Comparison

Design Lab vs Open Design Lab

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

Head to head
About

Design Lab

Create professional graphics and stunning visuals with a vast library of templates, images, and fonts. Enhance photos with filters and adjustments, and utilize advanced text and layer-based editing tools. Import your own artwork for custom branding and design.

Highlights
  • Customizable templates
  • Photo filters and adjustments
  • Advanced text tools
  • Free stock photography
  • Layer-based editing
  • Blend and erase tools
  • Vector shape creation
Features
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Create beautiful designs and pro graphics with DesignLab! Choose from millions of images, fonts and templates to produce stunning visuals, perfect for social media. FEATURES: • CUSTOMIZABLE TEMPLATES Search & select from our famous library of thousands of professionally designed templates. Organize them into customizable folders with our favoriting tool. • PHOTO FILTERS & ADJUSTMENTS Choose from our collection of filters to get the look you desire. Finely tune your photos with our suite of photo adjustments, including brightness, contrast, exposure, saturation, blur & more. • ADVANCED TEXT TOOLS Easily add multiple text layers, controlling their size, positioning, opacity, rotation, kerning, leading & color. You can also curve, bend, erase, and apply 3D transformations. • GORGEOUS ARTWORK DesignLab comes jam-packed with hundreds of irresistibly gorgeous illustrations, decorative ornaments, and design elements. • FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY Search from a collection of millions of free stock photos & illustrations. • LAYER-BASED EDITING Tap the layer menu to select one or multiple layers to edit. You can also rearrange their orders by long-tapping and dragging to the desired position. • CUSTOM ARTWORK Import custom artwork or your own logo, and use it in your photos as a fully editable layer. Perfect for the mobile creative, it helps branding efforts everywhere. • BLEND & ERASE TOOLS Erase parts of your artwork, text, or imported photo layers & apply several different blend modes to create unique images. There is also a built in "focus mode" - which allows for great precision when the eraser is active. • SHAPES Create vector shapes and control their properties with ease. • CROP TOOL Choose from a variety of aspect ratios. ...and more! Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the time of purchase confirmation. Subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://onelightapps.io/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://onelightapps.io/terms-of-use

About

Open Design Lab

Features
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Open Design Lab is an open research space run by the Hyundai and Genesis Future Design team in Seoul. This app gathers the work the lab has done and the questions it is asking now, in one place. What is inside • Philosophy Where the lab explains itself. The four axes we work along, what we are building right now, the record so far, and the questions we are currently putting to ourselves. • Projects Twenty pieces of work, from robotics and mobility to life inside the car, charging infrastructure, public design for the city, and the restoration of damaged nature. Each one carries its background, process and outcome, with the drawings and photographs that came out of it. • News and Awards What the lab has been up to, and the international design awards the work has received, including iF Design Award and Red Dot. • Insight Research published in peer-reviewed journals, read again in our own words. What rearward seating actually costs a passenger, what makes people trust a car with no driver, and the design methods nature already worked out. • Notable research Not only what we make, but what we read. Ten studies in mobility, AI and design, chosen by hand, each with a line on why it is worth your time. Tapping one takes you to the original paper. How it is built Seven languages Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, German, French and Spanish. Article bodies are translated too; anything without a translation falls back to English. Works in airplane mode The content ships inside the app, so the first screen fills without a network. Anything you have read once stays on the device, images included. Typeset for reading The journal typography of our website, carried over at phone scale. Section headings are numbered, figures carry captions on a rule, and every size follows your accessibility settings. iPhone and iPad On iPad the page is set again for the wider screen. Lists open into two columns, and headings and margins grow with them. Light and dark Follow the system or choose for yourself. Dark mode is not an inverted screen; the colours are defined for it. No ads, no account Nothing to sign up for, no advertising, and no tracking of what you read. Website www.opendesignlab.com

Screenshots

Design Lab4 screens
Open Design Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Open Design Lab at none against Design Lab's 3. Open Design Lab also leads on 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Design Lab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Open Design Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Design Lab versus Open Design Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDesign LabOpen Design Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOnelight Apps CY LtdFlovah Co.,Ltd.

Bugs and requests

Design Lab

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashing on launch
  • Saving issues, lost work
  • Glitches with gradient and text features
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save unfinished projects
  • More free templates and graphics
  • Improved stability and performance
  • Landscape mode support for iPad
  • Better text editing and manipulation tools

Open Design Lab

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Design Lab

Subscriptions2
  • Graphic Design・Content Creator$9.991 Month
  • DesignLab Pro - Annual3 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • One-time purchase$79.99
None

Open Design Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Design Lab free?
Design Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Open Design Lab free?
Open Design Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Design Lab or Open Design Lab have ads?
Design Lab shows ads; Open Design Lab does not.

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