Comparison

Exacto vs Octopics

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

Octopics

Intelligently resize photos to fit any dimension without losing key content. This tool automatically detects important elements or allows manual selection to preserve them during aspect ratio changes. It's perfect for adapting images for social media profiles or removing unwanted areas.

Highlights
  • Content-aware rescaling
  • Automatic object detection
  • Manual area selection
  • Change aspect ratio of specific areas
  • Remove unwanted components
  • Preserve useful content
Features
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Octopics allows you to resize your photos in a smart way. Ever tried to squeeze a long/wide picture into that instagram dimension box, only to realize a portion has to be discarded? Have you wished to fit a non-square picture into your profile image? What about tampering a group photo? With the content-aware rescaling tool, you can resize your photos without changing the ratio of the main objects, thus preserving useful content as much as possible. To realize this, Octopics will automatically detect useful information in the picture and ensure it is preserved during resizing. However, when the built-in detection fails, you are also welcome to hand-select the area for preservation. Octopics also allows you to change the aspect ratio of a specific area instead of the entire picture, so that you can elongate, shorten, widen, or narrow certain parts of the image. You can also remove that chosen component entirely, a feature that can often be found useful for chopping white space or manipulating chat history.

Screenshots

Exacto4 screens
Octopics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Octopics at Free against Exacto's $2.99. Octopics also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Exacto's advantage is ratings volume (615 vs 7). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Octopics is free to download; Exacto costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Octopics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exacto has 615 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Exacto's written reviews are positive against 75% of Octopics's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exacto ships an update every 2 months, Octopics weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Exacto versus Octopics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExactoOctopics
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (615 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.4% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings615 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better12.4
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTinkerworks AppsYushi Yan

Customer experience

Exacto

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

Octopics

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

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

Octopics

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Exacto

No in-app purchases

None

Octopics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Exacto free?
Exacto costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Octopics free?
Octopics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Exacto or Octopics?
Octopics is rated higher. Exacto averages 4.5 out of 5 from 615 ratings, while Octopics averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Exacto or Octopics have ads?
Neither Exacto nor Octopics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Exacto or Octopics?
Exacto ships an update every 2 months, and Octopics weekly. Most recently, Exacto was updated on October 15, 2026 and Octopics on October 5, 2026.

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