Comparison

Background Editor vs Remove & Change 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 & Change Background

Easily remove and replace photo backgrounds with a variety of options, including solid colors, gradients, and your own images. Save your creations in high resolution without watermarks. Perfect for product photos, profile pictures, and creating stickers.

Highlights
  • Auto background removal
  • Replace with solid colors
  • Gradient backgrounds
  • Use own photos as backgrounds
  • Transparency option
  • No watermark saves
  • High resolution output
Features
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Remove & Change Background if you ever wanted to change the background of your Favourite photo but did not want to use Photoshop then Remove & Change Background application is what you've been looking for. WHITE & COLOR BACKGROUNDS - Place your product on a white background or choose from a palette of solid colors. GRADIENT BACKGROUNDS - Use custom static gradients to make your products look professional. Choose from Christmas, Trends, Dreamy, Brithness, Sky, Darkness categories. TRENDY BACKGROUNDS - Tons of trendy static patterns: Tile, Concrete, Bricks, Shadows, Graffiti, Paper, Newspaper, Plastic, Animal, Geometry, Gradients. REVERSE TOOL - Erase or Restore the area you touched to make the final results even better. YOUR PHOTOS AS BACKGROUNDS - Upload and use as background any photo from your Camera Roll to make your products more personal. Transparency - Remove background and leave it simply transparent. It can be used with other applications eg. Pages, Keynote, or to create your stickers for apps such as WhatsApp with Delete Background Eraser. NO WATERMARK - Save your photos in High Resolution, Original Size, and without watermark. Eraser Pic Remove Background - Easily Remove and change background from Any photos you want. Auto Background Eraser Remover features :- • Remove background from one photo or multiple photos • Change the background between transparent, white and black with one tap. • Photo background eraser. (Perfect for building mood board, inspiration board and product design) • Erase background of your profile picture • Change your photo background into transparent background • Delete background of your product photo • Use the background eraser with a zoom and preview tool • Save cut out in PNG • Highlight color inside a photo. • Change or remove background from photo. • Blur part of a photo. • Auto Background Changer Privacy policy - https://sites.google.com/view/aibackgrounderaserprivacy/home Terms of use - https://sites.google.com/view/aibackgrounderaserterms/home

Screenshots

Background Editor4 screens
Remove & Change Background4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Background Editor at 4.2 against Remove & Change Background's 3.8. Background Editor also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (3.2K vs 12). Remove & Change Background's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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 & Change 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

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 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 75% and 75% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Background Editor ships an update every 9 days, Remove & Change Background every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Background Editor versus Remove & Change Background: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackground EditorRemove & Change Background
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (3.2K ratings) — better3.8 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.2K — better12
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEditr Apps Inc.Himanshu Rupareliya

Customer experience

Background Editor

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

Remove & Change Background

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

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

Remove & Change 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 & Change Background

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Access$1.991 Month
  • Pro Access$6.496 Months
  • Pro Access$9.491 Year

Questions

Is Background Editor free?
Background Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Remove & Change Background free?
Remove & Change Background is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Background Editor or Remove & Change Background?
Background Editor is rated higher. Background Editor averages 4.2 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Remove & Change Background averages 3.8 from 12 ratings.
Do Background Editor or Remove & Change Background have ads?
Neither Background Editor nor Remove & Change Background shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Background Editor or Remove & Change Background?
Background Editor ships an update every 9 days, and Remove & Change Background every 2 months. Most recently, Background Editor was updated on September 25, 2026 and Remove & Change Background on August 18, 2026.

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