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Free vs Paid Picture Collage Apps of 2022
Collage apps can make your favorite photos stand out. These apps let you quickly create and share creative photo collages right from your phone. We tested ten to find the best value.

If you've browsed around Instagram or Facebook, you've probably noticed people posting professional-looking collages of their pictures. Turns out, these collages are easy to create using apps. We tested 10 popular free and paid apps to find the best quality and the best value.
Our favorite was PicCollage, for its clean design and ease of use. We also liked the editing features and a la carte purchasing options of MOLDIV, and Unfold's influencer-quality templates. Android users should opt for Collage Maker, a high quality app with a low subscription price.
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Best overall collage app
PicCollage's design is simple, but there are tons of ways to let your creativity run wild. Share your pictures, create posts for friends and family, and more.
Why we chose PicCollage:
- PicCollage offers a pretty robust free version, or you can upgrade for $35.99/year to get extra fonts, templates, stickers, backgrounds, and more.
- An extremely intuitive interface allows you to make great-looking collages quickly and easily.
- Lots of templates and grid configurations to choose from, even in the free version.
- Easy to share via social media platforms, email, text, and more. Or share in PicCollage’s own social community.
- The design is simple and easy to navigate — great looking and not overwhelming.
Casual users should find all they need in the free version, but if you make a lot of collages, you may want to upgrade for the full suite of tools.
Read PicCollage's Full ReviewBest value for quality collages
If you're looking for a collage app with no subscription fee that also has extensive photo and video editing tools, MOLDIV is the app for you.
Why we chose MOLDIV:
- MOLDIV is free but has lots of in-app purchase options of upgraded filters and templates. This is a good choice if you want a la carte paid options as well as a robust free version.
- Purchase the complete upgrade pack for a one-time fee of $14.99, or choose cheaper packs of filters, frames, stickers, and more.
- In-app photo and video editing tools help you enhance and create stunning images for your collages.
- Lots of layouts, including a set of pre-made magazine covers that are waiting for your images.
- MOLDIV offers many video collage options and has an associated VideoLab app.
You can do plenty with the free option in MOLDIV, but with lifetime access, the upgrade packs are a great deal.
Read MOLDIV's Full ReviewBest for the ‘Gram
Aspiring influencers will want to check out Unfold. The app is packed with beautiful templates to help you tell your Instagram Story.
Why we chose Unfold:
- The app has many free templates, as well as an upgrade. At $20 per year or $2.99 per month, the plus version will let you make posts that look more expensive than that.
- Gorgeous templates allow you to make professional-looking posts in minutes.
- Oriented around social media, with templates specifically designed for Instagram Stories. You can also plan your Instagram feed and create a bio site to use for all your social accounts.
- The app is well-designed and easy to browse.
- Easy to add text, stickers, and more.
The annual rate here is a great deal and is probably well worth it for frequent Instagrammers.
Read Unfold's Full ReviewBest Android Collage App
Though it's only for Android users, this collage app was one of the most user-friendly apps we tested.
Why we chose Collage Maker:
- Collage Maker's free version makes you watch ads to access certain features. For only $7.99 per year, the premium upgrade removes ads.
- The user experience is intuitive. Open the app and get creating immediately, without needing to figure out a lot of new tools.
- Great collage app with over 100 layouts, and lots of backgrounds and stickers as well.
- Choose between grids and free-style collages to make exactly what is in your mind.
- Lots of templates for special occasions.
With an annual subscription cost of less than $10, going premium for this one seems well worth it.
Read Collage Maker's Full ReviewEverything We Recommend
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Our Pick
PicCollage: Grid & Story Maker
4.7 Ratings 3M+ Reviews 50M+ DownloadsCreate & Celebrate! PicCollage helps you make anything to celebrate everything. PicCollage is all about keeping things easy so you can have the most fun creating. Explore FREE card templates, story layouts and photo frames to help you celebrate virtually.
Our Favorite Perks About PicCollage- Our FREE starter pack in the app is full of new stickers to get you started collaging!
