Effectshop Pic & Collage Maker

• Free to download
• In-app purchases

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.6 2598 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Amazing App!!!

   This is bar far the best photo enhancing app I have used. It has so many stamps and frames to pick from and you can easily change color and transparency. It even has a variety of quotes to choose from. My only complaint is sometimes it's hard to choose the stamp you want to use there are so many!!! Most definitely would recommend this app.

   Mayflower555 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 3/52 issues are damaging the utility of this potentially excellent app

   The effects are interesting- I think I bought /downloaded Effectshop for the first collage shown- the one with fuzzy borders. I haven't used it much, or ever, but I’ve been trying to discover all my thousands of apps. I often open an app I’ve owned for years without knowing what it is beyond a general category of “filters,” for example. I found 2 problems nearly immediately. The first is huge- I can't buy my way out of the ads, and these are remarkably egregious because they’re long and tricky to escape. I love that this isn't a rental app- I think everyone agrees that subscriptions are evil, especially when they’re more than, oh, $10/year. But still. These ads. I invariably wonder how much revenue the various levels yield vs how frequently they force people away. Ads at the top or bottom are the most innocuous because they don't move or prevent someone from utilizing the app. These do, and advertisers need to figure that out, just as website advertisers should figure out that videos drive people to use adblockers because movement is distracting. The second problem is that there are 10 in-app purchases listed, and there’s apparently no way to buy them. I poked around for quite some time, partly because I hoped to find a hidden “remove ads” and “remove watermark” option, but there are none. I have dozens more apps to explore. If any of them are ~80% as useful as Effectshop, for example, but don't have nasty interstitial ads and watermarks I can't get rid of or insultingly high rent moving on is simple. I save copies of my reviews so I'll know what was wrong with an app if I ever stumble across it again and it sounds like a good idea. Developers have been known to get their act together sometimes so who knows?

   PhelineCat · 31 Jul 2026

3. 1/5I love this app, but it’s flaw is rather major

   You can’t save as you go. And you can’t undo. I’ve spent an hour creating a graphic on here because any minor adjustment, not only do you have to rework it with your fingers instead of just tapping an “undo” button; the interface is NOT user friendly. Having the “back” button actually be the HOME SCREEN button is absurd. It’s the biggest button on the screen and it doesn’t save ANY of your work. You tap it, you’re done. I tap it on accident 99% of the time because it’s next to the button I need, or because, I don’t know, I need to go back to the icon section but this back arrow button actually represents the home screen, and if you click it, you’re done for! Any work you’ve done is gone forever. I’m livid right now even though I’ve used this app for months and looked past this flaw. It’s a huge issue. I’m fuming.

   Emerleelove · 31 Jul 2026

4. 2/5Good starter app for beginners to learn the basics of editing photographs.

   This app would be a good app for kids or teens to learn how to do the basics of editing photos. However, for intermediate and advanced users the frames are not of great quality and the pictures do not center the image. Additionally, the cropping tool is not very sophisticated you should be able to not only choose the size of the photo & shape, but also adjust it by the angles and all for sides to the users liking. I gave permission for this app to access my photos so that I could edit with it; only to find that it was showing my ads in photos that I was choosing to upload and that had me concerned about my privacy. This app needs work.

   destinyrocks333 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 4/5Excellent – Almost Awesome

   Very well thought out features so I won’t delve into the obvious -it’s a terrific app, kudos to the developer. However would love to see these things: + Higher resolution output – much higher (possibly even png). Other collage app is able to generate over 10 gig files. Why might this make sense? I collaborate with several artists weekly and we post each members work in a collage related to the project. Even sharing apps like Messenger are allowing much larger files, where with iMessenger the limit is very high. It makes pinch to zoom amazing and ability to review each person’s work in one project picture pleasurable. It’s especially great for printing posters. + Please put some thought into easier flow. Hire someone like myself that is the product developer and looks at usage models & ergo functionality. You have an amazing product and have just about all the foundation needed to become a premier pay-for app with just some GUI tweaks (something people would gladly pay for because it’s not available elsewhere). I see your product competing with other graphic design software, meme making software while keeping to your collage features as well. It would be greatly appreciated if you could put all of your mask designs laid out fullscreen for easier selection rather than scrolling. And how about create your own mask? If it’s too much trouble to develop a drawing app, How about a simple shadow-mask-maker? User takes a picture of a horse for example. This feature makes it black and white with a threshold slider and inversion button? Poof ... add it to the library for custom masks! *Make it so users can share, build your library for you/us, and now you’re cooking with the support of the community who are going to refer your app to everyone else! Perhaps in addition to filters, add functions like screen, multiply, addition, burn, .... . how cool and simple would that be with so much extra added value!? Hope those recommendations help. Please find me, and I will help more. [billfrombuffalo] at just about everywhere.

   WiildBill · 31 Jul 2026

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