Collage Maker - LiveCollage Reviews

by BATMAN TACO

I’ve downloaded and deleted CollageMaker over the last 2 years at least a dozen times and every time I download it back more things require money to use, they used to have good things for free and the better things costing money, but now I can barely do anything with CollageMaker I don’t see the point in using it if I can barely do anything with it. It used to be a good app and I used it all the time but now I can’t use it, I don’t see the point in paying for apps and games even if it’s cheap sometimes I pay for some apps but CollageMaker is basically forcing me to pay for it because without paying I can’t use it AT ALL.... ok maybe just a little but the smallest bit. I see all these good reviews from 2 years ago and everything but what about now? Where are all of the reviews now? I know people just wouldn’t stop writing reviews, remove the having to pay for EVERYTHING and just make it to where you have to pay for the better. Thank you for letting me take your time 💕

by Han197611111hmn

I’ve been using CollageMaker for years. It’s convenient and helpful and I can st around with projects. It’s been ad heavy but that’s been ok. Recently I was forced to update it and found that most of the features are now “ premium” and they want to charge $4.99 a month to use them. I get that they may need to do things to be profitable but they should have just converted to an app that charges a one time fee $2-$4 to upgrade. Sure, I’d be annoyed that I’d now have to pay a fee for what used to be free, but it would be a reasonable spend.
Instead they’re charging a monthly fee that is half the price of my Netflix monthly fee. The “premium” features are not even close to being worth almost $60 a year ($4.95 a month). There are many other free apps that do the same thing. I could even do this easily on several programs on my desktop.
Perhaps there are a ton of features that are also included. But, I used CollageMaker for making collages. That’s it. Even for a free app with ads, it was not ideal. Now, they’re asking $60 a year to use layouts that aren’t customizable, cheesy ‘stickers’, borders, etc that are outdated and limited editing.
So disappointed. I’ve had CollageMaker for YEARS but will be deleting it tonight.

by Dataice

Update: The developer removed the watermark after many complaints, but all of the useful features are still being withheld and require $4.99 a month to use.

I understand that developers need to make money on their work, but deleting borders and stickers that people had downloaded and used for years, and demanding a monthly subscription to get them back is underhanded

What’s the point of sticking around when you took away 95% of what made CollageMaker useful and hid them behind a monthly pay wall? There’s absolutely no reason for me to keep CollageMaker around. There are other useful editing apps that don’t require a $60 annual subscription.
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I paid a one time fee earlier this year to remove ads from CollageMaker , but I’m being constantly bombarded with ads from the developer to upgrade to the new monthly subscription model.

To add insult to injury, with the latest update I also have an ugly dark grey LiveCollage watermark in my photos that I edit. And if I want to remove the watermark, along with removing ads, and restoring previously downloaded borders and layouts, I have to pay $4.99 a month for that privilege.

I would be willing to pay a one time fee of $4.99, or even $4.99 annually, but expecting users to pay that every single month for something they use on occasion, is taking advantage of your customers. I guess I’m looking for a new app.

by DaesynC

I’ve been using LiveCollage for awhile now to edit my photos, and I’m pretty disappointed in how it’s running now. I have to pay for the filters I used to be able to use for free, which leaves me in a pinch because I honestly don’t want to pay $5 a month for those filters when I had them for free not too long ago. Would give it a 4-5 star rating if they AT LEAST gave me the old free ones back.

The “pay monthly” thing is also quite infuriating. If they wanted me to pay maybe a one time fee of, say, $5 or $6 to upgrade to the premium package, I’d pay for it because I’ve always loved using CollageMaker to create and edit my photos. I’m a high schooler— I can’t afford to pay $5 a month, $60 a year for an app I use occasionally. And I certainly don’t have a random $30 to hand over every year. I’m disappointed by this. I can understand a pro version that costs money, but not one that I have to pay for like it’s some sort of subscription. That’s a ripoff and it shows me that the developers do not care much about their users other than the money they’ll put into it. I guarantee that your profits would still be wealthy in amount if you did a one time fee. I do not recommend CollageMaker until either give back the old filters that used to be available for FREE, or change their “pro version” to be something a little bit more sensible and affordable.

