CollageIt vs Shape Collage

CollageIt automatically arranges photos into grids and collages for sharing, printing, albums, posters, scrapbook projects, art projects, and presentations. Its desktop edition supports up to 200 photos and offers controls for page size, backgrounds, spacing, margins, rotation, frames, shadows, cropping, and randomized arrangements. On Mac, users can choose among Mosaic, Grid, Center, Pile, and Free Mode, with more than 60 templates; face recognition helps fit photos into layouts, with a live preview. Collages can be saved in formats including JPEG, PNG, PDF, PSD, TIFF, BMP, and GIF. The iOS app handles up to nine photos and collage dimensions up to 1800 by 1800 pixels, and can import from Facebook albums and share to several social services. CollageIt is available on iOS, macOS, and Windows. A free plan is available; paid licenses are listed for personal and commercial use on Windows and Mac.

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.