PhotoStage Slideshow Maker vs Slidezilla
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PhotoStage Slideshow Maker
Easily create dynamic slideshows from photos and video clips. Enhance visuals with effects, transitions, and add music or narration for a professional touch. Share your creations directly to social media.
- Combine photos and video clips
- Enhance and edit photos
- Apply effects and transitions
- Add music and narration
- Add text captions
- Direct social media sharing
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Create amazing slideshow from your photos and video clips. Enhance, crop, flip and rotate photos. Apply stunning effects and transitions such as cross-fade, zoom, panning and much more to give a more professional look. Add music, or record narration to create a soundtrack for you slideshow further enhancing those memorable moments. Making these dynamic slideshows is quick and easy with the intuitive interface of PhotoStage Slideshow Maker guiding you through the process. Then, when your slideshow is finished sharing your results and your memorable moments is just as easy with options including directly uploading to Facebook and more to showcase your slideshow with friends and family, because a picture is worth more when it is seen, appreciated and shared with others. PhotoStage Slideshow Maker Features: • Combine photos and video clips • Crop, rotate and flip photos easily • Fine tune brightness, color and saturation • Add text captions to individual slides • Choose from a wide range of transitions • Add music tracks to your slideshow • Record or import audio narration • Easily share finished slideshows
Slidezilla
Transform your photos and videos into engaging slideshow stories with a wide array of filters, transitions, and music. Easily create and share custom animated presentations or let the app randomize for quick, impressive results.
- Photo and video editing
- Customizable slideshows
- Hundreds of filters and transitions
- Add music (yours or app's)
- Colorful backgrounds
- Randomize slideshow generator
- Instant social sharing
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You and your photos and videos deserve to tell a story with transitions, filters, music, and FUN. Slidezilla is the new generation app for your photos and videos that brings them to life and allows you to share your unique slideshow stories instantly. Customize your personal stories with over a hundred FREE filters and transitions, music (yours or ours), colorful backgrounds, and much more! Go to town yourself or tap the Randomize button to automatically generate an awesome slideshow. Create amazing animated slideshows seamlessly with Slidezilla’s user-friendly app. Edit together videos as well as photos to make your creation. Instantly share your creation to your social sites and have others watch your own story. Download Slidezilla NOW to enjoy hundreds of options and customize your own photo slideshow. You have the story—Slidezilla helps tell it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PhotoStage Slideshow Maker at none against Slidezilla's shown. PhotoStage Slideshow Maker also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). Slidezilla's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 33%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. PhotoStage Slideshow Maker sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Slidezilla sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for PhotoStage Slideshow Maker against 4.1 for Slidezilla. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slidezilla has 247 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of PhotoStage Slideshow Maker's written reviews are positive against 64% of Slidezilla's.
PhotoStage Slideshow Maker ships an update every 6 months, Slidezilla every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PhotoStage Slideshow Maker | Slidezilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (24 ratings) | 4.1 (247 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 247 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NCH Software | Falstad.com |
Customer experience
PhotoStage Slideshow Maker
Slidezilla
Bugs and requests
PhotoStage Slideshow Maker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Slidezilla
Reported bugs
15 issues- App crashes when creating videos
- Photos and videos not appearing in selection screen
- Camera roll shows incorrect photo count
- App freezes on 'Get Started' button
- Videos appear squished and distorted
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- Glitchy video editing experience
- App crashes when adding videos
- Photos deleted after slideshow creation
- Cannot post/save videos
- App crashes after upgrade to pro
- Videos speed up unexpectedly
- Photos not displaying in final video
- App crashes before saving
- Redownload requires repayment despite same Apple ID
- App won't load all available photos
Requested features
15 requests- Add text overlay capability
- Import custom music from camera roll
- More transition options
- Remove or reduce watermark
- Ability to use more than 10 photos without upgrade
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- Video trimming and splitting tools
- Disable Ken Burns zoom effect
- Custom transition placement
- Drag-and-drop media reordering
- Photo background selection
- Rearrange media by modification date
- Shorter photo duration options (less than 1 second)
- Remove unwanted color filters
- Expanded music library with popular artists
- Better tutorial for transition controls
In-app purchases
PhotoStage Slideshow Maker
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Open All Effects$1.99
- Open All Transitions$1.99
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- Open All Output Formats$1.99
- Unlimited Youtube and Facebook Sharing$1.99
- PhotoStage$4.99
- All advanced effects, transitions, export formats, ad-free slide creation$4.99
- All advanced effects, transitions, export formats, ad-free slide creation$9.99
Slidezilla
- Pro Upgrade$1.99
Questions
Is PhotoStage Slideshow Maker free?
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