Background Eraser vs PicWorks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Background Eraser
Easily cut out subjects from photos with automatic recognition or manual brush tools. Enhance your images by adding color strokes, text, stickers, and custom backgrounds. Quickly combine multiple images for creative compositions.
- Automatic portrait matting
- Brush matting
- Multiple matting shapes
- Add color line strokes
- Customizable backgrounds
- Text editing
- Sticker addition
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Do you want to cut out the characters in the picture quickly? Do you want to make your pictures more beautiful and interesting! This App can help you cut out any material you need from the picture, just a few simple operations, you can make a perfect picture! MAIN FUNCTIONS MATTING FUNCTION - Automatic portrait recognition, quick matting with one click - Brush matting, custom matting area - Multiple matting shape choices PICTURE EDITING - Add color line strokes to the matting section - Picture scale switching, supporting multiple image scale selection - Picture background, support solid color, local album selects photos to add to the picture background - Text editing to add interesting font styles to pictures - Add stickers to make pictures more delicate and lovely QUICK MAPPING - Select random arrangement and combination of pictures to quickly generate pictures If you have any questions and suggestions in the process of using, please give us feedback in the App.
PicWorks
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PicWorks puts the six image tools you actually use into one fully offline app: compress, resize, convert, crop & rotate, strip metadata, and watermark. Every tool works in batches, and everything happens on your phone — no network permission, no account, no ads. ■ Six tools • Compress: by quality, or set a target like "under 500 KB / 2 MB" — quality first, then size, with before/after numbers for each picture • Resize: by pixels, percent or longest side; never upscales unless you ask; keep aspect or stretch • Convert: JPEG, PNG and WebP in any direction; reads HEIC; transparent images get a white background when going to JPEG • Crop & Rotate: free, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16 and more (13 presets), 90° rotation and flips; phone photos are put upright before cropping • Strip Metadata: see the device, time, software and GPS coordinates hidden in each picture, then remove all of it (metadata is cut out at the byte level, so this step adds no recompression of its own; HEIC is converted to JPEG first) • Watermark: text marks placed on a 3×3 grid or tiled diagonally across the picture; size, opacity, colour and shadow, with a live preview that matches the export ■ Why PicWorks • Six-in-one: no separate app (and separate subscription) for compressing, stripping EXIF and watermarking • Truly offline: the app requests no network permission, so your pictures never leave your phone • Batch: pick many, watch one progress bar, then compare every result with a draggable before/after slider • Buy once: the free version runs every tool in full on up to 3 pictures per run; Pro is a one-time purchase for unlimited batches, WebP export, watermark presets and remembered settings in the compress, resize, convert, crop and watermark tools • Dark mode, English and Chinese ■ Who it's for Anyone squeezing photos under a forum, email or form limit, anyone removing location data before sharing, creators signing their work in bulk, and everyone converting between HEIC, PNG and WebP. Free: all six tools, up to 3 pictures per run. Pro (one-time): unlimited batch size, WebP export, saved watermark presets, and the compress, resize, convert, crop and watermark tools remember your last settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Background Eraser at none against PicWorks's 1. Background Eraser also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). PicWorks's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. PicWorks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Background Eraser asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Background Eraser | PicWorks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (418 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 68.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 418 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 传彬 戴 | tao wen |
Bugs and requests
Background Eraser
Reported bugs
1 issue- Picture isn't perfect, looks flawed
Requested features
1 request- Add holiday background choices
PicWorks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Background Eraser
No in-app purchases
PicWorks
- PicWorks Pro$4.99
Questions
Is Background Eraser free?
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Do Background Eraser or PicWorks have ads?
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