The average rating of the current version of Strip Designer (Formerly Lifestrips)'s is 5 with a total of 7 people rating it. All of them with 5 stars.

The average rating of Strip Designer for all versions is currently 4.7 with 18 ratings (14x5 star, 3x4 star, and 1x3 star).

I have no idea why it is getting that high ratings, but I am very pleased.

It doesn't seem to affect the sales significantly. Strip Designer is doing pretty much the same as always. Positively, it never got the same amount of exposure as Lifecards (being on the New and Noteworthy), and I did not do the same amount of advertising and review requests of it. It still sells almost just as well as Lifecards. LIfecards has a much lower average rating though even though the two apps share code; In reality only the content differ, although I had to add extra code to the code-base for the speech balloon functionality.

I always figured that the main competitor for Strip Designer would be Comic Touch from Plasq (The OS X Comic LIfe developers), but I cannot find that app on the top-100 photography list.

Pamela Flora on the iPhoneography blog wrote a long and very positive review on LIfestrips some time ago:
http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2009/8/3/iphone-app-review-lifestrips-by-pamela-flora.html. I didn't request it, so I was happily surprised.

From what I can tell the main feature requests for Strip Designer are:

• Ability to add more than 4 photos
• Better photo filters
• Nicer UI
• Ability to add/modify the templates