Light Strokes vs PicRemoval
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Light Strokes
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This is the only app that lets you paint with whatever your iPad’s video camera sees. Create artwork instantly by aiming it at people, pets, flowers dancing in the wind, whatever. With Light Strokes, the world is your paintbrush! FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Adjust the camera settings (exposure, zoom, etc.) to paint with just what you want • Choose colors and set transparency, so that paint builds up at the speed you’d like • Blend colors along your “brush”, or use its edges to add texture, or do both at once • Turn on dissolve, so that you can keep on painting without ever filling the screen • Turn on mirroring to give symmetry to everything you paint • Swipe right to pause painting while you line up your next shot • Save your pictures or share them directly from the app EXTRA FEATURES available with in-app purchase or free trial: • Save combinations of colors and effects for quick and easy retrieval later • Automatically make small random color adjustments, to add variety • Import photos or other images to paint on • Undo painted strokes made in error, or redo them DEMO: • See a demonstration of the app (with and without special hardware for more natural painting) at https://youtu.be/S-s2kmsSa9w SUPPORT: • See the user guide at https://lightstrokes.com/Light Strokes for iPad User Guide v3.pdf • Send email to help@lightstrokes.com
PicRemoval
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PicRemoval is a powerful remove and changing background of image application, where you can easily remove background and enjoy the beauty of pictures 【Picture Editing】 Supports one-click selection and editing of pictures, supports angle editing, picture cropping, and size conversion, without editing in the album in advance 【Precise Remove Background】 Intelligently and accurately identify the subject in the picture to complete one-click remove background, with precise edges and hair clearly visible, and supports cutout to adjust the cutout area 【Change Background】 Rich background materials, support for adding custom background materials to albums, perfect picture fusion effect, you can change the background with one click and punch in "Tourist Attractions", and you can create beautiful picture works with one click 【Merchant Assistant】 Help merchants easily realize product cutouts, change different backgrounds to highlight product highlights, and make products more popular 【Subscription】 1. Subscription service: PicArts VIP has four levels Weekly renewal, monthly renewal, yearly renewal, permanent subscription 2. Payment: After the user confirms the purchase and pays, it will be credited to the iTunes account 3. Automatic renewal: Apple iTunes account will be charged within 24 hours before expiration. After the deduction is successful, the subscription period will be extended by one subscription period4. Close the service: You can enter "Settings" on the iPhone -> enter 'iTunes Store and App Store'-->Click on "Apple ID" and select "View Apple ID", enter the "Account Settings" page, click "Subscribe" to manage the automatic subscription service, if you need to cancel, please close it 24 hours before the end of each billing cycle Just close it, no fee will be deducted within 24 hours before expiration Terms of use: https://github.com/wuhanggirl/coder.github.io/wiki/PicRemoval-Termsofuse Privacy Policy: https://github.com/wuhanggirl/coder.github.io/wiki/PicRemoval-Policy 【Disclaimer】 This APP is a tool application and does not take any responsibility for the final use of the user's exported images
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Light Strokes at none against PicRemoval's shown. PicRemoval's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Light Strokes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and PicRemoval sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Light Strokes ships an update every 10 months, PicRemoval every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Light Strokes | PicRemoval |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Richard Greene | 兰芳 张 |
In-app purchases
Light Strokes
- 14-Day Trial of All FeaturesFree
- Unlock All Features$4.99
PicRemoval
- PicRemoval Premium Weekly$3.997 Days
- PicRemoval Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
- PicRemoval Premium Annually$39.991 Year
- PicRemoval Premium LifeTime$59.99









