Comparison

Background Editor vs Remove Background

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

Remove Background

Easily enhance your photos with AI-powered tools to automatically detect people, blur or replace backgrounds, and adjust foreground and background elements. Fine-tune colors, brightness, and saturation for stunning portraits and creative edits.

Highlights
  • AI-powered people detection
  • Background blur and replacement
  • Foreground and background adjustment
  • Customizable color editing
  • Move and resize people (beta)
  • Save photos at full quality
Features
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Pik Change is a great photo editor that helps you take your pictures to a new level. You can enhance your selfies and portraits with easy-to-use tools and AI assistance that automatically recognizes people in your photos. AUTO-DETECT PEOPLE Pik Change can detect human faces and bodies using the best-in-class algorithms, thus offering you new possibilities to edit your photos. BLUR OR CHANGE YOUR BACKGROUNDS You can set different blurs to your backgrounds and even remove them altogether. There are multiple blur types for you to choose from, and all of them are fully customizable. If you want to change the background, you can use any photo or set a color or gradient instead. MOVE AND RESIZE PEOPLE (BETA) You can position and scale humans on your custom backgrounds to make them look more natural. ADJUST FOREGROUNDS AND BACKGROUNDS Edit front and back separately. Make great portraits by manually changing image properties individually or applying custom filters. You can edit just the background, just the foreground, or both. Change brightness, saturation, sharpness, and many others. Add a sepia effect or change the background to grayscale. The possibilities are limitless. COLOR Update the color of your pictures. Convert your red nuances to blue, green to yellow, or any other combination with the most granular color editor you've seen in a mobile app PIK CHANGE PRO Share all your edited photos anywhere and save them at full quality. As an extra perk, you can also change the app icon. Choose from monthly or annual subscriptions or a one-time purchase to get the Pro benefits. Privacy Policy: https://capps.tech/pikchange/policy Terms of Service: https://capps.tech/pikchange/terms

Screenshots

Background Editor4 screens
Remove Background4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Background Editor at 75% against Remove Background's 33%. Background Editor also leads on ratings volume (3.2K vs 15) and update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly). Remove Background's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.2). On price, ads, 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 Remove Background sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Remove Background holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Background Editor has 3.2K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Background Editor's written reviews are positive against 33% of Remove Background's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Background Editor ships an update every 11 days, Remove Background monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Background Editor versus Remove Background: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackground EditorRemove Background
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (3.2K ratings)4.5 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings3.2K — better15
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEditr Apps Inc.Marius Caciulescu

Customer experience

Background Editor

All ratings3,242 ratings
Positive79.5%
Neutral9.2%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews849 reviews
Positive74.8%
Neutral11.9%
Negative13.3%

Remove Background

All ratings15 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

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

Remove Background

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
Show 3 more
  • Recolor Photo$2.99
  • Unlock Advanced Controls$4.99
  • Unlock all filters & features$49.99
3 purchases

Remove Background

Subscriptions2
  • Pikchange Pro3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pikchange Pro Yearly7 Days trial$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pikchange Pro Lifetime$11.99

Questions

Is Background Editor free?
Background Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Remove Background free?
Remove Background is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Background Editor or Remove Background?
Remove Background is rated higher. Background Editor averages 4.2 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Remove Background averages 4.5 from 15 ratings.
Do Background Editor or Remove Background have ads?
Neither Background Editor nor Remove Background shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Background Editor or Remove Background?
Background Editor ships an update every 11 days, and Remove Background monthly. Most recently, Background Editor was updated on October 23, 2026 and Remove Background on October 9, 2026.

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