Comparison

Background Editor vs Background Blur

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

Background Blur

Features
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Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes Privacy Policy: https://www.erkansevim.com/privacy-policy Add pro-grade blur to your photos with ease—choose Gaussian, motion or bokeh effects, let AI auto-detect and censor faces, or paint blur exactly where you want with a brush. Then fine-tune with custom saturation, vibrance and shadow controls for perfect results.

Screenshots

Background Editor4 screens
Background Blur4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Background Blur at none against Background Editor's 11. Background Editor's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Background Blur asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Background Editor ships an update every 11 days, Background Blur every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Background Editor versus Background Blur: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackground EditorBackground Blur
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (3.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEditr Apps Inc.Erkan Sevim

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

Background Blur

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
None

Background Blur

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Background Editor free?
Background Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Background Blur free?
Background Blur is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Background Editor or Background Blur have ads?
Neither Background Editor nor Background Blur shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Background Editor or Background Blur?
Background Editor ships an update every 11 days, and Background Blur every 3 weeks. Most recently, Background Editor was updated on October 17, 2026 and Background Blur on October 3, 2026.

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