Comparison

Background Editor vs Background Remover Studio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Background Editor

Easily edit photos with powerful tools to change backgrounds, highlight colors, or blur specific areas. Enhance images with adjustments and filters for professional-looking results. Remove blemishes and change object colors to create stunning visuals.

Highlights
  • Change or remove photo backgrounds
  • Highlight specific colors
  • Blur parts of a photo
  • Remove blemishes and wrinkles
  • Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation
  • Apply over 70 filters
Features
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Touch Retouch - The power of simple Instagram photo retouching for everyone, anywhere. This free app for powerful image editing and photo montages, using variants of tools that you can find only in professional photo editing programs. Heal, smooth, liquify, lighten and make other edits and adjustments that give you the precise look you’re after. Touch Retouch let you do 3 major editing: 1. Highlight color inside a photo. 2. Change or remove background from photo. 3. Blur part of a photo. Advanced control to edit: * Smoothness * Brightness * Contrast * Highlight * Shadow * Saturation * Vignette * Exposure * Temperature Along with 70+ filters to create the perfect photo. Download this free app & you’ll be able to : - Change your photo’s background. - Cut only a part of a photo to use it later. - Use blur effect to hide your face inside a photo. - Remove pimples and wrinkles - Highlight color of photo so that everyone is black & white, except you ! - Use the highlight color feature to make specific object like Sky or Waterfall to stand out. - Purple color you hair. - Change color of your eyes to green, blue or whatever. Sharing: After you are done with editing a photo, share the photo on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, to show your friends the wow effects you made with this app. Touch Retouch inspires you to create beautiful images anytime, anywhere. Transform your photos into works of art and let the world discover them! Information about the auto-renewable subscription: Subscription name: Unlock Premium Subscription price: 7 days free, then $6.99/week or $49.99/year Auto-renew: This is a auto-renewing subscription, read below to know more. – Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase – Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period – Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal – Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - Our Terms of Service: https://editr.app/tos.html – Our Privacy Policy : https://editr.app/privacy-policy.html – Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable

About

Background Remover Studio

Effortlessly remove backgrounds from photos using AI-powered tools. Offers interactive selection, color targeting, and manual brush options for precise edits. Save your creations with transparent, colored, or gradient backgrounds.

Highlights
  • AI background detection
  • Interactive foreground/background marking
  • Target color removal
  • Manual brush editing
  • Edge blur adjustment
  • Save with transparent/colored/gradient backgrounds
Features
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Easy to use app that allows you to remove background from any photo! App uses AI algorithms to detect background. Adjustments can be made by few tools: • Interactive mode - just mark foreground or background areas, few lines and it's done! • Target Color - select color you would like to remove and adjust threshold • Target Area - select similar colored area and remove it • Manual mode - brush tool with adjustable size to manually restore or remove background Adjust remaining objects edges blur to drastically improve final effect. Save result photo with Transparent, Colored or Gradient background. Ability to set filter or effect on background.

Screenshots

Background Editor4 screens
Background Remover Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Background Editor at 75% against Background Remover Studio's 38%. Background Editor also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.2 vs 3.8). Background Remover Studio's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Background Editor sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Background Remover Studio sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Background Editor holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Background Editor has 3.2K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Background Editor's written reviews are positive against 38% of Background Remover Studio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Background Editor ships an update every 9 days, Background Remover Studio fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Background Editor versus Background Remover Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackground EditorBackground Remover Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (3.2K ratings) — better3.8 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews — better38.5% of reviews
Number of ratings3.2K — better26
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEditr Apps Inc.Pawel Nozykowski

Customer experience

Background Editor

All ratings3,240 ratings
Positive79.5%
Neutral9.2%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews849 reviews
Positive74.8%
Neutral11.9%
Negative13.3%

Background Remover Studio

All ratings26 ratings
Positive65.4%
Neutral11.5%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive38.5%
Neutral30.8%
Negative30.8%

Bugs and requests

Background Editor

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Background removal not working as expected
  • Editing tools not responsive or accurate
  • App crashing on launch or during use
  • Subscription charges not stopping after cancellation

Requested features

4 requests
  • More preset background options
  • Ability to resize and reposition edited objects
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • Better instructions and tutorials

Background Remover Studio

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Background Editor

Subscriptions5
  • Unlock Premium for 1 Week7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Unlock Premium Tools - monthly$9.991 Month
  • Unlock Premium - special offer$19.991 Year
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  • Unlock Premium Tools - yearly$29.991 Year
  • Unlock Premium Tools - yearly1 Month trial$34.991 Year
One-time6
  • Stop Ads$1.99
  • Unlock Blur Effects$1.99
  • Unlock B&W filters$1.99
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  • Recolor Photo$2.99
  • Unlock Advanced Controls$4.99
  • Unlock all filters & features$49.99
3 purchases

Background Remover Studio

One-time3
  • Background Effects$1.99
  • Effects 3D$1.99
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is Background Editor free?
Background Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Background Remover Studio free?
Background Remover Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Background Editor or Background Remover Studio?
Background Editor is rated higher. Background Editor averages 4.2 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Background Remover Studio averages 3.8 from 26 ratings.
Do Background Editor or Background Remover Studio have ads?
Background Remover Studio shows ads; Background Editor does not.
Which is updated more often, Background Editor or Background Remover Studio?
Background Editor ships an update every 9 days, and Background Remover Studio fortnightly. Most recently, Background Editor was updated on September 25, 2026 and Background Remover Studio on June 4, 2026.

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