Comparison

DrawTextPath vs Photo Editor Express+

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

Head to head
About

DrawTextPath

Easily create animated videos where text appears to be written stroke by stroke. Input your text, customize its appearance, and generate a captivating animation with a single click. The resulting videos can be used as green screen elements in other editing applications.

Highlights
  • One-click text path animation
  • Customizable text size, font, and color
  • Adjustable background color and brush style
  • Control animation speed and screen orientation
  • Green screen video export for editing
Features
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DrawTextPath can help you quickly generate text path tracing animation video with one click. We often see in the video text edge animation, which is the kind of animation effect video as if the text is written by someone with a pen stroke by stroke. This animation effect of handwritten text video DrawTextPath can help you achieve. Input text, and set the size of the text, font and color, text from scratch to a stroke of the animated video is completed. Is it super simple? Font, text size, text spacing, text color, background color, edge width, brush size, pen style, edge animation time, horizontal and vertical screen mode can be set according to need. The generated video can be added as green screen video to video editing apps (such as MovieSpirit) and other video photo music materials for synthesis.

About

Photo Editor Express+

Enhance your photos with advanced color and lighting controls, portrait retouching, and background editing. Reshape elements, add text, and apply creative filters to achieve professional-looking results. Basic tools are free, with premium features available via subscription.

Highlights
  • Advanced color and lighting adjustments
  • Portrait retouching and skin smoothing
  • Automatic background separation and replacement
  • Creative reshaping and distortion tools
  • Text and drawing capabilities
  • Preset photo filters with adjustable intensity
  • Crop, rotate, and flip options
Features
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Bring out the best in your photos with precise color and lighting controls, portrait retouching, background editing, and creative reshaping tools. COLOR AND LIGHT • Enhance local contrast with adjustable Auto Enhance. • Fine-tune exposure, brightness, contrast, and gamma. • Balance highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks. • Adjust saturation, vibrance, temperature, tint, and hue. • Control individual color ranges with HSL. • Adjust overall brightness and individual color channels with RGB Curves. • Color-grade shadows, midtones, and highlights separately. PORTRAIT RETOUCHING • Reduce small blemishes with the healing brush. • Smooth skin while preserving texture. • Explore Skin Tone presets with adjustable shade, intensity, and redness reduction. • Zoom in for detailed brush work. BACKGROUND EDITING • Automatically separate a person from the background. • Create a transparent background. • Replace the background with a solid color. • Blur the background to draw attention to your subject. RESHAPING AND GEOMETRY • Liquify — push, expand, pinch, and twirl selected areas with an adjustable brush. • Portrait Liquify — reshape a person while protecting the surrounding background, with an editable person mask. • Mesh Warp — reshape your photo by dragging grid control points. • Distort — adjust width and height independently. • Perspective — correct horizontal and vertical perspective. • Lens Correction — adjust barrel and pincushion distortion. DETAIL AND EFFECTS • Refine sharpness and structure. • Reduce luminance and color noise. • Adjust haze with Dehaze. • Add glow, fade, vignette, and film grain. • Create selective blur with Tilt Shift. • Apply preset photo filters with adjustable intensity. CROP, DRAW, AND ADD TEXT • Crop using different shapes and aspect ratios. • Rotate, straighten, and flip your photos. • Draw directly on a zoomable photo. • Add text with customizable fonts, bold styling, size, color, and placement. CAPTURE AND SHARE • Take photos with the built-in camera or import them from your library. • Compare your edits with the original. • Save and share your finished photos. Basic adjustment tools and the first five photo filters are free. Cropping, drawing, text, portrait retouching, Skin Tone, background editing, HSL, RGB Curves, reshaping tools, and additional filters require Premium access through an in-app purchase. - Terms of service: https://appsupport.store/terms/ - Privacy policy: https://appsupport.store/privacy/

Screenshots

DrawTextPath1 screens
Photo Editor Express+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Photo Editor Express+ at Free against DrawTextPath's $1.99. Photo Editor Express+ also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). DrawTextPath's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (65% vs 52%). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Photo Editor Express+ is free to download; DrawTextPath costs $1.99 up front. Photo Editor Express+ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. DrawTextPath asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Photo Editor Express+ holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 78 and 217 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of DrawTextPath's written reviews are positive against 52% of Photo Editor Express+'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrawTextPath ships an update every 2 weeks, Photo Editor Express+ weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
DrawTextPath versus Photo Editor Express+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawTextPathPhoto Editor Express+
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (78 ratings)4.6 (217 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.6% of reviews — better51.9% of reviews
Number of ratings78217 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.4
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer多智 吴SERGEI BEZDENEZHNYKH

Customer experience

DrawTextPath

All ratings79 ratings
Positive84.8%
Neutral10.1%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive64.6%
Neutral11.4%
Negative24.1%

Photo Editor Express+

All ratings217 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral3.7%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive51.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative37.0%

Bugs and requests

DrawTextPath

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Photo Editor Express+

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Unable to restore purchases
  • Not able to save changes
  • Crop feature not working properly
  • App selects a different photo than selected
  • Sending photos not working on iPad (resolved in July 2024 update)

Requested features

4 requests
  • Provide instructions or a help section
  • Add landscape mode for iPad
  • Improve crop functionality
  • Allow users to turn off crop feature

In-app purchases

None

DrawTextPath

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Photo Editor Express+

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Week3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Premium Month3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$8.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is DrawTextPath free?
DrawTextPath costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Photo Editor Express+ free?
Photo Editor Express+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DrawTextPath or Photo Editor Express+?
Photo Editor Express+ is rated higher. DrawTextPath averages 4.4 out of 5 from 78 ratings, while Photo Editor Express+ averages 4.6 from 217 ratings.
Do DrawTextPath or Photo Editor Express+ have ads?
Neither DrawTextPath nor Photo Editor Express+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DrawTextPath or Photo Editor Express+?
DrawTextPath ships an update every 2 weeks, and Photo Editor Express+ weekly. Most recently, DrawTextPath was updated on November 6, 2026 and Photo Editor Express+ on November 12, 2026.

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