Photo Collage - Collageable Reviews

by Cameron0208

PhotoCollage has UNSKIPPABLE video ads at random times. After the video ad, it displays another ad and the X to close out doesn’t appear until ~10 seconds later, meaning you have no choice but to view the ad for 10 seconds. There’s an option to send feedback to the developer. However, the ‘Send’ button doesn’t actually work—Go figure! Be weary of anyone conducting business this way! Also, there’s an option to Rate PhotoCollage in-app—doesn’t work! Funny enough, every single little thing pertaining to a subscription works PERFECTLY! 🤔 PhotoCollage also tries to trick users as soon as it starts up. They make it seem like you have to purchase a subscription in order to use PhotoCollage , but that’s not the case (there’s a small X in the upper left hand corner to close out). Don’t support slimy, disingenuous developers/scammers!

by MuffySinclair

I originally purchased the Pro version. It stopped working, would only save weird zoomed in clips. Went to see if there was a update, and now they’re subscription only. Who does business like that?

What would you think if you bought a BBQ, took it home, grilled a bunch of steaks, and when you went back to get more propane the store said you now needed to pay for an exorbitant monthly subscription to use the grill you already bought?

I know subscription service is the new go-to revenue model, but let’s put this in perspective: you think I should pay $98/a year to make a couple little picture collages a month? That’s $30 MORE per year than the entire Microsoft Office Suite. That’s MORE than Disney+, and only $1 less per month than Netflix.

by Lez0n

I downloaded this when searching for a simple and elegant tool to collage photos. I was looking for an app with customizable layouts so I could really frame the subject matter within the space on the collage they were placed. I chose this one because it seemed the most promised based on reviews and description.

PhotoCollage has an excellent array of templates, but it is hard to fine tune them to the photos you are using. I am honestly having a hard time understanding all the positive reviews based on my personal experience with PhotoCollage .

I also have the following concerns:
1. Crashes VERY consistently. I had to restart my first attempt at creating a collage 4-5 times at various stages of completion so it's pretty much useless on my iphone 7s.

2. Navigating tools and undoing things such as positioning and scaling photos to fit the collage is tricky. The controls lack finesse. It's too easy to lock in what you do so you have to start a project all over if you make a mistake with crop/scale.

3. The ads are very frequent and obnoxious. They interrupt your workflow once you're up and running. I would be glad to pay a reasonable price for the ad free version provided it was a quality app that did its job well.

I feel a bit bad for leaving such a negative review. I actually found myself trying to like PhotoCollage, being ok with it, but the more I tried to use it, the more frustrated with it I became. I hope it improves with future revisions.

by Liz4310

I downloaded PhotoCollage, it asked me to subscribe and said there would be a 3 day free trial. I chose this and within the hour they charged me. I contacted their services and they said there was nothing they could do and that it was likely my fault suggesting that I had used it before and the trial can only be used once. I don’t remember ever using PhotoCollage in the past but even if I had it is insane that PhotoCollage can still “offer” the trial if I had already done so before and then just charge me anyway without warning about not being eligible for the trial. They told me this was apples problem but I would like to know how they are going to fix this if apple chooses not to as apple wasn’t the one that scammed me, they are. Obviously they make money from these apps so you can’t tell me they don’t have my money to return. Avoid PhotoCollage and their shady practices or they may just steal your money and blame it on you.

by Mistery Texer

I absolutely hate PhotoCollage. I have had it for less then a minute and I already hate it and that’s saying something. Why do you have to buy every thing just to use PhotoCollage?! Like just have it so you have to pay for everything or you can’t use it!!!!!!! Or make everything free that’s an option. Why do you have to download or send ONE just ONE not the whole thing just ONE little square to some one and then not being able to use the whole picture? Like that it just straight up stupidity. You guys need to make PhotoCollage SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOmuch better to get me to use it. And I was excited to get PhotoCollage but first I looked at all of the reviews and looked to see if there way any hidden in app purchases and what do you know there is!! Wow nice one on satisfying your customer no I’m not even going to call them a customer you are tricking every one whole purchases PhotoCollage I am never going to get ANY and I mean ANY thing from your company EVER again. Do I make my self clear? Make PhotoCollage better, NOW!!

