Comparison

3D Gallery 2 vs Exacto

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

Head to head
About

3D Gallery 2

Create and customize your own virtual photo galleries. Arrange, resize, and frame your pictures with interactive controls. Share your personalized exhibitions with others.

Highlights
  • Create virtual photo galleries
  • Arrange, resize, and rotate pictures
  • Add custom frames with adjustable depth, width, and color
  • Add description texts to pictures
  • Freely walk through galleries or use slideshows
  • Share galleries with friends
Features
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Show your pictures in a beautiful virtual gallery! - Add pictures from your albums and create your own virtual galleries. - Move, resize and rotate pictures on the walls simply by using dragging, pinching and rotating gestures. - Add frames to your pictures. Set individual depth, width and color for each frame and matting. - Add description texts to your pictures. - Walk freely through your galleries or watch automatic slideshows. - Share your galleries with friends.

About

Exacto

Easily create precise photo cutouts and remove backgrounds with a powerful pen selection tool. This app brings advanced desktop editing capabilities to your mobile device, allowing for pixel-perfect selections and unlimited layers for complex edits.

Highlights
  • Pen Selection Tool for precise cutouts
  • Unlimited layers for multiple selections
  • Delete and insert points in selections
  • Reset control points
  • Unlimited undo/redo
  • Autosave projects
  • Instant preview
Features
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Quickly remove unwanted backgrounds or create razor-sharp photo cutouts with the Pen Selection Tool. Previously found only in advanced desktop programs, now available for the very first time on iPhone and iPad with a streamlined and much simplified implementation optimized for touch. This incredibly versatile tool offers unique capabilities unmatched by anything else on the App Store. It’s an integral part of the professional toolbox and artists and photographers have relied on it for decades. Now you can too! You no longer have to waste hours working on a single photo only to achieve less than satisfactory results. With Exacto you can make pixel-perfect selections that precisely trace the contours of any subject, no matter how intricate or complex. But that’s not all! Exacto even goes beyond the standard functionality of the Pen Selection Tool by introducing features that provide greater flexibility and control such as the ability to delete and insert points anywhere in the selection, the ability to reset control points, and most importantly, unlimited layers for making multiple selections. In addition, Exacto offers other advanced features that greatly enhance the user experience including unlimited undo / redo, projects autosave, instant preview, and much more! Here’s how it works: 1 - Place points around an area of interest then drag them into position to make a selection. 2 - Add layers to make selections of multiple subjects and areas in your photo. 3 - Keep track of your progress with the full-size instant preview option. 4 - Made a mistake? With unlimited undo / redo your entire editing history is preserved, from start to finish. So you can go backward or forward as many steps as you need. 5 - Must leave in a hurry? With autosave your work is never lost and you can pick up right where you left off at any time. 6 - All done? Save your photo cutout to the Camera Roll or open it in other apps. There’s no limit to the fun and exciting ways you could use your photo cutouts. For example, you could: 1 - Superimpose them on different backgrounds. 2 - Insert them in work or school presentations. 3 - Use them as stickers in chats. 4 - Use them in creating decorative art. 5 - Print them out and make actual cardboard cutouts for special occasions. and on and on! Experiencing issues? Have comments or suggestions for future updates? Please contact us at support@exactoapp.com.

Screenshots

3D Gallery 24 screens
Exacto4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Exacto at 4.5 against 3D Gallery 2's 3.6. Exacto also leads on price ($2.99 vs $9.99) and ratings volume (615 vs 5). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

3D Gallery 2 costs $9.99 and Exacto $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Exacto holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exacto has 615 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of 3D Gallery 2's written reviews are positive against 55% of Exacto's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

3D Gallery 2 ships an update every 3 months, Exacto every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
3D Gallery 2 versus Exacto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter3D Gallery 2Exacto
Price$9.99$2.99 — better
Rating3.6 (5 ratings)4.5 (615 ratings) — better
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews55.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5615 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developercaweb.deTinkerworks Apps

Customer experience

3D Gallery 2

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral11.1%
Negative44.4%

Exacto

All ratings615 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral4.1%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews233 reviews
Positive55.4%
Neutral5.2%
Negative39.5%

Bugs and requests

3D Gallery 2

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Exacto

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes on newer iOS versions
  • Saving issues, unable to save with transparent background

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a refine selection brush
  • Ability to add a background layer
  • Magnetic lasso tool
  • Change the color of the selection outline
  • Combine with creative composition tools

In-app purchases

None

3D Gallery 2

No in-app purchases

None

Exacto

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 3D Gallery 2 free?
3D Gallery 2 costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Exacto free?
Exacto costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 3D Gallery 2 or Exacto?
Exacto is rated higher. 3D Gallery 2 averages 3.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Exacto averages 4.5 from 615 ratings.
Do 3D Gallery 2 or Exacto have ads?
Neither 3D Gallery 2 nor Exacto shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 3D Gallery 2 or Exacto?
3D Gallery 2 ships an update every 3 months, and Exacto every 2 months. Most recently, 3D Gallery 2 was updated on October 12, 2026 and Exacto on October 15, 2026.

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