Comparison

Speech Bubble Maker vs toongether

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

Head to head
About

Speech Bubble Maker

Transform your photos into engaging stories by adding custom speech and thought bubbles. Express creativity with a variety of fonts, colors, and bubble styles. Easily edit and share your comic-style creations.

Highlights
  • Comic-style captions
  • Customizable speech bubbles
  • Multiple bubbles for group photos
  • Easy drag and rotate editing
  • High-resolution image support
  • Seamless sharing to social media
Features
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ADD SPEECH BUBBLES TO YOUR PICTURES! Bring everyone’s thoughts and words to life. Make your pictures talk! *** Make Your Photos Talk with Pic Talk! *** Turn your photos into fun, engaging stories with speech bubbles! Bring everyone’s thoughts and words to life with Pic Talk. Perfect for capturing funny moments, creating memes, or adding personal messages to your favorite pictures. With Pic Talk, your photos aren't just static images – they become lively conversations! Features: - Comic-Style Captions: Create unique, comic-style captions to add personality and humor to your photos. Whether it's a witty remark or a heartfelt message, Pic Talk lets you express yourself creatively. - Customizable Speech Bubbles: Choose from a wide range of fonts, colors, and bubble styles to perfectly match the tone and style of your photo. From serious quotes to silly dialogues, make your speech bubbles as unique as your moments. - Multiple Bubbles for Group Photos: Capture everyone’s words in one frame by adding multiple speech bubbles to group photos. Perfect for friends' gatherings, family events, or any photo where everyone has something to say! - Easy Editing: Drag, rotate, and adjust bubbles with ease using simple finger gestures. Customize the placement and size to fit your photo perfectly. Pic Talk is designed to be user-friendly, so editing your photos feels natural and fun. - Versatile Photo Options: Choose any photo from your library or snap a new one directly within the app. Pic Talk supports high-resolution images to ensure your photos look great no matter where you use them. - Gallery Access: Easily edit your photos at any time from the gallery. Save your creations to revisit and modify later, keeping your memories fresh and flexible. - Seamless Sharing: Share your customized photos instantly on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or send them directly via email and text. Connect with friends and family by bringing your photos to life in a whole new way. Subscription Pricing and Terms: Pic Talk offers two auto-renewing subscription options: $2.99 per week $12.99 per year These prices apply to United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary, and charges may be converted to your local currency depending on your country of residence. Your Pic Talk subscription will automatically renew at the end of each term, and your credit card will be charged through your iTunes account. You can turn off auto-renew at any time in your iTunes account settings. Refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. Make your photos speak volumes with Pic Talk – download now and start creating your own comic stories today! Privacy Policy: https://zipoapps.com/speechbubbleios/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://zipoapps.com/speechbubbleios/terms/

About

toongether

Create and read fantasy comic stories, inspired by popular magical and mystery series. Build your own worlds, characters, and plots panel by panel. Collaborate with others by remixing existing panels or developing full comic series.

Highlights
  • Create manga/manhwa inspired stories
  • Build magic academies and mysterious worlds
  • Remix panels and publish your own take
  • Develop serialized comic story series
  • World-building playground with characters and locations
  • No drawing skills required
Features
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Make your own manga, manhwa and webcomics. Build dramatic romance scenes, cinematic panels, and characters readers won't forget. All from your phone. You supply the ideas. We'll supply the assets. toongether keeps you in charge of the story: you write the script, compose the scenes, choose the vibe. We handle the canvas, the posing, the backgrounds, so you can go from idea to published chapter in one afternoon. Drag, drop, write, publish. That's the loop. FIND YOUR SQUAD You're not posting into the void. toongether publishes straight to a community of readers and creators who care about webcomics. Read free romance, fantasy and slow-burn series from creators around the world while you build your own. Drop a cliffhanger and watch the reactions roll in. Trade tips. Find a co-writer for your next series. WHY CREATORS LOVE TOONGETHER - Characters that stay consistent between panels. Your protagonist looks exactly like themselves from page one to the finale. - Cooking an enemies-to-lovers arc? Fake dating? CEO romance? Fanfic? Generate the poses, outfits and backgrounds to match in one tap. - Real layout control. Layer, rotate, resize, stack speech bubbles until the scene looks how you saw it in your head. You aren't just prompting, you are directing. - Built-in readers. Your chapter goes live in front of manga and manhwa fans the moment you hit post. - A real community. Co-writers, comments, and a fanbase you build from chapter one. Start your story today. Who is your main character falling for first? Terms of Use: https://toongether.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://toongether.ai/privacy

