageBuddy?
Canvas ships an update every 3 weeks, and ImageBuddy every 2 days. Most recently, Canvas was updated on October 30, 2026 and ImageBuddy on October 31, 2026.

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