Comparison

Pause vs Photo Editor Express+

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

Head to head
About

Pause

Easily record videos by pausing and resuming your recording in real-time. Edit and combine your clips into a single video, with options to trim, reorder, and delete segments. Supports high-quality recording and sharing to social media.

Highlights
  • Pause and resume recording
  • Real-time video editing
  • 4K video quality
  • Trim, cut, and reorder clips
  • Target Mode for stop-motion
  • Apple Watch remote control
Features
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Pause video maker is a real time video cut editor. The Pause video maker is easiest way to video while recording. Now, you can video record with the ability to pause and resume your recording. You can get record video inshot, pause and resume recording whenever you want - when you are ready, edit and save your recordings as one completed video to your camera roll and share with friends on your social media accounts ! FEATURES; ● Pause and Resume on your video recording ● Better video quality , 4K support camera ● Video Editor - Trim or Cut your videos ● Zoom in/out with pinch gesture or slide while recording on cam ● Camera change to back/front or Ultra Wide Angle cam ● Export video clips from Pause app after that share on ig, tik tok, youtube with blogger and vloggers ● Change order of your movie clips ● Delete anyone video clips before video final cut process ● Trim on video clips duration like a splice and instagram reels video editor ● Video length without limits ● Video Countdown timer like iPhone camera app ● Supports Remote Controller for Apple Watch. You can control shooting from Apple Watch. ● Target Mode ( Vine ghost mode ) ● Share with AirDrop for your Mac or iPad. ● Share on social networks (Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook) ● Share on cloud services (Dropbox, iCloud Drive) ● Share via with E-mail, WhatsApp or iMessage on Pause video maker & editor TARGET MODE ( Ghost Mode ) The primary benefit of the ghost feature on Pause app, that helps make capcut clips or video story like that influencer of tiktok, instagram reels and instagram stories, inshot, capcut, like a picsart. This video editor pause the target feature switched on - just tap the little target icon in the bottom-right corner of the app - the end point of your last recording snippet will overlay the "live" scene, as in the pic above. With the target mode on, you will much more easily be able to line up your stop-motion videos, tiktok,instagram reels,instagram story style video shots, without the guesswork that might ruin the finished video. You are become filmmaker and jump cutter !

About

Photo Editor Express+

Enhance your photos with advanced color and lighting controls, portrait retouching, and background editing. Reshape elements, add text, and apply creative filters to achieve professional-looking results. Basic tools are free, with premium features available via subscription.

Highlights
  • Advanced color and lighting adjustments
  • Portrait retouching and skin smoothing
  • Automatic background separation and replacement
  • Creative reshaping and distortion tools
  • Text and drawing capabilities
  • Preset photo filters with adjustable intensity
  • Crop, rotate, and flip options
Features
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Bring out the best in your photos with precise color and lighting controls, portrait retouching, background editing, and creative reshaping tools. COLOR AND LIGHT • Enhance local contrast with adjustable Auto Enhance. • Fine-tune exposure, brightness, contrast, and gamma. • Balance highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks. • Adjust saturation, vibrance, temperature, tint, and hue. • Control individual color ranges with HSL. • Adjust overall brightness and individual color channels with RGB Curves. • Color-grade shadows, midtones, and highlights separately. PORTRAIT RETOUCHING • Reduce small blemishes with the healing brush. • Smooth skin while preserving texture. • Explore Skin Tone presets with adjustable shade, intensity, and redness reduction. • Zoom in for detailed brush work. BACKGROUND EDITING • Automatically separate a person from the background. • Create a transparent background. • Replace the background with a solid color. • Blur the background to draw attention to your subject. RESHAPING AND GEOMETRY • Liquify — push, expand, pinch, and twirl selected areas with an adjustable brush. • Portrait Liquify — reshape a person while protecting the surrounding background, with an editable person mask. • Mesh Warp — reshape your photo by dragging grid control points. • Distort — adjust width and height independently. • Perspective — correct horizontal and vertical perspective. • Lens Correction — adjust barrel and pincushion distortion. DETAIL AND EFFECTS • Refine sharpness and structure. • Reduce luminance and color noise. • Adjust haze with Dehaze. • Add glow, fade, vignette, and film grain. • Create selective blur with Tilt Shift. • Apply preset photo filters with adjustable intensity. CROP, DRAW, AND ADD TEXT • Crop using different shapes and aspect ratios. • Rotate, straighten, and flip your photos. • Draw directly on a zoomable photo. • Add text with customizable fonts, bold styling, size, color, and placement. CAPTURE AND SHARE • Take photos with the built-in camera or import them from your library. • Compare your edits with the original. • Save and share your finished photos. Basic adjustment tools and the first five photo filters are free. Cropping, drawing, text, portrait retouching, Skin Tone, background editing, HSL, RGB Curves, reshaping tools, and additional filters require Premium access through an in-app purchase. - Terms of service: https://appsupport.store/terms/ - Privacy policy: https://appsupport.store/privacy/

Screenshots

Pause4 screens
Photo Editor Express+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Photo Editor Express+ at Free against Pause's $2.99. Photo Editor Express+ also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (217 vs 71). Pause's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (63% vs 52%). On update cadence, ads 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

Photo Editor Express+ is free to download; Pause costs $2.99 up front. Photo Editor Express+ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Pause asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Photo Editor Express+ holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 217 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Pause's written reviews are positive against 52% of Photo Editor Express+'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pause ships an update every 5 days, Photo Editor Express+ every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Pause versus Photo Editor Express+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPausePhoto Editor Express+
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (71 ratings)4.6 (217 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews — better51.9% of reviews
Number of ratings71217 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.4
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMetromedya Digital Ad AgencySERGEI BEZDENEZHNYKH

Customer experience

Pause

All ratings71 ratings
Positive81.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative15.5%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive63.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative36.8%

Photo Editor Express+

All ratings217 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral3.7%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive51.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative37.0%

Bugs and requests

Pause

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Photo Editor Express+

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Unable to restore purchases
  • Not able to save changes
  • Crop feature not working properly
  • App selects a different photo than selected
  • Sending photos not working on iPad (resolved in July 2024 update)

Requested features

4 requests
  • Provide instructions or a help section
  • Add landscape mode for iPad
  • Improve crop functionality
  • Allow users to turn off crop feature

In-app purchases

None

Pause

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Photo Editor Express+

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Week3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Premium Month3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Pause free?
Pause costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Photo Editor Express+ free?
Photo Editor Express+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pause or Photo Editor Express+?
Photo Editor Express+ is rated higher. Pause averages 4.3 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while Photo Editor Express+ averages 4.6 from 217 ratings.
Do Pause or Photo Editor Express+ have ads?
Neither Pause nor Photo Editor Express+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pause or Photo Editor Express+?
Pause ships an update every 5 days, and Photo Editor Express+ every 8 days. Most recently, Pause was updated on November 3, 2026 and Photo Editor Express+ on November 7, 2026.

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