- Stories: Templates and to help you get sharing quickly.
- Freestyle mode - The blank canvas option to give total freedom to create at your own pace.
- Grids: Instant layouts and photo grids to quickly arrange photos from your photo gallery.
- Stickers: Decorate your images and collages by adding trendy and occasion-specific stickers.
- Backgrounds: Thousands of exclusive stickers and backgrounds from collaborations with our favorite artists and illustrators around the world.
- Cards: Pre-designed templates and frames to quickly create unique messages and greeting cards for any holiday.
- Doodle: Draw on your collage to write messages in your own handwriting and style, illustrate something new, or just to circle or add emphasis to a project you’re working on.
Unleash Your Creativity
Bring your ideas to life! PicCollage brings templates and customization together to give you everything you need to get inspired. Create quick and easy collages to share during a party, or take your time and make a truly custom design to flex your skills! PicCollage gives you everything you need to tell your story!CostFreeFreeIn-App Purchases$0.99 - $59.99 per item$0.99 - $35.99 per item -
Runner Up
MOLDIV - Photo Editor, Collage
4.6 Ratings 217K+ Reviews 5M+ DownloadsMOLDIV™ is the all-in-one photo editor that offers everything you could wish for in photography.
It’s the professional photo editor that satisfies everyone from newbies to professionals. Whether it’s Frame/Collage/Magazine features that allow the liveliest story-telling, or Beauty Camera that takes naturally beautiful selfies, find the features you need in MOLDIV, the best photography app!
• 190+ Filters in 13 Themes — Photographer Favorite!
• Professional Photo Editing Tools
• Design Tools: Text, Stickers, Background Patterns
• Collage: Combine up to 9 photos in a single frame
• Magazine: Collage your photos like a magazine, a poster, or a themed album
• Pro Camera: Live Filters, Photo Booth, Powerful Camera Options
• Perfect Your Selfie: Beauty Filters and Smooth Skin
PROFESSIONAL PHOTO EDITOR
194 Filters in 13 themes beloved by professional photographers
FILM - analog photo effects
Textures that subtly brings all kinds of mood and Light Leaks
Professional editing tools
Text function with 100+ fonts
560 Stickers and 90 Background Patterns
Square for Instagram
COLLAGE
Combine up to 9 photos in a single frame
194 stylish frames
Place and decorate photos as you want in Free Style & Stitch mode
Freely adjust collage aspect ratio
Full variety of design tools
MAGAZINE
Collage your photos like a magazine, a poster, or a themed album
100 popular magazine-style layouts
Magazine presets for the most stylish photo editing
PRO CAMERA
194 hand-picked quality filters applied in real time
Real-time Blur effect
Photo Booth
Powerful Camera Options:
Silent Shutter, Manual Control of White Balance, Flash control with torch mode, Digital Zoom, Grid, Geo-Tag, Self-Timer, Mirror Mode, Auto Save
BEAUTY CAMERA
Beauty Filters specially designed for perfect selfies
Soften your skin naturally
Adjust the intensity of beauty effects in real time
MORE AWESOME FEATURES
Edit history: Undo, Redo
Compare with an original photo anytime
EXIF Data
Save to maximum resolution of your device.
Photo Sharing to Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc
* Don’t forget to Tag #MOLDIV when posting on Instagram. You may find your photos featured on the official @MOLDIVapp!
Have a question or suggestion? We are waiting for your feedback!
Facebook: facebook.com/MoldivPro
Instagram: @MOLDIVapp
[ Permissions ]
- CAMERA
: Grants MOLDIV access to your device's camera to to take photos.
- READ / WRITE EXTERNAL STORAGE
: Permission grants access to your device's external storage, enabling MOLDIV to take, store, and load images.