by Tramps.trouble

Well apparently I was scammed by this developer as well. I downloaded PhotoCollage thinking it was free of charge...I didn’t realize it was a subscription since it never asked me which one of the dozen plans I would have chosen. It just graciously signed me up for the $4.99 plan and charged me. Thankfully I caught it the first time and I have cancelled the subscription. Just wanted to give everyone a heads up about PhotoCollage. Don’t download it, it isn’t free!!!
I do intend to contact Apple about this as well. I was never given a choice of monthly plan or even told it would cost in the future. However, when I went to cancel there were many many different plans I could have chosen. Even a $2.99 plan. Still don’t want it but it would’ve been better than the $4.99+tax that it did charge me. Hmmmm I wonder if this company pays their taxes on all these lil charges???
I was forced to give it one star...I would really like to give it negative 10 stars.

by Theirishscion

My wife evidently downloaded PhotoCollage in February of 2018 to try it out, and was evidently bamboozled somehow into agreeing to a subscription (doubtless with the developer following Apple’s exact guidelines for doing so to a T, thereby obviating themselves from any culpability, as the scoundrels are so quick to point out in their responses to these reviews), perhaps believing she was buying the full version of PhotoCollage as a 1-off transaction? She at any rate has no recollection whatsoever of this happening, and deleted PhotoCollage shortly after originally downloading it. However their $4/month charge kept rolling along, 8 in total, $32+tax before I caught them and cancelled the “subscription”

Absolutely repugnant behavior. Next stop is a call to Apple to lodge a formal complaint and tell them precisely what I think of this developer and their alleged product. It’ll be interesting as well to see if this review ever makes the light of day.

by MaebyF.

I understand that there needs to be ads in the free version, and I don’t have an issue with dealing with those while I decide if I’d like to buy this. However, I was working on a project and had chosen a bunch of photos, fine tuned the balance and the frames, and put a ton of work into it, when a Casino Blackjack ad popped up. There is no option to move forward or close the ad. The only option is to click the ad and follow through to PhotoCollage Store, and even downloading the advertised app won’t close the pop up. The only option is to force close PhotoCollage and lose all my progress on the current project. I certainly won’t trust PhotoCollage to give it a second try. Very frustrating, so I’ll be moving to a different app.

by MichaelfromDenver

I have spent over an hour trying to cancel the trial period. PhotoCollage says you get 7 days free trial and you have to cancel 24 hours before the trial period ends. However within the apple itunes subscription, it doesn’t provide that option. It tried chat support with apple, and the support person said I can’t cancel since it’s free. I repeatedly explained the situation ( it’s on.y free for 7 days - well.. 6 days really). So he gives me the direct link to the Collageable support. While I’m chatting with apple, I completed the Collageable form and when I hit submit, I get a lost internet connection message and the form was not submitted. Tried repeatedly, while chatting with apple.

Apple chat rep kept telling me to talk with PhotoCollage developer and then ended the session.

by Questioning Human

So I got PhotoCollage thinking, “why not give this a try?” So I downloaded it and well, I started to make a collage, then as soon as I was about to see it and finish editing, a thing for a subscription popped up and I was trying to find out like trying to see what I had made so I want to head and started scrolling up and down trying to figure out what was like if it was just a glitch or something so I went ahead and exited out of PhotoCollage and tried at it again and to my surprise as soon as I got to the same part/area or whatever, about to see what I was going to make it showed up again so I don’t know if you guys have like something going on but if it’s going to be free from the beginning you should probably have it cost money before people download it thinking it’s gonna be free.

by Mulcbone

Like many others I was duped into a ridiculously expensive subscription fee for PhotoCollage that is long since deleted. PhotoCollage developer is making a killing off this mediocre app because many people will be unaware of it siphoning money from your account.
Sure, they’ll respond that they followed the letter of the law and they’d “love to help me out” if I contacted their support line. BUT, they NEVER sent me any emails regarding the subscription. How many subscriptions do you have where the developer never contacts you? Right. None. Except for the ones where they want to stay hidden.

