Comparison

Background Editor vs Photo Remover

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

Photo Remover

Easily edit your photos with intelligent AI tools. Remove backgrounds, erase unwanted elements, and blur faces for privacy. Create clean product shots, social media images, or personal edits quickly and efficiently.

Highlights
  • Remove photo backgrounds
  • Erase unwanted objects and people
  • Blur faces for privacy
  • AI-powered image cleanup
  • Save and share edited photos
  • Simple and fast editing
Features
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Photo Remover: AI Photo Eraser helps you quickly edit, clean up, and combine photos using smart AI tools. Remove photo backgrounds, erase unwanted objects or people, blur faces for privacy, and create beautiful photo grid collages in just a few taps. Whether you want to create clean product photos, social media posts, profile pictures, or memorable photo collections, Photo Remover makes photo editing simple and fast. Main features: • Remove backgrounds from photos • Erase unwanted objects, people, or distractions • Blur faces to protect privacy • Create photo grid collages with multiple images • Choose from different collage layouts and grid styles • Clean up images with AI-powered editing tools • Save and share your edited photos and collages • Simple, fast, and easy-to-use photo editor Photo Remover is designed for everyday photo editing. You can remove messy backgrounds, clean unwanted parts of an image, blur sensitive faces before sharing, or combine your favorite pictures into a stylish photo collage. Premium features are available through In-App Purchase. Upgrade to unlock advanced AI tools, premium collage layouts, remove editing limits, and enjoy a better photo editing experience. Perfect for: • Product photos • Social media posts • Photo grid collages • Profile pictures • Personal photo cleanup • Privacy face blur • Background removal • Object and people removal • Before-and-after photo comparisons • Travel, family, and memory collages Download Photo Remover: AI Photo Eraser and start editing, cleaning, and combining your photos with AI. Terms of Use: Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: Need help or want to share feedback? Contact us at: [northernstudio@gmail.com](mailto:northernstudio@gmail.com)

Screenshots

Background Editor4 screens
Photo Remover4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Background Editor at none against Photo Remover's shown. Background Editor also leads on ratings volume (3.2K vs 9). Photo Remover's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, update cadence 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 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Photo Remover sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Photo Remover holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Background Editor has 3.2K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Background Editor ships an update every 11 days, Photo Remover weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Background Editor versus Photo Remover: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackground EditorPhoto Remover
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (3.2K ratings)4.4 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.2K — better9
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB294 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEditr Apps Inc.Nothern Studio

Customer experience

Background Editor

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

Photo Remover

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

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

Photo Remover

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 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-time5
  • Stop Ads$1.99
  • Unlock Blur Effects$1.99
  • Recolor Photo$2.99
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  • Unlock Advanced Controls$4.99
  • Unlock all filters & features$49.99
1 purchases

Photo Remover

One-time1
  • RemoveBG Pro$1.99

Questions

Is Background Editor free?
Background Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Photo Remover free?
Photo Remover is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Background Editor or Photo Remover?
Photo Remover is rated higher. Background Editor averages 4.2 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Photo Remover averages 4.4 from 9 ratings.
Do Background Editor or Photo Remover have ads?
Photo Remover shows ads; Background Editor does not.
Which is updated more often, Background Editor or Photo Remover?
Background Editor ships an update every 11 days, and Photo Remover weekly. Most recently, Background Editor was updated on November 2, 2026 and Photo Remover on November 3, 2026.

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