Fotowall vs Shape Collage

Fotowall is a free application for building graphical compositions from photos, pictures, text, live video, word clouds, and material dragged from the internet. Users layer and manipulate these elements on a canvas, with custom layouts and text overlays listed among its capabilities. The changelog includes undo and redo, picture cropping, a word-cloud editor, PosteRazor integration, and high-quality print-ready PDF output. PDF and SVG are listed export formats. The browser version handles ordinary image and text operations, but browser canvas export is still described as upcoming. It cannot save or load Fotowall projects and does not support live camera input. Desktop availability includes Linux and Windows, with browser access also listed; Linux users can use Ubuntu packages, AppImages, or Nix. The repository includes a GPL version 2 license, and release listings identify version 1.1.4 as latest.

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.