Comparison

PaintUp vs Photo Eraser

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

Head to head
About

PaintUp

Effortlessly remove unwanted objects, blemishes, and distractions from your photos to achieve stunning, picture-perfect results. This user-friendly tool offers professional-quality editing for everyone, from photographers to casual users. Enhance your memories and share flawless images with ease.

Highlights
  • Object removal
  • Blemish correction
  • User-friendly interface
  • High-quality results
  • Save and share functionality
  • Regular updates
Features
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Transform your photos with the power of PaintUp - the ultimate photo editing app that effortlessly removes unwanted objects, blemishes, and distractions from your pictures, leaving you with stunning, picture-perfect results. Whether you're a professional photographer, a social media enthusiast, or just someone who wants to enhance their favorite memories, PaintUp is your go-to tool for flawless photo editing. Key Features: Object Removal: Easily remove unwanted objects, people, or any imperfections from your photos with just a few taps. PaintUp's advanced AI algorithms seamlessly blend the background, making it look like they were never there. Blemish Correction: Say goodbye to skin imperfections and blemishes. PaintUp's precise retouching tools help you achieve flawless, magazine-worthy portraits effortlessly. Quick and Easy: PaintUp's user-friendly interface ensures that you can achieve professional-quality results with minimal effort. No extensive editing skills required. High-Quality Results: PaintUp preserves the quality and resolution of your photos, so you can print or share your edited images without compromising on clarity. Save and Share: Save your edited photos to your device or directly share them on your favorite social media platforms, impressing your friends and followers with your newfound editing skills. Regular Updates: Expect continuous improvements, new features, and optimizations to keep PaintUp at the forefront of photo editing technology. Unleash your creativity and enhance your photography with PaintUp. Whether you want to remove that photobombing stranger from your travel pictures or erase an unwanted background element, PaintUp makes it easy. Download PaintUp now and start creating picture-perfect memories today!

About

Photo Eraser

Easily remove unwanted people, objects, text, or entire backgrounds from your photos with a single tap. This tool offers photo-realistic results without leaving edit marks, perfect for enhancing product listings, travel shots, and portraits.

Highlights
  • Remove people and objects
  • Erase text and watermarks
  • Remove entire backgrounds
  • Batch background removal
  • Photo-real results
  • Full-resolution exports (Pro)
Features
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Tap anyone or anything in your photo and it's gone. Eraser removes people, objects, signs and text, fills the spot so it looks like nothing was there, and saves in full resolution. Everything happens on your iPhone or iPad. Your photos are never uploaded. TAP IT. GONE. Tap a person or object and Eraser selects it, shadow included. Tap Remove and the space fills in naturally. Brush, Lasso and Erase are there for fine edits, with pinch to zoom. FINDS DISTRACTIONS FOR YOU Passers-by and stray people are spotted and marked automatically. Select them all, remove them in one go. REMOVE ALL TEXT Shop signs, captions and stray words, cleared in one tap. CLEAR SKIN Acne, spots and blemishes removed while pores and skin texture stay real. Choose how much to smooth. RESTORE OLD PHOTOS Blurry, soft and old faces made sharp again, and small photos upscaled at the same time. REPAIR SCRATCHES (BETA) Scratches, cracks and dust on scanned prints found for you and repaired. MOVE ANYTHING Lift an object and place it somewhere else. The old spot fills in. CUT OUT ANY SUBJECT Remove the background in one tap and save a transparent PNG, or put the subject on a new color. Do up to 10 photos at once with Batch. UPSCALE Make small photos 2x or 4x bigger and sharper. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-in, no uploads. Every edit runs on your device. ERASER PRO Try Pro free for 7 days, then $29.99 a year. Pro unlocks Tap to remove, Move, Remove all text, Retouch, Restore, Repair, background removal, Batch and full-quality saves with no watermark. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase after the trial. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://bilalnawaz.com/privacy.html QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK eraser@viorastudio.com

Screenshots

PaintUp3 screens
Photo Eraser4 screens

Verdict

The call

PaintUp and Photo Eraser both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of PaintUp's written reviews are positive against 50% of Photo Eraser's. Photo Eraser's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. PaintUp sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Photo Eraser sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PaintUp against 5.0 for Photo Eraser. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Photo Eraser has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of PaintUp's written reviews are positive against 50% of Photo Eraser's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PaintUp versus Photo Eraser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaintUpPhoto Eraser
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB112 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKarolis Raiselisumer nawaz

Customer experience

PaintUp

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Photo Eraser

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

PaintUp

One-time2
  • PaintUp Premium$0.99
  • PaintUp Premium$1.99
3 purchases

Photo Eraser

Subscriptions2
  • PixEraser Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • PixEraser Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Magic Eraser$49.99

Questions

Is PaintUp free?
PaintUp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Photo Eraser free?
Photo Eraser is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PaintUp or Photo Eraser?
PaintUp and Photo Eraser are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do PaintUp or Photo Eraser have ads?
Neither PaintUp nor Photo Eraser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PaintUp or Photo Eraser?
PaintUp ships an update every 3 months, and Photo Eraser every 3 months. Most recently, PaintUp was updated on October 30, 2026 and Photo Eraser on October 30, 2026.

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