Pic Stitch - Collage Editor Reviews

by Valfx

PicStitch used to be free and awesome. It was my favorite collage maker. I loved all the options and even that you could create your own custom design. I haven’t used it in a while, so to my horror and shock I opened it today to find out that now most of the options are locked. And so is the the custom layout feature.
So it is not free anymore. I would have considered paying for it... till I saw the price. $29 per year, or $129 to not keep paying monthly. What??? This is just a collage making app. It not like you are getting a full fledged photo editing software. You are just putting pictures into little squares. It’s obnoxious how all developers now are trying to squeeze every penny out of consumers. I guarantee that few people will pay $129. Some might, probably by accident thinking that the $2.50 is a one time payment, not recurring monthly... but I guarantee that they would make more money and have more happy customers if they charged $2-$5.
Sorry, but I feel extremely cheated now and will not even use the free options. PicStitch is getting deleted!! You have lost me and all my friends as customers.

by Drakesgirl

Ugh, I’ve been avoiding updating PicStitch for over a year because I didn’t want to lose my favorite features, blur, blemish and focus, but with the new IOS update I was unable to use PicStitch anymore without updating it. I was forced to update. Now the worst has happened, as expected, and now PicStitch is utterly useless to me. The blur and blemish features are complete trash and do not work the way they did before and I can’t even turn the angle of the focus feature sideways as I am used to doing. I would actually be willing to pay for PicStitch if only I could keep the features the way they were. So depressing because I’ve been using PicStitch for YEARS, many many years, and now I can’t use it at all.

by Kmb788

this app has been my go-to photo collage maker for literally years and I probably use it at least once a week. Imagine my surprise when I clicked into it this week to discover it’s no longer free and now to do even the most basic of things- such as change the width of your border- you have to have the pro version! At first I figured, whatever I would just buy it since I use the program so much but then discovered it’s $29 a year or $129 lifetime! Seriously, who in their right mind would possibly pay that?! I would maaaybe consider a one-time purchase of $29, but every year? Many other free apps out there and I guess I’ll be moving on to one of those.

by QuirkyCarter

Apps like this should not be listed as if they’re free. Sure, you can download it for free. But you won’t be able to use it the way most people expect to use it without paying for a subscription or pricey one time fee that apparently doesn’t even cover future updates. You can make a ‘collage’ from 2 pics and save it with a watermark on it for free. Like I said— it isn’t really useable for most people without paying for it.

My problem isn’t that it costs money… I’d be willing to pay $5-7 (one time, not per month) for PicStitch if it had a history of being stable and supported. I don’t even expect tons of new content for free… I just expect that it continues to function properly over time with the features available when I purchased it. $129 is waaayyy too much money for a phone app like this. Unsure why people are willing to waste so much money… wasn’t always like this, yet it will continue to be until the spending stops.

by Zooba17

I run a Lost & Found pet site. I lost ability to crop pics today. So I updated & same problem. My members, many of whom have broken hearts, look forward to seeing their pets on cover photo every night. Imagine my shock that I made a few pics @ 5 p.m. & could crop, @ 9 pm I find out a dog I was going to post was found so I tried to make a different photo & couldn’t crop. So everyone is going to be upset with Pic Stitch. You could have given some warning. I just want to make simple pics, nothing fancy so I don’t want to pay a bunch of money to do volunteer work. Cheesy of you though not to state we’d loose to the crop feature. Guess I’ll have to close the Lost & Found Dog & Cat Site. All I want to do is put 2 photos in 16x9 divided in 2 areas but can’t any more. Can’t crop. Why do you have to make it more complicated? Why don’t you leave it as it was for ppl who want a simple way to make pics? And charge the ppl who want high tech stuff like filters, etc? This 💩now.

by L0calgal

I’ve use this for years on my iPhone to turn screenshots into collages which I easily exported to my E store sites. Noticed PicStitch was no longer on my iPhone without any idea of why. Went to App Store and found it, with the cloud and arrow symbol which told me that yes it was something previously opened. So downloaded again and it just wouldn’t download to my iPhone. Realized that it must no longer be a pic stitch for iPhone available app. Clicked on reviews and selected most recent and at least the top 10 are all highly negative for the change to PicStitch , especially it now being virtually for pay with little or no use that’s free. In every review the admin requests the OP send them an email. I’m not gonna send an email because Lord knows whether or not that will get me hacked. Developer should just start working on clarifying just what you are getting if you download PicStitch. If it’s virtually unusable without a charge state that in the description

by NYC Jason

This seems like a good app, but it’s impossible to know because the free version is useless, never mind that every tap brings up a nag screen asking for money. Launch app, choose layout (nag screen), select photos, insert first photo (nag screen), insert second photo, save (nag screen that won’t let you save), save (same nag screen), delete app.

