Comparison

Background Editor vs Alt Selfie

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

Alt Selfie

Easily transform your selfies by changing or blurring the background using AI. Create stunning alternate versions of your photos with custom backgrounds from your gallery or the app's samples. Share your creations instantly on social media.

Highlights
  • AI background replacement
  • Custom background uploads
  • Sample background gallery
  • Background blur effect
  • Solid color backgrounds (black/grey)
  • Social media sharing
Features
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Alt Selfie helps to change your Selfie background using AI. If you missed taking selfie at that beautiful location or wished you had a selfie in front of that famous monument Alt Selfie can help you. It uses advance image processing to creating your alternate selfie with a changed background. If you want a clean photo without any background or blur the background to create that portrait look, Alt Selfie can help you there too. Alt Selfie is extremely easy to use and with a single step you can: - Background change- Change the background with another photo from your gallery. - Background change - Change the background with sample photos. - Remove Background - Change the background to Black or Grey. - Blur Background - Blur the background. Social media Sharing - You can create alternate selfie's and then Share the photos on Messages, WhatsApp, Instagram or other social media platforms. Alt Selfie is one of the best image editing software that is helpful to those wanting to quickly share alternate versions of their selfies. You can use your own photos as background or use sample gallery from the app. This app respects your privacy to the utmost. All your photos remain with you, the processing of photo happens on your device. If you'd like, you can then share the photos on Social Media or other platform. This app is free, ad-free as of now. If you like Alt Selfie, please help us, by rating us on the AppStore. We will be delighted if you help us spread the word about this app by posting your alternate Selfies to Instagram or Twitter with #altselfieapp.

Screenshots

Background Editor4 screens
Alt Selfie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Alt Selfie at 5.0 against Background Editor's 4.2. Alt Selfie also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Background Editor's advantage is ratings volume (3.2K vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Alt Selfie asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Alt Selfie holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Background Editor has 3.2K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Background Editor ships an update every 11 days, Alt Selfie weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Background Editor versus Alt Selfie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackground EditorAlt Selfie
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (3.2K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.2K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEditr Apps Inc.Pinal Naik

Customer experience

Background Editor

All ratings3,242 ratings
Positive79.5%
Neutral9.2%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews850 reviews
Positive74.8%
Neutral11.9%
Negative13.3%

Alt Selfie

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Alt Selfie

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
None

Alt Selfie

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Background Editor free?
Background Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Alt Selfie free?
Alt Selfie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Background Editor or Alt Selfie?
Alt Selfie is rated higher. Background Editor averages 4.2 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Alt Selfie averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Background Editor or Alt Selfie have ads?
Neither Background Editor nor Alt Selfie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Background Editor or Alt Selfie?
Background Editor ships an update every 11 days, and Alt Selfie weekly. Most recently, Background Editor was updated on October 29, 2026 and Alt Selfie on October 18, 2026.

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