Comparison

Composite Photo vs Background Transparent

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

Head to head
About

Composite Photo

Easily create new compositions by combining photos, drawings, and text. Enhance your images with frames, over 60 filters, and more than 1300 library photos. Perfect for photo editing, adding text, and creating custom graphics.

Highlights
  • Combine photos, drawings, and text
  • Add frames and scale images
  • Apply over 60 photo filters
  • Add customizable text with 150+ fonts
  • Draw directly on photos or in separate boxes
  • Create rage comics with library assets
Features
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Composite Photo can help you create new compositions from individual photos, drawings and text. Examples of the ways this app can improve your creativity: - Add frames to a photo: You can choose frames from the many available in the app’s library. Then you can add photos. Both the frames and your photos are easy to scale (both proportionally and non-proportionally). You can rotate; change the color, hue, brightness; crop and add transparency to ensure the frame and photo fit perfectly. - Add text to a photo: You can enter any text, then select from over 150 free font types; change the text size, modify colors and position text over the photo. If you want more control of the text, just simply enter the text into a separate box (textbox) to easily manipulate the text. - Add drawings: You can draw directly onto a photo or draw on a separate box (draw box). This features allows you to draw lines, erase, fill areas with highly customizable colors. It included dimensions, transparencies, filter thresholds etc. - Modify or fix a photo: Drawing is also a good tool for small photo edits such as making sections of a photo transparent or changing colors of some areas. You can also crop a photo to the size you want. - Apply photo filters: There are over 60 filters you can apply to any photos, added text or drawings. With filters you can change colors, hue, brightness, contrast, opacity or pixellate, emboss or posterize to create special effects. - Create composite photos: You can create a new photo from the photos stored in an album on your desktop or directly from the camera photos. With the Add Text and Add Drawings features you can enhance and manipulate existing photos to create new ones. New composite photos are easily manipulated. For example, you can move, rotate, scale proportionally or non-proportionally, flip, change their z-order, apply photo filters to create an entirely new composite photo that can be saved to your photos album, uploaded to Facebook, sent as an email attachment or copied to the clipboard (as the source file for other composite photo). - Create rage comics or add rage faces / icons into a photo: The library has more than 350 rage face photos, frames and speech bubbles. The app also has strong abilities to add texts, drawings and other library's photos... All could help you to create rage comics easily Composite Photo has over 1300 high quality photos, ready to add to your existing photos. The number of photos in the library and number of filters continues to grow.

About

Background Transparent

Easily remove the background from your photos to create transparent PNG images. This tool isolates subjects, perfect for making stickers or preparing images for further editing. Share your creations instantly.

Highlights
  • Erase image backgrounds
  • Make backgrounds transparent
  • Create PNG images
  • Isolate photo subjects
  • Prepare images for stickers
Features
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This app makes a picture's background transparent and erase or remove background of an image. This app takes the subject of a photo and remove the background. This app can make a sticker's background transparent. Resulted image would be png image. Subscriptions: - 1 Week - 1 Month - 1 Year Additional Subscription Information: - Subscription options are: 1 year, 1 month, 1-week. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Your Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Your Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period with the same cost you have started your subscription. - Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. - To restore your upgrade to Background Transparent on a new device, go to the Settings screen, tap the “Restore” option and your subscription or previous purchases will become active free of charge. For more information : Terms of Use - https://sites.google.com/view/apps-places-image-converter Privacy Policy - http://appsplaces.com/policy.html Install Background Transparent app and remove background of an image keeping same photo quality & share anytime and anywhere.

Screenshots

Composite Photo3 screens
Background Transparent4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Background Transparent at 5.0 against Composite Photo's 2.3. Composite Photo's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (6.1 vs 14.1). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Composite Photo sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Background Transparent sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Background Transparent holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Composite Photo ships an update every 11 months, Background Transparent every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Composite Photo versus Background Transparent: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComposite PhotoBackground Transparent
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.1 — better14.1
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNguyen PhamApps Places

Customer experience

Composite Photo

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative55.6%

Background Transparent

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Composite Photo

One-time10
  • Album 9 - 41 Masks$0.99
  • Album 10 - 52 Military Planes$0.99
  • Album 11 - 54 Flowers$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Album 12 - 54 Wild Animals$0.99
  • Album 13 - 58 Cartoon fashion$0.99
  • Album 14 - 53 Scary things$0.99
  • Album 15 - 52 Scary things$0.99
  • Album 17 - 55 Clipart Kids$0.99
  • Album 18 - 50 Horses$0.99
  • Album 19 - 50 Military Vehicles$0.99
3 purchases

Background Transparent

Subscriptions3
  • Upgrade to Pro Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Upgrade To Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Upgrade To Pro Yearly$12.991 Year

Questions

Is Composite Photo free?
Composite Photo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Background Transparent free?
Background Transparent is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Composite Photo or Background Transparent?
Background Transparent is rated higher. Composite Photo averages 2.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Background Transparent averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Composite Photo or Background Transparent have ads?
Neither Composite Photo nor Background Transparent shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Composite Photo or Background Transparent?
Composite Photo ships an update every 11 months, and Background Transparent every 6 months. Most recently, Composite Photo was updated on October 23, 2026 and Background Transparent on October 24, 2026.

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