PhotoGrid: Video Collage Maker Reviews

by Scarlatron

I’ve used PhotoGrid for years and years - it’s been my favorite for editing photos. I loved the choices of filters, the way PhotoGrid worked was great, and most importantly it was accessible and, for the most part, completely free. After the latest update, I hopped on to edit a photo and came to discover that they’ve completely limited the amount of filters you have access to; there used to be a plethora of different folders to choose from and now you get four - the rest now cost .99¢ and up. In the past, a lot of other filters always cost money, but they’ve now changed it to be the majority. I just think that’s really crappy considering so many other things on PhotoGrid now cost money and they simply don’t need to. I don’t see an issue with charging for something that you’ve worked for and I understand that it takes an entire team to get an app going, but this just seems excessive. What exactly am I paying for when PhotoGrid itself is bogged down with ads and lags to the point where my phone starts to overheat when I’m simply trying to add a border to my photo? Really disappointed. Hopefully this changes, I’ll be using another app that doesn’t try to profit off of every single minuscule thing in the meantime.

by Bhjohns2

PhotoGrid has decent functionality, very basic, but sometimes you don’t want to wade through a more complicated app to put a border and some text over two photos. So that’s all well and good, there’s an extreme amount of premium content, which is fine, but almost overruns PhotoGrid . My issue… they offer a “3 day FREE TRIAL!!!!🚨🚨”
basically everytime you even think about clicking on premium content. I do these sometimes, because I’m very good about cancelling the subscription, but with these guys, you don’t get a chance! They’ve gotten me a couple of times, both times I’ve just been immediately charged the $34 or whatever, with no trial period (about a year between the two, I forgot). I assume that once upon a time, I received a 3 day trial and cancelled, so now they show me as ineligible for the trial, which is fine, but SAY THAT! It’s an absurd bug not to fix for over a year. Two stars because it’s not a total dumper and Apple is great about refunding App Store purchases from shady devs.

by Grand+Elf9675

In my opinion, PhotoGrid isn't to good. It edits your photos, but who ever said it edits them well? The watermark at the bottom is confusing to take out, and let's admit, who on here is taking selfies via this app?? And why would you edit them here of there's Instagram or Snapchat?? Also, making new stickers is really weird, as tracing look bad and just using a square still look bad. It took me a while to even figure out i could edit said squares. Also, it can make an image you saved from somewhere else extremely fuzzy. Work on that. And who needs the use for all these fonts and filters?? I get having a few fonts but the amount PhotoGrid has is over the top. And as I mentioned earlier, the filters can be put through on Snapchat or Instagram, or even photos! Photos has a better drawing system the this app does, because photos has one.
All in all, I'm disappointed on this entire team.

by Gilles007

I got PhotoGrid in January 2016 and it was the most feature rich and user friendly, on the market - at the time. So much so, that I decided to purchase the lifetime membership they were offering at the time. I enjoyed the add free version of PhotoGrid and add on layouts. But one day, the developper posted an update, in which they decided to go for a monthly service fee, and stopped honoring the lifetime agreements from prior customers. PhotoGrid is great, but certainly not worth a monthly fee for an app this caliber. This is a kind of app that any new grad could write, and to force users into a monthly plan, not only looks like a desperate move to get rich quick scam, but also completely lacks class, especially when they decided to void the past agreements with early customers. You just need to ask yourself if it’s worth spending $5 monthly for the privilege to use such a basic tool, when there are better ones out there now!

by Itplytdy

The only thing missing is the option to change the resolution of my final collages. That’s why the 4 star.
It’s as bloated as my old favorite app but there is an offer to purchase. Trying it first

I was a longtime user of a different app but they lost me after their last upgrade by asking for my location every time I made a collage even though I turned it off in settings. Invasive. And the ads took up the whole screen. I would have purchased it to stop it and the ads but they didn’t offer it.
I tried about 15 apps until this one. Sticking with this because it allows me to choose the photos then offers me a grid. ALL the others wanted me to choose a grid then pics- not flexible.

