ShotText vs Creative Picture Lab, Designer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShotText
Easily add text, shapes, and overlay effects to your photos. Customize colors, sizes, and rotation for a unique look. Share your creations directly to social media or save them to your device.
- Add text and shapes
- Adjustable text/shape size
- Customizable colors
- Rotation for text/shapes
- Overlay effects
- Direct social sharing
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ShotText is a photo editor that does everything on your iPhone. No accounts. No cloud uploads. No analytics. Your photos never leave your device. EVERYTHING IS ON-DEVICE Every filter, every AI feature, every export happens locally using Apple's Core Image, Vision, and Core ML frameworks. Edit in airplane mode if you want — it all just works. AI THAT RUNS OFFLINE • Background removal — one tap to isolate a person and drop in a new background • Auto-enhance — smart correction for exposure, color, and sharpness • Style transfer — turn any photo into Mosaic, Starry Night, Cuphead, Anime, Cartoon, or White Box style with adjustable intensity • Object erase — paint over what you want gone 38+ FILTERS IN 9 CATEGORIES Film looks (Noir, Chrome, Fade, Instant), 11 cinematic LUTs, art styles, lighting effects (Bloom, Gloom, Thermal, X-Ray), pencil sketch, tone mapping, and more — with a global intensity slider on every one. EVERYTHING ELSE YOU EXPECT • Crop with aspect ratio presets, rotation, and flip • Adjustments for brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and sharpness • 73 stickers across 5 packs (emoji, hearts, suns, eyes, directions) • Editable text with font, color, background, and shadow controls • 8 overlay packs (grunge, colors, nature, patterns, wood, bubbles) • 6 vignette presets with start/end controls • PencilKit drawing with pressure-sensitive brushes and eraser EXPORT YOUR WAY HEIC, JPEG, or PNG with adjustable quality. One-tap export to a 9:16 Story format with a blurred background — perfect for Instagram, TikTok, or anywhere vertical. Saved photos go to your library and a dedicated "ShotText" album. DESIGNED FOR THE LONG SESSION • 20-level undo and redo • Long-press the canvas to compare before and after • Pick up exactly where you left off — sessions persist across app restarts • Optimized for iPad with a side-by-side editing layout • Haptic feedback on every action PRIVACY ShotText collects nothing. There are no servers, no accounts, no third-party SDKs. Read the full policy at turkdogan.dev/shottext/privacy.
Creative Picture Lab, Designer
Enhance your photos with a powerful yet simple editor. Add custom textures, stickers, and exclusive fonts. Easily adjust colors, brightness, and contrast, or use specialized tools like blemish removal and teeth whitening.
- Add custom textures and photos as borders/frames
- High-resolution stickers and frames
- Advanced text and photo editing tools
- Selfie touch-up features (redeye, blemish removal, teeth whitening)
- Color adjustment and selective color replacement
- Crop, rotate, and straighten photos
- Photo FX filters and sharpness adjustment
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This app packs a simple design with a powerful editor to give you everything you could possibly want to make your photo's simply amazing. Our simple design, paired with powerful and snappy tools, will give you the look you want in seconds. Your photos will be beautiful than ever. Features: » You can add your own textures even your own photo and you can use them as border, frame, text, sticker texture. » Tons of high-quality, high-resolution stickers that you can combine with your creations and manipulate by finger » Get creative with stunning stickers & frames » Enhance with Hi-Def, Scenery, Food, Portrait, and Night » Draw attention to the subject of your photo with Focus or Vignette » Easy to add word/caption to photo » Advanced text & photo editor » Exclusive fonts » Touch-up selfies with redeye and blemish removal » Boost smile wattage with teeth whitening » Crop, rotate, and straighten your photos »Free photo transform for best fit »Move – Zoom In/Out – Rotate » Amazing photo fx filters » Selectively remove and replace color with Splash » Change border color » Add drama with Sharpness » Modify brightness, contrast, highlights and shadows » Adjust saturation, warmth, tint and fade » Add custom hashtags »Tag your photos on Instagram with #CreativePictureLab Join our community Create, share and enjoy ! Share more than just a photo in your social network English, Русский, Türkçe, 普通话, 中文, 日本語, 한국어, Nederlands, Deutsch, Español, Português, Français, Italiano, Norsk, Svenska. Web: http://www.climaxapps.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/climaxapps Vk: http://vk.com/climaxapps Twitter: @climaxapps Instagram: @climaxapps Gmail: climaxapps.com@gmail.com YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/climaxapps The copyright violations regarding all shared visual material, photographs, videos, pictures, drawings, quotes, texts and everything else are under the responsibility of the user. Creative Picture Lab and Melih ÖZDOĞAN do not accept any responsibility. Those who buy / download this application are assumed to have accepted the above conditions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ShotText at 4.0 against Creative Picture Lab, Designer's 2.6. ShotText also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (73% vs 63%). Creative Picture Lab, Designer's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. ShotText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Creative Picture Lab, Designer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShotText holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of ShotText's written reviews are positive against 63% of Creative Picture Lab, Designer's.
ShotText ships an update every 2 weeks, Creative Picture Lab, Designer every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShotText | Creative Picture Lab, Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (19 ratings) — better | 2.6 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 63.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Turkdogan Tasdelen | Melih OZDOGAN |
Customer experience
ShotText
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In-app purchases
ShotText
- ShotText Pro$5.99
Creative Picture Lab, Designer
- Pro Add-On Pack$2.99
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