Photo Editor - Collage Maker

Review by eFreeware

Most phones hold thousands of photos and almost no good way to arrange them. You take the pictures, then face a blank editing screen when you want a birthday collage, a before-and-after set or a square post that fits a social feed. The gap between having the photos and showing them well is where collage apps earn their place, and it is the gap InCollage sets out to fill.

Photo Editor & Collage Maker puts out InCollage. It sits in the Photography category on Google Play, is free to install, carries ads and offers in-app purchases, and is rated for Everyone. The install numbers are hard to ignore: over 100 million downloads and a 4.9 average across more than 1.25 million ratings. It first appeared in May 2017 and was still receiving updates in September 2026, which suggests a tool that has been kept in working order rather than left behind.

The pitch is broad. The developer describes a single app that handles collages, frames, memes, carousel templates, stickers, fonts and AI retouching, with the aim of covering both social posting and printing. That breadth is the main question a review like this has to answer: does one app sensibly cover all of it, or is it a pile of half-finished tools?

Collages, grids and frames at the center

The core of the app is the collage maker. It supports more than 500 layouts, frames and backgrounds, and a single collage can hold up to 25 photos. There are 300-plus frame and grid options, which is a lot of choice for something as simple as arranging pictures in a rectangle. If you have ever tried to build a nine-photo grid by hand in a general-purpose editor, you know why a dedicated layout library saves time.

Two arrangement styles are offered: grid style and free style. Grid style keeps everything aligned in a fixed structure, which suits tidy albums and print projects. Free style lets you place photos where you want them, which suits more playful compositions and poster-like designs. The app also lets you change the ratio of a collage and adjust borders, so the same set of photos can be reshaped for a square post, a tall story format or a print sheet.

The layout library is organized around occasions, including holidays, weddings and baby photos, along with before-and-after sets. That framing is useful when you do not want to design from scratch, and it also explains why the app has stayed popular for so long: family milestones and seasonal events are exactly the moments people want to collect photos rather than post them one at a time.

The AI tools and what they promise

A large part of the current feature set is built around artificial intelligence. The app can turn a selfie into one of more than 90 avatar styles, with new styles added over time. It includes an enhancer for old, blurry or pixelated photos, and a background remover that cuts a subject out so the background can be swapped. There is also an AI remove tool for deleting people, text, watermarks or cluttered areas from a shot.

The developer pitches these as producing professional-looking results without editing skill. That is the kind of claim I treat with caution, because automatic retouching varies a lot depending on the source image. A clean portrait against a plain wall is a much easier job than a group photo in low light, and results from any automatic tool tend to follow the quality of what you feed it. The tools cover the tasks people most often ask for: cleaning up a distraction, improving a soft photo and changing a background.

The AI avatar feature concentrates on fun rather than correction. It is the sort of thing that gets used once or twice for a profile picture or a group chat, and the promise of new styles suggests it is meant to stay interesting over time. If you mainly want to fix and arrange photos, the avatars are a bonus rather than a reason to install.

Text, memes and social formats

Text sits alongside the image tools. You can add text to a picture, which makes the app usable as a meme generator, and the developer points to sharing finished memes through messaging apps. There is also a library of fonts and doodles, plus support for importing your own fonts if you want a specific look. A recent update added button-style text effects that turn lettering into tile-like shapes, which is a small addition but a visible one for anyone making cover images or quote posts.

The app is clearly built with social platforms in mind. It supports multiple aspect ratios, including 1:1, 3:4, 5:4 and 9:16, and it can create square images with blurred backgrounds for feed posts. Output is saved in high resolution, and the app shares directly to networks such as Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Snapchat. Carousel templates are included too, which matters if you post multi-image sets and want them to look consistent rather than improvised.

General editing tools round things out: cropping, filters, stickers, drawing, flipping and rotating. None of these are unusual on their own, but having them in the same place as the collage layouts means you can assemble, adjust and finish a post without moving between apps. Recent updates also added undo and redo, which sounds minor until you need it, and new crop ratios including ID photo sizes and the original aspect ratio of the source image.

What it asks of you

The app is free to install and supported by ads, with in-app purchases available. That is the standard arrangement for this category, and it is worth knowing before you start rather than after. The content rating is Everyone, so nothing flags mature material.

The other thing to weigh is breadth. The app covers collages, frames, memes, avatars, retouching, background removal and general editing in one place. That is convenient if you want a single tool for casual photo work, and it also means the app is doing a great deal at once. Anyone who needs precise control over layers, masks or color grading may find the scope here aimed at quick, presentable results.

The AI features come with the usual expectations of automatic tools. They are marketed as producing natural-looking results with no editing skill required, and how well that holds up will depend on the photo you start with. For everyday snapshots and social posts, that trade-off is reasonable. For a carefully shot image where every detail matters, you may prefer to keep the original and use the app for arrangement instead.

Who gets the most out of InCollage

The clearest fit is someone who posts photos regularly and wants them to look considered without learning a desktop editor. If you are putting together a weekend trip recap, a set of product shots for a small shop page, or a carousel for a personal account, the combination of layouts, ratios and text tools covers the whole job in one place. The blurred square format and the range of ratios are built for exactly that kind of posting.

The second group is people making things for family and occasions. Wedding frames, baby layouts, holiday templates and before-and-after sets point to albums, announcements and printed keepsakes. If your photos live in a phone gallery and come out for birthdays and anniversaries, the occasion-based layouts do the design work for you.

The third group is anyone who wants quick cleanup without editing knowledge: removing an unwanted object, sharpening an old scan of a photo, or cutting a subject out for a new background. The AI tools are the reason to choose this app over a plain collage maker, and the meme text tools add a lighter use for the same install. For mixed casual use, the breadth here is the point.

A capable all-rounder for casual photo work

InCollage earns its install count by covering a lot of ground competently. The collage maker is the strongest part: hundreds of layouts, up to 25 photos per composition, grid and free styles, adjustable ratios and borders, and occasion-based frames that remove the guesswork. The AI tools for enhancing, removing objects and swapping backgrounds extend it beyond simple arranging, and the text and meme features make it useful for posts that need words as well as pictures.

It is free with ads and in-app purchases. It is broad rather than deep. Its automatic tools are pitched at people who want good-looking results quickly, not at anyone who needs frame-by-frame control. Those are fair terms for what it is.

My recommendation is simple. If you want one app on your phone for building collages, cleaning up photos and posting them in the right shape, this is a sensible install, and the 4.9 average from a very large number of ratings suggests plenty of people have reached the same conclusion. If you need a single-purpose tool, the scope here is wider than you need.

What's new in version 1.591.276

✨ Undo & Redo: Edit freely. Fix mistakes anytime. 🔤 Button-Style Text Effects: Turn your text into trendy letter tiles. 📐 New Crop Ratios: More sizes, including ID photos and original aspect ratio.