Comparison

Background Editor vs Photo Editor

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 Editor

Enhance and transform your photos with a suite of AI-powered tools. Restore old images, add color, create AI art, and explore fun effects like aging or cartoon transformations. Offers practical editing features for a complete photo experience.

Highlights
  • Photo restoration
  • AI photo coloring
  • AI drawing and art generation
  • Aging and youthfulness effects
  • Manga and cartoon face transformations
  • Object removal
  • Background editing
Features
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Powerful all‑in‑one AI photo editor for your daily creative editing needs. Easily erase unwanted people and objects from photos with smart eraser. Repair blurry, damaged old photos and upscale to HD quality. Turn your selfies into stunning cartoon and anime art. Try various hairstyle styles for your portraits. Use aging filter to preview your younger or older look. Main Features -Smart Eraser: Remove strangers, objects, watermarks and unwanted items by simple brushing. Clean up your pictures in seconds. -AI Photo Restoration: Recover faded old photos, fix blurry images, enhance photo quality for precious memories. -Cartoon Photo: Convert portrait into cartoon, anime, comic styles with multiple artistic filters. -AI Hairstyle Changer: Preview diverse hairstyles on your selfie, find your perfect hair look. -Aging Time Machine: Apply age filter, simulate old‑age and young‑look effects for fun portrait creation. Great for selfie retouch, old‑photo recovery, social media picture making, funny face effect creation. Subscribe Pro version to unlock full access, remove watermarks and enjoy unlimited AI processing. Terms of use:https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/d4ad33ee-6a61-4715-b9e7-ab8786f49df5 Privacy Policy:https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/763f8c41-40ff-410c-8096-364fc1fd52bf

Screenshots

Background Editor4 screens
Photo Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Background Editor at 75% against Photo Editor's 0%. Background Editor also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3.2K vs 9). Photo Editor's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.2) and iOS requirement (12.3 vs 15.6). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 and Photo Editor sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Photo Editor holds the better App Store score, 4.9 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. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Background Editor's written reviews are positive against 0% of Photo Editor'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 9 days, Photo Editor every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Background Editor versus Photo Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackground EditorPhoto Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (3.2K ratings)4.9 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3.2K — better9
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB290 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEditr Apps Inc.广州盈锋智能软件技术有限公司

Customer experience

Background Editor

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

Photo Editor

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Photo Editor

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
6 purchases

Photo Editor

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly Members3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Weekly Member7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • 连续包月3 Days trial$1.991 Month
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  • VIP$1.991 Month
  • 连续包年$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • 永久会员$9.99

Questions

Is Background Editor free?
Background Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Photo Editor free?
Photo Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Background Editor or Photo Editor?
Photo Editor is rated higher. Background Editor averages 4.2 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Photo Editor averages 4.9 from 9 ratings.
Do Background Editor or Photo Editor have ads?
Photo Editor shows ads; Background Editor does not.
Which is updated more often, Background Editor or Photo Editor?
Background Editor ships an update every 9 days, and Photo Editor every 5 weeks. Most recently, Background Editor was updated on September 25, 2026 and Photo Editor on September 17, 2026.

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