Comparison

Mosaic vs Scrapaper

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

Head to head
About

Mosaic

Create stunning photo collages with a vast library of free layouts and themed looks. Easily arrange, edit, and customize your photos with a real photo editor and a variety of artistic finishing touches. Your creations are saved locally, ensuring your privacy.

Highlights
  • Over a thousand free collage layouts
  • Thirteen themed looks
  • Real photo editing tools
  • Freeform scrapbooking mode
  • Add captions and stickers
  • Multiple export sizes
Features
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Mosaic is a photo collage maker with nothing behind a paywall. Most collage apps show you a wall of beautiful designs and then lock the good ones. Mosaic ships everything it has, free: 1,360 layouts, 749 designs, 25 themed looks, every sticker, every typeface. No watermark, no subscription, no account. ONE DESIGN, UP TO TEN POSTS This is the part other apps charge for. Mosaic renders your design as one wide picture and cuts it at the very end, so the seams line up when somebody swipes your carousel. 225 of the designs are built for it: a sentence that runs out of one post and into the next, a week told a day at a time, one word broken across three squares. 749 DESIGNS, NONE OF THEM LOCKED A design places the photographs, the type and the artwork for you. Tap one and it lands. Torn paper and album corners, film frames on slate, menus, tickets, magazine covers, and a set cut for the 9:16 story. MAKE A COLLAGE IN SECONDS Pick up to 20 photos and Mosaic lays them out immediately. Tap Shuffle to re-deal until something clicks. Drag any photo onto another to swap the two. Drag the dividers to give a photo more room. TWENTY-FIVE THEMED LOOKS One tap sets the backdrop, frames, arrangement, artwork and caption together: Summer, Coast, Postcard, Cinema, Party, Noir, Bloom, Field Notes and more. Then change anything you like. A REAL PHOTO EDITOR Zoom, crop by dragging a corner, straighten a crooked horizon, rotate, mirror, and apply filters with adjustable strength. Lift a subject clean out of its background with one tap, and put it back with another. FREEFORM SCRAPBOOKS Switch to freeform and arrange photos by hand. Scatter, stack, fan or tidy them. Dress each one in a polaroid, border, postage stamp, film strip, torn edge or strips of tape. FINISH IT Captions in twelve typefaces, from clean sans to script and handwriting. Drawn stickers for every season, and plain shapes — circles, arches, stars, blocks of colour — to sit behind a photo or under a line of type. Set any photo, colour, gradient or paper texture as the background. Export square, 4:5, story, or any of eight sizes. YOUR PHOTOS STAY YOURS There is no account, no sign-up and no server. Mosaic has no analytics and collects nothing. Every project is saved on your device and never leaves it.

About

Scrapaper

Features
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SCRAPAPER IS A FREEFORM TORN-PAPER CREATION STUDIO—not a template collage or a reskinned photo-frame app. Every piece begins with your own gesture. Draw any closed contour over a photo, tune the paper’s roughness, fiber width, crumple, and grain, then pull to peel the piece away. Each re-tear creates a newly randomized edge, so the result is not a fixed mask or a recycled template. WHAT MAKES SCRAPAPER DISTINCT • Freehand contour tearing: trace any shape instead of choosing a preset frame. • Tactile peel interaction: pull the selected area away with curl and rip motion. • Material-level controls: adjust torn fibers, wrinkles, paper grain, and edge roughness. • On-device text awareness: Apple Vision can suggest text-edge regions while keeping central text intact. • Editable paper composition: overlap, rotate, scale, move, and reorder every scrap and decoration. • Handmade tools: masking tape, kraft tape, twine, handwriting, paper styles, and procedural stickers. • Two original outputs: a 4:5 feed image and a 9:16 animated MP4 reel in which pieces arrive one by one. MAKE IT YOURS Choose a photo from your library, take one with the camera, or practice with the included sample. Build one shareable artwork per scrapbook, keep reusable pieces in the scrap tray, and revise your composition with undo and redo. GEMS, ADS, AND PURCHASES Scrapaper starts with 10 gems. Optional rewarded ads grant 5 gems. Special stickers cost 1 gem and animated-reel exports cost 3 gems. Optional consumable gem packs are also available as one-time in-app purchases. There is no subscription, and the core freehand tearing and scrapbook editor remain available without a purchase. PRIVACY-FIRST CREATION Your photo cutting, page composition, text recognition, and export rendering happen on the device. Camera and photo access are requested only when you choose the related action. Scrapaper has no account, social feed, public upload, or cloud workspace. Privacy Policy: https://devkhpark.tistory.com/453 Terms of Use: https://ikhpark.com/blog/with-theapp-terms-of-use-2026-08-20

Screenshots

Mosaic4 screens
Scrapaper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mosaic at none against Scrapaper's 3. Mosaic also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Scrapaper sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Mosaic asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mosaic ships an update every 3 days, Scrapaper every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Mosaic versus Scrapaper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMosaicScrapaper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAryaman RaviKyung Hyun Park

In-app purchases

None

Mosaic

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Scrapaper

One-time3
  • Small Gem Pouch$0.99
  • Gem Box$1.99
  • Large Gem Chest$4.99

Questions

Is Mosaic free?
Mosaic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scrapaper free?
Scrapaper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mosaic or Scrapaper have ads?
Scrapaper shows ads; Mosaic does not.
Which is updated more often, Mosaic or Scrapaper?
Mosaic ships an update every 3 days, and Scrapaper every 4 days. Most recently, Mosaic was updated on October 24, 2026 and Scrapaper on October 26, 2026.

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