Comparison

No Crop Border & Frame Editor vs Visual reminders + widget

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

Head to head
About

No Crop Border & Frame Editor

Easily add customizable borders and frames to your photos without cropping. Fit any image to social media formats like Instagram and TikTok with various styles, patterns, and color options. Export in high resolution with batch processing for efficient editing.

Highlights
  • Add borders without cropping photos
  • Customizable frames with colors, gradients, and patterns
  • 13 aspect ratios for social media and print
  • Auto-match border colors to photos
  • Adjustable drop shadows and rounded corners
  • Text and EXIF data overlays
  • High-resolution export and batch mode
Features
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You framed that photo the way you did for a reason. Then the crop takes over. Instagram squeezes it into a square or 4:5 portrait, the story format slices off top and bottom, and the head, the feet or the edge that made the shot are gone. It feels like the platform ruined the picture you were proud of. A photo should be seen the way you took it. With NoCrop, your whole photo gets a border instead of a crop — solid color, gradient, pattern or blur — so it fits square, portrait or story sizes with zero cropping, on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and anywhere else. THREE STEPS, NO LEARNING CURVE 1. Pick a photo — or up to 10 at once — from your gallery or the built-in camera. 2. Pick a border: an aspect ratio, a fill and an optional filter, or one tap on a preset. 3. Export as PNG or JPEG at up to 4K resolution and share straight to any app. FIT ANY PHOTO, CROP NOTHING Your image keeps every pixel. Pinch to zoom and drag to reposition inside the frame whenever you want a tighter composition — your choice, never forced. BORDERS, GRADIENTS, FILLS & PATTERNS Style the border exactly how you like it. Choose solid colors, smooth gradients or eye-catching fills, plus an artistic blur that turns your own photo into a soft background. Explore 12 built-in patterns — stripes, dots, checkerboard, waves, diamonds, hexagons and more — so every post gets its own look. 13 ASPECT RATIOS FOR EVERY PLATFORM Square (1:1), Portrait (4:5), Story (9:16), Widescreen (16:9), common print sizes and more — 13 aspect ratios in all. Your photos fit Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and beyond without awkward cropping or lost edges. AUTO-MATCH COLORS IN ONE TAP Tap once to pull your photo's dominant color into the border, so the frame blends with the image instead of fighting it — polished and cohesive in one tap. EFFECTS THAT FINISH THE LOOK Adjustable drop shadows with variable blur and opacity, plus rounded corners for a modern, gallery-ready finish. Six one-tap presets — Clean White, Dark Minimal, Film Frame, Gallery, Soft Gradient and Polaroid Frame — give you a professional frame instantly. PHOTO FILTERS — POLAROID, FILM & GOLDEN HOUR Give your photo its own color grade before you frame it. Polaroid (lifted, soft instant-film tones) and Golden Hour (warm late-afternoon light) are free for everyone — plus Warm Film, Faded Vintage, Moody Dark, Mono Contrast, Soft Matte and Cool Tone. Dial the intensity to taste and add fine film grain for an authentic analog, retro finish. Every grade runs on your device at full resolution and works with any border. EXACT BORDER WIDTH, TYPED Drag the slider, or tap the number and type the exact border width you want. Even mode keeps all four edges identical, so a whole set of posts shares the same margin. TEXT & EXIF OVERLAYS Personalize your border with custom captions or real camera details pulled straight from your photo's EXIF data — camera model, aperture, shutter speed, ISO and focal length — for a clean editorial touch. HIGH-RESOLUTION EXPORT & BATCH MODE Export in crisp PNG or JPEG at up to 4K resolution, so every detail stays sharp. Batch export up to 10 photos at once to prep a whole feed in seconds. WHAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND Cropped heads. Lost edges. Muddy low-res exports. Ads between every tap. Uploads to someone else's server. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything is processed locally on your device. No uploads, no account, no tracking. FREE TO USE Get started free with 3 exports every day. Upgrade to Premium for unlimited exports and the full library of borders, gradients, patterns, shadows, presets, filters and text overlays. No watermarks, ever. Your feed, the way you meant it: every photo whole, every edge where you left it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://schreier-digital.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-Imprint-30adc9a6cb7a80c58f20c8aef26f44d0

About

Visual reminders + widget

Features
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Visual reminders + widget helps you remember what matters by turning plain reminders into visual cards. Add a logo, a photo / image / picture, or a face next to each reminder so it stands out instantly. Instead of another text-heavy list, you get reminders that are easier to notice on your phone and on your large Home Screen widget. Use Visual reminders + widget to: • create reminders with an image, note, and link • pin them in a clean large widget built for quick scanning • reorder reminders with drag and drop • import images from Photos or from Google Images inside the app • schedule reminder notifications with the image attached when available • mark reminders as done, then review completed history and simple stats Built for people who ignore boring reminder lists and want something more visual, more direct, and easier to notice. Lifetime Pro unlocks unlimited active reminders and multiple notifications per reminder with a one-time purchase. Reminders widget with picture / photo / image & notifications.

Screenshots

No Crop Border & Frame Editor4 screens
Visual reminders + widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Visual reminders + widget at every 3 days against No Crop Border & Frame Editor's every 3 weeks. No Crop Border & Frame Editor's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. No Crop Border & Frame Editor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Visual reminders + widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

No Crop Border & Frame Editor ships an update every 3 weeks, Visual reminders + widget every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
No Crop Border & Frame Editor versus Visual reminders + widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNo Crop Border & Frame EditorVisual reminders + widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB2 MB
Age rating12+17+
Developerschreier.digitalAbdullah Aguiouaz

In-app purchases

3 purchases

No Crop Border & Frame Editor

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly1 Year trial$8.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$14.99
1 purchases

Visual reminders + widget

One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$4.99

Questions

Is No Crop Border & Frame Editor free?
No Crop Border & Frame Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Visual reminders + widget free?
Visual reminders + widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do No Crop Border & Frame Editor or Visual reminders + widget have ads?
Neither No Crop Border & Frame Editor nor Visual reminders + widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, No Crop Border & Frame Editor or Visual reminders + widget?
No Crop Border & Frame Editor ships an update every 3 weeks, and Visual reminders + widget every 3 days. Most recently, No Crop Border & Frame Editor was updated on October 31, 2026 and Visual reminders + widget on November 9, 2026.

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