by CatholicMom16

I’ve used PhotoGrid for years for basic editing (whether fitting a pic for Instagram or making a quick collage) as well as for some other little projects that were made easier by making use of the free tools in this app. I’ve never paid for any extras, though there have been a few things over the years that may have come in handy... I miss a few things that used to be free and are not anymore but it’s not a deal breaker for me. They’ve also added some things (filters, fonts, etc) that are free and fun/useful so it evens out. I’ve recommended it to lots of people over the years so I suppose it’s pass time I gave it a good review here. Yes, I would recommend! Again, it’s a great little app for basic photo and video editing. I’ve used others as well in the past but this one most often and when space is low, it’s the only one that stays on my phone. 😉 That alone is high praise! 😂 It’s no PhotoShop but it’s a great tool to have if you take/post lots of pics. I’d probably give it a 4.5 out of 5 ⭐️s and say I’m 90% satisfied with how it’s worked for me over the years.

by AshleeAppReviews

Today I made one of those neat collages that had videos in them which is an amazing feature alone... but when I went to save it is when I thought I was going to pull my hair out! It crashed several times causing me to have to start the process and trimming and layout all over again at least 4 times. Then it would try and save it and would never progress pass 21% and just freeze. I tried again later and it finally didn’t crash and saved but guess how long it took to get to 100%? It took nearly 1.5 hours just to save it. Totally killed my phone battery from a fresh charge too doing it. The videos were standard iPhone taken videos and each one was 20-25 seconds and the whole things was under 25 seconds as they all play at once. While making a collage of various videos is great—- it’s not practical at this point to even bother using it. What is odd is I’ve made them in the past (it had been a long while though) and they use to save in 2-3 min or less. Not 85 minutes! Not sure what changes but can’t be 5 stars when that feature has declined in service. Hope it gets better soon!!!

by Breakupterms

i feel like PhotoGrid has a lot of potential! i just have a few suggestions and i really would love the developers to at least consider these because i love PhotoGrid , but i really need these changes to make me love it even more:

1) i love that i can edit my photos and make grids and memes and everything. it’s awesome to have it all in one! but when i actually upload a photo to PhotoGrid, it comes out really blurry. i would love it if you could fix it so that my photo would look just like it does in my phone. it doesn’t look that blurry unless it’s uploaded to PhotoGrid, and i would like it to stay hd like on my phone.

2) basically, this is like off-brand instagram but better because i have a lot of tools that allow me to edit my photos and videos and make cool collages, which instagram doesn’t allow. so if this is going to be like a better version of instagram that many people switch over to (which i definitely can see happening in the future if you maybe take my advice), allow private messaging so people don’t have to make connections through comments. if you’re worried about privacy, don’t worry too much because you already have a block button and you can make it so people can just delete the messages like instagram does. i would LOVE to have this feature to allow me to actually make friends.

thank you so much, and please consider my suggestions ❤️

by Guyjong

Really like PhotoGrid. Been able to make lots of different collages and announcements from PhotoGrid. Only complaint is I wish there was more versatility in some of the editing options. For example, if you use a comment bubble, you can choose your own style and put the text in there, but you can’t actually edit the comment bubble, the text inside of it (color, size), or the position of the bubble (change from left to right, etc - the position is fixed). It gives you tons of editing options, but for other parts, like my example, there’s very little ability. Perhaps if I paid to be a member, I would get more options, but even as a free version, it’s still pretty good.

by Hammie711

I’ve been using PhotoGrid for a couple years now. What I love most about it is twofold. First, there are seemingly endless options for creating a new photo-display product using your pictures. Second, the interface is intuitive and easy to use. So easy, in fact, my almost 80 year old father could probably create something to print and/or share.

Once you create a grid, it is easy to save the product to your photos, or share it with family and friends. I’ve exported one to my desktop to use as a background and I’ve been pleased with the quality of the image on my 20 inch screen.

