Comparison

Exacto vs Gimbse Camera

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Exacto

Easily create precise photo cutouts and remove backgrounds with a powerful pen selection tool. This app brings advanced desktop editing capabilities to your mobile device, allowing for pixel-perfect selections and unlimited layers for complex edits.

Highlights
  • Pen Selection Tool for precise cutouts
  • Unlimited layers for multiple selections
  • Delete and insert points in selections
  • Reset control points
  • Unlimited undo/redo
  • Autosave projects
  • Instant preview
Features
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Quickly remove unwanted backgrounds or create razor-sharp photo cutouts with the Pen Selection Tool. Previously found only in advanced desktop programs, now available for the very first time on iPhone and iPad with a streamlined and much simplified implementation optimized for touch. This incredibly versatile tool offers unique capabilities unmatched by anything else on the App Store. It’s an integral part of the professional toolbox and artists and photographers have relied on it for decades. Now you can too! You no longer have to waste hours working on a single photo only to achieve less than satisfactory results. With Exacto you can make pixel-perfect selections that precisely trace the contours of any subject, no matter how intricate or complex. But that’s not all! Exacto even goes beyond the standard functionality of the Pen Selection Tool by introducing features that provide greater flexibility and control such as the ability to delete and insert points anywhere in the selection, the ability to reset control points, and most importantly, unlimited layers for making multiple selections. In addition, Exacto offers other advanced features that greatly enhance the user experience including unlimited undo / redo, projects autosave, instant preview, and much more! Here’s how it works: 1 - Place points around an area of interest then drag them into position to make a selection. 2 - Add layers to make selections of multiple subjects and areas in your photo. 3 - Keep track of your progress with the full-size instant preview option. 4 - Made a mistake? With unlimited undo / redo your entire editing history is preserved, from start to finish. So you can go backward or forward as many steps as you need. 5 - Must leave in a hurry? With autosave your work is never lost and you can pick up right where you left off at any time. 6 - All done? Save your photo cutout to the Camera Roll or open it in other apps. There’s no limit to the fun and exciting ways you could use your photo cutouts. For example, you could: 1 - Superimpose them on different backgrounds. 2 - Insert them in work or school presentations. 3 - Use them as stickers in chats. 4 - Use them in creating decorative art. 5 - Print them out and make actual cardboard cutouts for special occasions. and on and on! Experiencing issues? Have comments or suggestions for future updates? Please contact us at support@exactoapp.com.

About

Gimbse Camera

Enhance architectural photos with professional alignment without complex editing. This app offers real-time perspective correction and intuitive controls to perfect your shots of buildings, cityscapes, and more.

Highlights
  • Perspective Assistant
  • Real-time alignment
  • Multiple perspective modes
  • Adjustable focus and exposure
  • Various color modes
  • Composition guides
  • Multiple aspect ratios
Features
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Improve the presentation of real estate, cityscapes, exhibition stands, and much more with professional architectural photography! Gimbse offers the perfect alignment of your camera without complicated post-processing or additional technical equipment. How it works? Very simple: take a photo – done. The unique perspective assistant always has the recording situation in view and takes care of the detailed work in real time. So you can fully concentrate on your subject. Also profit from the intuitively designed interface of the great and professional functions with which the Gimbse camera app makes your pictures even better. PERSPECTIVE ASSISTANT The Perspective Assistant ensures that your pictures are always straight, no matter from which angle they were taken. But “straight“ doesn‘t just mean that people stand upright in the picture and the horizon is really horizontal. With the help of the various modes, you can freely choose which additional perspective tools you want to use for your subject. Perspective alignment has never been so easy! • Horizon It automatically does what many photographers usually do by hand or with gimbals: Hold the camera straight. • Automatic Let the Perspective Assistant automatically select between Architecture and Horizon modes to avoid extreme distortion at the edges of the image. • Architecture The mode for professional architectural photography – the perspective is automatically corrected to avoid falling lines. • Gallery In Gallery mode, photograph vertical or horizontal surfaces exactly from the front, even though the situation only allows a sloping shooting angle. The magnetic axis makes alignment easy and very accurate. • Easel For inclined surfaces such as flipcharts, screens or simply easels, there is also the Easel mode with the practical magnetic angle. • Rectangle With the magnetic frame, you can shoot rectangular objects of any kind as if they were taken from the front and crop them in their original proportions, (almost) regardless of the shooting angle. • Calibrate Also use the Calibrate mode with its magnetic axes to achieve even more precision in aligning your photos. Once performed, the calibration is always maintained. • Deactivated With this you can also take really skewed pictures. FOCUS • Automatic • Spot EXPOSURE • Lights • Automatic • Spot • Lock WHITE BALANCE • Cold • Neutral • Warm • Spot • Lock FOCAL LENGTH • Ultra Wide Angle (if available) • 20 mm (if available) • Wide Angle • 35 mm • 50 mm • Telephoto Lens (if available) • 80 mm • 135 mm • 200 mm • 300 mm COLOR MODE • Color (in gradations) • Black & White • Blue Filter • BW Neutral • Red Filter COMPOSITION • Empty • Frame • Crosshair • Grid • Golden Section • Golden Spiral ASPECT RATIO • Square • 7 : 6 • 5 : 4 • 4 : 3 • DIN A Format • 3 : 2 • Golden Section • 16 : 9 • Superscope • 21 : 9 • CinemaScope FILE TYPE (iOS 13 and higher) • L97JPEG 8 sRGB • JPEG 8 P3 • TIFF 16 sRGB (high memory requirement!) • TIFF 16 P3 (high memory requirement!) With the practical reset button, you can quickly reset Gimbse at any time to be ready for the next snapshot. Configure Gimbse conveniently in the settings. You can also have a comparison image saved for each shot. This shows a before/after comparison between the captured image and the version created by Gimbse. Discover the incredible new design options that Gimbse can offer you!

Screenshots

Exacto4 screens
Gimbse Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Exacto at $2.99 against Gimbse Camera's $12.99. Exacto also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (615 vs 6). Gimbse Camera's advantage is review sentiment (73% vs 55%). On update cadence, 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

Exacto costs $2.99 and Gimbse Camera $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Exacto holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exacto has 615 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Exacto's written reviews are positive against 73% of Gimbse Camera's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exacto ships an update every 2 months, Gimbse Camera every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Exacto versus Gimbse Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExactoGimbse Camera
Price$2.99 — better$12.99
Rating4.5 (615 ratings) — better4.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews55.4% of reviews73.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings615 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#121 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTinkerworks AppsChristian Kappertz

Customer experience

Exacto

All ratings615 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral4.1%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews233 reviews
Positive55.4%
Neutral5.2%
Negative39.5%

Gimbse Camera

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral3.3%
Negative23.3%

Bugs and requests

Exacto

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes on newer iOS versions
  • Saving issues, unable to save with transparent background

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a refine selection brush
  • Ability to add a background layer
  • Magnetic lasso tool
  • Change the color of the selection outline
  • Combine with creative composition tools

Gimbse Camera

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Exacto

No in-app purchases

None

Gimbse Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Exacto free?
Exacto costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gimbse Camera free?
Gimbse Camera costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Exacto or Gimbse Camera?
Exacto is rated higher. Exacto averages 4.5 out of 5 from 615 ratings, while Gimbse Camera averages 4.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Exacto or Gimbse Camera have ads?
Neither Exacto nor Gimbse Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Exacto or Gimbse Camera?
Exacto ships an update every 2 months, and Gimbse Camera every 4 weeks. Most recently, Exacto was updated on October 18, 2026 and Gimbse Camera on October 14, 2026.

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