Background Editor vs Cake Magic Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Cake Magic Studio
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Your cakes deserve photos that look as good as they taste. Cake Magic helps bakers turn everyday phone photos into polished, portfolio-ready cake images. Take or upload a cake photo, choose a professional background scene, and let AI create a studio-style result you can save and share. Made for home bakers, cake artists, and small bakery businesses, Cake Magic is built around one clear job: making your cake photos look more professional without needing a photographer, backdrop, lighting setup, or editing skills. How it works: 1. Take or upload a photo of your cake 2. Choose a background style, from marble studio and bakery shelf to garden party, floral wall, wedding reception, and more 3. Tap Create and save your finished image to your photo library Why bakers use Cake Magic: - Replace cluttered kitchen or dining table backgrounds - Create more consistent Instagram and portfolio photos - Choose from studio scenes designed specifically for cake photography - Keep the focus on the cake you actually made - Save finished images for posting, sharing, or client previews Cake Magic is especially useful when you finish an order at home, take a quick phone photo, and need something that looks ready for your feed. It gives your cakes a cleaner setting while keeping the process fast and simple. Best results come from clear, front-facing cake photos with the whole cake visible. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cakemagic.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Background Editor at every 11 days against Cake Magic Studio's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Background Editor sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Cake Magic Studio sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Background Editor ships an update every 11 days, Cake Magic Studio every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Background Editor | Cake Magic Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (3.2K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 74.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Editr Apps Inc. | Danny Schaffer |
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
Cake Magic Studio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Background Editor
- 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
- 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
Cake Magic Studio
- Cake Magic Baker$9.991 Month
Questions
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