I’m a computer engineer so I’m happy to pay for good software, but I need to know it’s good first. A free download should be able to do at least the bare basics, like save a simple image. Better: give a reasonable free trial period with all features unlocked so that users can see how good your app is and what it’s really worth. If you’d done that I would probably have spent several hours playing with this during the trial before gladly buying a subscription. Instead, I used it for 10 minutes then deleted it.

Trust me on the free trial thing. (AKA: the Endowment effect.)

by Jucasaurus Rex

I used PicStitch for over 6 years. For me, it filled in a small gap that I should really be able to do natively on my phone by now. I opened it up yesterday to use it like normal and was surprised to see the update paywalling me out of basic features. Now, notion that someone should pay more than $5 TOTAL for the simple functions this product offers in a pretty unattractive package is absurd. But to go as high as a TRIPLE digit price tag makes me not only committed to never using PicStitch again, but also convincing others to jump ship as well.

In just a few minutes after uninstalling, I’d done a little research on alternatives and am very happy with the replacement I chose, Canva. I don’t care if you also choose that. I’m just throwing what worked for me out there. To me, the most important thing is everyone getting rid of this garbage app, this app.

by Joshua D.

Subscription plans are not the future for applications. You cannot portray a photo editor as a service that could ever hope to warrant users paying indefinitely. It's just pure greed on the part of the developer. I'll pay the one time price but I refuse to pay indefinitely for a collage app.

I'm so fed up with greedy developers taking premium apps and turning them into subscriptions after they make all they think they can make from we suckers who bought PicStitch thinking we were buying a premium experience. It's a bait-and-switch and seriously unethical and immoral for a business to pull this type of sleazy & underhanded scam.

You have lost any respect I had for you as a developer and business and you're now no better than any other App Store crook. Thanks for helping with the continuation of the ruination of PicStitch Store. Also, thanks for helping with the continued withering of my faith in the prospect of believing there are still developers out there who are actually good people with a conscience.

by Go Use A Different App

I’ve been using PicStitch for years. Used to be my go-to for stitching pics together. Well, at this point PicStitch won’t let you save your photo until you have waited for a 1-2 min advertisement to play, and even after that, there IS no way to exit the ad. You HAVE to click on the ad and let your phone load PicStitch Store before the “X” will appear so that you can exit that menu and save your photo. And at that point you’ve already wasted an additional 20 seconds searching for the little “X” that never appears unless you click on the ad. It’s extremely annoying and a great way to get rid of customers. I won’t be using this anymore. Save yourself some time and use Scrapbook instead; it’s way better with more features that are all free.

by Ibiwisi

Re issues with latest update...
I’ve sorted the issue with being unable to create anything new on my iPad Pro. I have to set photo permissions to “Selected Photos” and only choose one at a time. Then drag and drop.

I’ve had Pic Stitch since it was the free app of the day. It was brill. But now there’s a forced watermark.

With all due respect, I credit your app each time I use anything I’ve created with Pic Stitch. But my medical expenses are just too high for anything but medical expenses, thanks to my genetic jackpot of rare and disabling degenerative diseases. Pic Stitch was a wonderful way of dealing with Ehlers Danlos disease and the multiple comorbidities, and I discovered that my art and pieces I create help educate people as well.

Putting a forced watermark, at least the version of watermark as it is...really uncool. It will just make me stop using what was a really great app. And that is unfortunate. One cannot even change the appearance and size of the watermark and adjust transparency, so it’s there but doesn’t distract from/clash with an artist’s work.

So please give us back the former free version. I contacted the devs but received no response.

Thank you.
Respectfully...

by Kissy Bobrowski

PicStitch is NO LONGER FREE... I even watched a ridiculous amount of ads over 4 years to get new layouts, many of which I never used.

