Mosaic vs AiFoto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mosaic
Explore billions of photos and videos from Flickr with this app. View full-screen HD content, customize your grid, and navigate with intuitive gestures. Unlock advanced features with a one-time in-app purchase.
- Full Screen HD Photo & Video Gallery
- Customizable grid view
- Multiple gestures for navigation
- Pre-loads photos for fast browsing
- Search and explore Flickr content
- View EXIF data and photo details
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Mosaic turns Flickr into a beautiful, fluid gallery. Every day millions of photos are shared on Flickr; Mosaic brings the very best of them to you in a full-screen mosaic that fits each photo's shape, so nothing is cropped and everything flows. EXPLORE • Today's Interesting: Flickr's most interesting photos of the day, laid out edge to edge • Explore by Date (Pro): jump to any day and see what caught everyone's eye • The Commons (Pro): photos from the world's museums, libraries and archives, with no known copyright restrictions • Recent Uploads: the latest photos from around the world • Photo Map: find photos taken near you or anywhere in your country, then open a whole area as a stream • Search the way you think: "Show me photos of mountain lakes from everyone, most interesting first" DIVE DEEPER • Tap any photo for the full story: description, tags, comments and where it was taken • Follow a photo into the albums and groups it belongs to, or the photographer who took it • A browsing trail remembers where you've been, so you can wander freely and always find your way back MADE TO BE ENJOYED • Smooth zoom from the grid into each photo, and swipe through at full size • Slideshows with a gentle Ken Burns effect, or simple fades, at the pace you choose • Video playback, with picture in picture • Pinch the mosaic to make photos bigger or smaller • On iPhone, follow any stream as a feed, one photo at a time, with the mosaic a tap away • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen, including a photo frame YOUR FLICKR Sign in with your Flickr account to see your photostream and contacts, comment on photos and join group discussions. You sign in on flickr.com in a secure window; Mosaic never sees your password. MOSAIC PRO Mosaic is free to explore, with a few limits: the first 50 photos of every stream, five searches and five Photo Map searches a day (within your own country), the streams you've opened today, and widgets of Today's Interesting and photos of sunset. Upgrade to Mosaic Pro with a one-time in-app purchase to unlock: • Unlimited photos in every stream • Unlimited searches, with every filter • Unlimited Photo Map searches, anywhere in the world • Albums, groups and galleries • The Commons: every institution's collection • Explore by Date: Interesting from any day • Every stream you've opened, not just today's • Favouriting photos, and saving them to your device where the owner allows • Full-size photos, from 1600 px to the original • Camera details: when each photo was taken, and with what • Adding tags and contacts, and following photographers • Widgets of any search, and of your own photos and favourites • Activity & Stats: who faved and commented on your photos, and their views • Comments without the "via Mosaic" line MOSAIC PRO STUDIO A subscription for looking after your own photos on Flickr, with a 7-day free trial: Auto-Upload sends new photos to Flickr by your rules (which albums, private or public, places kept private, albums by month), upload and edit photos (replacing the original on Flickr needs Flickr Pro), share photos to Flickr from any app or with Shortcuts, change titles, tags, visibility and location for many at once, organise albums, and add photos to groups and galleries. Studio is available monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mosaic.devedup.com/privacy/ Mosaic uses the Flickr API but is not endorsed or certified by Flickr. Flickr is a trademark of SmugMug, Inc.
AiFoto
Organize and back up your photos with smart albums, timelines, and keyword search. Share photos securely with encrypted links and manage transfers easily. Free up device space after backing up.
- Smart albums and folders
- Timeline view
- Instant auto-upload
- Customized share links
- Optional encryption for shared albums
- Real-time backup
- Keyword search
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*Must be used in conjunction with Photo Gallery The all new AiFoto has been revamped and brings a variety of new features to make photo organization easier than ever. New features for AiFoto include, but are not limited to timelines, smart albums and folders. Instant auto-upload, performance enhancements, and customized share links make for an even better photo viewing and sharing experience. — Needless to worry about other users seeing your photo. Just create NAS accounts for every user. — Quickly find and view photos from a specific date in AiFoto’s timeline. — AiFoto sorts your photos in a smarter way. Smart albums found in AiFoto include places, videos, recently added and favorites. — Supports two methods to share photos, share links to other NAS users or to friends and family. All shared albums have optional encryption to protect sensitive information. — Automatically back up photos from your phone in real-time. — Automatic logins make viewing and backups easy. — Download and upload task monitoring makes controlling your transfers easy. — Easily understand photo metadata as well as edit photo descriptions to make photo identification easier. — Easily find photos by keyword search. — Free up space function after backup — Backup destination feature, which allows you to back up photos from your mobile device to a specified shared folder. (Required Photo Gallery - version 3.2.5.r743.) — Facial recognition feature (Beta, Required Photo Gallery - version 4.0.0.r879.) Learn more: https://www.asustor.com/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mosaic at 4.3 against AiFoto's 2.5. Mosaic also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). AiFoto's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (11% vs 0%). On price, ads and 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
Both are free to download. Mosaic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AiFoto asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mosaic holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 26 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Mosaic's written reviews are positive against 11% of AiFoto's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mosaic ships an update every 3 weeks, AiFoto every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Mosaic | AiFoto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better | 2.5 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 10.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.7 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DevedUp Limited | ASUSTOR Inc. |
Customer experience
Mosaic
AiFoto
In-app purchases
Mosaic
- PRO package$9.99
AiFoto
No in-app purchases









