Comparison

Button Badge Maker vs PhotoCream Pro

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • One-tap button badge layout
  • Circular image cropping
  • Automatic A4 print layout
  • Arrange multiple images
  • Create printable templates
  • DIY merchandise creation
Features
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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.

About

PhotoCream Pro

Features
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PhotoCream Pro turns your phone into a premium film camera and a pro photo studio. Shoot authentic analog looks in real time, then fine-tune every detail — all on-device, no subscription, no ads. REAL FILM, REAL CHARACTER • 100+ carefully crafted looks across retro, cinema, instant, mono and more • Authentic grain, halation, light leaks, bloom and vignette • Live preview — see the exact look before you shoot PRO PHOTO EDITOR • Full light and color: exposure, contrast, curves, HSL, split toning • Frequency-separation skin smoothing that keeps eyes, hair and detail razor-sharp • Reshape: enlarge eyes and a natural body-stretch with an adjustable range • Text, borders, grain, dust and date stamp STUDIO BEAUTY (FACE-ONLY) • Smooths skin and removes blemishes while features stay crisp • Subtle glow, brighten and rosy warmth — never plastic EVERY PHONE & iPad • Adapts beautifully from iPhone SE to iPad Pro • 22 languages with instant in-app switching PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything is processed on your device. Nothing is uploaded. No account. ONE-TIME UNLOCK • Free to download. A single one-time unlock removes the watermark and opens every premium pack. No subscription. No ads. Optimized for iPhone Duo.

Screenshots

Button Badge Maker4 screens
PhotoCream Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

Button Badge Maker and PhotoCream Pro are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Button Badge Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PhotoCream Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Button Badge Maker ships an update weekly, PhotoCream Pro every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Button Badge Maker versus PhotoCream Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterButton Badge MakerPhotoCream Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer云涛 贾Guan Feng Lai

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Button Badge Maker

One-time1
  • Unlimited Export$3.99
1 purchases

PhotoCream Pro

One-time1
  • PhotoCream Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Button Badge Maker free?
Button Badge Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PhotoCream Pro free?
PhotoCream Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Button Badge Maker or PhotoCream Pro have ads?
Neither Button Badge Maker nor PhotoCream Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Button Badge Maker or PhotoCream Pro?
Button Badge Maker ships an update weekly, and PhotoCream Pro every 5 days. Most recently, Button Badge Maker was updated on October 24, 2026 and PhotoCream Pro on October 24, 2026.

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