Comparison

Recrop vs Impresso Pro

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

Head to head
About

Recrop

This app allows you to reframe and recompose photos after they've been taken. It offers unique uncropping, aspect ratios, and grid tools to help achieve balanced compositions without losing resolution.

Highlights
  • Unique uncropping function
  • Aspect ratios and grids for reframing
  • Straightening without resolution loss
  • Recompose by moving frame
  • Automatic content-aware fill
Features
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Recrop gives you a second chance to reframe your photos for a compositionally balanced look. Here are the main features of the app: • Unique uncropping function • Aspect ratios and grids to help you reframe photos • Straightening without losing the resolution of a photo ACHIEVING AN ACCURATE COMPOSITION • Recomposing a photo by moving its frame Recrop allows reframing images even after they have already been taken. Move a photo frame or drag its handles toward the inside or outside a photo to recompose the shot. The clever app will automatically fill in the expanded areas based on the content surrounding it. • Reframing a photo by using aspect ratios With the list of the most common aspect ratios the app has to offer, you can obtain a photo of the needed proportions fast and with no effort. As soon as a specific ratio is selected, tap the Apply button — and the app will crop or uncrop your shot to those specific dimensions. • Reframing a photo by using grids Recrop provides you with a set of the classical composition grids to help you be accurate when recomposing your images. After selecting a grid, just move a photo frame as needed to balance the photo. STRAIGHTENING PHOTOS Straighten a crooked horizon line in a photo by swiping left or right or up or down anywhere outside the photo frame. The resolution of the photo won't be lost — the nearby pixels will be copied and added to the areas created. PRAISES ABOUT RECROP “Recrop does one thing insanely well and is the only smartphone app dedicated to this task: like content-aware fill for Photoshop, it can extend elements of an image to give more of what you missed, allowing you to crop, rotate, and even enlarge without sacrificing parts of the original image.” — Dan Rubin, Photographer, Designer Download Recrop right now and give it a try! If you have any questions or complaints about Recrop or need assistance with the app, please email us at support at adva-soft.com.

About

Impresso Pro

Transform your photos into stunning Impressionist masterpieces with multi-textured brush strokes. This app offers a pro workflow with smart layers and brushes for blending multiple paint styles, creating captivating, print-worthy artwork.

Highlights
  • Transform photos into multi-textured Impressionist paintings
  • Smart layering system for blending paint styles
  • Library of Edges and Background Paint effects
  • Soft Paint effect for foreground subjects
  • Aged Paint effect for cracked texture
  • Impressionism Paint Effects: Alla Prima, En Plein Air, Tache
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Lucky you, 21st century software wielding seer and lover of beauty—you have Impresso Pro. With the same enduring attention to detail, light, color, and texure, Impresso transforms your photos into multi-textured, stroke-filled Impressionist masterpieces. And keen eyes will love how Impresso maintains the balance of your piece! The result—captivating, print-worthy paintings brimming with passion, life, and beauty. Transform photos into paintings then combine paint effects with layers and brushes for gorgeous print-worthy artwork. Smart Layers and brushes for blending multiple paint styles, a library of Edges that blend beautifully with canvas, a Background Paint effect to create distances, a Soft Paint effect for enhancing foreground subjects, an Aged Paint effect for adding cracked texture, and an ultra-impressionism effect called Tache to cover paintings with broken brush strokes and dabs of color. Impresso Pro has everything an Artist or Photographer will need to create gallery-style paintings with enough detail even for the largest print. Includes: Layers, Brushes, Soft Paint, Background Paint, Aged Paint, Painted Edges and three Impressionism Paint Effects: Alla Prima, En Plein Air and Tache paint styles. Features A pro workflow automatically transforms a photo into a painting and places it on a paint layer along with a canvas. With a smart built-in layering system the photo can then be transformed again when a new paint layer is chosen and placed on the layer above. The layers are ‘smart’ because the settings are retained per layer allowing changes to brush strokes, color finishes and other settings for infinite variation when blending. There are several ways to blend the layers, change the opacity slider to blend the strokes beneath, or to blend color use the brushes to brush-off the paint style or back-on if too much is removed. This powerful feature is great for creating lighter values in distant elements and colorful ones in the foreground. With layers you can also achieve another level of depth (or depth-of-field) by overlapping larger brush strokes with finer ones—all it takes is this simple technique to achieve a highly creative work. Paint Styles and Effects Alla Prima (‘wet-on-wet’ or ‘all-at-once’)—is great for portraits! This beautiful paint style starts by filling the painting with an abundance of brushstrokes. A library of artistic finishes compliments this style by adding light, color and movement. En Plein Air (in open air)—is perfect for landscapes. This stroke-filled effect consists of eight artists’ palettes created by famous impressionists. Use them as they are or edit the paint colors to make your own palette—save preset feature keeps the palette and all the layers intact for future projects. Tache (‘spot’ or ‘blot’)—applies broken brushstrokes throughout the painting. This technique of laying thick patches, flecks and dabs of color is great for making paint look as if it stands out from the surface. Apply a light spackling of strokes or fill the painting with dabs of color. Canvas Layer—supplies the canvas texture and adds a painted edge. NEW—Soft Paint Effect—creates a hard edge when brushed to show contrast from other edges around it—great for foreground objects NEW—Background Paint Effect—recedes objects and scenery when brushed for a natural distant and out-of-focus effect NEW—Aged Paint Effect—cracks paint in a linear or angled fashion with control over crack color, strength, size, angle, spacing and sensitivity NEW—Painted Edges—creates a painted vignette NEW—Signature Layer - Add that personalized touch to your image NEW—CONFORM STROKES This new technology conforms brush strokes, using only a slider, to bring out detail naturally—while still retaining the brushwork.   NEW—BRISTLE STYLES Three bristle styles wield brushwork in an extremely free manner while retaining high quality strokes even up close. NEW—11 NEW BRUSH STYLES

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Recrop at $1.99 against Impresso Pro's $29.99. Recrop also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Impresso Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 18 months) and review sentiment (73% vs 55%). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Recrop costs $1.99 and Impresso Pro $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Recrop against 4.7 for Impresso Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 131 and 81 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Recrop's written reviews are positive against 73% of Impresso Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recrop ships an update every 18 months, Impresso Pro every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Recrop versus Impresso Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecropImpresso Pro
Price$1.99 — better$29.99
Rating4.7 (131 ratings)4.7 (81 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.4% of reviews73.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings131 — better81
Update frequencyEvery 18 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdva-SoftJixiPix, LLC

Customer experience

Recrop

All ratings131 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews296 reviews
Positive55.4%
Neutral7.1%
Negative37.5%

Impresso Pro

All ratings78 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral5.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative13.3%

Bugs and requests

Recrop

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when trying to save photos
  • Doesn't work with latest iOS updates
  • Compatibility issues with newer devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Update to work with latest iOS versions
  • Add ability to manually select areas to clone
  • Integrate with Retouch app for cross-editing
  • Add support for higher resolution photos

Impresso Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Recrop

No in-app purchases

None

Impresso Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recrop free?
Recrop costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Impresso Pro free?
Impresso Pro costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recrop or Impresso Pro?
Impresso Pro is rated higher. Recrop averages 4.7 out of 5 from 131 ratings, while Impresso Pro averages 4.7 from 81 ratings.
Do Recrop or Impresso Pro have ads?
Neither Recrop nor Impresso Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recrop or Impresso Pro?
Recrop ships an update every 18 months, and Impresso Pro every 3 months. Most recently, Recrop was updated on November 1, 2026 and Impresso Pro on October 24, 2026.

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