Comparison

iColorama vs Cuts

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

Head to head
About

iColorama

Enhance photos and digital art with over 1000 effects, from simple adjustments to complex transforms. Repaint images with various brushes, and import custom Photoshop brushes, curves, and fonts to create unique artistic pieces.

Highlights
  • Over 1000 image effects
  • Image adjustments
  • Math transforms
  • Repainting with brushes
  • Import custom brushes
  • Import custom fonts
  • Import custom curves
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iColorama is an imaging app for creators interested in enhancing their photos/paintings/drawings and converting them into amazing pieces of art. There are too many effects to be listed, more than 1000 !! The effects go from simple image adjustments to complicated math transforms. Images can also be repainted with different brushes. You can also import your own Photoshop brushes and curves and fonts. Follow Instagram:@icolorama for news and best-featured works!! Jerry Jobe's Tutorials: http://enthusiasmnoted.wordpress.com/?s=icolorama Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Cuts4 screens

Verdict

The call

iColorama and Cuts are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. iColorama sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Cuts sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iColorama ships an update every 4 days, Cuts weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
iColorama versus Cuts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriColoramaCuts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (256 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings256 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB768 MB
Age rating4+4+
DevelopertalonsodevBrenno Castro

Bugs and requests

iColorama

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Freezing issues
  • Unable to load photos
  • Watermark overlay issues
  • Incompatibility with newer devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to save in full quality
  • Improved stability and performance
  • Support for latest iOS versions
  • Restore previous free version

Cuts

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

iColorama

Subscriptions2
  • iColorama PRO3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • iColorama PRO3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • iColorama PRO$14.99
2 purchases

Cuts

One-time2
  • Cuts Pro for iPhone$9.99
  • Cuts Pro for iPad$9.99

Questions

Is iColorama free?
iColorama is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cuts free?
Cuts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do iColorama or Cuts have ads?
Neither iColorama nor Cuts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iColorama or Cuts?
iColorama ships an update every 4 days, and Cuts weekly. Most recently, iColorama was updated on November 1, 2026 and Cuts on November 5, 2026.

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