Comparison

Photo Editor Express+ vs BUFFR

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
Read full description

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

BUFFR

Features
Read full description

BUFFR e una camera buffer per creare replay istantanei durante eventi live, sport, backstage e contenuti social. Avvia il buffer, registra in continuo e salva rapidamente gli ultimi secondi in clip pronte da rivedere, condividere o sincronizzare nel cloud. Pensata per creator, editor e operatori sul campo, BUFFR aiuta a non perdere momenti importanti: goal, azioni salienti, highlight e scene improvvise possono essere salvati con un tap. La gallery integrata permette di rivedere le clip, scaricare contenuti sincronizzati e gestire il flusso di lavoro in modo rapido.

Screenshots

Photo Editor Express+4 screens
BUFFR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BUFFR at none against Photo Editor Express+'s 4. BUFFR also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days). Photo Editor Express+'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.4 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. Photo Editor Express+ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. BUFFR asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Editor Express+ ships an update every 10 days, BUFFR every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Photo Editor Express+ versus BUFFR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto Editor Express+BUFFR
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (217 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews51.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings217 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSERGEI BEZDENEZHNYKHRIGHELLO SRL

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

BUFFR

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

BUFFR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Photo Editor Express+ free?
Photo Editor Express+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BUFFR free?
BUFFR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Photo Editor Express+ or BUFFR have ads?
Neither Photo Editor Express+ nor BUFFR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Editor Express+ or BUFFR?
Photo Editor Express+ ships an update every 10 days, and BUFFR every 2 days. Most recently, Photo Editor Express+ was updated on October 27, 2026 and BUFFR on October 24, 2026.

Other comparisons