Comparison

Epub Studio vs Mosaico

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

Head to head
About

Epub Studio

Features
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Turn your photos into a digital book for Apple Books. EPUB Studio helps you create fixed-layout photo books on iPhone and iPad. Select several photos to generate pages in one step, or start with a blank book and design each page yourself. Arrange pages, resize and move photo or text layers, choose colors, and preview the complete book before export. Your projects stay stored locally on your device. Features: • Create a book from several photos • Start with a blank book • Reorder pages and layers • Add, move, resize, and delete photo or text layers • Edit titles, page names, typography, alignment, and colors • Preview every page before export • Export a fixed-layout EPUB 3 file • Share your finished book • Open exported books in epub readers • Work on iPhone and iPad EPUB Studio suits travel journals, family albums, visual stories, photography portfolios, and personal keepsakes. No publishing knowledge is required. Focus on your photos and your story. EPUB Studio handles the book structure and export.

About

Mosaico

Features
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Turn your camera roll into something worth sharing. Mosaico gives you real layouts, ready-made templates and a complete photo editor — build a birthday tribute, a travel recap, a clean feed post or a swipeable carousel in under a minute. WHAT YOU CAN MAKE • Collage — 518 hand-made grids for 1 to 50 photos • Shapes — 760+ silhouettes: hearts, stars, circles, flowers and more • Templates — 1,700+ designs across travel, birthday, summer, love and trending packs • Carousels — multi-page designs saved as one wide image AND as separate pages • Custom — an empty canvas where you add unlimited photos, text and stickers • Freestyle — a scrapbook where every photo tilts, overlaps and scales freely • Stitch — join photos into one long vertical or horizontal strip • Multi-Fit — fit any photo to a social size with a blurred or coloured pad • Effects — one-tap looks for portraits, film and light leaks CROP STUDIO A proper crop screen on every photo, in every editor. Drag the frame, lock it to Free, Original, 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 9:16, 16:9, 2:3 or 3:2, rotate in 90° steps, flip, reset. Cropping works on the real pixels, so nothing softens. TEXT THAT LOOKS DESIGNED 390+ fonts, plus every typeface on your device. Solid or gradient fill, outline, shadow, a label behind the words, letter and line spacing, upper/lower case, alignment — and bend the line into an arc. Move, rotate and resize on the canvas; edit any time with a double tap. PHOTOS, YOUR WAY Filters and effects, brightness, contrast and saturation, borders, corner rounding, spacing and shadow. Pinch to zoom inside any slot, swap photos between slots, and give any photo its own frame and shape. STICKERS & BACKDROPS Emoji packs, gradient and pattern backgrounds, and colours for every canvas. SAVED TWICE Every export lands in your photo library and in My Creations inside the app, where you can view, re-share or delete it. Full-resolution HD, in the ratio you chose. MOSAICO PREMIUM Free covers the whole toolkit with a limited number of saves. Premium adds: • Unlimited saves and exports • No ads anywhere in the app • The full library — every layout, template, filter, font and sticker • Full-resolution HD export Subscription options are shown in the app (weekly, monthly and yearly). Prices vary by region and are displayed before you confirm. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://mosaico-collage-maker.blogspot.com/2026/08/terms-of-service.html EULA: https://mosaico-collage-maker.blogspot.com/2026/08/eula.html Privacy Policy: https://mosaico-collage-maker.blogspot.com/2026/08/privacy-policy.html No account. No sign-up. Open the app and start creating.

Screenshots

Epub Studio4 screens
Mosaico4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Epub Studio at none against Mosaico's 3. Epub Studio also leads on ads (none vs shown). Mosaico's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price 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. Mosaico sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Epub Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Epub Studio versus Mosaico: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEpub StudioMosaico
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarcel PetersenPratigya Gulani

In-app purchases

None

Epub Studio

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Mosaico

Subscriptions3
  • Mosaico Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Mosaico Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Mosaico Premium Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Epub Studio free?
Epub Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mosaico free?
Mosaico is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Epub Studio or Mosaico have ads?
Mosaico shows ads; Epub Studio does not.

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