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Strip Designer
  • Price
    $3.99
  • CategoryPhoto & Video
  • First releasedMay 17, 2009
  • Versions1 archived
  • Installable1 of 1
  • AvailabilityStill on the App Store
  • SellerVivid Apps

RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

Customer Ratings

As of December 1, 2023
     
52 Ratings

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Create amazing comic books with your photos and share with friends and family. Tell exciting stories with balloons, stickers, drawings, and warped 3D lettering. Strip Designer offers the complete comic creation experience on iOS and macOS.

And no in-app purchases -- Everything is included!

You'll begin by selecting one of the many included comic book page templates or create your own custom layout.

Next, you'll add photos from the camera, your album, or create a drawing. Apply filters, or even paint on and mask your photos for atmosphere, style and retouching.

Add balloons and text anywhere you want and in any direction and size. Play with the colors and fonts until you get the perfect look.

Add stickers like "Boom", "Splash", or "Bang" to spice up the action -- Even create your own library using photos from your photo-album and the built-in masking and drawing tools.

Use 3D warped text with thick borders and gradient color-fill to give your comic the extra super-hero feel. Download and add additional free fonts easily within the app, to give your text a unique look!

While you work, you can freely pan and zoom to control even tiny details.

Once you have finished your masterpiece you can save it to your photo album or share it with your friends. Use PDF to share entire comic books in high-quality.

-- All from within Strip Designer.

Key Features: • More than a 100 page templates with 1 to 9 photo cells • Multipage books • Create your own panel layout with up-to 12 cells or use one of the standard layouts • Many balloon types with customizable tails and heads • Balloons can have multiple tails and be combined • Flexible text options with per-letter colors and fonts • Adjust ballon size, rotation, color, and transparency • Add text (3D, warped, and perspective) for a superhero vibe • Use any iOS font or install additional fonts for unique touch • More than 150 stickers to insert for additional impact • Page effects to give your pages old look • Dropbox and WebDAV download/upload support • Export to PDF to create real comic books • Import PDFs (for both cells and custom stickers) • Control scale, position, and rotation of photos • Integrated drawing and masking tools to create your own drawings, paint on photos, or make your own stickers • Auto mask and feather photos (to remove background) • Many different cell styles • Photo filters • Fluidly pan and zoom to manage even the smallest details • Insert maps for additional context • iCloud sync across devices • Support for iOS's third party document providers • Layers view to lock or reorder layers • Shared iPad (for education) setup through MDM configuration

No in-app purchases -- Everything is included!

- What the reviewers say - "Strip Designer is worth every penny it costs, and then some. I would pay a couple more bucks for Lifestrips. It's stable, it's easy, it's fun, and for all that I couldn't come up with anything witty for my comic text, I love the look of my comics. Someone with a better imagination than I apparently have could really do fabulous things with this app. I rate it a solid five stars out of five.", Pamela Flora, iPhoneography - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "We were simply blown away by this application and the detail that has gone into the editing options and templates. We enjoyed the fact that a comic can be created very easily with photos and simple text effects, however there is real opportunities to really drill down into the editing options where the user can explore the apps true potential. There are many comic strip applications available on the Appstore but this is by far one of the best and great value for money. This app comes highly recommended by The Educational Appstore.", - See more at: http://www.educationalappstore.com/app/strip-designer#sthash.2KqjbU5Q.dpuf" --------------------------

To install apps directly onto this device, it must be jailbroken with AppSync installed.
1.3.1
Requires iOS 3.0+
Non-Retina
3.0 MB Install Download

Chart History

Top Paid · Photo & Video · iPad View chart ›
Peaked at #25 (August 19, 2010) · 30 archived captures · Aug 2010 – Aug 2021
Top Paid · Photo & Video View chart ›
Peaked at #23 (May 22, 2010) · 6 archived captures · May 2010 – Jul 2021

Ratings Over Time

DateVersionRatingRatingsPrice
November 26, 2015 1.16.3 ★ 4.8 6 $2.99
December 1, 2023 1.23.7 ★ 4.9 52 $3.99

From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.

Archived Reviews

8 of 25
Great App
     
by PurpleTuxedoCat · August 21, 2024

Don’t let the 4.3 star ratings fool you. This app is totally worth getting! Very useful for making comics.

Having a Blast with this APP!
     
by BikinGail · September 6, 2025

Great fun, having a good time adding and uploading to my facebook account. Super easy. Took a while to learn all the basics, but my friends are all enjoying the fun I am having with photos and comic strip comedy. GET THIS!!!!

This app is best in its class!
     
by appalcarp · May 24, 2023

App is absolutely top in its class. Tried them all. New features are excellent. For ease of use and functionality this app is the best in its class. The others I tried were clunky and difficult to use but I prefer landscape mode and the 'draw on' capability of the pics. In future updates I would like to see a 'frames' section added where we can choose nice borders like the old Picture-It by Microsoft on a pc. Love being able to use an Apple pencil as well. A bit more on the draw options would be nice but being able to use the Camera Roll to upload provides workarounds. App remains well supported and not restricted to 'square' like some others that do frames but do not have landscape mode. Very necessary for photo art or incorporating originals.

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by Greg.ni · June 8, 2024

Underpriced

GREAT COMIC BOOK MAKER
     
by Journaling123 · May 20, 2024

Finally, one that does a great job of making a comic book with so many features that allows you the choice of making comic pages adding caption, speech bubbles , adding and changing panels and share button for saving pages or sharing at a reasonable cost.

Can’t live without it
     
by JacobTVA · March 9, 2026

I have been using this app since childhood, and now I’m 19 and this app has been there for me throughout my entire journey as an artist and storyteller. I’ve used it to make comic series, concept art, storyboards, backgrounds, and posters for events. This app has been my outlet for improving my graphic design and drawing skills. I love the options that you have in this app and how easy it is to make what you want. Every update feels like an improvement building on what already works. Just wanted to say how grateful I am to have this app because it has changed my life for the better. Would absolutely recommend to anyone looking for something to get them started with comic making or graphic design.

Great app
     
by iBuggins · April 16, 2026

I use this very often. It has been a regular app I use for ten years plus, I think. Totally great, and has been regularly updated with features I’ve enjoyed. One of the best! Still a great app, still good updates that I find useful and not unnecessary. Very well done! Probably been using for 15 years or so. I use it probably weekly. Such a good app. Thanks!

Almost there...
     
by Still Looking For Perfection · July 19, 2021

Straight forward, simple to use. Can import fonts, which is great! However, although there’s a workaround, I would like to insert image into cell & have the app automatically resize the image to fit the cell.

Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.