Comparison

PicScratch vs Cuts

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

Head to head
About

PicScratch

Create and send personalized digital scratch cards with hidden photos and text. It's a fun and easy way to surprise friends, family, or loved ones with unique greetings and invitations.

Highlights
  • Interactive scratch cards
  • Hidden photo and text
  • Customizable templates
  • Personalized greetings
  • Party invitations
  • Easy creation process
Features
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Make your messages more fun with PicScratch. Send friends and family a photo and personal message hidden behind a card they scratch to reveal. Whether you want to make someone laugh, say happy birthday, share exciting news, be romantic, or simply make someone smile, PicScratch turns an ordinary message into a little surprise. Creating a PicScratch takes seconds: 1. Choose a card 2. Add your photo 3. Write your message 4. Send the surprise Your friend can scratch and reveal your message right from the web. No app is required to receive a PicScratch. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from fun card designs for birthdays, love, celebrations, holidays, funny messages, and more. Unlock the full collection to find the perfect card for every surprise.

About

Cuts

Features
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“Cut the part where I said basically.” That is how everyone edits: in words, in their head, before any app opens. Cuts makes that first cut real. Your take becomes a page of text. Delete a word and the video loses exactly that. No timeline, no handles, nothing to drag. Whisper transcribes every take on your iPhone the moment it lands. The cuts, the subtitles and the render happen there too. Nothing is uploaded. 01 · THE WORDS YOU DIDN'T MEAN Silences, fillers and retakes, cut for you — each with three levels: minimum, medium, maximum. Every removed word stays on the page, struck through and colored by the reason it was cut. Nothing is hidden, and one tap brings any word back. 02 · THE PAGE IS THE TIMELINE Record inside the app or pull clips from Photos — one take or a whole batch. Each file becomes a paragraph of a single, continuous transcript. Select words to remove them, change their speed, zoom into the moment, or lay B-roll over exactly the words it should cover. When you'd rather work by hand, the Timeline lane holds the same edit: trim a piece by its edges, split it, reorder it, pinch to zoom, scrub frame by frame — and undo covers all of it. 03 · SUBTITLES Burn in subtitles in eleven styles — modern, classic, bold, neon, minimal, block, caption, handwritten, editorial, typewriter, tape. Highlight tints only the keywords that carry meaning, picked on device. Captions can be translated at export. Stickers, emoji and lines of text sit on the film too, anchored to the words they belong with — moved, sized and trimmed on the film or on a card. 04 · PRESETS One tap sets the whole pipeline: TikTok, Reels, Stories, Shorts, YouTube, Podcast or Audio Only — tight cuts, vertical 9:16 with auto-reframe, 1080p, burned-in captions. They live in the Library beside your projects, and you can save your own. A starting point; switch off anything you'd rather keep. 05 · COLOR & SOUND Film looks and full grading — temperature, brightness, exposure, contrast, saturation. A look can cover the whole film or a single clip, and the preview and the exported file agree. Auto-reframe follows the speaker's face for vertical video. Equalize voice and noise reduction clean the audio on the same screen, and a music bed — or several — can be laid under the voice on the Timeline lane. 06 · EXPORT Render on device, in the background. Save to Photos or Files. Source, 4K, 1080p, 720p or 540p — the resolution you pick is the resolution you get. H.264, HEVC or ProRes, audio only or GIF, at the frame rate you choose, with an optional .srt sidecar. 07 · NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE Nothing leaves your iPhone. The transcription model and the language model ship inside the app — no account, no cloud, no analytics, no tracking. Cuts works on a plane. FREE TO START Try Cuts for free. Pro is a single purchase — once, forever. No subscription. Made by Brenno Castro, film director. He got tired of the timeline and went back to the sentence.

Screenshots

PicScratch4 screens
Cuts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cuts at weekly against PicScratch's every 6 months. PicScratch's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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

Both are free to download. PicScratch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cuts sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PicScratch ships an update every 6 months, Cuts weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PicScratch versus Cuts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPicScratchCuts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (58 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings58 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB768 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuy GubiBrenno Castro

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PicScratch

One-time1
  • Premium Features$0.99
1 purchases

Cuts

One-time1
  • Cuts Pro$9.99

Questions

Is PicScratch free?
PicScratch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cuts free?
Cuts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PicScratch or Cuts have ads?
Neither PicScratch nor Cuts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PicScratch or Cuts?
PicScratch ships an update every 6 months, and Cuts weekly. Most recently, PicScratch was updated on October 25, 2026 and Cuts on October 24, 2026.

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