I have been using PicStitch since 2016. I don’t use PicStitch too often but today for the first time in many months I came back to use it, and to my dismay they are charging money. Not even a one time purchase, a subscription.. So now they are asking for $24 a month or $129 a year for an app that doesn’t even show the entire photo edges. I would have to prepare my photos by shrinking them down struggling to give them some type of edging, before I even brought them in PicStitch . I think PicStitch is a bit out of it’s league, and should be showing more appreciation for the users who keep them alive.

by SIowbro

I’ve used PicStitch exclusively for collage/stitching purposes for years — at least 4 years. I was a free-to-play user but I spent months of watching long advertisements every single day to slowly unlock all of the frame layouts, one by one. I recommended PicStitch to tons of friends over the years. Now all of a sudden, all of the basic features are behind a paywall. Can’t adjust borders, border colors, etc. PicStitch is now functionally useless. You already got the ad revenue off me watching all those generic video game ads every day to unlock the frame layouts and now you want me to pay $30 to use features I’ve been using for nearly half a decade? Not a chance. App deleted. Here’s your 1 star review too.

by Allyhi Love Games

I’ve used PicStitch for awhile and it was great for what I was doing. All the features were cool and easy to use. The only thing is it didn’t have sticker which I didn’t love but it was fine.

Then the update came and the borders pack is $8.99? I don’t see why you would want us to pay $9 for that. I know there are a lot more backgrounds and stuff but I, again, don’t see how that’s worth it when before you could have the same backgrounds by getting your own image and it was was a LOT cheaper.

I loved PicStitch and I used it almost daily for what I was doing and now that I can’t edit the borders and background without wasting $9 ruined everything.

by Jolly-Swell

Must Download!!! I have used other video and picture collage apps and the other ones don’t let you add text or let you resize the photo and PicStitch does everything! You can add videos and photos in any frame and any background pick or color and you can put text in and edit and change the color of text! This happen as everything you need for your video and picture collages! Must Download!!!

by Morrischick

I’ve used PicStitch for years and am canceling it after the changes made in the last update! The deal breaker was not being able to zoom in on the selected pic while making edits; for example, it’s especially hard to control “splash” color editing when it won’t zoom. I can’t find many of the old features that I used use like vignette. Noticed some useless new ones like “watermarking.” I’ve stopped investigating the other changes because I’m through with it.

by Sonrisa Arquitecto

I categorically disagree with the One Star Reviewers!!
Every app in the collage category offers the Premium features at a cost. Whoever blames the developers of the Pic Stitch for introducing the subscription plans is not entirely sincere /correct / honest.
I don't use PicStitch that often, but wholeheartedly agree with a fellow 5 -Stars Reviewer that has recently called in his review the Lifetime Membership a "steal"!!! Yes, it is!!! Especially when you experience yourself a myriad of remarkable features that PicStitch offers!!
One day. One day only it has always taken PicStitch Support to respond to my messages. I think that is remarkably quickly!! With a zillion of the emails they get every day- it is EXCELLENT in my book! Therefore, I am infinitely perplexed when reading the reviews that describe the "unresponsive App Support"???!!!!

To the Developers:
A TRULY OUTSTANDING APP!
BRAVO!!!!!

by Mh96s

At first I thought I was going to haft to pay a hundred and something dollars just to use a app that I had used for years but I pushed the restore button and it went away (I am a long time customer).Anyways I didn’t haft to pay the new price of a hundred and something dollars and I just wanted to say thank you! Also I really enjoy PicStitch and use it quite often.I really Enjoy all the different collages! Your doing great with PicStitch keep it up 👏🏻

by Micki 1

Not so long ago when asked I rated you 5 to 5+ stars. You are my go to app (or at least you were - not so sure about this new design maybe I will get used to it - maybe not) I used you everyday for every event and every holiday. What made you special your STICKERS. The majority now are Happy Birthday - where oh where have the stars-bars-dashes-animals-flowers-funny characters etc gone? Without them you are a bit below average. Happy Birthday and Good Night. Hope for better. ***Wanted to update - PicStitch designer responded to me and sure enough told me how to find the stickers I was missing. Thanks guys

by Jays Job

I just got finished putting about 30 video editing and collage apps through their paces. For me this is the hands down winner. It does just about everything you’ll need to make straight videos with editing and sound/your music and collage/multi frame videos.

It has an easy intuitive interface and lots features only found on other much more expensive apps.

