Passport Booth vs ImageBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Passport Booth
Easily create compliant passport and ID photos for over 150 countries. Features include automatic background removal, visual guides for photo requirements, and options to print or share your photos in various formats.
- Automatic background removal
- Visual photo requirement guides
- Support for 150+ countries
- Custom photo and paper sizes
- Print or share in multiple formats
- Import photos from camera or files
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** This app is a all-in-one tool that let you create a perfect Passport / ID photo ** ** From powerful auto background removal to visual photo requirement guides ** ** With support for passport/id/license photo requirements from 150+ countries and 500+ document types ** Start making your - for sure accepted - passport/id photo today. IN 5 EASY STEPS: 1. Take a photo with your iPhone/iPad camera or import it from your photos or files. 2. Select country and document type like Passport or ID. 3. Crop, rotate and align your photo to visual photo requirement guides. 4. Edit background to refine your photo. You can change background to any color you need. 5. Select paper size and number of copies to start printing or share it anywhere you want. FULL FEATURES: - Liquid Glass design throughout the app. - Take photo from camera or import from Photos/Files app. - Support 150+ countries with 500+ document types. - Support custom photo size. - Visual photo requirement guides. - Crop & Rotate photo. - Automatically frame your face to meet document requirements. - Reshape tool to correct misaligned body posture. - Automatic background removal and replace with any color. - Adjust background color & brightness. - Adjust background opacity - Adjust subject color & brightness. - Save documents and easily replace photos. - Save or share photo in JPEG, PNG or HEIF format. - Support all popular paper sizes. - Support custom paper size. - Automatic photo placement for printing. - Print wirelessly to wifi printer. - Save or share paper in JPEG, PNG, HEIF or PDF format. - Resizable UI optimized for iPad.
ImageBuddy
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ImageBuddy is a fast image-prep tool for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Bring an image in — drag it onto the Mac window, or pick from Photos or Files on iPhone and iPad — and it lands over a checkerboard preview, so any transparency you create is obvious at a glance. Camera RAW files (.CR3, .NEF, .ARW, .DNG and more) open too; edits save as a TIFF beside the untouched original. Work one image or a whole batch: they queue up, and saving one moves you straight to the next. On Mac, Edit ▸ Undo steps back through settings, exclusion marks, rotations and removed images. One app, three devices The same pipeline on Mac, iPhone and iPad — the same queue, the same stages, the same save formats — laid out for whichever one you're holding. Trim, straighten & crop Auto-detect the artwork's bounding box, and shave off the transparent or matching-color edge. Rotate and flip in 90° steps. Straighten levels any angle and corrects Vertical and Horizontal perspective: Auto levels by the image's straight vertical lines, or its horizon, and Draw lets you mark a line that should be vertical or horizontal (or one of each) and sets the angle and perspective to match. Drag any edge of a manual crop, with a loupe and arrow nudges for precision. Remove the background Simple mode figures out the real background color, whatever it is, and knocks it out to transparency — including matching-color pockets inside the artwork — while genuinely different interior details like eye whites and letter counters survive. Or switch to Photo mode, which lifts the subject off any background with an on-device cut-out. (Photo mode needs macOS 14.) If Simple mode keeps eating a detail you want, paint exclusion marks straight on the preview to protect it. Stylize Wrap the cut-out in an outline, give it a shadow, and round off the corners — three independent switches. The shadow is one click: Low, Medium, High, or Glow for a soft halo in any color (detailed controls live in Settings on Mac). The canvas grows to fit the shadow and crops tight to the result, so it looks the same with trim on or off. Backdrops Grow a transparent margin — uniform or per-side — then composite over a solid color, a two-stop gradient, or an image scaled to cover the frame. Or blur the backdrop for a portrait-style finish: behind the subject of an untouched photo, or behind a cut-out you've placed on a new picture. Titles, captions & watermarks Set a title above the image and a caption below, in bands of space added outside the artwork rather than printed over it — your choice of typeface, color and alignment. Stamp a text or image watermark over the finished result at any size, margin, and position. Resize & vectorize Resize Image and Adjust Canvas are independent steps: scale to an exact width × height with an aspect lock, reframe the canvas without scaling — pick an origin, an absolute or relative size, an optional fixed ratio like 16:10 — or do both. Trace the silhouette, or every flat color, into clean scalable paths with any background color discarded automatically, and export or copy an SVG. Split collages Drop a sheet of images and, when ImageBuddy spots the gaps between them, split it into separate files in one click. Save it your way Save over the original, or save as new in PNG, JPEG, TIFF or HEIC with a quality slider for the lossy ones — and a warning before a format that can't hold transparency flattens a cut-out. Presets Every stage you've dialled in — the cut-out, the outline, the backdrop, the type, the watermark — saves as a named preset you can drop onto any image. Native, fast, private Pure Swift. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. It only ever touches the files you hand it, and writes only where you tell it to. Localized into 10 languages English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Português (Brasil), Русский, 简体中文.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Passport Booth at Free against ImageBuddy's $4.99. Passport Booth also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 days). ImageBuddy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, 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
Passport Booth is free to download; ImageBuddy costs $4.99 up front. Passport Booth sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ImageBuddy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Passport Booth ships an update daily, ImageBuddy every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Passport Booth | ImageBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (17K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TAPUNIVERSE LLC | Benjamin Dansby |
Bugs and requests
Passport Booth
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezes or crashes during use
- Exported photos not accepted by authorities
- Issues with photo size and resolution
Requested features
3 requests- Add timer function to take photo
- Include 4x6 photo export option
- Provide clearer pricing information upfront
ImageBuddy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Passport Booth
- Passport+$19.99
ImageBuddy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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