Comparison

Photo Retouch vs Photo Editor

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

Head to head
About

Photo Retouch

Easily edit and enhance your photos and videos. Remove unwanted objects, blemishes, or people from images. Add watermarks like emojis, text, or stickers to your media. Includes tools for cropping, trimming, rotating, and changing the cover or rate of videos.

Highlights
  • Remove unwanted objects from photos
  • Add watermarks (emoji, text, stickers)
  • Crop and trim videos
  • Change video cover and rate
  • Rotate and reverse videos
Features
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Photo Retouch - Edit or crop your photos or videos. With this app, you can fix images and videos. Make fun pictures/videos, remove unwanted people, remove unsightly pimples, clean up the perfect shot. - Remove Items: There are three removal algorithms for Complex background, Simple background, Single color background. Select the matching background mode and smear the item - Add watermark: add Emoji, Stickers, Text to Photos/Videos. - Crop Video, Trim Video - Change Video's Cover - Rotate Video - Reverse Video - Change Video Rate #Get Professional version - One-time purchase, valid forever. #Annual professional version: - Annual auto-renewable subscription, automatic renewal upon expiration. - After the purchase of the subscription item is confirmed, the subscription fee will be credited to your iTunes account. The subscription will automatically renew unless the automatic renewal feature is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current time period. The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period.Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy:https://huameivideoretouch.web.app/privacypolicy.html Terms of Use:https://huameivideoretouch.web.app/terms.html Contact us: xihuamei_contact@163.com

About

Photo Editor

Enhance and transform your photos with a suite of AI-powered tools. Restore old images, add color, create AI art, and explore fun effects like aging or cartoon transformations. Offers practical editing features for a complete photo experience.

Highlights
  • Photo restoration
  • AI photo coloring
  • AI drawing and art generation
  • Aging and youthfulness effects
  • Manga and cartoon face transformations
  • Object removal
  • Background editing
Features
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Powerful all‑in‑one AI photo editor for your daily creative editing needs. Easily erase unwanted people and objects from photos with smart eraser. Repair blurry, damaged old photos and upscale to HD quality. Turn your selfies into stunning cartoon and anime art. Try various hairstyle styles for your portraits. Use aging filter to preview your younger or older look. Main Features -Smart Eraser: Remove strangers, objects, watermarks and unwanted items by simple brushing. Clean up your pictures in seconds. -AI Photo Restoration: Recover faded old photos, fix blurry images, enhance photo quality for precious memories. -Cartoon Photo: Convert portrait into cartoon, anime, comic styles with multiple artistic filters. -AI Hairstyle Changer: Preview diverse hairstyles on your selfie, find your perfect hair look. -Aging Time Machine: Apply age filter, simulate old‑age and young‑look effects for fun portrait creation. Great for selfie retouch, old‑photo recovery, social media picture making, funny face effect creation. Subscribe Pro version to unlock full access, remove watermarks and enjoy unlimited AI processing. Terms of use:https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/d4ad33ee-6a61-4715-b9e7-ab8786f49df5 Privacy Policy:https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/763f8c41-40ff-410c-8096-364fc1fd52bf

Screenshots

Photo Retouch4 screens
Photo Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Photo Retouch at 47% against Photo Editor's 0%. Photo Retouch also leads on ratings volume (2K vs 9). Photo Editor's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (12.3 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Photo Retouch sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year and Photo Editor sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Photo Editor holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Photo Retouch has 2K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Photo Retouch's written reviews are positive against 0% of Photo Editor's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Retouch ships an update every 2 months, Photo Editor every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Photo Retouch versus Photo Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto RetouchPhoto Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2K ratings)4.9 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2K — better9
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB290 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer章健 杨Infinite Intelligent Softtech Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Photo Retouch

All ratings2,029 ratings
Positive88.8%
Neutral3.5%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews369 reviews
Positive46.9%
Neutral8.1%
Negative45.0%

Photo Editor

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Photo Retouch

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Blank screen after watermark removal
  • Incompatibility with certain devices/OS versions
  • Watermark removal not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add video watermark removal
  • Improve blending and quality of removed objects
  • Provide more detailed instructions and tutorials
  • Expand file format support

Photo Editor

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Photo Retouch

Subscriptions1
  • Annual professional version$2.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Professional Version$3.99
6 purchases

Photo Editor

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly Members3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Weekly Member7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • 连续包月3 Days trial$1.991 Month
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  • VIP$1.991 Month
  • 连续包年$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • 永久会员$9.99

Questions

Is Photo Retouch free?
Photo Retouch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Photo Editor free?
Photo Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Photo Retouch or Photo Editor?
Photo Editor is rated higher. Photo Retouch averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while Photo Editor averages 4.9 from 9 ratings.
Do Photo Retouch or Photo Editor have ads?
Both Photo Retouch and Photo Editor show ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Retouch or Photo Editor?
Photo Retouch ships an update every 2 months, and Photo Editor every 5 weeks. Most recently, Photo Retouch was updated on November 2, 2026 and Photo Editor on November 3, 2026.

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