Comparison

Border Pro vs layrd

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

Head to head
About

Border Pro

Enhance your photos and videos with professional, customizable borders. Preserve EXIF data, print shooting information directly onto images, and export in various formats for social media or print. Works offline and supports batch processing.

Highlights
  • Preserves EXIF data
  • Calculated percentage-based borders
  • Print shooting data onto borders
  • Customizable color and shape borders
  • Social media and video export formats
  • Batch export up to 100 photos
  • Offline functionality
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Border Pro is the photographer’s tool for adding beautiful, precise borders to your photos — whether you shoot on iPhone, mirrorless, or film. Built for people who care about their images, Border Pro preserves your EXIF data on every save. Your camera model, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed and date all stay intact. BORDERS THAT MEAN SOMETHING Borders are calculated as a percentage of your image, so they stay perfectly consistent across every aspect ratio and resolution — from a phone snap to a 102MP medium format file. PRINT YOUR SHOOTING DATA Turn on Metadata Print and your camera data is printed directly onto your border — just like a lab print. Choose from 20 fonts including elegant scripts, classic serifs and clean sans-serifs. Set the colour to auto or pick any custom colour. Print on any edge — bottom, top, left or right — with the weighted border following automatically. COLOUR BORDERS Choose from curated classic tones, vibrant presets, or sample any colour directly from your photo using the built-in eyedropper with magnifier loupe. Save up to 6 custom colours for quick access. SHAPE YOUR BORDERS Control each corner independently — from fully rounded to square, mixed, or anything between. Create arches, D-shapes and compositions that are entirely your own. SOCIAL MEDIA READY Export to Instagram square, portrait, landscape or Story/TikTok formats with a single tap. Preview the canvas before you save. EXPORT YOUR WAY Choose JPEG, HEIC or lossless PNG. Set your own quality level. Your images, your format. EVERYTHING ELSE • White, black and custom colour borders • Double border with custom keyline colour — black, white, or any colour • Weighted border on any edge for that classic print look • Save up to 10 named profiles, synced to iCloud • Batch export up to 100 photos at once • Works completely offline • Saves to a dedicated Border Pro album in Photos VIDEO SUPPORT Photos and videos, treated the same way. Add gallery-style borders without cropping, compression, or loss of quality. Border Pro is for photographers who want their images to look considered, not filtered.

About

layrd

Features
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Layrd is a modern photo layout studio for creating polished editorial images from your photos. Add text behind your subject, frame images with clean borders, apply premium templates, and export social-ready visuals in minutes. Layrd helps you turn everyday photos into layered designs that feel cinematic, intentional, and finished. Use depth-aware editing to place text inside the scene, not just on top of it. Build clean compositions with typography, borders, overlays, metadata, and reusable templates. Create with: Depth-aware text behind subjects Elegant typography tools Clean borders and photo frames Premium editorial templates Camera-style metadata overlays Panorama and wide-photo split layouts Saved projects and reusable templates High-quality exports 100% on-device editing — your photos never leave your device Layrd is made for creators, photographers, travelers, brands, and visual storytellers who want a faster way to make photos look polished without complicated desktop software. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Border Pro4 screens
layrd4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: layrd at Free against Border Pro's $2.99. layrd also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Border Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

layrd is free to download; Border Pro costs $2.99 up front. layrd sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Border Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Border Pro ships an update weekly, layrd every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Border Pro versus layrd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBorder Prolayrd
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPAUL JOHN PRIDEDogara Yunana Gani

In-app purchases

None

Border Pro

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

layrd

Subscriptions2
  • layrd Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • layrd Pro Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • layrd Pro Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is Border Pro free?
Border Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is layrd free?
layrd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Border Pro or layrd have ads?
Neither Border Pro nor layrd shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Border Pro or layrd?
Border Pro ships an update weekly, and layrd every 3 weeks. Most recently, Border Pro was updated on October 7, 2026 and layrd on October 14, 2026.

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