Comparison

Face Impact vs Slideshow Maker GIF Creator

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

Head to head
About

Face Impact

Easily create fun photomontages with a variety of editing tools. Adjust colors, apply filters, and cut out unwanted parts of your photos to achieve realistic or atmospheric effects. Share your creations or save them to your device.

Highlights
  • Create photomontages
  • Adjust hue, saturation, brightness, contrast
  • Apply filters
  • Cut and edit photo parts
  • Share to social media
  • Save to camera roll
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Create photomontages with Face Impact fun and a breeze! First choose a photo from the available categories likeable and fun to create your photomontage with plenty of tools at your disposal. Face Impact provides a professional tool to create many effects. For example, you can: -Be able to adjust hue, saturation, brightness and contrast to make ultra-realistic images. -Apply a lot of filters to your character to make it a more appealing atmosphere. -Cut and edit parts of your photo montage that you do not want to view. When your work is complete and Face Impact allows you to amaze your friends and family! You can also share via Facebook or Twiter your photo montage, or you can save the images in the camera roll or send it via e-mail.

About

Slideshow Maker GIF Creator

Easily convert videos into animated GIFs or extract images from existing GIFs. Customize your creations with filters, stickers, and adjustable speed. Save and share your animated content as video or GIF files.

Highlights
  • Convert video to GIF
  • Extract images from GIF
  • Set trimming position
  • Add photo stickers
  • Adjust GIF replay speed
  • Share as video or GIF
Features
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Turn scattered photos and short clips into a polished GIF or video without wrestling with complicated editors. Make a slideshow, convert video to GIF, and save or share the result in just a few taps. WHAT IT DOES Build a photo slideshow with per-slide captions, choose a duration for each slide, reorder shots, swipe to delete, and pick a transition for every slide. Use cut or crossfade for free, preview your result, then create a GIF or create a video and share it or save it to Photos. You can also choose canvas templates for Square, Twitter, Stories, Reels, TikTok, and Pinterest layouts, with a safe-zone overlay to help place text. Make a video to GIF or video from your clips with the same editing controls, then check the GIF preview before you save. If you want smoother-looking animated GIF results with smaller files, turn on Smart palette & dithering. For single-photo motion, Loop Animator turns one picture into a looping GIF with zoom-in, pan-left, parallax, sparkle, or rain presets. Add the finishing touches with a built-in music library, color controls like brightness, contrast, and saturation, and per-slide voiceover in Pro. You can also place stickers, remove a background and swap in a solid or gradient backdrop, and choose custom transitions like cross zoom, glitch, push, ripple, or polaroid flip. GREAT FOR Make a birthday slideshow from your photo library, turn a product clip into a GIF for messages or social posts, create a looping profile animation from one selfie with the parallax or sparkle preset, fit travel photos into a Stories or Reels canvas, add captions to each slide for a recap, or save a quick highlight video with music for sharing later. WHY IT WORKS Slideshow Maker GIF Creator helps people turn photos and clips into shareable GIF and video projects on iPhone. Your recent slideshow, video to GIF, and loop animation projects are autosaved on the Projects home screen, so you can come back and keep editing instead of starting over. It also keeps GIF and video creation separate and clear, with dedicated Create GIF and Create MP4 actions, plus preview, Share, and Save options after export. PRO FEATURES Free exports include a small app watermark, while Pro removes it. Pro also adds unlimited saved projects, premium canvas templates, more music tracks, custom transitions, more stickers, per-slide voiceover, background removal, cloud sync for projects, and higher export quality options including 4K on supported devices. Pricing: $4.99/week (3-day free trial) · $24.99/year (SAVE 90% vs weekly) · $49.99 lifetime. Photos access is used to pick media and save GIFs or videos to Photos. Microphone access is only for recording per-slide voiceover, and recordings stay on your device until export. Start a new project, make your first GIF or slideshow, and keep your favorite moments moving. Terms of Use (EULA) - http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Face Impact4 screens
Slideshow Maker GIF Creator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Face Impact at 100% against Slideshow Maker GIF Creator's 0%. Face Impact also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and ads (none vs shown). Slideshow Maker GIF Creator's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Face Impact sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Slideshow Maker GIF Creator sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Face Impact holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Face Impact's written reviews are positive against 0% of Slideshow Maker GIF Creator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Face Impact ships an update every 3 months, Slideshow Maker GIF Creator every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Face Impact versus Slideshow Maker GIF Creator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFace ImpactSlideshow Maker GIF Creator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiegoSandeep Bhandari

Customer experience

Face Impact

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Slideshow Maker GIF Creator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Face Impact

One-time1
  • Remove Advertising$0.99
9 purchases

Slideshow Maker GIF Creator

Subscriptions7
  • Weekly Subscription$1.997 Days
  • Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • Yearly Subscription Sale$14.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription Special$19.991 Year
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription1 Year trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Forever Pro Discount$79.99
  • Slideshow Maker Pro$99.99

Questions

Is Face Impact free?
Face Impact is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Slideshow Maker GIF Creator free?
Slideshow Maker GIF Creator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Face Impact or Slideshow Maker GIF Creator?
Face Impact is rated higher. Face Impact averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Slideshow Maker GIF Creator averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Face Impact or Slideshow Maker GIF Creator have ads?
Slideshow Maker GIF Creator shows ads; Face Impact does not.
Which is updated more often, Face Impact or Slideshow Maker GIF Creator?
Face Impact ships an update every 3 months, and Slideshow Maker GIF Creator every 2 months. Most recently, Face Impact was updated on September 30, 2026 and Slideshow Maker GIF Creator on September 24, 2026.

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