Comparison

YearPics Photo Collage vs Picstack

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

Head to head
About

YearPics Photo Collage

Features
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Turn birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and favorite years into printable photo collages. YearPics shapes your own photos into numbers or short text, then helps you export a frame-ready keepsake for sharing, gifting, social stories, or home decor. Build reusable local photo collections, customize the text, font style, photo density, tile size, and background, then regenerate until the collage feels right. Use YearPics for birthday numbers, anniversary years, graduation posters, family milestones, party decorations, memory gifts, nursery prints, and wall art. Create a Memory Reveal video from a finished collage and share it as a TikTok-ready story-style post. Features: - Number, year, and short text photo collages - Reusable local collections from your Photos library - Memory Reveal videos for sharing finished collages - Font style, density, photo size, and background controls - Clean, unwatermarked previews - High-resolution PNG and PDF export with Premium - Print prep for common frame sizes - Instagram Stories sharing for finished collages - Automatic Premium gallery saves with export counts and print choices - No account required Privacy-first by design: YearPics processes selected photos on your device. Your originals stay in Photos and are not uploaded by YearPics. YearPics stores local collection references, lightweight thumbnails, generated collages, and print choices on this device; it may download your iCloud Photos through Apple Photos while preparing a collage. YearPics Premium unlocks larger photo sets, PNG/PDF export, Memory Reveal videos, print preparation, Instagram sharing, automatic gallery saves, and purchase restore. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Picstack

Features
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PicStack — Collage & Layers PicStack gives you an open canvas where your photos go exactly where you want them. Overlap them, resize and rotate freely, feather the edges so images blend softly instead of hard-cutting, adjust opacity, add text, and reorder layers until the composition feels right. It's the flexible, no-rules way to make something that actually looks like you. Need something more structured? Build custom grid collages too. Split any cell however you like to design your own layout, then pan and zoom each photo inside its frame. Adjust spacing, corner radius, and background to taste. Freeform canvas • Place, overlap, resize, and rotate photos anywhere • Feather edges for soft, natural blends • Control opacity and layer order • Add and style text • Borders and shadows for depth • Add arrow and circle Grid collages • Design your own grid by splitting cells • Pan and zoom photos within each cell • Tune spacing, corners, and background • Add annotation Sizes for anywhere Square, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9, 3:2, or a custom size in pixels — ready for posts, stories, prints, and wallpapers. Export & share Save full-resolution images to Photos, send straight to an Instagram post, or share to any app. No subscription. Ever. PicStack is a one-time purchase. Start free, and when you're ready, unlock unlimited watermark-free exports forever with a single purchase. No recurring fees, no upsells. Private by design No accounts. No cloud. No tracking. Your photos never leave your device — everything happens right on your iPhone. There's no AI, no filters, and no clutter. Just fast, focused tools that do exactly what you ask. PicStack is built to be small, sharp, and respectful of your time and your privacy. Make something great, keep it forever.

Screenshots

YearPics Photo Collage4 screens
Picstack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: YearPics Photo Collage at every 3 days against Picstack's every 3 months. Picstack's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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. YearPics Photo Collage sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year and Picstack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

YearPics Photo Collage ships an update every 3 days, Picstack every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
YearPics Photo Collage versus Picstack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYearPics Photo CollagePicstack
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBilal BayramJack Schwarz

In-app purchases

2 purchases

YearPics Photo Collage

Subscriptions1
  • YearPics Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • YearPics Lifetime$24.99
1 purchases

Picstack

One-time1
  • Unlock PicStack$3.99

Questions

Is YearPics Photo Collage free?
YearPics Photo Collage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Picstack free?
Picstack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do YearPics Photo Collage or Picstack have ads?
Neither YearPics Photo Collage nor Picstack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, YearPics Photo Collage or Picstack?
YearPics Photo Collage ships an update every 3 days, and Picstack every 3 months. Most recently, YearPics Photo Collage was updated on October 28, 2026 and Picstack on October 25, 2026.

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