Collage Canvas vs Gridlace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Collage Canvas
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Choose your photos, tap any area, and make the collage yours. Collage lets you control the size and ratio of every photo area instead of forcing your photos into a fixed grid. • Automatically select a layout using photo count and aspect ratios • Add, replace, or remove a photo from your library or camera • Drag boundaries to resize neighboring areas • Snap boundaries to common ratios such as 25%, 33%, 50%, and the golden ratio with light haptic feedback • Move, zoom, and reset each photo position • Adjust filters, brightness, contrast, and saturation • Tune inner and outer spacing, corners, shadows, and background • Add custom text, change its color, and move, resize, or rotate it • Undo and redo edits • Automatically save and reopen recent work • Save and share PNG or JPEG exports Start with your photos, then fine-tune the final composition yourself.
Gridlace
Create stunning social media content with pre-designed templates for carousels, grids, and collages. Seamlessly split photos and videos for unique posts. Enhance your feed with professional-looking designs without needing graphic skills.
- Designed carousel templates
- Seamless photo and video splitting
- 3-wide feed puzzle grids
- Customizable collages
- Brand Kit for consistent branding
- Offline editing
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Gridlace — designed templates, seamless carousels, grids, video splits & collages. Start from a designed template, or turn one photo (or video) into scroll-stopping posts. Gridlace helps your feed look intentional — no design skills required, and everything happens right on your device. DESIGNED TEMPLATES Pick from a growing library of ready-made carousel templates — value posts, quotes, listicles, aesthetic packs, promos and Stories. Drop in your words and photos, switch themes, fonts and colors, then export a polished, ready-to-post carousel in minutes. New templates added regularly. THE SEAMLESS CAROUSEL Slice one wide photo into swipe-through slides. Post them as a single carousel and swiping reveals the whole scene as one continuous panorama. Choose 1:1, 4:5, 3:4 or 9:16, reorder slides, and use Seam Guides so faces and text never get cut across the split. COHESIVE CAROUSEL Drop in several separate photos and give them all the same frame — matching border, background and filter — so an ordinary set of shots posts as one cohesive, designed carousel. 3-WIDE FEED PUZZLE (GRID SPLIT) Split a photo into a 3-wide grid that reassembles into one big image across your profile. Gridlace numbers every tile in the exact order to post them — no guesswork. VIDEO SPLIT Split a video into a seamless carousel of video clips. Frame it once and export each slide as its own clip, ready to post in order. BEAUTIFUL COLLAGES Dozens of layouts, freeform arrange (drag, resize, rotate), photo frames, shaped cells, gradient/scene/photo backgrounds, per-photo adjustments, text & stickers — plus on-device background cutout to drop your subject onto any backdrop. MAKE IT YOURS Premium fonts, theme palettes, and a Brand Kit — save your handle, colors, font and logo once and apply them to any template in a single tap, so every post stays on-brand. WHY GRIDLACE • Private by design — your photos and videos are edited entirely on your device and never uploaded to a server. • No ads, ever. • Fast, native, and works offline. • Built-in stock library and sample photos to try instantly. GRIDLACE PRO The carousel, grid and collage tools are free to use. Upgrade to Pro to unlock the full template library, every premium font, the Brand Kit, Video Split, on-device background cutout, every frame and stock photo, unlimited slides and saved projects, highest-resolution exports — and to remove the Gridlace watermark. Pro is available as an auto-renewing subscription (Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly) or a one-time Pro Lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app and on the App Store. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew 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 before the period ends. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in Settings ▸ [your name] ▸ Subscriptions. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/gridlace Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions or feedback? Email thedollardetail@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Collage Canvas at none against Gridlace's 3. Gridlace's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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. Gridlace sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Collage Canvas asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Collage Canvas | Gridlace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Choi Tae Ho | Philip Tarimo |
In-app purchases
Collage Canvas
No in-app purchases
Gridlace
- Gridlace Pro — Monthly$4.991 Month
- Gridlace Pro — Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Gridlace Pro — Lifetime$39.99








