Comparison

Recrop vs Spektrel Art

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

Spektrel Art

Transform your photos into dazzling, otherworldly art with intersecting lines of light. This app offers powerful adjustments to create unique imagery filled with movement, sparkling life, and divided color spaces.

Highlights
  • Intersecting light lines
  • Adjustable taper length and sharpness
  • Lighten and brighten controls
  • Color boost for enhanced hues
  • Dramatic glow effect
  • Pre-set styles
  • Infinite artistic variations
Features
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Spektrel Art is an extravagant otherworldly display of webbed light that glistens and gleams with intersecting lines of tapered light. Applied to photos, this medium of imaginative and magical art form transcends the ordinary to extraordinary creating something wild with movement, sparkling life and divided color spaces. Powerful adjustments allow you to fine-tune to create your own imagery filled with tapered points of bright intersecting lines, fluid streaming ones, and phantasmal qualities. INCLUDES • Detail slider increases the amount of intersecting lines • Taper Length and Sharpen sliders to add twinkle to the effect • Lighten and Brighten sliders to make it illuminate • Sharpen slider to exaggerate the lines • Smoothing slider to softens lines • Color Boost for enhanced color • Dramatic glow slider to add a dreamy quality • Presets to start you off • Infinite variation to create art with illuminated twinkles, fluid lines or ethereal softness

Screenshots

Recrop4 screens
Spektrel Art4 screens

Verdict

The call

Recrop and Spektrel Art both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 88% of Spektrel Art's written reviews are positive against 55% of Recrop's. Spektrel Art also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 18 months). Recrop's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). 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 Spektrel Art $2.99 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 Spektrel Art. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 131 and 128 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Recrop's written reviews are positive against 88% of Spektrel Art's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recrop ships an update every 18 months, Spektrel Art every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Recrop versus Spektrel Art: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecropSpektrel Art
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.7 (131 ratings) — better4.7 (128 ratings)
Positive reviews55.4% of reviews87.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings131 — better128
Update frequencyEvery 18 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB15 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%

Spektrel Art

All ratings129 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive87.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative9.1%

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

Spektrel Art

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Recrop

No in-app purchases

None

Spektrel Art

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recrop free?
Recrop costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spektrel Art free?
Spektrel Art costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recrop or Spektrel Art?
Recrop is rated higher. Recrop averages 4.7 out of 5 from 131 ratings, while Spektrel Art averages 4.7 from 128 ratings.
Do Recrop or Spektrel Art have ads?
Neither Recrop nor Spektrel Art shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recrop or Spektrel Art?
Recrop ships an update every 18 months, and Spektrel Art every 6 months. Most recently, Recrop was updated on October 26, 2026 and Spektrel Art on October 20, 2026.

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