SnapStack vs Layoutz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SnapStack
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SnapStack does one thing and does it right. It turns your photos into clean, beautiful grids and collages in seconds, with none of the clutter. Most collage apps bury you in stickers, fonts, ads, and pop-ups. SnapStack is the opposite. It is built around a single idea, the fastest and simplest way to make a great looking photo grid and share it. WHAT MAKES SNAPSTACK DIFFERENT • Genuinely simple. A focused set of layouts, shapes, and one clean border. Nothing to learn, nothing to dig through. • The familiar iOS photo picker, the same one you already use, not a clunky custom gallery. • Handles any library, any size. It works beautifully with iCloud, no matter how many albums you have or how large your photo library has grown. Photos load from iCloud on demand, so it never stalls, lags, or runs out of memory the way so many photo apps do. • Private by design. Every photo is processed on your device. No account, no sign up, no ads, no tracking, nothing uploaded. • Pixel perfect cells. Your photo always fills its cell completely. No white gaps, no stretching, ever. • Tiny and instant. A small download that opens straight into the editor. HOW IT WORKS • Tap a cell and pick a photo. Drag to reposition, pinch to zoom, tap to rotate. • Choose your shape, add a border if you like, and you are done. LAYOUTS THAT MAKE SENSE Square, tall, and wide grids, plus feature layouts. The grids people actually use, and nothing you never touch. SHARE ANYWHERE Canvas shapes for the feed, for portrait, and for full screen Stories. Save to your camera roll, or send your grid to any app, including Instagram Stories and WhatsApp, through the system share sheet. CLEAN, MINIMAL BORDERS Add a white or black border and set exactly the width you want, or go edge to edge. That is the whole feature. No gimmicks. FREE TO START Make your first grids and export at standard quality for free. SnapStack Pro unlocks every layout and high resolution export. Terms of Use: https://nightlybuildgroup.com/en/terms Privacy Policy: https://nightlybuildgroup.com/en/privacy/apps
Layoutz
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Turn your photos into a collage worth keeping: a clean grid, an instant print, a film strip or a travel-journal page. No watermark, no ads, no subscription, no sign-up. JOURNAL - A travel-journal page beside your photos: a map with a dot for every place, the country and region, and the dates, days and distance of your trip, all read from the photos - With one photo, its day, time and altitude AUTO - One tap picks the layout, photo shape, order and crops that suit your photos, and suggests a look and a caption. Tap again for another idea LAYOUTS - Every layout that fits your photos: grids, strips, and feature layouts where one photo leads - Drag the lines between photos to resize, and keep the result as your own layout - Hold a photo to swap it; pinch to zoom and drag with two fingers to reframe, right in the preview - Photo shapes from square to 21:10, and canvas sizes for posts and stories: 1:1, 4:5, 9:16 and 16:9 FRAMES AND LOOKS - Instant prints, mini and wide, with a handwritten-style caption - A 35 mm film strip, black or amber, with perforations and frame numbers - Backdrops under any frame: a color, a gradient or one of your photos - Color looks and nine film stocks, each with a strength slider - Borders in soft pastels or any color, and rounded corners all the way to circles TEXT - A caption on any photo: size, font, color, position, and the fade behind it - A date stamp like film, in any corner and any color Undo any change, check it fullscreen, and save to Photos at full resolution. In 26 languages. Everything happens on your device. Your photos never leave your phone, and nothing tracks you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Layoutz at none against SnapStack's 4. SnapStack's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. SnapStack sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Layoutz asks for nothing beyond the download.
SnapStack ships an update daily, Layoutz every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SnapStack | Layoutz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Unbogify GmbH | GONZALO SERRANO REVUELTA |
In-app purchases
SnapStack
- Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99
Layoutz
No in-app purchases









