Comparison

layrd vs BeamLoop

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

Head to head
About

layrd

Features
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Layrd is a modern photo layout studio for creating polished editorial images from your photos. Add text behind your subject, frame images with clean borders, apply premium templates, and export social-ready visuals in minutes. Layrd helps you turn everyday photos into layered designs that feel cinematic, intentional, and finished. Use depth-aware editing to place text inside the scene, not just on top of it. Build clean compositions with typography, borders, overlays, metadata, and reusable templates. Create with: Depth-aware text behind subjects Elegant typography tools Clean borders and photo frames Premium editorial templates Camera-style metadata overlays Panorama and wide-photo split layouts Saved projects and reusable templates High-quality exports 100% on-device editing โ€” your photos never leave your device Layrd is made for creators, photographers, travelers, brands, and visual storytellers who want a faster way to make photos look polished without complicated desktop software. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

BeamLoop

Features
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Publish once. Be everywhere. BeamLoop brings your social publishing workflow into one streamlined console. Upload a photo or video, choose your connected channels, write your caption, and publish everywhere without repeating the same process in every app. Connect Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X, Discord, and Telegram, then choose exactly which destinations receive each post. Publish immediately or schedule for a future time, while Launch Drop helps coordinate releases across multiple channels. Start with one shared caption and create platform-specific versions when a channel needs something different. For supported platforms, you can also choose between timeline, Reel, and Story placement. Before publishing, Post Preflight checks your selected media, destinations, captions, connection status, scheduling, and other requirements to help identify anything that needs attention. History lets you follow scheduled, processing, successful, and failed posts, with individual delivery results for every destination. You can cancel scheduled posts and retry eligible failures without republishing to destinations that already succeeded. Save reusable caption ideas inside BeamLoop and bring them into future posts whenever you need inspiration. Smart Channel Groups also let you save frequently used destination combinations for faster publishing. BeamLoop currently supports publishing to Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X and Linkedin. TikTok and Threads are displayed as coming soon. Terms of Use (EULA): https://beamloop-production.up.railway.app/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://beamloop-production.up.railway.app/legal/privacy

Screenshots

layrd4 screens
BeamLoop4 screens

Verdict

The call

layrd and BeamLoop are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. layrd sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and BeamLoop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
layrd versus BeamLoop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterlayrdBeamLoop
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better15.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size58 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDogara Yunana GaniALEXANDRU MARIO IONESCU

In-app purchases

3 purchases

layrd

Subscriptions2
  • layrd Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • layrd Pro Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • layrd Pro Lifetime$79.99
4 purchases

BeamLoop

Subscriptions4
  • Creator Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Creator Yearly$79.991 Year
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  • Pro Yearly$159.991 Year

Questions

Is layrd free?
layrd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BeamLoop free?
BeamLoop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do layrd or BeamLoop have ads?
Neither layrd nor BeamLoop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, layrd or BeamLoop?
layrd ships an update every 3 weeks, and BeamLoop every 3 weeks. Most recently, layrd was updated on October 14, 2026 and BeamLoop on October 11, 2026.

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