Photag vs CropMan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Photag
This app offers quick and simple photo editing tools for everyday tasks. Easily crop, annotate, and convert images between formats. It's designed for fast, frustration-free image handling and sharing.
- Crop, rotate, and adjust images
- Draw, highlight, and annotate
- Convert between PNG, JPG, and WebP
- Capture new images with device camera
- Optimize images for sharing
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Photag is a clean, lightweight photo editor designed for quick fixes, clear communication, and effortless image handling. Whether you’re cropping a picture, marking up a screenshot, or converting images between formats, Photag keeps everything fast and frustration‑free. Edit Your Photos With Ease - Crop, rotate, and adjust your images with intuitive controls - Draw, highlight, and annotate in multiple colors - Add free‑form markings to call out important details - Perfect for screenshots, instructions, memes, and everyday edits Tag Your Photos Photag’s signature feature lets you "tag" your images by drawing directly on them. Highlight key areas, sketch ideas, or mark up photos for work, school, or fun. Convert Images Instantly - Convert between popular formats like PNG, JPG, and WebP - Reduce file sizes or prepare images for sharing with just a tap - Great for optimizing photos for social media, messaging, or storage Capture New Images - Snap photos directly using your device’s camera - Perfect for digitizing documents, receipts, artwork, and more Why Photag? - Fast, lightweight, and easy to use - No clutter, no unnecessary bloat - Designed for quick edits and real‑world workflows - Ideal for students, professionals, creators, and anyone who wants a simple, powerful photo tool
CropMan
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Cropman is a photo cropping tool built for efficiency and high quality. Powered by on-device AI, it offers one-tap portrait cutout and background removal, creative shape cropping, and 0.1° fine angle adjustment - every pixel in its right place. Perfect for social media posts, ID photos, e-commerce images, creative avatars, and angle correction. --- ## Core Features **Composition & Size** - Preset ratios: 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16 and more - Free-form crop box or lock original ratio - Custom pixel width & height for export - Pinch to zoom, drag to reposition crop area **AI Portrait Cutout** - On-device AI with hair-level precision - Preset background colors + custom color picker **Creative Shape Crop** - Circle, heart, star and more creative shapes - Custom edge background color (transparent, white, black, etc.) **Rotation & Adjustment** - Horizontal/vertical flip, 90° quick rotation - 0.1° fine angle correction, ±45° range **Export & Save** - PNG (with transparency) / JPEG formats - JPEG quality slider from 10% to 100% - Full alpha channel preservation for PNG export --- ## Upgrade to Pro All core features are free with unlimited use. Upgrade to Pro for: - Ad-free experience - Save custom crop ratios and output size presets --- ## Privacy All image processing and AI cutout run entirely on-device. No uploads to any server. We do not collect, store, or upload any personal data. Photo library access is used only to import and save photos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CropMan at every 3 weeks against Photag's every 6 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. Photag sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CropMan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Photag ships an update every 6 months, CropMan every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Photag | CropMan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Brandon Stecklein | 帅 郝 |
In-app purchases
Photag
- Advertising Removal$1.99
CropMan
- Upgrade to Pro$1.99









