“Over it and the ads!! Byeeee — I use this app on occasion, but at this point, I’m 100% over it. The ads are just too long and too many and too hard to leave when they’re finished. Absolutely atrocious and time to find a better competitor…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 508 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★66,127 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
422 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Transform your camera roll into stunning collages with Pic Stitch—the ultimate collage maker that easily stitches photos together for iPhone & iPad. With over 400 collage layouts, 25 filter packs, more than 30 border packs and robust photo & video editing tools, Pic Stitch offers a simple design with a powerful collage editor. Create a before-and-after sequence, combine multiple photos and videos into one beautifully framed collage, or produce a photographic series with music. Then share your masterpiece with friends & family on your favorite social media networks including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Pic Stitch is a must-have app for anyone looking to level-up their photography game, whether you're a social media influencer, blogger, content creator, or just looking to make unique collages to share with friends.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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.
This analysis describes version 8.4.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.4.2, updated 2026-08-24.
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 fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more 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
80–89% 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
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
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.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 36 distinct reviewers — 7.1% of the 508 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Raised by 27 distinct reviewers — 5.3% of the 508 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 508 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Used to enjoy, now the ads are ridiculous — I enjoy trying new game apps. I understand that’s what I signed up for on the free version. I don’t at all enjoy getting hung up in the app and not being able to download my collage to my phone…”
“Too much advertisements — Less advertisements”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.4.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown5
Lowest$3.99
Highest$34.99
Weekly Pro Subscription$3.99
Monthly Pro Subscription$6.99
Annual Pro Subscription$34.99
Pic Stitch Pro$34.99
Pic Stitch Pro$6.99