April vs Shape Collage

April is a photo collage app for Android and iOS that combines images with layouts, stickers, presets, and editing controls. It can select photos from a camera roll or other albums, and portrait recognition is intended to keep the chosen subject in place. Collages can contain one to nine photos in square, portrait, or landscape layouts, with sections resized by dragging. Users can adjust border width, color, texture, margins, and corner degree, then rotate, mirror, flip, or zoom photos. More than 40 filters are available, with controls for effect strength. Stickers and customizable tiles can add time, date, city, and weather. PicStrip offers full-view and large-view previews while users adjust individual images in the wider collage. April supports JPG and PNG exports and says it integrates with Instagram and Facebook for one-tap sharing. The app is free, with a monthly April VIP subscription at $1.99 a month. April is intended for personal, non-commercial use unless separately agreed with Pinguo.

Shape Collage is software for automatically arranging photos into a collage in a chosen shape. You can use a rectangle, heart, circle, letter, or a shape you draw yourself, then adjust collage and photo size, photo count, spacing, background, and border colour. The maker says the automatic layout can create collages in less than a minute. Photos can come from your computer or listed web sources, including Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google+, Google Search, Twitter, and Tumblr. Finished collages can be saved as JPEG, PNG, or Photoshop PSD files. The free version is for personal use; Pro removes watermarks and adds manual photo editing, PSD export, and project saving and loading. Shape Collage runs on iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows. Linux requires Java. The free plan is free. Personal Pro costs $40, paid once, and commercial Pro costs $75, paid once; both licenses cover one computer. There is no built-in print function.