Comparison

PIS vs A Design Kit

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

Head to head
About

PIS

This app is an all-in-one photo editor and collage maker. It offers tools for photo enhancement, creating picture-in-picture effects, designing posters, and adding text and stickers. Users can easily edit, beautify, and combine photos to create various artistic outputs.

Highlights
  • Photo enhancement and beautification
  • Collage grid modules
  • Picture-in-picture effects
  • Poster design templates
  • Text and sticker add-ons
  • Drawing and painting tools
  • Filter effects
Features
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PIS is an app of ALL-IN-ONE PHOTO EDITOR with powerful collage maker and photo editor tools, satisfying your needs in Photo Enhancement, Pic Collage, Pic in Pic, Photo Poster, Text and Sticker Add-ons, Repair old photos etc.And it's free,No professional experience needed. You can choose any picture or photo on your mobile phone to make text art poster, sticker, picture in picture photo, photo book, GIF and dynamic video, personalized avatar, chat emojis, and publish it to Tiktok, IMessage, instagram, Facebook and other social platforms simply and quickly! Main Features: - - - Photo Editor - - - * Enhance Photos in Seconds. * Auto beautify photos & picture. Easily select your favorite photo style. * Easily edit your photos. Crop photo with any ratio. Rotate and reverse…. * Resize images easily, crop photos using our preset ratios or drag cropping tool to your desired width and height.  * Premium photo edit choices: beautify, brighten, highlight… * Combine lots of filter effects: classic, elegant, cloud, migrant… * Draw & Paint on your photos, cover with mosaics. Make your own art work! * Achieve the effect of SLR camera local focus and background blur with Bokeh. * Add WordArt text on your photos. Lots of font styles for you to choose. Make your personal tag! * Add Endless Stickers & Emojis! We provide 10000+ stickers & emojis in PNG Store. You could use these materials to decorate your photos. Create funny stickers mix including mustache, nose, star, light, ears, etc. - - - Pic Collage - - - * A lot of gorgeous grid modules for you to choose from. * Easy to adjust the ratio of photo frame. 1:1、2:3、3:4、9:16 …… * Free to adjust the size of the border. * A mass of selected background design that you can mix. * A mass of stickers & emojis & memes in PNG Store for you to choose from,fix on your fotos! - - - Pic in Pic - - - * Tons of amazing modules of Pic in Pic style. Which could make your photos be artistic. * Make your personal magazine cover. Everyone can be a star! * Change the layout and style of your pictures,share to Instagram,Facebook,Tiktok,Snapchat. - - - Make Poster Pictures - - - *It mainly focuses on literature and art, and uses poster template with one button. You can select photos and have a second beautification; *Provide rich font elements and background materials, perfectly adapt to the poster template with different number of pictures; *Constantly update the beautiful poster template, which can be used to make photo posters, picture books, art photos, mobile phone wallpaper, personal photos, landscape photos, food photos; All in all, photo editor, pic collage, drawing tools, photo filter effects and pic in pic effect are all integrated creative suites provided by PIS Picture Collage Editor,You can create art picture just like photoshop for pc. PIS - picture collage editor collects a large number of various materials. The frequently updated sticker,grid materials provide you much more choices. It makes your photo studio works much more beautiful and special! About Subscription - Subscription can unlock all picture editing functions and poster template content. - These subscriptions auto-renews at the end of each month or year,unless cancelled 24-hours in advance. - The subscription fee is charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. You may manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Settings at anytime. - You can always use the basic features and free contents. - Terms of use: https://sites.google.com/view/pngstoretermsofuse - Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/png-store-privacy-policy If you have any questions, please contact us by email at pngfeedback@163.com. We will try our best to solve your problem!

About

A Design Kit

Create visually appealing social media content with a wide array of design tools. Add unique textures, fonts, stickers, and collage elements to enhance your stories and feed posts.