Oh, and don’t count on Apple to fix this. They make money off of this as well and don’t care if you missed the fine print. At the end of the day they know there’s nothing you can do aside from leaving their company. Which you won’t.

by Empress Noir

PhotoCollage has a lot to offer, but isn’t worth the hassle of constantly charging your account weekly subscriptions (why would anyone pay at least $4 a WEEK to put pictures in frames?). Not to mention there are around 10 different levels of subscriptions, none of which are explained beyond the pricing. Wouldn’t it make more sense to at least put in a sentence or two description of the varying levels and what each offers? Sorry, I’m not going to spend my money going on blind faith that I’m getting my money’s worth. This is entry level stuff, key info that should’ve been provided but wasn’t... Kinda makes you wonder. Also, I have been unable to use any of the collages I have created in PhotoCollage on a computer (as a background or other image). The file is there, and you can view it, but that’s all you can do. I tried with several different files and several different ways - none of which worked. What good is a collage that you can’t use? I guess I should be thankful that I was able to use the file as my phone background (just kidding - this is yet another entry level mistake that PhotoCollage makes, I shouldn’t have to be ‘thankful’ for squat), but that’s the only thing I CAN do. All in all: not worth the money and certainly not worth the effort. I’ll also be checking to make sure I don’t have the horrid subscription charge issues so many have had. Use the free trial, then boot it to the curb.

by Ittybittykabob

This is so annoying. I love that I can use the collage part for free so I appreciate that but whenever I try to move and adjust the photo, it’s too sensitive and takes me back to previous page to select photos. Every slight touch and it takes me back to previous page !! They should change it to “double tap” photo if we want to change collage photos or have a “back button”. I also would like a rotate button for the collage photos. When I do it manually it’s not very straight and then it keeps taking me back again to previous page because it thinks I want to change photo.

by Hapling21

In the past I haven't had much trouble using PhotoCollage (aside from it making you restart if you make a mistake) but recently it is only allowing me to choose from a select few of pictures from my camera roll. I just remodeled my house and am trying to do before and after pictures so I've been using PhotoCollage a lot and it was working just fine earlier. I have tried deleting PhotoCollage and re downloading it along with restarting my phone but it's still only giving me access to a few pictures out of a thousand. Would be a great app if so many bugs didn't keep popping up.

by Amanda_gamer

Hi there, I loved using this simple app to create Ed stereoscopic photographs in frames to make an image but ever since the last update I have found PhotoCollage only slightly reliable. When I go to zoom in on my image in the frame it casually turns the image, enough to mess up the stereo photo. It was never like this however. I used to be able to crop and zoom slowly and with patience until the images were perfectly aligned. Now there is no way to fix it if this happens and I have to completely restart PhotoCollage if I want the image aligned again. Please fix this! But put it back to how it was before. The cropping sensitivity is off the charts- and this is the only app I can find which provides the simplest frames for me to use.

by PLM-DE

Okay so yes you can bypass the subscription offer by exiting without answering. And yes it has more frames and options than the last app I used for years. Yes you can adjust the frames, which I do like. But the thing that got me frustrated was, as I adjusted the frames, the pictures became unadjusted. And then when I was trying to pinch them small again (very carefully since they were so small to begin with) it was CONSTANTLY popping up with the adding pictures screen and I had to exit every time I touched the picture to try and adjust it. I gave up! Because pinching them also made them crooked and I couldn’t quite get them straight again. If the developer could add an option to automatically make the pictures fit or straighten that would be nice!!

by LilyH🤠

I’ve had PhotoCollage for eeehhh a month maybe more, I’ve made a couple collages with it and I always love making them with PhotoCollage. Though it’s annoying that not all of its free, majority of the things that are useful are in fact free. Many different free formats to choose from, ability to change background to ANYTHING, good controls for moving around a photo. Not a huge fan of how when moving a photo around, the border ig changes shape in a way but that’s roughly my only complaint. If there were to be a future update, I’d love to see something where you can change the picture sizes on your own :) I will definitely keep PhotoCollage for a while!

by Goddessbj

I’ve used PhotoCollage a few times to create collages of different configurations, but the ne control remains a mystery: how do I resize text? Also, what does the middle slider do when editing attributes of text? The ones on either side make an obvious difference in horizontal letter spacing & transparency, but I don’t see any change with the center one.
I tried contacting app support via the link in PhotoCollage Store, but the site page (which is just “send an email”) always returns a bogus error about connection lost while asking for name/email on a completely unsecured page.

