Comparison

Compose vs PicStack

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

Head to head
About

Compose

Features
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Turn your favorite photos into stunning wallpapers and home screen widgets. Compose gives you designer-quality templates to arrange your photos of family, your partner, friends, or pets into beautiful lock screen wallpapers and widgets. No design skills needed — just pick a template, add your photos, and make your phone as beautiful as your memories. STUNNING TEMPLATES Browse professionally designed layouts for every occasion. Couple photos, family portraits, pet collages, friend groups, and minimalist solo designs. New templates added every month, including seasonal and holiday collections. CUSTOM WALLPAPERS Create lock screen and home screen wallpapers that are uniquely yours. Adjust backgrounds with colors, gradients, blur effects, patterns, and textures. Add text overlays with names, dates, or quotes. PHOTO WIDGETS Display your compositions as widgets on your home screen. Choose from multiple styles and sizes. POWERFUL EDITOR Drag, resize, and reposition your photos freely within any template. Apply beautiful filters, add frames and borders, or remove photo backgrounds for a clean look. FEATURES - designer templates across all categories - Photo wallpapers for lock screen and home screen - Home screen widgets in all sizes - Custom backgrounds, gradients, and textures - Photo filters optimized for compositions - Text overlays with custom fonts Compose Pro unlocks all premium templates, full customization, all widget sizes, and more. Subscribe to start your free trial. Terms: https://www.easytech-agency.net/terms Privacy: https://www.easytech-agency.net/privacy

About

PicStack

Features
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Make photo collages your way: place photos freely on an open canvas or build your own grid. Start free. No subscription, no account, no tracking. PicStack is a photo collage maker for iPhone that gives you real control. Overlap photos, resize and rotate them, feather the edges so images blend softly, and stack layers until it looks right. Prefer structure? Design any grid by splitting cells exactly how you like. Freeform canvas • Place, overlap, resize and rotate photos anywhere • Feather edges for soft, natural blends • Round photo corners • Control opacity and layer order • Add and style text • Borders and shadows for depth • Add arrows and circles Grid collages • Design your own grid by splitting cells • Pan and zoom each photo inside its cell • Tune spacing, corners and background • Add annotations Sizes for anywhere Square, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9, 3:2 or any custom size in pixels. Ready for posts, stories, prints and wallpapers. Export and share Save full resolution images to Photos, post straight to Instagram, or share to any app. Feels at home on your iPhone Built with native iOS design, full dark mode support, and only about 3 MB. Fast, light and familiar from the first tap. No subscription. Ever. Try PicStack free with 20 exports (watermarked). When you're ready, one purchase unlocks unlimited watermark free exports forever. No recurring fees, no upsells. Private by design No accounts. No cloud. No tracking. Your photos never leave your device. No AI, no filters, no clutter. Just focused tools that do exactly what you ask.

Screenshots

Compose4 screens
PicStack4 screens

Verdict

The call

Compose and PicStack are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Compose sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and PicStack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Compose versus PicStack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComposePicStack
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexis RaimbaultJack Schwarz

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Compose

Subscriptions2
  • Compose Premium Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Compose Premium Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
1 purchases

PicStack

One-time1
  • Unlock PicStack$3.99

Questions

Is Compose free?
Compose is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PicStack free?
PicStack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Compose or PicStack have ads?
Neither Compose nor PicStack shows ads.

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