Black Background vs No Crop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Black Background
Easily add black backgrounds to your photos to create perfectly square images for social media. Enhance your pictures with a simple tap and export them ready for platforms like Instagram.
- Add black backgrounds to photos
- Create square images
- Social media optimization
- Easy to use interface
- Export photos
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Want to elegantly frame your photos for your social media feed? Quickly and perfectly add black backgrounds to images from your photo library, with just a few taps. Exported photos are saved in a perfect square format, perfect for posting to Instagram or other social media Enjoy! ◆ Visit our Privacy Policy at: https://www.tlogicsofthouse.com/privacy ◆ Visit our Terms of Service at: https://tlogicsofthouse.com/s/termsofservice.pdf ◆ Customer Support You can reach us at contact@tlogicsofthouse.com and we will do our best to solve all of your problems and questions related to the app.
No Crop
Easily frame your photos and videos without cropping, maintaining their original resolution. Customize borders with various colors and ratios to perfectly fit platforms like Instagram. Share your creations directly to other apps with a simplified workflow.
- Frame photos and videos without cropping
- Maintain original image resolution with borders
- Support for square, 4:5, and other ratios
- Customizable border colors
- Direct sharing to Instagram and other apps
- Preserves photo location and camera details
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The app is simple, but has some important features: - Frame photos and videos in square, 4:5 and many other ratios, so there will be no crop. - Image quality - keeps image resolution by adding borders around it. - Easy-to-use interface for quick framing. - Native photo picker and share menu to send photos directly to Instagram and other apps. - Choose a border color to match your image. - Soft blurred border: fill the border around your photo or video with a soft blur instead of a solid color. - Preserves photo location and camera details. - Simplified workflow: share images directly from any app to Simple Border using the share button. - Use Siri to frame and share your latest photo, or use Shortcuts, the Action Button, and automations to process selected photos with your last border style. - Adds photos to "Simple Border" album in Photos app. - Keeps last used settings. - Experimental: Add text or a watermark to your photo’s border. - Premium Subscription: share up to 10 images or videos at once, no save limits. Privacy Policy: https://sneawo.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of use: https://sneawo.com/terms.html If you encounter any problems or have any suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me at support+simpleborder@sneawo.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: No Crop at 74% against Black Background's 0%. No Crop also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). Black Background's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Black Background sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and No Crop sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
No Crop holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 131 and 128 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Black Background's written reviews are positive against 74% of No Crop's.
Black Background ships an update every 4 months, No Crop every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Black Background | No Crop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (131 ratings) | 4.5 (128 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 73.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 131 — better | 128 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | T-Logic | Andrey Zhukov |
Customer experience
Black Background
No Crop
In-app purchases
Black Background
- One Month Access$0.99
- Lifetime Access$4.99
No Crop
- Premium3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium7 Days trial$1.497 Days
- Premium3 Days trial2 variants$1.497 Days
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- Premium3 Days trial2 variants$1.997 Days
- Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Premium3 Days trial$3.497 Days
- Premium3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Premium$4.991 Year
- Premium3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Premium3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime FreeFree
- Premium Lifetime$9.99
- Premium Lifetime$19.99









