Image Size vs Cover Art Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Image Size
Easily resize your photos to any dimension using pixels, millimeters, centimeters, or inches. Preserve aspect ratio with a simple tap and crop images with intuitive multitouch gestures. Save, email, print, or share your resized creations.
- Resize images to custom dimensions
- Support for pixels, millimeters, centimeters, and inches
- Preserve aspect ratio
- Multitouch cropping
- Save, email, print, and share options
- Remove objects from images (in-app purchase)
- Ad-free experience (in-app purchase)
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This app allows you to resize an image to whatever size you like (with limitation), quickly and easily. You can specify the output format using one of the following four units of measurement: pixels, millimeters, centimeters, inches To preserve aspect ratio just tap on the chain icon between width and height input fields. This app gives you the option of saving, emailing, printing or sharing the final image. Resize your image in just four easy steps: - Open an image or take a photo - Enter your desired output size - Crop the image with your fingers using multitouch gestures - Save / print / send / share image The eraser for removing objects from the image must be unlocked with a one-time in-app purchase. The ads can be completely removed with another one-time in-app purchase.
Cover Art Studio
Easily transform your photos into custom album, playlist, song, or mixtape cover art. This tool provides creative control to design unique artwork for your music releases.
- Album cover creation
- Playlist artwork
- Song cover art
- Mixtape artwork
- Photo editing
- Creative control
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With this Free Album Cover Maker you can take your photos and turn them into album, playlist, song or mixtape cover art in seconds. Cover Art Studio gives you the creative control to create your own vision for your next album cover. These days a great album cover is a great picture and a parental advisory sticker, ask Drake.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cover Art Studio at none against Image Size's shown. Image Size's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 53%) and ratings volume (30K vs 4.3K). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Image Size sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Cover Art Studio sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Image Size holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Image Size has 30K ratings behind it against 4.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Image Size's written reviews are positive against 53% of Cover Art Studio's.
Image Size ships an update fortnightly, Cover Art Studio every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Image Size | Cover Art Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (30K ratings) — better | 4.6 (4.3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.3% of reviews — better | 52.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30K — better | 4.3K |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 325 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vitalij Schaefer | Gnoodl, LLC |
Customer experience
Image Size
Cover Art Studio
User reviews
Image Size
From 30K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Straightforward and easy to use
- 👍 Intuitive user interface
- 🚀 Quick resizing and editing
- 💡 Useful features like watermarking and cropping
- 👍 Saves resized images to separate album
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional issues with image quality after resizing
- 🔍 Unclear interface for some advanced features
- 💰 Paid version required to remove ads
- 🔍 Difficulty finding help/support options
- 🔍 Inconsistent behavior when resizing/printing images
Cover Art Studio
From 4.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Great for creating album covers
- 🎨 Helpful for independent artists
- 🎨 Intuitive and easy to use
- 🎨 Lots of customization options
- 🎨 Allows for creative expression
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔒 Issues with saving/exporting work
- 💰 Subscription model is frustrating
- 🔧 Difficult to navigate and use
- 🎨 Limited selection of templates/assets
Bugs and requests
Image Size
Reported bugs
3 issues- Resized images not saving correctly
- Ads persisting even after purchasing ad-free version
- Freezing/crashing issues on certain devices
Requested features
5 requests- Batch processing for multiple images
- More file format options (e.g. PNG support)
- Ability to adjust DPI/resolution
- Option to customize print layout and positioning
- Improved help documentation and tutorials
Cover Art Studio
Reported bugs
5 issues- Keyboard gets stuck and won't go away
- Resizing and positioning elements is glitchy
- App crashes when trying to download new assets
- Saved designs not showing up in photo library
- Inconsistent performance across devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to import custom fonts and backgrounds
- Improve text editing and placement tools
- Provide more high-quality design elements
- Allow for batch processing/exporting of designs
- Implement an undo/redo feature
In-app purchases
Image Size
- Leave a tip$5.99
- Unlock eraser$9.99
- Remove Ads$39.99
Cover Art Studio
- All Pack Subscription$4.991 Month
- Color Picker$0.99
- Filters$0.99
- Renaissance$0.99
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- Cash$0.99
- Fire and Smoke$0.99
- Background Color Picker$0.99
- Slatt Pack$0.99
- Double Cup$0.99
- Bling$1.99
Questions
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