Button Badge Maker vs PhotoPacker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Button Badge Maker
Easily design custom button badges by arranging and cropping your images. The app automatically generates A4 printable layouts, simplifying the creation of DIY merchandise and craft projects without complex design software.
- One-tap button badge layout
- Circular image cropping
- Automatic A4 print layout
- Arrange multiple images
- Create printable templates
- DIY merchandise creation
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Create your own badges and keepsakes with ease. Turn favorite characters, family photos, and pet portraits into memories you can hold. Bring photo cropping, text decoration, background editing, automatic layouts, and printing together in one app. No complicated design software or placing every photo by hand. • Flexible paper sizes Choose A4, A5, A6, or 5-inch, 6-inch, and 7-inch photo paper. Tap the current size on the home screen to switch. Create custom sizes in millimeters, save favorites, and automatically reuse your last selection. • Automatic layouts Add up to 50 photos. Arrange them automatically by paper size, shape, and finished dimensions, with a count of photos that won’t fit. Changing paper size rearranges the sheet without changing the finished size of your designs. • 21 shapes Circles, squares, triangles, stars, polygons, hearts, ovals, shields, drops, candy shapes, clouds, bookmarks, bells, tags, and more. • Precise sizing Set design size and spacing in millimeters. Save favorite sizes and remember settings for each shape. Adjust rounded corners, add dashed cutting guides, and optionally extend edge colors into the bleed area. • Individual photo editing Drag, zoom, rotate, and flip photos horizontally or vertically. In Edit mode, drag to swap photo positions. Make multiple copies at once. • Curved text and decorations Circular designs support full-circle, upper-arc, and lower-arc text, each with its own starting position, letter spacing, and edge distance. Other compatible shapes support text along the bottom edge. Add colors, bold text, shadows, symbols, and emoji. • Font choices Use built-in fonts such as MiSans, or import TTF, OTF, and TTC fonts from Files. • 28 photo filters Explore vivid, Japanese-inspired, black-and-white, retro, film, neon, and cinematic looks. Apply a style to all photos or adjust each individually. • Background effects and patterns On-device subject recognition keeps the subject sharp while you add adjustable blur, bokeh, motion, pixelation, or crystallization effects to the background. Replace backgrounds with dots, squares, triangles, hearts, or emoji. Customize colors and choose orderly or random arrangements. • Refine subject selections Use a brush or similar-color selection to add or remove foreground areas. Adjust edge softness for a natural blend. • Automatic saving Layouts and unfinished edits are saved locally so you can continue later. • Print and export Print with AirPrint or export PNG, JPEG, and PDF files at your selected paper size. Choose white or transparent backgrounds. PNG and PDF support transparency; JPEG uses white. For final printing, use PDF and “Actual Size / 100%” to avoid automatic scaling. • Designed for iPad Wide windows show preview and controls side by side. Layouts adapt to portrait, landscape, and Split View. Available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, German, French, Japanese, and Korean. No account required. Photo editing and subject recognition run on your device. The free version includes one print or export per day. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited printing and exporting. Turn what you love into something uniquely yours.
PhotoPacker
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Print your photos efficiently with PhotoPacker. Select multiple images from your library, set each photo’s print size in mm, cm, or inches, and choose how many copies you need. PhotoPacker automatically arranges images across one or more pages to use as little paper as possible. Key features: • Select multiple photos for batch printing • Set custom print sizes per photo • Choose copy counts for each image • Automatic page layout to maximize paper usage • Easy photo adjustment with zoom and position editing • Crop tool with draggable handles — trim a photo and its print size updates to match • Works across multiple pages when needed • Optional crop marks make prints easy to cut out • Optional photo borders in a custom colour and width (inset or outset) • Optional automatic size — print every photo as large as possible, all sharing the same area (each keeping its own aspect ratio and crop), filling up to a chosen number of pages • Optional layout area — pack photos into a custom-sized rectangle, centred and printed with crop marks for cutting; combine it with automatic size to fill the rectangle with the largest possible prints • One free print with no photo or copy limits, so you can finish a real page before deciding whether to buy Perfect for creating proof sheets, photo layouts, and print-ready pages with minimal effort. PhotoPacker is free to use, with a one-time Pro purchase — no subscription — that lifts the photo and copy limits and unlocks custom margins and gaps, 90° rotation, photo borders, automatic sizing, and custom layout areas.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Button Badge Maker at weekly against PhotoPacker's every 3 weeks. Button Badge Maker also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Button Badge Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PhotoPacker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Button Badge Maker ships an update weekly, PhotoPacker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Button Badge Maker | PhotoPacker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 云涛 贾 | Willem de Jonge |
In-app purchases
Button Badge Maker
- Unlimited Export$3.99
PhotoPacker
- Pro$1.99
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