- ACCESS FINE LOCATION
: Grants MOLDIV access to your device's gps data to to add geo-tag information to the photos you take.CostFreeFreeIn-App Purchases$0.99 - $11.99 per item$0.99 - $19.99 per item -
Also Groovy
Unfold: Stories & Link in Bio
4.3 Ratings 323K+ Reviews 10M+ DownloadsUnfold is a video and photo editor that offers hundreds of award-winning Instagram templates. Create beautiful content for IG stories, posts, reels, TikTok and your other social media platforms. Our designs, tools, and fonts for Instagram to take your content to the next level.
— Create a Bio Site to share your link in bio and connect with your audience.
— Share to Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Pinterest and TikTok.
— Choose templates and Instagram layouts from collections like Film and Clasico.
— Add filters, text, stickers, GIFs, textures, and backgrounds.
— Use templates and effects to create engaging stories & reels.
— Plan and organize your Insta posts with our easy-to-use feed planner.
— Templates & Collages
Explore templates and Instagram layouts and use the Unfold Studio to upgrade your content. Add any photo or video into the frames with our photo editor and reel maker tools and use our feed planner to instantly design gorgeous social feed content.
— Fonts & Text Editor
Apply new, hand-picked fonts for Instagram to templates and elevate your content using our powerful text editing tools. Use our text editor and reel maker tools to add text to any photo or video and take them to the next level using our feed planner.
— Filters & Effects
Use our photo editor to create and edit photos with filters like. Our video and reel maker has animated templates and effects. Photo editor tools include Brightness, Contrast, Crop, and Tint, so you can get the perfect look every time.
— Backgrounds & Stickers
Add backgrounds and textures via our reel maker to your Instagram layouts using select color presets and texture patterns. Edit with the color picker or eyedrop tool to get the perfect hue or tone for your template, or use hex codes to keep your brand cohesive.
— Feed Planner
Unfold’s feed planner is perfect for planning and scheduling Instagram feed posts. Sync Unfold with your Instagram account and use it to build an eye-catching feed.
— Bio Sites
Create a link in bio page with Unfold’s Bio Sites. Present your bio, social media, and professional website links, add ‘support me’ buttons to receive payments via PayPal or Venmo — all in one personalized design with your profile picture and custom URL.
Unfold+ Membership
Unfold+ is a subscription created to help you reach your creative potential.
· Access any story template or fonts for Instagram.
· Early access to new collections and Instagram layouts.
· Plan your social calendar with our feed planner.
· Exclusive releases and designs
· Cancel anytime.
Unfold Pro
Unfold Pro is a subscription to bring your creative flair to life on social. Create engaging content for your personal brand from anywhere with the feed planner.
· Upload custom fonts for Instagram to use in your stories.
· Add your brand colors to templates.
· Sync your logos and stickers.
· Share your stories to the web with our feed planner.
· Includes Unfold+ membership
Annual subscription billing will start after the trial period. After the 7-day free trial, this subscription will automatically auto-renew each year. Or if you choose a monthly subscription, your billing will start immediately and auto-renew each month. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless cancelled at least one day before the renewal date within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your Google account at the confirmation of purchase. If you subscribe before a free trial ends, the remainder of the trial period will be forfeited. You can manage and cancel your subscription by going to your account settings in the Google Play Store.
Privacy Policy —
https://squarespace.com/privacy
Terms of Service —
https://squarespace.com/terms-of-service
Unfold from Squarespace —
https://squarespace.com/marketing/unfold
Thanks for creating with Unfold! We love hearing your ideas and feedback. Email us at hello@unfold.com or message us on Instagram at @unfold.CostFreeFreeIn-App Purchases$0.99 - $99.99 per item$0.99 - $19.99 per itemCollage Maker is your go-to photo collage maker and pic stitch app in pics art trip.
Just select several photos in your photo lab, Collage Maker instantly remix them into cool photo collage. Pick the layout you like, edit picture and decorate it with filters, stickers, texts and much more.
Features:
● Combine up to 20 photos to create pic collage.
● 100+ Layouts of frames or grids to choose from!
● Large number of Background, Sticker, Font, and doodle to choose from!
