Comparison

Silhouette Magic vs Silhouette Editor

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

Head to head
About

Silhouette Magic

Easily create stunning silhouette effects with an intelligent object masking tool. Apply various decorations like colors, images, and borders to your silhouettes, and compose them with background images for unique artwork. Save your creations as transparent stickers.

Highlights
  • Intelligent one-step object masking
  • Apply fill, gradient, and image colors to silhouettes
  • Add borders and vignette effects
  • Save silhouettes as transparent stickers
  • Compose with background images
  • Use preset or custom images for silhouettes and backgrounds
Features
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Create amazingly beatiful silhouette effect with powerful object masking tool and tons of silhouette decoration options. • Super intelligent one step object masking. • Create silhouette within just a few seconds. No complex editing needed. • Apply fill color to silhouette. • Apply gradient colors to silhouette. • Apply image to silhouette. • Supports beautiful silhouette image presets. You can also use your own photos. • Apply darkness and vignette effect to silhouette. • Apply border to silhouette. • Save silhouette image as sticker image with transparent background. • Compose silhouette with background image to create stunning artwork. • Supports beautiful background image presets. You can also use your own photos as background.

About

Silhouette Editor

Features
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■ Use two photos, one for the foreground and one for the background, to create a single photo. ■ Darken the foreground photo to easily create a "silhouette composite photo." ■ Background transparency is fully automatic. Enjoyable and quick photo compositing. ■ To fine-tune the automatic background transparency, you can enlarge the image and edit in detail. ● Foreground recognition function automatically makes only the background of the photo transparent. ● Adjust the brightness of the foreground and background using the brightness graph. ● Leave only the foreground you want to focus on, such as people, pets, cars, buildings, and flowers, and create a silhouette composite with another background. ● Zoom and scroll the image to correct foreground recognition errors and make detailed corrections to transparent parts. ● Zoom, rotate, and edit the position of the foreground and background. ● Copy, save, and share transparent images and composite images. ● Save transparent images to a collection (reusable) [Photo Selection] ・Launch the camera and take a photo. ・Select a photo from the photo album. ・Select a foreground image from a collection. ・Import shared files from other apps. ・Paste photos copied from web images, etc. [Outputs] ・Save to camera roll: Photos ・Share photos: AirDrop, LINE, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram,...

Screenshots

Silhouette Magic4 screens
Silhouette Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Silhouette Magic at monthly against Silhouette Editor's every 4 months. Silhouette Editor's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Silhouette Magic costs $2.99 and Silhouette Editor $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Silhouette Magic ships an update monthly, Silhouette Editor every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Silhouette Magic versus Silhouette Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilhouette MagicSilhouette Editor
Price$2.99$2.99
Rating3.4 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDongwook ChoMasanori Katsuta

In-app purchases

None

Silhouette Magic

No in-app purchases

None

Silhouette Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Silhouette Magic free?
Silhouette Magic costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Silhouette Editor free?
Silhouette Editor costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Silhouette Magic or Silhouette Editor have ads?
Neither Silhouette Magic nor Silhouette Editor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Silhouette Magic or Silhouette Editor?
Silhouette Magic ships an update monthly, and Silhouette Editor every 4 months. Most recently, Silhouette Magic was updated on November 3, 2026 and Silhouette Editor on November 8, 2026.

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