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Description
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" --------------------------
What's New
• Fixed an issue with screen sharing • Fixed an issue with page ranges settings when exporting
Details
- Developer
- Vivid Apps
- Main Category
- Photo & Video
- Version
- 1.26.2
- Version Release
- 2026-03-24
- Initial Release
- 2009-05-17
- Size
- 97 MB
- Age Rating
- 9+
- Price
- USD 3.99
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- com.mexircus.comic
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.92 (71)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-31
Metadata updated 2026-07-01
Rank History
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Competitive Benchmark — Photo-Video Top 10
What it takes to beat this app — comparison with the category's top apps. The orange row is the current app.
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| 10 | Print to Size | USD 2.99 | ★ 4.86 | 19,279 | 6 | 2026-03-13 |
| 90 | Strip Designer | USD 3.99 | ★ 4.92 | 71 | 1 | 2026-03-24 |
User Reviews
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!
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.
Excelente
As an elementary school teacher I use this app all the time for all kinds of projects. All the posters I design for my room are built in this app. My students use this app to create posters to demonstrate their knowledge around different topics. This app has been top notch since it came out back in the early days of iPad apps. Big shout out to the developer for keeping it going. Your work is outstanding. Thank you. Jonathan O’ Sullivan
As I browse the App Store for something that has drag and drop aka floating panels and true page control something like ms publisher when this appears in the list and I about knocked my self out with the force of my facepalm! I used this app almost exclusively for the fire department and dog rescue flyers I used to make all the time. I just wish there was a windows desktop version. I don’t have an ipad anymore and as much as I do on my iphone, this stuff needs a big screen to get the most out of it. I have a linux laptop too. If that is an easier platform to create this for :)
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!!!!
An issue I’ve been using the ap for years but the ink is bleeding through or something,like the dark lines go gray and I have to keep drawing again with black smh
This app is consistent and powerful. It’s a joy to use. Doesn’t collect data, doesn’t ask me to subscribe. The very best for comics and image manipulation.
This is such a wonderful app to use to make lost pet posters that are eye catching and effective. It’s so easy to use - it has saved so many lives- thank you to the developers!
Don’t let the 4.3 star ratings fool you. This app is totally worth getting! Very useful for making comics.
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