● Change ratio of collage and edit border of collage.
● Make photo collage with Free style or Grid style.
● Crop pictures and edit photo with Filter, Text.
● Insta square photo with blur background for Instagram.
● Save photo in high resolution and share pictures to social apps.
📷 Side by Side Photos
Lots of inspirational uses to create side-by-side photos. You can make a before & after SNS cover, create YouTube thumbnails side by side, and even make side-by-side outfit comparison Instagram posts.
📷 Grid Photo
Create photo collage with hundreds of layouts in seconds. Custom grid photo size, border and background, you can design layout on your own! So easy to make a beautiful photo collage.
📷 Edit Photo
All-in-one photo editor provides a bunch of editing tools: crop picture, apply filter to picture, add sticker and text to image, draw on image with doodle tool, flip, rotate...
📷 Freestyle
Select beautiful background with full screen ratio to create a scrapbook. You can decorate with pictures, stickers, texts, doodles, and share your scrapbook to Instagram Stories and Snapchat Stories.
📷 Story Template
100+ Stylized templates including Film, Magazine, Ripped Paper… Have fun with this Insta story maker, share your most memorable moments with friends.
📷 Multi-fit
Insta square photo in a blur background or white to fit for Instagram. You can choose multiple ratios, 1:1, 4:5, 3:2 ratios, etc. Easily post entire photo with no crop. You can even square up to 10 photos at one time.
About our permissions:
Collage Maker asks for permissions "READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" to read your photos/videos so that we can edit and save photos. We do not use this permission for any other purpose.
Collage Maker is your go-to photo collage maker, pic stitch and photo editor for Instagram and printing. Follow @gridart.app and remember to post with hashtag #gridart on Instagram. Win chances to be featured and get a ton of likes! If you have any problems or suggestions, feel free to let us know. Email: photostudio.feedback@gmail.comCostFreeFreeIn-App Purchases$0.99 - $14.99 per itemNo
The 411 from our Appventurer
How we tested?
While I know many people have more balanced lives, and thus take pictures of more things, my week of creating dog collages highlighted what is perhaps the most important feature of a photo collage app, although it may be difficult to quantify. These apps are for making displays of what we love the most. And so they should be easy and fun to use, to let users make images out of love, not tech-based frustration.
Why get the app?
Well, most of these apps don’t have desktop versions. They are really designed to work with your phone’s camera and facilitate quick posting to social media. And they work really well on the phone. I imagine if you wanted to do extensive photo editing, you might want to do that on a larger screen and with a different tool, but these apps are basically for-phone, by-phone: you take the pictures on your phone, make the collage on your phone, then people look at it on their phones.
More About PicCollage: Our Pick
The app opens on a white background with a button to select photos and three options below: grids, freestyle, and templates. While many apps toss you into a sea of choices without clearly indicating what to do first, PicCollage’s layout seamlessly tells you what to do first. Select photos from your phone’s library or from your Facebook account, then use them to create your collage.
PicCollage was the only app I tested that had more than a bare-bones tutorial. “PicCollage 101” features simple tutorials that show you how to use web images, cut images out, add text, and more. The tutorials are just there — you don’t have to do them to proceed in the app, and they don’t show up only on first use. I appreciated having help if and only if I needed it.
If you’re sticking to social, you can create posts especially for Instagram Stories, as well as sharing any of your creations to Facebook, Instagram, or PicCollage’s own social network. You can also send via iMessage, What’s App, Facebook Messenger, or email with a touch of a button.
Whether this is worth it depends entirely on how much you use the product. Frequent collage makers, people who want to use a lot of design elements, and brand-focused people who may not want a watermark on their creations will likely find the upgrade to be a good value. For more casual users, it may not be worth it. If you want to upgrade, definitely opt for the annual subscription, which works out to around $3 a month — a savings of $2 a month.
