Comparison

Photo Collage Studio vs qCurving

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

Head to head
About

Photo Collage Studio

Features
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Create polished photo collages from templates, grids, 9-grid slices, long images, and color-inspired layouts in a few taps. Photo Collage Maker is a lightweight collage studio for turning everyday photos into clean social posts, travel journals, moodboards, product boards, and share-ready layouts. Start from a template or choose your own mode: Grid Collage, Freeform Collage, Long Image, 9-Grid Slice, Color Walk, Subject Sticker, Photo Calendar, Travel Ticket, Travel Stamp, Color Beads, or Palette Overlay. New in this update: more scene templates, smoother selection and editing interactions, and a rebuilt creation page that makes the next step clearer. What you can make: - Photo collages for daily posts, albums, products, and memories - Grid layouts with custom ratios, spacing, borders, and backgrounds - 9-grid cuts for profile feeds and social reveals - Long images for stories, tutorials, recaps, and visual notes - Freeform collages with layers, rotation, flipping, and flexible placement - Color Walk and palette templates that turn photo colors into designed layouts - Travel, calendar, ticket, stamp, sticker, and portfolio-style templates Why it feels fast: - Start from recommended templates instead of a blank canvas - Fine-tune layout details without heavy editing menus - Save high-quality exports directly to Photos - Keep photo processing local on your device Make a clean collage, a 9-grid post, a long image, or a template-based visual story whenever your photos need a better layout. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

qCurving

Features
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qCurving is a vector graphics editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Draw paths with the pen tool, fine-tune anchor points and handles right at your fingertips, and create logos, icons, diagrams and illustrations with precision, wherever you are. NO MORE TYPING NUMBERS • Fix lengths to whole units while dragging, so rectangles, lines and polygons come out with round dimensions DRAW WITH PRECISION • Pen, pencil, line, rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, polygon, star • Add, delete and convert anchor points; edit nodes and handles directly • Snap to points; move and rotate in set increments • Connectors between objects (snap to end points and centers; lines follow when shapes move) WORK WITH TYPE • Text panel: font, size, leading, tracking, horizontal and vertical scale, baseline shift • All caps, small caps, superscript, subscript, underline, strikethrough • Paragraph: left, center, right and justified alignment; left, right and first-line indents; space before and after • Convert text to outlines and edit it as paths BUILD SHAPES • Pathfinder (unite, intersect, minus front, exclude) • Outline stroke, offset path, round corners, reverse path direction • Align and distribute, compound paths, stacking order, flip • Layers (show/hide, lock, reorder, merge) • Fill and stroke (RGB / CMYK, width, caps, corners, dashes) • Numeric input for position, size, move, rotate and scale OPEN AND EXPORT • Open and edit SVG and PDF files (choose which pages to import from a multi-page PDF) • Export to SVG, PDF (millimeter units, CMYK supported), PNG / JPEG / BMP, and for the web • Default stroke width is 1 mm in PDF and 1 px in SVG, so dimensions are ready for print and technical drawing PHOTOS TO VECTOR • Trace Image: turns a placed image into stacked vector shapes, one per color, with a live preview • Detect Objects: AI guesses what each object is (person, animal, plant, text, graphic, sky) and tunes the trace to match. Every object gets its own group; rename or skip any of them • Split Finely with AI: an on-device model separates plate, table, food and more. Downloaded once (about 86 MB), only after you confirm; your images never leave your device NEW DRAWING TOOLS • Width Tool for strokes that swell and taper; Spiral, Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid tools • 7 distortion brushes: Warp, Twirl, Pucker, Bloat, Scallop, Crystallize, Wrinkle • Distort Path (Zigzag, Roughen, Pucker & Bloat, Twist) and object locking SELECT, FIND AND SAVE • Select every object of the same kind in one step • Find Objects (⌄⌘F): filter by kind, fill, stroke color, width or layer • Save Options: compressed or plain, levels 1 to 9; images are never recompressed DESIGNED FOR EACH DEVICE • Mac: a desktop interface with a menu bar and keyboard shortcuts • iPhone and iPad: a trackpad-like "relative" mode so your finger never hides your drawing; wide-screen iPhones get the iPad layout • External display or AirPlay: the desktop interface on the big screen, a trackpad in your hands COLOR, BLENDS AND PAGES • Gradient and Blend tools; rulers, guides and alignment to a key object • Multiple pages (multi-page PDF export) and document tabs PRIVACY No account required. Your documents and images are never collected or sent anywhere. The only network use is downloading the splitting model, once, when you first choose Split Finely with AI and confirm. GOOD TO KNOW • When opening a PDF, paths (fills and strokes) and colors are imported. Text, images, gradients and clipping are not imported yet. • Full compatibility with other vendors' software is not guaranteed. • CMYK and color handling are our own approximation; no ICC-profile color management is performed. On-screen colors may differ from printed results. Always check your printer's requirements and a proof before printing or submitting files. • Feedback and requests are welcome on the support page.

Screenshots

Photo Collage Studio4 screens
qCurving4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Photo Collage Studio at Free against qCurving's $5.99. qCurving's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Photo Collage Studio is free to download; qCurving costs $5.99 up front. Photo Collage Studio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. qCurving asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Collage Studio ships an update every 5 weeks, qCurving every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Photo Collage Studio versus qCurving: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto Collage StudioqCurving
PriceFree — better$5.99
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYunLong ZhangUSHIO FUJIMURA

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Photo Collage Studio

One-time1
  • PhotoCollagePro$3.99
None

qCurving

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Photo Collage Studio free?
Photo Collage Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is qCurving free?
qCurving costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Photo Collage Studio or qCurving have ads?
Neither Photo Collage Studio nor qCurving shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Collage Studio or qCurving?
Photo Collage Studio ships an update every 5 weeks, and qCurving every 2 days. Most recently, Photo Collage Studio was updated on October 31, 2026 and qCurving on November 6, 2026.

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