Comparison

CollageThing vs Scrapaper

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

Head to head
About

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.

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Scrapaper

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SCRAPAPER IS A FREEFORM TORN-PAPER CREATION STUDIOβ€”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 β€’ Freehand contour tearing: trace any shape instead of choosing a preset frame. β€’ Tactile peel interaction: pull the selected area away with curl and rip motion. β€’ Material-level controls: adjust torn fibers, wrinkles, paper grain, and edge roughness. β€’ On-device text awareness: Apple Vision can suggest text-edge regions while keeping central text intact. β€’ Editable paper composition: overlap, rotate, scale, move, and reorder every scrap and decoration. β€’ Handmade tools: masking tape, kraft tape, twine, handwriting, paper styles, and procedural stickers. β€’ 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

CollageThing4 screens
Scrapaper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CollageThing at none against Scrapaper's shown. Scrapaper's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. CollageThing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Scrapaper sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CollageThing ships an update every 6 days, Scrapaper every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
CollageThing versus Scrapaper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCollageThingScrapaper
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 4 days β€” better
AdsNo β€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad β€” better
Requires iOS18.016.4 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size8 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKieron SweeneyKyung Hyun Park

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CollageThing

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$1.99
3 purchases

Scrapaper

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

Questions

Is CollageThing free?
CollageThing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scrapaper free?
Scrapaper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CollageThing or Scrapaper have ads?
Scrapaper shows ads; CollageThing does not.
Which is updated more often, CollageThing or Scrapaper?
CollageThing ships an update every 6 days, and Scrapaper every 4 days. Most recently, CollageThing was updated on October 7, 2026 and Scrapaper on October 5, 2026.

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