by TMek618

i love it but a save option so you can re-edit it later would be very nice, and would get PhotoCollage 5 stars because when you go to go back and exit, it asks you if you want to exit without saving it first and even if you already like saved it to your camera roll, it still asks, and but it should offer and have an option to save it in PhotoCollage for re-editing at a later time.

this feature would be absolutely awesome and would get PhotoCollage the full 5 stars it so greatly deserves!!

by DP1118

Everything worked out smoothly some stuff was locked but it's actually a really good editing app I'd recommend it if you like a picture editor or just love the editing pictures or just need to edit a picture that is PhotoCollage you need to get all the other apps that I tried I thought I found an app that actually work but I didn't tell I found PhotoCollage PhotoCollage is just awesome and awesome and great and happy and cool so I'd recommend getting PhotoCollage awesomeness awesomeness awesomeness awesomeness

by Daniroxanne

By downloading PhotoCollage they automatically sign you up on a subscription service with little warning. You get “one month free” and then charged every month after. When you go to cancel they make it almost impossible and junk through all these hoops. The link to unsubscribe is hidden within multiple different links and in the middle of a word heavy terms and services page. They’re clearly trying to trick people into unwittingly paying for their app and everything about it is an unethical money grab. If you want a real app that’s worth the money focus on making it actually GOOD and not tricking people into paying for it. Super grossed out by my experience and this company.

by IPhone User 1274026

How do I report PhotoCollage to Apple for fraudulent activity?

PhotoCollage will give you a one month of free subscription, then automatically sign you up to an auto-renewal membership. Of course, most people will install PhotoCollage , then agree to the one month free access, not knowing they are automatically subscribing to an auto-renewal membership. Most people did not want and did not know they signed up for this, but this company and its developers are ok with taking advantage of these people, putting blame on the users for not reading.

Read their responses in other comments; they will blame the user and Apple’s subscription model. They will not take any ownership of how deceiving their app is. PhotoCollage is a borderline, if not, a scam.

by Christianomari

I paid a one time fee for Collageable pro. Now, that app has now been removed from PhotoCollage Store. So, in order to use Collageable, I have to pay 4.99 per month. Why? So you can remove that app too? 🙄 I don’t use PhotoCollage once a month. I understand that you have to make money, but it needs to be parallel with value and it is all kinds of shady to have people pay for an app, then remove it, only to offer the same app for more money.

It’s literally like buying a dress. You don’t wear it a lot , but it’s cool. Then, when you go to wear it, the designer has taken it from your closet, and now tells you that in order to wear the dress you have to pay for it again, not once, but monthly.

Nah, I’m good.

by Evelynda!

I don’t like that you have to pay just to do a collage like what I’m only going to use it once or twice but why pay for something you’re not going to use for the rest of your life! People are probably going to forget about downloading PhotoCollage and having to pay each month at least $5! This is a waist of money, now go and get one for free! And for the person who made PhotoCollage warn people first that they have to pay to use PhotoCollage and not wait until they download it and be upset! I’d rather know I have to pay before then taking the time to download PhotoCollage!🤭😠 𝙞𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙥𝙥 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙙𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚!

by Sondyj

PhotoCollage used to work pretty decently for making collages— it had a lot of choices and was easy to use, but it would occasionally crash when I got to the final product; I learned to screenshot my final picture instead of relying on PhotoCollage to save it, and it worked perfectly- problem solved!

But I opened it today, and all of the sudden it’s a $4.99 subscription?! No, thank you! Not to mention, it just asks you to pay $4.99 but doesn’t clarify if that’s every week, month, year, etc. Feels like a poor attempt to scam longtime users of PhotoCollage out of their money! Thanks for encouraging me to finally download a collage app that doesn’t crash.

by Bunny CarrotHunter

Different functions, colors and designs. It doesn’t even matter you can’t get some designs if you don’t buy a trial, the ones they give you are enough 👌🏼 Yes there’s a lot of ads in between editing, but it doesn’t ruin it enough to where I don’t want to use PhotoCollage anymore. It’s helpful for promoting my store and when I need to merge photos and don’t have access to a computer. Great app for photos. 👍