by Rubyslippers16

This is a lovely little collage app. I have used it for approximately three years. I put photos in collages and appreciated not having a water mark. I also enjoyed a reasonable number of filters. There was some more editing software, but I used other software for my needs in that arena. Out if the blue CollageMaker required me to keep the watermark then it changed its mind on that but took away all but the most basic filters w/o a rather steep app price. For the record, I would happily pay a one time fee for an app that is w/i reason ~ no problem. But it’s the little monthly automatic payments that make me crazy and your app now costs too much. You always had some advertising content and I figured that is how I “paid” for the filters or lack of water mark ~ now the free version is riddled with advertisements and has lost a lot of functionality. It’s in your hands of you want to change your business model, but don’t get greedy ~ you’ll lose faithful users ~ too many up and coming apps in CollageMaker Store to subscribe.

by XFiretylee

I don’t mean to be rude but I'm not any more satisfied with this update than I have been the last few updates.
Every time there's an update I go for it, hoping the next update will fix the ongoing problem of having to pay for the effects I NEVER had to pay for before. Couldn't we just pay $5 once? I'd settle for that even, as long as it was only once. And I know I'm not the only one who's unhappy about this. I've seen many reviews from folks who've been users of CollageMaker for years, like me. They're not happy with the sudden payment plan either.

To specify, the effects I've always used - and NEVER had to pay for - are the colour effects & the grunge effects.

Let the record also show that my fave borders are no longer free either.

Try this: the effects & features that were there BEFORE the costly update should be free. New features could be premium but NOT old features.

It’s been over a year and no one has responded to my suggestion but I notice similar reviews have not gotten a response either.

Plz take the suggestions seriously. You'll get more satisfied customers this way, I'm quite sure of that. The only reason I still have CollageMaker is because I'm hoping someone will turn these suggestions into actions.

Again I don’t mean to be rude but listen to your customers. I miss doing edits like I used to and there’s no other app that can do this anymore.

by Collapse Addict

I paid for all of the bells and whistles and now they are free. That's fine because they probably didn't want to keep refunding money.
I have been using photo apps and programs for a really long time and know that there is never "the perfect one!" This is not my "go to" when I am in a hurry to make something quick. I return because of the plethora of backgrounds offered. That was why I paid for CollageMaker in the first place--I loved the amount of backgrounds, stickers, fonts (I will get back to text in a minute), filters etc. that were available for a flat fee. However, I have not always been able to access the items that I wanted to use, no matter how many times I "restored purchases." Sometimes, they would magically appear a session or two later, so, for example, I am set now, with all of the fonts I could possibly need! Yea! Others, have yet to ever appear, let alone be restored (the GIFs, I wanted for my business pags, for example). But my absolute biggest FRUSTRATION with CollageMaker is the *inability* to EDIT the text! What's up with that? It is hard enough to get the text straight, but when I see an issue, I can't believe that I have to delete everything to that point in order to FIX my mistake. Why???

by Ckelley116

I’m an indie author and I use CollageMaker to make marketing graphics for my instagram account. I mainly use the photo edit feature and apply backgrounds and text. Pretty simple. I don’t mind paying $5 a month because I use it pretty frequently, but I find it SO frustrating that every time I get to a certain point, CollageMaker crashes (without saving of course) then when I get back into CollageMaker to start over, the original image I was using isn’t even showing up in my photo library. It seems to happen mostly when I’m trying to add a second layer of text. I’ve figured out a workaround by saving the image each time I do something new and then starting again with the image I just saved, but then when I’m done I have to go into my photo library and delete a half dozen unfinished graphics. So annoying.

by Angelndzgyz

This isn’t my “go to” app for staging my fashion photos for sale, but occasionally I use it. I would probably use it more often if it weren’t for the ad clutter. Ads take up space & so do the design options that block about 1/3 of the photo I am trying to design. Text options are very limited compared to CollageMaker I regularly use, ie. there are fewer fonts here & the options to add shading to enhance/sharpen & limited color choices for the lettering are an exercise in wasting time to figure it out.
On the occasions that I have the patience to use CollageMaker, I am very pleased with the results. If I decide to pay for all the features, will the ads go away? Will I be able to see the whole photo without the designing tools blocking it? If blocking the photo isn’t something that the techs can’t undo, it would be nice to at least be able to adjust or move the photo, to see where text can be moved around to.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have this be my “Go To” App?

by Hyla9

After happily using CollageMaker for several years (I even submitted a 4-star review) I began having serious difficulties with freezing and causing my ipad and iphone to shut down. I was forced to uninstall both apps. When I reinstalled, CollageMaker updated and gave me no problems, however, I purchased the upgraded version a few years ago and it did not carry over. I contacted customer service and they told me what to do. I did it 3 times and it didn’t work. They repeated the same thing. Clearly, I have to re-purchase the upgrade in order to be able to use it again and that’s not the way it’s supposed to work. I would not recommend this to anyone based on my experience with their lack of customer service.

