Comparison

Photo Editor Express+ vs ThumbPops

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

Head to head
About

Photo Editor Express+

Edit your photos with a wide range of tools including cropping, rotation, and adjustments for brightness, contrast, and color. Apply preset filters and draw directly on your images with zoom functionality. Save and share your enhanced pictures easily.

Highlights
  • Photo cropping with different shapes
  • Rotation and mirror flip
  • Brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustment
  • Color temperature control
  • Preset filters with adjustment
  • Drawing on zoomable photos
Features
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Bring out the best in your photos with precise color and lighting controls, portrait retouching, background editing, and creative reshaping tools. COLOR AND LIGHT • Enhance local contrast with adjustable Auto Enhance. • Fine-tune exposure, brightness, contrast, and gamma. • Balance highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks. • Adjust saturation, vibrance, temperature, tint, and hue. • Control individual color ranges with HSL. • Adjust overall brightness and individual color channels with RGB Curves. • Color-grade shadows, midtones, and highlights separately. PORTRAIT RETOUCHING • Reduce small blemishes with the healing brush. • Smooth skin while preserving texture. • Explore Skin Tone presets with adjustable shade, intensity, and redness reduction. • Zoom in for detailed brush work. BACKGROUND EDITING • Automatically separate a person from the background. • Create a transparent background. • Replace the background with a solid color. • Blur the background to draw attention to your subject. RESHAPING AND GEOMETRY • Liquify — push, expand, pinch, and twirl selected areas with an adjustable brush. • Portrait Liquify — reshape a person while protecting the surrounding background, with an editable person mask. • Mesh Warp — reshape your photo by dragging grid control points. • Distort — adjust width and height independently. • Perspective — correct horizontal and vertical perspective. • Lens Correction — adjust barrel and pincushion distortion. DETAIL AND EFFECTS • Refine sharpness and structure. • Reduce luminance and color noise. • Adjust haze with Dehaze. • Add glow, fade, vignette, and film grain. • Create selective blur with Tilt Shift. • Apply preset photo filters with adjustable intensity. CROP, DRAW, AND ADD TEXT • Crop using different shapes and aspect ratios. • Rotate, straighten, and flip your photos. • Draw directly on a zoomable photo. • Add text with customizable fonts, bold styling, size, color, and placement. CAPTURE AND SHARE • Take photos with the built-in camera or import them from your library. • Compare your edits with the original. • Save and share your finished photos. Basic adjustment tools and the first five photo filters are free. Cropping, drawing, text, portrait retouching, Skin Tone, background editing, HSL, RGB Curves, reshaping tools, and additional filters require Premium access through an in-app purchase. - Terms of service: https://appsupport.store/terms/ - Privacy policy: https://appsupport.store/privacy/

About

ThumbPops

Features
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ThumbPops is a fast thumbnail maker for creators who want to know whether a design still works when it shrinks down in the feed. Pick a photo, add a punchy title, choose a format, and ThumbPops scores the thumbnail with Tap Test checks for readability, title length, contrast, brightness, face overlap, edge framing, text density, safe zones, and title/video overlap. Version 2.2 adds Subject Lift: on-device cutout, depth, outline, and backdrop so the person stays in front of the headline at scroll-by size. Version 2.1 adds Launch Pack: a platform-by-platform publishing checklist for YouTube-style wide thumbnails, vertical short-form covers, square feeds, podcast art, stories, and timeline images. Launch Pack shows the exact export size, a readiness score, blocker issues, and the next fix for each format before you export. What ThumbPops does: - import photos you choose from your library - cut the subject out on-device and compose depth (Subject Lift) - create wide, vertical, square, podcast, story, and timeline thumbnails - add a headline, subtitle, stickers, creator-style badges, and bold color looks - run Tap Test checks for readability, contrast, brightness, face overlap, and edge risk - use Launch Pack to QA every export format from one design - preview the thumbnail at real scroll-by sizes - auto-place text away from detected faces - use Pro Lab tools for focal placement, legibility, color harmony, templates, and safe zones - keep a brand kit and export score history on-device - export PNG thumbnails when you choose ThumbPops is not a social network and does not post for you. It is a creative utility for checking whether a thumbnail is clear and ready before you publish it. Privacy is simple: no account, no developer cloud, no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, no tracking, and no data collected by the developer. Image analysis runs on device. ThumbPops is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any social platform.

Screenshots

Photo Editor Express+4 screens
ThumbPops4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Photo Editor Express+ at Free against ThumbPops's $0.99. Photo Editor Express+ also leads on iOS requirement (15.4 vs 17.0). ThumbPops's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On update cadence, ads 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

Photo Editor Express+ is free to download; ThumbPops costs $0.99 up front. Photo Editor Express+ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. ThumbPops asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Editor Express+ ships an update every 10 days, ThumbPops weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Photo Editor Express+ versus ThumbPops: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto Editor Express+ThumbPops
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (217 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews51.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings217 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSERGEI BEZDENEZHNYKHRobert Corbin

Bugs and requests

Photo Editor Express+

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Unable to restore purchases
  • Not able to save changes
  • Crop feature not working properly
  • App selects a different photo than selected
  • Sending photos not working on iPad (resolved in July 2024 update)

Requested features

4 requests
  • Provide instructions or a help section
  • Add landscape mode for iPad
  • Improve crop functionality
  • Allow users to turn off crop feature

ThumbPops

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Photo Editor Express+

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Week3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Premium Month3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$9.99
None

ThumbPops

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Photo Editor Express+ free?
Photo Editor Express+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ThumbPops free?
ThumbPops costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Photo Editor Express+ or ThumbPops have ads?
Neither Photo Editor Express+ nor ThumbPops shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Editor Express+ or ThumbPops?
Photo Editor Express+ ships an update every 10 days, and ThumbPops weekly. Most recently, Photo Editor Express+ was updated on October 17, 2026 and ThumbPops on October 19, 2026.

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