If that’s what you’re looking to do without paying a monthly “subscription” (*cough PicPlayPost *cough) this is PicStitch . Well worth the one time price of the upgrade to the pro version which adds an unbelievable amount of additional features.

by Kiki53193

I know the new update occurred a few months ago...but I’m finally fed up enough to write a descriptive review. Prior to the update I used Pic Stitch daily for all my photo needs. After the update I got frustrated with the fact that you could no longer zoom in to edit details and the blur & blemish tool we’re now way less precise. They fixed the zoom issue however, the blur & blemish tool are still useless. No matter how far I zoom in or how small/large I select the tool size, I end up with a dark splotch. Before the update, both the blur & blemish tools were top notch. Also, the whiten tool is definitely subpar compared to its predecessor. With all three of the tools I mention, once you select & apply, there is a major delay with the result. You tap a blemish, press the blur button, or apply the whiten tool & there is a quick change & then a “smooth out” of the result. I don’t know how else do describe it. Now I rarely use Pic Stitch & when I do, I find myself missing the previous, amazing version of PicStitch .

by Alexycred

I love PicStitch because I could post 4x6 and 6x4 cropped photos to Instagram. Now the cropped photos no longer import to Instagram, which has caused me to stop posting (it affects my aesthetic). I emailed the Pic Stitch team and they have not reached out to me or offered any support. I deleted Instagram and Pic Stitch and reinstalled both to see if there was a glitch somewhere. I even restarted my phone, but nothing helped. Wish they would fix the problem because now I’m on the hunt to find another app that can do the same thing.

by ©

I'm not exactly sure how, but prolonged use of this app on my iPhone SE results in a substantial degree of heat output on the lower half of the iPhone, which is rather bothersome, because it becomes quite uncomfortable to hold after approximately 1 minute of using PicStitch . However, the functionality of PicStitch itself is absolutely flawless, which I very much admire. Unfortunately, the issue of overheating outweighs the flawless interface, and I needed to uninstall this app to solve the issue. I do very much admire using this app, I just wish that using it did not cause my iPhone to overheat.

by Austarr

The ability to edit small details was great because you could zoom in while editing. It was my go to app for small details. I don’t know what you guys were thinking, removing that feature. I assume it was a mistake and I hope it is corrected quickly. How can you touch up a blemish or whiten someone’s teeth when you can’t zoom in to the specific area you are trying to adjust? The features that made PicStitch great have been ruined. It’s practically worthless unless this issue is corrected. I hope the developers read these reviews. It was a five star app until the ability to be precise was completely eliminated.

by Bakingcountrygirl2011

I use PicStitch to make collages for my blog. Up to now, it’s worked great. Today I went to use a texture/background under the Original category. But when I went to save the collage, the background was white! I tried to contact your support team but the page wouldn’t let me submit because I need to “complete all required fields before submitting” (I did). And since I have no other way to contact you, I’m doing it here. If this glitch doesn’t get fixed soon I’m gonna delete PicStitch and find a new one.

by Porcupine888

I've been using Pic Stitch first for iPad then phone for years now, and have never had need to go looking for another collage app. It does what it's meant to do easily and cleanly, and while they've added features over the years they've never let it get bloated. It still does the basic thing I got it for perfectly: put several photos together so I can post them as one picture on Facebook.

by Dbhk49

On a trip to Alaska, I discovered this collage maker. It allowed me to combine photos of what we experienced in the areas or activities we enjoyed. I found that PicStitch allowed me to develop even more of my creativity in photography. I was able to share with many friends using PicStitch in conjunction with another free app and email my collages, include short descriptions of what was showing, and keep a photo treasury of treasured experiences. I LOVE PicStitch!

by Suntastikk

PicStitch is just so easy to navigate and has so many options. I’ve been using this for years and don’t plan to stop anytime soon. I am constantly making font collages for customers so that they can choose a font, making collages of my artwork, collage of things for sale, and other collages. Collage collage collage lol.
You can add effects, texts, borders, so many things. It’s great!

by Miranda 235

Before the recent update, there used to be a band aid selection in the editor that would clear skin or remove unwanted spots. For example, right now I’m trying to remove a cut on my sons in face in photo but it seems that you have removed it. I know a couple people with PicStitch and they mostly use it for that one feature. Not a smart decision to whoever decided to get rid of it.

by Majuscule

I was using Collage, an app by the same company on my ancient iPad and wanted an app for making collages on my new iPad. I read the reviews on the various collage apps and settled on this one before I realized it was by the same company. Technology has advanced since my old iPad. This has more bells and whistles that I thought I needed yet it doesn’t seem bloated. Very easy to use from the start. I’m pleased!

by Gullt

With PicStitch I can do longer than one minute videos. Unlike those other ones. You have to pay extra to get a one minute video. This is the only one I’ve seen so far that I can put more than one minute videos on. I’m grateful for PicStitch and it’s been helping me with my reaction videos since I don’t have cpu. Thank you for a great app like this.