Less than 30 minutes after writing and leaving this review, I tried ONE LAST TIME to reinstall my upgrade and IT WORKED! Clearly, some bugs and kinks to work out, but very happy to have my app back! Adding 2 stars since I do love it. Hopefully, this won’t happen again.

by Tt_dancegirl

I have been using CollageMaker for about 10 months now and I absolutely love it! It’s so fun and easy to use, I love making collages for things like birthdays events and just because I want to! There are so many different things to make. I would say the only bad thing is that the templates for Instagram stories and such only give you a few free options to use and if you wanted to do a template that requires the subscription then you would have to pay for the subscription and I know a lot of people like me don’t really want to spend money just for using different templates on CollageMaker so I think they should add some more free options. But overall CollageMaker is super fun and it gets your creative mind thinking. Thanks for reading!

by KatnissTrisPrideen

I just got CollageMaker like a day ago, and enjoy the features. They’re are cute boarders and filters, and I want to use them but can’t! You have to pay for premium, which is fine, but premiums get like everything, whereas people who don’t have premium, they only get a few filters. 😢 I would like to have more features, while joy having to pay for a subscription. Just a thought. Other than that, the graphics are good, and it’s got nice features for your photos. (Only it doesn’t find faces very well. 🤷🏽‍♀️) So if you’re a face person, CollageMaker may not be for you. Those who like editing and collages, CollageMaker is for you. 😁😁

by LyteRaine

There is always a but. Honestly, I do love CollageMaker. I have used it several times and it has worked in my favor. Where the but comes in, is the music. Sooooo, I'm making an ad and want to add music to this ad. The song I am looking for, I already have through my music (iTunes). I pay a monthly fee to download whatever song I choose (on the iPhone). Anyhow, CollageMaker does not recognize it. It will still ask you to purchase a song. Soo, I purchased the song (even though I have it). Welllllllll, I still can't add the song, and it's still requesting a purchase. That is frustrating - no lie. For me to move forward with my ad, I had to choose another song that I purchased about a year or so ago. That is my ONLY hiccup
Other than that, great app.

by K845679

CollageMaker is the best I’ve found for making collages. Has the most options to work with. The most control to make it exactly how you want it. My only problem is a few of the templates I use most often, now don’t save with the border. It in fact cuts off a slim amount of the pictures on the outside edges of the collage. Now if I want to use my favorite templates, I have to add a really thick border so when it cuts off, it doesn’t take any of my picture and leaves me with a border. It’s workable...but annoying. And doesn’t look quite as good as it would if it worked right. Otherwise CollageMaker if perfect! I’ve tried many others and this just works so well for all the ways I like to perfect my work. Please fix this little issue so I can have my perfect collage program!!! Then I will happily leave 5 stars for it will deserve it and more!!

by FL_FSU_GIRL

I love all the things I can do in this one app. It is the best collage maker PLUS more out there. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars was because I purchased this 2 years ago and it was supposed to be a one time purchase. Now that I’ve upgraded I got to download all the old stuff but not any of the new stuff. Quite disappointed but you must know I like it if I’m still raving about the original product. The other thing I like is that it is easy. Introduced my 76 year old mother and now I’m flooded with reworked pictures every time we have a family get together. Not that I mind it’s easy enough I’ve never had to help her. Lol You should try CollageMaker I don’t think you will be disappointed. And no- I’ve received nothing for free this is my own unbiased opinion! Pictures help capture the memories we hold dear. Take pictures... you will be glad that you did!!

by Kosher Kid

Your new version has many new features that are NOT intuitive. Your video tutorials do NOT match what is on the work page. Let alone there is NO audio step by step. Please return to the old version of adding music, etc. or at least give step by step written directions on how to use the features that least match what is on project while one is working on it. I know you must thought we must have to do something new..well is it is new but NOT a better,yet. Keep working on it.
Two additional thoughts:
1) more features to help in to place type inStraight line.
2) a way to keep, what I call the base or the foundation image in place, frozen so while working on the project with additional images that it does revert back to the original size. It is like almost like starting over to place everything back to its previous position.

