Comparison

Photo Maker Collage Editor vs CollageThing

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

Head to head
About

Photo Maker Collage Editor

Features
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Take your memories beyond ordinary grids with Photo Collage Maker. Turn your photos and videos into aesthetic collages, seamless swipe posts, and eye-catching social media content in seconds. Designed for creative users, Photo Collage Maker reimagines the classic collage experience with modern tools. Whether you want to create smooth Instagram carousel posts or combine videos and photos in one design, everything you need is here. Highlights • 500+ templates and frames • Layout options from classic grids to free-style designs • Seamless swipe post creation for Instagram • Vintage textures, film frames, and Polaroid-style borders • Combine 4K videos and high-resolution photos in one design • AI-powered background removal for cutouts, layering, and custom stickers • Creative templates inspired by social media and messaging interfaces • Special designs for birthdays, weddings, graduations, travel, and family albums • Regularly updated seasonal and special occasion styles • Recap, Top 9, photo booth strips, and before-and-after layouts • High-resolution exports for printing, portfolios, and wall art • Create aesthetic wallpapers for your phone • Precise controls for rotation, mirroring, borders, and alignment • Ready-made sizes for Stories, TikTok, Reels, and Pinterest Perfect For • Content creators • Anyone who wants to preserve memories in a stylish way • Professionals creating before-and-after presentations • Anyone who wants fast and polished designs for social media Stop settling for ordinary collages. With Photo Collage Maker, make every photo and video more creative, more striking, and more personal. Subscription Information You can subscribe weekly, monthly, or yearly to access the features described above. A subscription gives you unlimited edits and full access to all premium tools. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal can be turned off in Account Settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current subscription is not allowed during an active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://muhammedylmz.com/photo/privacy/index.html Terms of Use: https://muhammedylmz.com/photo/terms/index.html

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CollageThing

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Make a photo collage that looks like you made it, not like a template made it. Pick a layout, drop your photos in, then pile on tape, sticky notes, doodles and stickers until it looks like yours. No ads. No watermark. Not even on the free version. WALLPAPERS AND POSTS Make a collage wallpaper for your lock screen or home screen, or a post or a story to put up. The canvas sizes are set up for both already, at exact pixel sizes, so nothing gets cropped off at the last moment. There are seven of them, down to an Apple Watch face. 21 COLLAGE LAYOUTS Photo grids, a big hero shot with smaller ones around it, filmstrips, moodboards, postcards, pinwheels, and proper messy scrapbook pages. The app puts the layouts that suit your photo count first. Slide and pinch each photo inside its frame until it sits right, and set the spacing, corner radius and margin to taste. A SCRAPBOOK, NOT JUST A PHOTO GRID This is the fun part. Torn paper notes. Washi tape at whatever angle you like. Handwriting, script, marker, chalk and typewriter fonts, ten faces in all. Seven sticker packs: love, faces, nature, weather, treats, party and marks. Hearts, stars, arrows, speech bubbles, banners, bows, fairy lights, confetti, flowers and little polaroid frames with captions. Drag it, spin it, resize it, recolor it, and layer it exactly where you want. BACKGROUNDS AND READY MADE PAGES Plain color, a gradient, paper textures, or one of your own photos blurred behind everything. Or skip the setup and start from a designed scrapbook page, already laid out, and just add your photos. Seven of them, from a clean editorial spread to a pink pinboard. MAKE THE PHOTOS MATCH Nine filters, from vivid to film to noir, plus brightness, contrast, warmth, saturation, sharpness and vignette on any photo. KEEP THE LOOK YOU LIKED Save your own collage as a layout, decorations and all, and start the next one from it with the photos empty. Your collages stay in the app to come back to, rename and duplicate. SAVED SHARP, NEVER WATERMARKED Every collage saves at full resolution, straight to your camera roll, ready to set as a wallpaper or share anywhere. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your photos never leave your phone. No account, no sign up, no tracking, no analytics. The app works in Airplane Mode. Free to use, with an optional one time unlock for the rest of the layouts, the other starter pages, gradient and textured backgrounds, patterned tape and the extra canvas sizes. One payment, no subscription.

Screenshots

Photo Maker Collage Editor3 screens
CollageThing4 screens

Verdict

The call

Photo Maker Collage Editor and CollageThing are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Photo Maker Collage Editor sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and CollageThing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Photo Maker Collage Editor versus CollageThing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto Maker Collage EditorCollageThing
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMuhammed YilmazKieron Sweeney

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Photo Maker Collage Editor

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Pro$2.997 Days
  • Yearly Pro$99.991 Year
1 purchases

CollageThing

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$1.99

Questions

Is Photo Maker Collage Editor free?
Photo Maker Collage Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CollageThing free?
CollageThing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Photo Maker Collage Editor or CollageThing have ads?
Neither Photo Maker Collage Editor nor CollageThing shows ads.

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