One caveat: I have not sent any of my this app creations to be printed, but I don’t see a reason to downgrade my review for that!

by SMPrater

It’s a good app but I’m still learning so I’ll do my best for a review. I love touching up my photos but what I love using PhotoGrid for even more is to put my watermark on them so others can’t just take them as their own. So I love that PhotoGrid allows me to do that but also allows me to have the different options of using different social media tags, my email with the envelope symbol, telephone with the symbol, or even uploading my own watermark. I love that option since I already have my own calling card that I can now use as my watermark on my pictures as well as the crafts that I do.

by Johnny B2 Good

When PhotoGrid up graded it added a lot more capabilities that I was not expecting and I did not know how to use, but being that this was ( now it is again )one of my favorite app, I had to give it one more chance and I'm glad I did. Graded I use PhotoGrid for crating reports; however, I do no use any of the new functions, but I am able to make very precise reports using PhotoGrid. So I can vouch it's use as a engineering investigation aid and I can't think of a better assistant for get a point across to a customers and/or contractors. 5 stars for that. This is my favorite app once again now that I understand the great upgrades. Great job!!!

by SteffieeRose

I’ve been using this app for YEARS and loved it. It was perfect! I even recommend it to my peers during the social media classes I teach. With this new update I was under the impression that we were being forced to pay $2.00 a month to remove their name from the images. I was so upset that yet another app was backpedaling on it’s free features later down the line. I was informed you can still remove their watermark for free but need to do so manually and I was so relieved!!! Thank you Julie for taking the time to respond and set me straight. I’ll continue using your app in all my social media classes. It’s one of the best. I’m glad I was wrong!

by Musicl.ly Fan Mail

I believe PhotoGrid gave me the right frame and shape I was looking for, for my pictures. It help me most definitely with other things like a sketch book because I wanted to keep all of my memories in a book. I was successfully able to print my pictures then put them I my sketch book. But besides the printing. I love PhotoGrid because it totally added the beautiful cool effect to my pictures. Such as brightly adding color, made things pop out out, I could add multiple pictures in one frame. Though other apps have just about all of these techniques/specialties this one stood out to me. So therefore, I give PhotoGrid a 5 star 🌟 rating 😌. With PhotoGrid I am so satisfied of the memories that I have in my phone of multiple pictures in one. So I say THANK YOU 🙏🏾.

by Summkl

Follow up. When can I expect this update. I can’t use PhotoGrid if my pics are going to be out of order. It just too hard. I don’t understand why the pics in PhotoGrid would not be in the same order as my album. I just can’t deal with that. Please help so I can use PhotoGrid again. Thanks

Hello. I love PhotoGrid and I use it a lot. The only complaint I have is when your in a grid and choosing photos, the photos are NOT in the same order as my camera roll. When doing a collage for say like Christmas, your having to search all over for your Christmas pics. I would like to see the photos in the same order as listed in my camera roll or album that I created to store pictures for a particular event. Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.

Karen Longino

by Angelicruin

Edit - I was able to eliminate ads with the $1.99 premium purchase option so I'm good now....I was not able to regain my lost earned wallpaper until I paid the $1.99, but it's worth it for since I use this daily.
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After the latest update ALL of my previously earned wallpapers are gone and I have to watch a 30 second video for every single one to get them back. There's not even an option to just buy an ad-free version of PhotoGrid, which I would be totally willing to do. And every time I save a photo, it puts up an obnoxious loud ad on the screen as I try to exit. Absolute spam garbage now. I get there needs to be ads but this is horrible and to not have any option to buy into a premium version of PhotoGrid makes this now useless for me.

by Anonorama

If I could give PhotoGrid 10/5 stars, I would. I’ve used this app for years now and I’ve never had to get the premium version to suit all of my photo needs! I love editing and gridding to make aesthetics, and PhotoGrid is my go to for everything photo related. I’ve used many other apps and they’re just not the same! I especially love the new Unsplashed photos, they’re my favourite part ever!!!!!! I’ve never been so blown away by the beauty in that section. this app is honestly a dream come true, so I highly recommend for anyone and everyone. Plus, it’s free to download, and it’s great if you can’t spend any money on it. One last thing, if you make an account, (no $ required) you can get stars for using PhotoGrid and but backgrounds and other features just with the stars!! Once again, best app EVER!!

