Comparison

Background Editor vs Pic Grid

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

Pic Grid

Easily create stunning Instagram feeds by dividing large photos into square tiles. Enhance your profile with unique grid layouts and professional highlight covers. Transform your photos into captivating visual stories in minutes.

Highlights
  • Create Instagram grid layouts
  • Divide photos into square tiles
  • Design custom highlight covers
  • Save grids to camera roll
  • Seamlessly post to Instagram
  • No signup required
Features
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Pic Grid app introduces a fast and easy way to create an outstanding and beautiful Instagram feed. With a gorgeous, professional quality collection of Instagram feed, post, and highlights, you’ll have your complete Instagram look sorted out in minutes. CREATE GRIDS FOR INSTAGRAM And of course, with IG Grid you can easily break your large photos or panoramas into a number of square pics and upload them to Instagram to awe your friends and impress your profile page visitors. Choose the size of your grid, use a single photo or create a collage and watch separate tiles combine into one mind blowing image on your profile page. Be it a casual selfshot, a city skyline or a mountain landscape, with IG Grid they will look amazing on your profile page. You won't have to crop or resize your high resolution photos ever again. USE HIGHLIGHT COVERS Add highlight covers to the stories you save. Use any of the suggested design sets. With Grids your highlight covers will look fantastic! TAKE YOUR PROFILE TO THE NEXT LEVEL IG Grid introduces a totally new way of using your Instagram, wrapped in simple and beautiful design. Don't miss the chance to express yourself by embellishing your profile page and posting breathtaking large scale images in their full glory! Wanna create personalized Instagram feed, add panoramic or giant square photos? GRD is everything you need. Just choose your favorite photos, apply best layout, turn them into a grid and upload to Instagram. Edit your feed in a few taps and impress your followers! No signup or account required. FEATURES: • Сut your photos up to 9 square pics to create personalized Insta feed. • Save your grid to the camera roll. • Post grids seamlessly to Instagram. • Download and start creating immediately. Privacy Policy: https://beautifulapps.tilda.ws/6470999818privacypolicy Terms of use: https://beautifulapps.tilda.ws/6470999818terms

Screenshots

Background Editor4 screens
Pic Grid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Background Editor at 75% against Pic Grid's 0%. Background Editor also leads on ratings volume (3.2K vs 32) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 weeks). Pic Grid's advantage is rating (4.9 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 Pic Grid sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pic Grid 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 32, 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 Pic Grid'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, Pic Grid every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Background Editor versus Pic Grid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackground EditorPic Grid
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (3.2K ratings)4.9 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3.2K — better32
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEditr Apps Inc.SCREENFED LLC

Customer experience

Background Editor

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

Pic Grid

All ratings31 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews1 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

Pic Grid

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
3 purchases

Pic Grid

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$5.997 Days
  • Weekly Trial3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Monthly$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Background Editor free?
Background Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pic Grid free?
Pic Grid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Background Editor or Pic Grid?
Pic Grid is rated higher. Background Editor averages 4.2 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Pic Grid averages 4.9 from 32 ratings.
Do Background Editor or Pic Grid have ads?
Neither Background Editor nor Pic Grid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Background Editor or Pic Grid?
Background Editor ships an update every 11 days, and Pic Grid every 6 weeks. Most recently, Background Editor was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pic Grid on October 24, 2026.

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