TurboCollage - Collage Creator App Reviews

This used to be a great app, but it suddenly stopped saving/exporting files. How am I supposed to keep my work?!?!

Easy to use and effective in making collages - I’m very happy with the app.

I use it for all kins of things! Its great!

Very convenient program. I use it mostly for Facebook. It is very well done!

I love this app <3

I have never written an app review, but this app is so disappointing that I have to warn others. I just purchased the app and can’t even get it to work for my first project. As soon as I try to select photos from my Box folder, it crashes and needs to reopen. Then it can’t even access my files—just a blank screen where files should be listed. I am using Yosemite. 50% off is no bargain When I sent the issue to TurboCollage, I received the following response which may explain the problems. "The existing version of TurboCollage v4.0.1 was released long before OS X Yosemite was out so it has not been tested with OS X Yosemite. We intend to come up with a version tested with Yosemite soon."

I needed a collage, and I needed it fast…I tried using Lightroom, and downloading templates, and after several hours of work, I found this app, and got it done in under 10 minutes…It would be great to have more presets, but other than that, this is an awesome app!

This apps lets you make a decent collage very quickly. You don’t have much control over the layout of photos but can keep pressing shuffle until you get a layout that is pleasing to the eye. A MAJOR annoying factor is that is keeps asking you to rate the application. There is no option to skip it. In the course of building several collages I kept getting a popup to rate the application and best I could do was click “remind me later”. When I buy an application I don’t expect to be pestered for a rating - that is my choice. My hope is that by posting this review I can get the annoying popup to finally stop.

I’m disappointed in this app…fortunately it was 1/2 off. It’s very limited; add the photos and hit shuffle. You can’t change the size of the photos or zoom/crop the photos once in the collage. There’s very little control. I’ll have to keep looking for a good collage app or continue making my own in Photoshop.

Love it! Good flexibility but not too complicated. Have been using it for creating the Holiday Card and it did not let me down yet.

This is most basic collage app. There are much more sophisticated ones that are in App Store for free. Dont buy this.

I ahvbe used it only twice. The first worked fine and the second time it keeps closing on me.

I use this all the time!! But ever since I updated to Yosemite it won’t stay open longer then a minute!! I don’t know why I keep trying!! Haha! It’s just making me more and more frustrated!! FIX THIS ISSUE PLEASE!!!! I love this program! But I guess it’s time to move on to one that works. Bummer.

I love the way this app lets me turn my pictures into great looking collages. My friends love my creations and I can’t stop myself from creating more!

It’s free. It’s convenient. I’ve used this for all sorts of projects and it never ceases to amaze me how wonderful it is. I would pay money for it, but it wasn’t required (at least when I bought it a year or so ago). I continue to use it. I love it. SO HAPPY I found it.

Easy to use. No problems. Works like a gem. Easy to asize and re_size photos. Easy to move around. Easy to create text. You can create a nice looking collage in less than 10 minutes.

I’ve been using the lite version for a few months now and wanted to try something new with its features so I bought the full version. I’m blown away with the full version and I think its a well worth buy if you dont or never buy anything from the Mac Store. Only cons are you can’t resize the boxes, hives, or circles.

TurboCollage is my first choice to make several styles of attractive photo collages. I don’t remember it ever crashing or glitching. There are some collages for which I have to resort to Photoshop, but that’s a lot more work involving layer masks. I do have a wish list that would bring TurboCollage from great to even greater: 1. Rulers and optional snapping. To line up up text or circles with other things (like other text) I have to place a physical ruler on my computer screen, but that’s not as precise or easy as I would like. 2. The ability to define text styles. If I have several text items on a collage and decide to change something about their style, there’s no way to change them all at once. I can’t even precisely make them all the same new size, because TurboCollage doesn’t show you numerically how big text is. 3. The combined rotate/zoom control in some collage styles like Regular Pile and Circle Pile is hard to use. I frequently change one when I only wanted to change the other, and it takes a lot of fiddling to get the result I want. Separate controls would be much easier. 4. The ability to change picture aspect ratio (cropping). In the Regular Pile and Circle Pile styles, the pictures are stuck at their original shapes, although you can zoom and pan within that. Sometimes I have to make a specially cropped version of a picture externally just for use in a TurboCollage collage so it doesn’t cover up part of another picture, and changing the stacking order would just make a different picture cover up too much. Being able to push the borders around in the non-pile styles as well would also be handy, though I suspect harder to implement. 5. Soft edges. It would add to the program’s versatility if it had the ability to cross-fade the edges of one photo into another or into the background. This is one of the cases where I have to use Photoshop. 6. In addition to the Shuffle button, or augmenting it with a drop-down control, buttons to sort the pictures by file name or date stamp (from EXIF tags, or file modification time if there are none). That would have avoided a lot of manual re-ordering of pictures in some of my collages.

Very easy to use. Wish there were 8.5 x 11 and 11 x 17 as standard sizes. Worked flawlessly.

This is my go-to app for creating quick and elegant collages. It’s easy to chuck a selection of images into the pile and let Turbo Collage sort them instantaneously. The problems arise when you want to make manual adjustments to the frame sizes or when you add a new photo and your painstakingly designed layout is completely reorganised. Pros: - easy to use - offers some good manipulation of the border widths and colors - presets are creative and look nice - using textures for the background is easy as long as you have some reset textures to hand Cons: - adding to or removing a picture from the pile will reset your layout - can’t resize image frames - this would be particularly useful in the new circle pile setting - no ability to adjust the image area, so if the "zig-zag" is not quite right, you have to just keep hitting "Shuffle" and hope for the best Overall, definitely worth the small price and far easier than doing the same thing in Photoshop.