“I've had photogrid as an app on my phone for probably close to 15 yrs. Through 7 or 8 different phones, I've always made sure to keep this app downloaded because it never let me down. Until today. A company that gave quality picture grid…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 983 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★219,130 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
397 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
This is the best Collage App to create stunning images for social media, like Instagram, TikTok posts and stories, Facebook posts, banners and covers, YouTube thumbnails, and Pinterest collections. •Create memory collages with ease •Create amazing social media content •Grow a new business
Feature Highlights Video Editor & Video Grid Maker • Combine photos and videos to make video grids, trim your video easily! • Best Instagram video and photo editor, add blurred backgrounds without cropping them or adding unexpected watermarks! •You can synchronize your video clips so that they are all aligned to the same moment in time. •Up to 9 Videos.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 9.3.16 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 9.3.16, updated 2026-09-28.
Google Play
We cannot tell which version of the app this analysis describes. It was run 2026-10-04 , and the app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 9.28, updated 2026-09-16.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 9.28, scanned 2026-10-05.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
3 or more found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
3–9 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 2
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 4 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Unity Ads
Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "WATCH A VIDEO TO GET"
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 0.99 to USD 39.99 — a 40x spread across 10 items
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 444 reviews scanned)
In the app's own text: Countdown-timer purchase pressure
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
What we saw: Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Limited Time Offer Just for You"
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (8 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“This app is awful. So many ads, many of which are minutes long! Annoying watermark they only allow you to remove once for free. Hardly any layouts available in the free version. I installed FotoCollage and it is so much better. Short ads…”
“This use to be my go to app for all of my photo editing. I've used it for years. but, over the last few months, it's nothing but ads now, every selection almost you have to sit through an obnoxiously long ad that locks uo my phone. Sad to…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 9.3.16.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$0.99
Highest$39.99
PhotoGrid VIP$33.99
Layout Package$0.99
PhotoGrid Plus$4.99
PhotoGrid Premium$39.99
Remove Watermark$0.99
Show 4 more purchases
Perfect Grid Experience$2.99
PhotoGrid weekly2.99$2.99
PhotoGrid Pro$29.99
Perfect Grid Experience$23.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.