Screenshots

Speech Bubble Maker4 screens
toongether4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: toongether at free with in-app purchases against Speech Bubble Maker's subscription. toongether also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Speech Bubble Maker sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and toongether sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

toongether holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 800 and 3.8K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Speech Bubble Maker's written reviews are positive against 83% of toongether's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Speech Bubble Maker ships an update every 4 months, toongether every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Speech Bubble Maker versus toongether: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeech Bubble Makertoongether
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (800 ratings)4.7 (3.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.6% of reviews82.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8003.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB63 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperZipoAppsKartoon

Customer experience

Speech Bubble Maker

All ratings789 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral8.5%
Negative8.4%
Written reviews276 reviews
Positive57.6%
Neutral13.0%
Negative29.3%

toongether

All ratings3,764 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral2.8%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews648 reviews
Positive82.6%
Neutral5.6%
Negative11.9%

User reviews

Speech Bubble Maker

From 800 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🎨 Fun for adding speech bubbles
  • 💡 Great for making memes
  • 👍 User-friendly interface

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Limited customization options
  • 📢 Excessive ads and in-app purchases
  • 🔒 Subscription-based model
  • 🐛 Buggy and crashes occasionally

toongether

From 3.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Fun and engaging
  • 💡 Helpful for non-artists
  • 🤗 Great community

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🔍 Limited character/background options
  • 🎨 Lack of customization
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding right assets

Bugs and requests

Speech Bubble Maker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Bubble placement and orientation issues
  • Crashes when trying to share edited images
  • Incompatibility with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More speech bubble styles and orientations
  • Ability to adjust bubble size and position
  • Additional font and color options
  • Save and share functionality without limitations

toongether

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Unable to add characters to stories
  • Zooming issues
  • Requests for custom characters not working
  • Crashes and freezing

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add search bar
  • Allow custom character/background creation
  • Improve character pose options
  • Add more text/speech bubble styles
  • Implement voting/commenting system

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Speech Bubble Maker

Subscriptions5
  • Unlock All 1 Week Subscription$3.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$8.997 Days
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  • Pic Talk 1 Month3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Unlock All 1 Year Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time6
  • Remove All Ads$0.99
  • Unlimited Bubbles$1.99
  • Unlock All Text Colors$1.99
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  • Unlock All Fonts$1.99
  • Unlock All Bubble Styles$1.99
  • Everything$5.99
14 purchases

toongether

Subscriptions6
  • toonpass standard monthly$9.991 Month
  • toonpass plus monthly$19.991 Month
  • toonpass max monthly$39.991 Month
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  • toonpass plus monthly [LEGACY]$39.991 Month
  • toonpass standard yearly$89.991 Year
  • toonpass plus yearly$359.991 Year
One-time8
  • credits pack 12 variants$1.99
  • credits pack 22 variants$4.99
  • credits pack 3$9.99
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  • credits pack 3$14.99
  • credits pack 4$19.99
  • credits pack 5$29.99
  • credits pack 6$49.99
  • credits pack 4$49.99

Questions

Is Speech Bubble Maker free?
Speech Bubble Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is toongether free?
toongether is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Speech Bubble Maker or toongether?
toongether is rated higher. Speech Bubble Maker averages 4.3 out of 5 from 800 ratings, while toongether averages 4.7 from 3.8K ratings.
Do Speech Bubble Maker or toongether have ads?
Both Speech Bubble Maker and toongether show ads.
Which is updated more often, Speech Bubble Maker or toongether?
Speech Bubble Maker ships an update every 4 months, and toongether every 3 days. Most recently, Speech Bubble Maker was updated on September 20, 2026 and toongether on September 24, 2026.

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