Highlights
  • 200+ collage scans
  • Realistic drawing brushes
  • 60+ modern fonts
  • 200+ pre-made designs
  • Large sticker library
  • Textured backgrounds
Features
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Make Instagram fun with A Design Kit! Create cute designs for stories or feed using collage scans, colorful stickers, realistic brushes, modern fonts, and so much more. A Design Kit features: • 200+ collage scans (like scrapbooking, but on your phone) • Realistic brushes that can draw in textures or color (metallics! speckles! glitter!!!) • 60+ modern fonts • 200+ designs • A TON of stickers (too many to count) • Textured backgrounds (did we already say glitter??) Featured by Apple, PopSugar, A Beautiful Mess, and more. We can't wait to see what you make with ADK Get complete access with ADK+ monthly or yearly Membership, which includes- • unlimited access to all our brushes, textures, texts, designs, stickers, and collages MEMBERSHIP PRICING, TERMS, & CONDITIONS The ADK+ membership is $23.99 USD per year or $3.99 USD per month. Pricing in other countries may vary, and charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country you live in. ADK+ YEARLY: ADK+ Yearly Membership enables access to all app features. After 3-day free trial, a recurring billing period of $23.99 per year automatically begins. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription during free trial. ADK+ MONTHLY: ADK+ Monthly Membership enables access to all app features. A recurring billing period of $3.99 per month automatically begins upon subscription. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. TERMS OF USE https://acolorstory.com/terms-conditions/ PRIVACY POLICY https://acolorstory.com/privacy/

Screenshots

PIS4 screens
A Design Kit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: PIS at free with in-app purchases against A Design Kit's subscription. PIS also leads on review sentiment (96% vs 85%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). A Design Kit's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. PIS sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and A Design Kit sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for PIS against 4.7 for A Design Kit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.9K and 5.7K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of PIS's written reviews are positive against 85% of A Design Kit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PIS versus A Design Kit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPISA Design Kit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.9K ratings) — better4.7 (5.7K ratings)
Positive reviews96.1% of reviews — better84.8% of reviews
Number of ratings3.9K5.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size153 MB132 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer妙英 张Midtone LLC

Customer experience

PIS

All ratings3,937 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews760 reviews
Positive96.1%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.4%

A Design Kit

All ratings5,673 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral3.4%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews802 reviews
Positive84.8%
Neutral6.7%
Negative8.5%

User reviews

PIS

From 3.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Lots of editing features
  • 🎨 Fun and creative
  • 📷 Great for photo editing
  • 🤩 Nostalgic and enjoyable

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Locked features require payment
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
  • 💸 Premium content is expensive
  • 🙄 Forced 5-star reviews to unlock features

A Design Kit

From 5.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💫 Fun and creative features
  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive
  • 🎨 Wide variety of fonts, brushes, and design elements
  • 🔗 Seamless integration with A Color Story app
  • 🤩 Excellent for making visually appealing social media content

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and loss of work
  • 💰 Many features and design elements locked behind paywall
  • 🔀 Cumbersome navigation between editing tools
  • 🔍 Lack of zoom functionality for precise editing
  • 📏 Issues with cropping for Instagram stories

Bugs and requests

PIS

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Blurred 'Pic in Pic' feature
  • Subscription issues with unlocking content
  • Ads still shown even with paid subscription

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free editing options
  • Ability to rearrange collage layouts
  • Animated stickers or effects
  • Wider range of fonts and text tools

A Design Kit

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashing and losing work in progress
  • Inconsistent behavior when toggling between apps
  • Text resizing causing displacement of elements
  • Brush tools not responding as expected
  • Incorrect cropping for Instagram story dimensions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save and re-edit designs
  • More free design elements and fonts
  • Option to add custom photos as layers
  • Smoother brush stroke functionality
  • Improved stability and auto-save feature

In-app purchases

10 purchases

PIS

Subscriptions1
  • Picture Collage Editor Pro$1.991 Month
One-time9
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Unlock all frames$0.99
  • Unlock all backgrounds$0.99
Show 6 more
  • Unlock black emoticons$0.99
  • Unlock hat decorations$0.99
  • Unlock alphabet symbols$0.99
  • Unlock blossom stickers$0.99
  • Unlock celebration stickers$0.99
  • Upgrade to Pro$6.99
10 purchases

A Design Kit

Subscriptions2
  • ADK+ Monthly$4.991 Month
  • ADK+ Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time8
  • Valley CruiseFree
  • More Food$0.99
  • Painted$1.99
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  • Feelings$1.99
  • Hobbies$1.99
  • Editorial$2.99
  • Notebook$2.99
  • Lettering$3.99

Questions

Is PIS free?
PIS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is A Design Kit free?
A Design Kit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PIS or A Design Kit?
PIS is rated higher. PIS averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.9K ratings, while A Design Kit averages 4.7 from 5.7K ratings.
Do PIS or A Design Kit have ads?
PIS shows ads; A Design Kit does not.
Which is updated more often, PIS or A Design Kit?
PIS ships an update every 6 weeks, and A Design Kit every 6 weeks. Most recently, PIS was updated on November 1, 2026 and A Design Kit on October 29, 2026.

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