Snags but not drags:
I really liked this app and didn't have any major problems with it. However, while there were enough free options for my needs as a person who occasionally posts dog collages to Instagram, it was frustrating to constantly encounter requests to upgrade. I find that with apps that constantly ask you to upgrade, I eventually either do so -- or stop using the app all together.
This VIP pressure was the most common reason cited by negative reviewers, too. It looks like a previous version of the app had a more extensive free version, and many users have been frustrated by the new pricing model. However, I still think this app is worth checking out, and maybe paying for.
More About MOLDIV: Runner Up
Collage making is quick and easy in MOLDIV. Just pick from the huge number of grid arrangements (for between one and eight pictures/videos, in every imaginable configuration), or go freestyle and drop your pics wherever you like. Next, you’ll select photos from your library or shoot a new one right from the in-app camera. Then you can add backgrounds, frames, text, stickers, and more. You can let your imagination run wild here or opt for something quick and simple.
MOLDIV’s magazine feature is fun to play with, although it’s really just another set of templates. There are magazine covers for teen magazines, Martha Stewart-style home spreads, Time Magazine knockoffs, and more. As far as I could tell, you can’t change the text on the covers. While the feature would be better if you could, the preset text has some fun options. (I put my dog on the cover of "Moldivweek" with the headline "How to be successful in life.")
More About Unfold: Also Groovy
Unfold’s large library of templates is sorted into fifteen collections, including animated, scrapbook, mood board, zodiac, and pride. The templates typically have a layout for between 1 and 5 photos, different borders, and places for long or short text descriptions. While most collage apps have fonts and borders, Unfold’s are a bit more sophisticated, with borders including Polaroid edges, notebook perforations, and film edges, and fonts that look like typewriter or handwritten cursive. You can also add images from a set of stock photos.
More About Collage Maker: Also Groovy
Creating collages is seamless. This is an app without a learning curve — open it up, and you’ll be on your way to your first collage right away. Pick your picks, pick your layout, play around with borders and backgrounds, change background color or gradient, add a filter if you want, and you are good to go.
Other Apps Considered
A collage app and photo editor, this app has lots of layouts and other features. However, compared to our top picks, it’s challenging to navigate (and not very attractive). The pro version allows you to access more layouts for $29.99 per year or a one-time payment of $129.99.
This collage app has good video features — you can create collage slideshows or use templates for scrolling video. Premium version is $47.99 per year, or a $99.99 one-time purchase. If you want to make video collages, this one is worth checking out, but it’s a bit pricey.
This collage and selfie app has lots of tools for editing photos and adding beauty features like makeup to selfies. It’s no slouch in the collage department, either, with many layouts and options for video collages. It missed our list in the end, but if you’re looking for a collage app with selfie-touch-up features, check this one out.
This Android app is a popular choice for making collages, although recent reviews suggest that new updates have frustrated users. The free (with ads) app offers lots of templates, backgrounds, and more. It is very, very similar to our top Android pick, Collage Maker, and as far as I can tell, they're made by the same developer. However, this one is a little clunkier than the other, at the same price ($7.99/year).
Lots of design options here, with templates for Instagram posts and stories, memes, and Facebook stories, and cover images. Heavy social posters may want to consider this app, but at $10 per month, it’s probably not a good value for most.
At a one-time price of $2.99, Diptic’s price is right. The app is quite glitchy, however. It offers many of the same features as other apps on the list, but dead buttons and crashes make it hard to actually access them. However, if you’re looking for a cheap collage app, this may be worth checking out since the quality may improve in the future.
Caroline Rothnie
Hard as I try to keep a minimalist phone, I can't stop downloading more apps. In addition to my can't-live-without apps for organization, music and podcasts, fitness, and meditation, I'm constantly trying out new ones. So I love apps, but it's a complicated relationship -- some of my favorites are for keeping me off my phone/internet.
In second grade, I attempted to do a book report on a story I had written myself, so you could say I've always thought of myself as a writer. These days, I write a wide variety of web content with a focus on mental health and productivity. I also write personal essays. I live in Kansas with my husband and two dogs.
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