TL;DR— 10/5 stars, beautiful app

by Kyber ITunes

I use PhotoGrid all of the time and have been a paid member for the past couple of years. PhotoGrid has great features and options for editing videos and images. It is up there with my favorite apps for editing images/videos. The only thing I’d like to see added at this time is a way to align text (the only way to know your aligned currently is if it’s directly in the middle), if there was a way to have some sort of guide to align text anymore and to make sure it is aligned with other text, it would be super helpful!!

Update: I had an issue before with a security warning from the AT&T mobile security app but it currently looks like I no longer have that issue after updating PhotoGrid (was instructed to do so after contacting support). I really appreciate the help this app’s support team provided, thank you very much!!

I would recommend PhotoGrid! 👍

by 2Angels2019

I recommend the premium subscription highly to all! PhotoGrid has a lot of filters, photo layouts, and many other features that you can use to customize your pictures practically in any way you want! The price for the premium subscription is minimal, compared to other similar apps, plus, PhotoGrid also allows you to integrate your own water mark and personal signature on all of your work. Your finished work is saved directly to your camera roll or gallery easily and is totally unique and representative of you and your style.
Bonus: If your premium subscription lapses, everything you created is easily available in your gallery or photo app, if you've saved your work to your device... no "I can't access my work because I no longer have a premium subscription" with PhotoGrid. Super easy to use and with a vast selection of possibilities to make your memories uniquely yours 😊.

by Pitcherday

I have been using this app for a long time. The free layout options are great. You can even remove the watermark, or make it different styles and personalize it. I prefer to leave the watermark on, maybe it will attract some new users. A lot of different text options and colors. If I made more photo collages, I would pay to unlock the premium layouts and colors, it is a very easy to use app. Some collage making apps don’t let you switch around the pictures once you get them in the layout, so you have to keep trying to add them in a different order to get them right. A guessing game that is not necessary with this app. I will keep using this app as my app of choice for collages, I see no need to use anything else.

by Budboy25

Aug2018 update: I have been using PhotoGrid for 2-yrs now. What keeps me getting the paid version is that, it has taking too long to save my edited photo. The 100% keeps on going and going like a circle of death. You can’t close it hoping it will save in the background or you will lose your work. Also there’s no way to save my own watermark. Every time, I edit a picture, I have to re-type my watermark which is annoying.

Previous review:
Great for photo touch-up and for adding text to the picture. My only gripe is there's no back button. If you mistakenly press a wrong button such us home, you will loose your work if you haven't saved it. Hoping the developer will add a feature to go back to the unsaved work.

by Nicole Corin

I use PhotoGrid all the time. Best part is it’s free, I’m sure paying for it has a bunch of added bonuses but it works great free also.
I have a 22 month old daughter and I take pictures of her constantly I have over 6,000 pictures and videos of her and sending them can be bombarding and overwhelming for the recipient. So I like to collage them and send 1 photo instead of 8
I also use it for making birthday cards / invites, editing photos or adding text and making pages for a photo book.
You can customize boarders, layouts, text add stickers and a bunch of other things
It’s also easy to use so that’s a plus

by Lizzie_rates

When my family and I are doing photo shoots just for fun as a keepsake memories, we usually use this app to customize our pictures so that we don’t have random pictures just lying around everywhere. this app organizes the pictures Plus you can add stickers and other cool features that can make the photos your own! I personally think it is very fun and easy to use and I definitely recommend it for any family who likes to take a lot of pictures that could bring back long lasting memories! Get this app, download it now, make memories!