A Design Kit: Collage Maker

• ADK+ Monthly — $4.99/month
• ADK+ Monthly — $24.99/year ($2.08/mo)
• Editorial — $2.99
• Feelings — $1.99
• Hobbies — $1.99
• Lettering — $3.99
• More Food — $0.99
• Notebook — $2.99
• Painted — $1.99
• Valley Cruise — $0.00

Last verified 6 Aug 2026

4.7 5670 ratings · App Store

1. 3/5A Good App, Too Many Crashes

   I've been using this app since it came out, across several generations of phones. I love the functionality and the options (there are AO many options), and it's easy to use but the one thing that has never been corrected is that it crashes unpredictably. Sometimes it's after one or two edits, sometimes it's after a ton of edits. It has fully shut down my phone (several generations, not just one) before and this happens 8/10 of the time. The last time I used this app (yesterday) it crashed my phone entirely and when I got my phone to restart I had to uninstall and reinstall this app and the music app I had open at the time in order to get either of them to work again. Again, love this app, love the overall functionality, and there's a reason I've kept it on my phone for so long, but the crashes are very frustrating.

   fatcatmrow · 6 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Design Kit

   Love it. It’s not Photoshop, but that’s kind of the point. Level of difficulty is easy and intuitive. Wonderful App for graphic design novices. As an experienced Photoshop user, this App is the “Missing Piece”. I have wanted on occasion to embellish photos of grandchildren, special occasions.....But pics just sit in Photos without me ever getting around to transferring to laptop or desktop, open a Photoshop page, etc...... Overkill for a quick “memory” picture. Wow! With Design Kit, I can easily scroll through my pictures or go to an Album. You get a full page of your Photos, not a tiny window. Choose the pic and embellish away! I was surprised at the amount and quality of the features you get with the Basic Package. After I had used it a while, I spent $2.00 on brushes and access to simple, basic Designer creations. Worth it. I am now using it to make quick design sketches on an image I’ve taken a screenshot of that has ideas for for my home design. No more scribbling notes all over the picture to remember my ideas. I just create my ideas immediately on the screenshot image. *Get it. -Makes sharing memories a lot more fun. -Gives me super easy, immediate accessibility to create design ideas on the fly. *Not expensive at all, for what this App does. TNThill5

   TNThill5 · 6 Aug 2026

3. 3/5I’m not sure about this.

   Tbh I don’t think this should be a separate app from A Color Story. The toggling back and forth is bad. I like this app but never use it because I mostly use text on photos for Instagram stories and this is too cumbersome to open just for stories. Especially since IG stories has several different fonts and backgrounds now. The fonts and backgrounds in A Design Kit are better but i honestly don’t feel like switching over apps from IG to A Design Kit so I mostly skip it. Also, the cropping for IG stories is wrong. It doesn’t work. It looks right on the front page of the app and then when you click through to actually add text, it is the wrong size for a story. If I put text too close to the edges it doesn’t show up on IG stories unless I resize the photo to only take up a small portion of the page. Basically it crops too short and wide for IG stories, at least on an iPhone 7+. I also think there should be way more background and font options.

   clf0655 · 6 Aug 2026

4. 5/5Awesome Start!

   I love A Design Kit! I think you guys really nailed what you were trying to do with A Beautiful Mess app back in the day, and in a time when people are ready for it! The brush design color options are super cool, I love the backgrounds option, and the story crop size really nailed it! Just what I’ve been looking for to really take the stories function on instagram to another level. I also love the back and forth functionality with A Color Story! It could be a little smoother but it’s worked fine for me so far, just have to be a little patient. I do think it would be very cool if you could save your drawing as a sticker for future use, kind of like the filter save function on A Color Story, but like I said overall this is an awesome addition to my photo editing app collection! Thanks! Update: thank you for listening to your users and adding so many useful updates! I especially love the duplication button!!!

   jaimekramer · 6 Aug 2026

5. 5/5Best. App. Ever.

   I don’t usually review apps but this one is just too good to not review. The options you have are beyond amazing for what it is meant to do. There isn’t any annoying ads and unlike many other apps, it doesn’t give you an annoying watermark, even if you don’t have the pro version. Also in comparison, while I’ve noticed a lot of other apps give you VERY limited options on what you can do without their pro version, this app seems very fair and balanced and gives quite the amount of options for a free app. And if you decide to buy the pro version, it’s not outrageously priced and very affordable. Overall, I cannot stop gushing about this app and it’s very rare that I feel the developers of an app are putting thought and care into what they are producing and their consumers’ opinions, but this app blows that out of the water. Anyways, it is a great app and I highly recommend it to anyone thinking about downloading it. Not only does it do what it’s made to do, but goes above and beyond.

   sabit81 · 6 Aug 2026

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