by Fhgthgfyh

So I use CollageMaker a lot to edit my Pinterest pictures anyway CollageMaker is super super great I love that you can still use it without being a member it’s very helpful if you have more than one pictures that you want to post or put together like for my middle school I made a LiveCollage collage for our lockers for me and my best friend and they look super great so I think that you should get LiveCollage if you want to like download Pinterest Instagram and they have an Instagram choice on there so like you can do like an Instagram board which I think is really cool because most don’t have that so yeah I think CollageMaker is super super helpful for many different reasons!! And I also really like it that you can use it off Internet

by @mommystreasures

I recently got a new iPhone and when the transfer from my old phone to my new was completed, I found my favorite go too frame app was no longer available. I really felt lost without it. I began searching all kinds of apps and none were anywhere near to what I was looking for. That is till I came across this fantastic app. There are so many great features that I can choose from. It will take time to zero in on my favorites but I’m pleasantly enjoying and impressed with CollageMaker. At the moment, I don’t know if any improvements can be made as I’m currently happy with the way it is. Thanks so much. I’m really glad I came across CollageMaker and I’ll be telling my friends. ❤️🤗❤️ Joyce

by Brtehi

This is a great app and is very easy to use. I have used CollageMaker for at least a year now and it is super easy to use, and when I need to edit a photo this is CollageMaker that I go to. CollageMaker makes it so that you can put text on your photos, change the color filter, you can choose what type of layout you want for your photos, there are tons of different borders you can put on your photos, lots of background patterns, you can make your pics smaller or bigger by zooming in or out, and so many more things on CollageMaker. Another thing I wanted to say was that there isn't any water marks you have to deal with and if there is you can just delete the watermark without having to pay like most apps. You can also make ur pics different textures, you can doodle on your pics, and also with the text thing there are tons of different colors and fonts you can use. Another thing that is great about CollageMaker is that you can also edit videos on CollageMaker and provides tons of music options you can put in your videos, tons of special effects you can put in your videos. With editing the videos you can also put text on the videos and you can also change the color filters on your videos as well. Overall this is a great app and has everything that you need to edit photos and videos!!!😝

by Alitia

I love the new freestyle option, but I’m kinda devastated that you made the fonts so hard to access, but worse, the chalkduster font has become the font I use for my business name and it’s gone. Now I have to do everything but the lettering and go into another app that has chalkduster and finish the text there. Since you’ve made it so much more versatile with the freestyle board I would love it if you could move the original image to the forefront of the of the layers, but since you’re technically “add”-ing them on top it won’t let you. Love CollageMaker, I’ve made thousands of collages and ads with it and the updates are amazing....❤️

by Avh5famly

I wanted to like CollageMaker. I needed it to create a collage to print for Valentine’s Day. After downloading CollageMaker and being careful to not select the “premium” features which cost money, I was ready to save the collage- only to find out that in order to do so, you need a monthly subscription!? I reluctantly subscribed only because i had spent so much time trying to create the perfect collage. I selected 4x6 size and printed on 4x6 photo paper in a photo printer and the image was completely pixelated and fuzzy. On CollageMaker , the images were crystal clear.

I understand apps take time and money to create and I’m all for paying for a good app, but I don’t like being told AFTER I finish creating my collage that in order to actually use it, I’ll now need to subscribe for $4.99 a month. And on top of that, the quality isn’t print quality.

by Longest Route Possible

I’ve been loving CollageMaker for nearly 2 years now. I gotta say it’s been the most thorough app for collages, photo edits, and short videos. It’s not as stable with videos exceeding 3 minutes depending on actual video size. The only issue I have right now is many of the edit features seem to be going blank where you select the template or sticker and CollageMaker doesn’t respond. I’ve notice more and more icons that are blank with a blue dot where there used to be feature. Or if I change a filter, sometimes it won’t change. I’ve cleared a lot of my works but if I work on app for a minute it’s like it gets hung up on only the features you chose in last edit. I have the most up to date version. I’m still using CollageMaker just giving FYI, any advice welcome.

by MadSci3nce

It is user friendly, has many great features and is continually being updated and more features made available. Highly recommend.
**Revised: I have noticed with the updates that many of the features I have enjoyed for YEARS are now only for subscribers. Of course you have to muddle through the ads for the free version. ⚠️It does take up a lot of hidden storage. You may delete edited pictures from CollageMaker itself but they are still on your phone. Every picture at every step of the editing process is saved on your device. You have to go to your device settings, find CollageMaker and delete from that device storage. It takes up ALOT of storage unless you do this on a regular basis. Had to find this through trial and error.

by Sqeaky92

I have gone through sooo many collage apps and editing apps that were super confusing and by the end of it I had gone through like 20 apps and they’re all the same confusing and difficult to use. Until I found college maker, a simple and fun app I love!!! It does everything for u all u do is choice some photos and lay them out the way u want them. Also I had so many trouble trying to make a collage on other apps that would work for my device background but collage maker, gave me the options for so many different sizes. I will never switch to any other collage app I love collage maker and hope you can enjoy it too!