Comparison

Collage Lab vs Loop Studio

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

Head to head
About

Collage Lab

Features
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Combine photos into clean grids, Polaroids, honeycombs, stories, and a 12-month baby calendar in a few taps. Pick a template, drop in pictures from your library or camera, add text or stickers, adjust spacing and corners, and share a high-quality image. WHAT YOU CAN DO • 1 to 20 photo layouts, including a free 3×3 dump • Polaroid, honeycomb, vision board, and wood-plank templates • Editable captions and overlay titles • 12-month baby calendar — Baby Year is free • Bump-to-baby journey (weeks on each photo) — Bump to Baby is free • Milestone keepsakes and first-steps posters — Keepsake is free • First-year poster (hero photo + 12 months) • Instagram story (9:16) layouts • Travel templates with designed backgrounds — Passport Spread is free • Crop, pan, and zoom inside each cell • Tap two photos to swap them • Text, stickers, filters, and custom backgrounds • Save projects and come back later No account required. No stock photos or video editor — just your camera roll. Three collages are free. Pro unlocks every template, extra filters, and unlimited projects. Privacy policy: https://balconygames.com/privacy.html Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Loop Studio

Easily transform videos, photos, Live Photos, and text into animated GIFs. Edit with precision using trimming, speed adjustments, and effects. Save and share your creations without ads, subscriptions, or watermarks.

Highlights
  • Create GIFs from videos, photos, Live Photos, and text
  • Trim, adjust speed, and reverse clips
  • Add captions and apply photo effects
  • Animate text with custom colors and backgrounds
  • Crop to various aspect ratios
  • Export as GIF or silent MP4
  • No ads, subscriptions, or watermarks
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Make something worth repeating. Loop Studio turns your videos, photos, Live Photos, and words into animated GIFs. Create and edit on your iPhone, with no ads, subscriptions, accounts, or watermarks. CHOOSE THE MOMENT Drag either timeline handle to trim your clip. Move the entire selection with the center grip, zoom in for precision, and scrub the ruler to inspect individual frames. Adjust speed, reverse the action, or make a back-and-forth ping-pong loop. START WITH YOUR MEDIA Import videos and photos from Photos or Files, record a clip, animate a Live Photo, or turn a burst into a sequence. Send media straight from the Photos Share sheet to the Loop Studio inbox, then open the app to edit it. MAKE IT YOURS Crop for square, portrait, story, or widescreen formats. Rotate, flip, add captions, and apply photo effects. Create animated text with your own words, colors, and backgrounds. Choose export resolution, frame rate, and repeat settings. SAVE AND SHARE Export an animated GIF or a silent MP4. Keep your creations in a local library, rename them, reopen them to edit, join GIFs, save to Photos, or share through the iOS share sheet. MADE ON YOUR DEVICE GIF creation and editing happen on your device. Loop Studio includes no advertising or analytics SDKs and does not upload your media to a developer server. Photos and iCloud imports use Apple's services. Optional online imports download a direct HTTPS video-file link you provide; watch-page downloads and public GIF hosting are not included. Requires iOS 17 or later. GIF and MP4 exports are silent.

Screenshots

Collage Lab4 screens
Loop Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Loop Studio at none against Collage Lab's 2. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Collage Lab sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Loop Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Collage Lab versus Loop Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCollage LabLoop Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexandr KorsakFranco RUGGERI

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Collage Lab

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly (every 7 days)$1.997 Days
  • Yearly (every 365 days)3 Days trial$24.991 Year
None

Loop Studio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Collage Lab free?
Collage Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loop Studio free?
Loop Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Collage Lab or Loop Studio have ads?
Neither Collage Lab nor Loop Studio shows ads.

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