GRIP&SHOOT vs Exacto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GRIP&SHOOT
Enhance your mobile photography and videography with a smart grip that offers improved stability and one-handed control. It features wireless buttons for capturing photos, starting/stopping videos, and zooming, plus a detachable stand for versatile mounting and remote operation.
- Bluetooth Smart Grip for stability
- One-handed wireless button control
- Customizable trigger and zoom buttons
- Detachable stand for mounting
- Remote control up to 100ft away
- Universal phone adapter
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We've all taken pictures and video with our phones; it's a shaky and awkward process. GRIP&SHOOT™ adds everything your mobile device is missing. The Bluetooth Smart Grip is easily attached and provides instant comfort and stability. Wireless buttons now provide you with full one-handed control without ever having to touch your screen. Squeeze the trigger to capture a photo or Start/Stop a video. Use the +/- buttons to Zoom, Control Exposure, Switch Cameras, or anything you'd like! They are completely customizable. Detach the bottom of the grip to reveal the Removable Stand. Mount your phone anywhere or use it to connect to a tripod. The remainder of the Grip now serves as a remote to control your device over 100ft away! The included JawZ Universal Adapter will hold any phone with or without a case (up to 3.5” wide).
Exacto
Easily create precise photo cutouts and remove backgrounds with a powerful pen selection tool. This app brings advanced desktop editing capabilities to your mobile device, allowing for pixel-perfect selections and unlimited layers for complex edits.
- Pen Selection Tool for precise cutouts
- Unlimited layers for multiple selections
- Delete and insert points in selections
- Reset control points
- Unlimited undo/redo
- Autosave projects
- Instant preview
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Quickly remove unwanted backgrounds or create razor-sharp photo cutouts with the Pen Selection Tool. Previously found only in advanced desktop programs, now available for the very first time on iPhone and iPad with a streamlined and much simplified implementation optimized for touch. This incredibly versatile tool offers unique capabilities unmatched by anything else on the App Store. It’s an integral part of the professional toolbox and artists and photographers have relied on it for decades. Now you can too! You no longer have to waste hours working on a single photo only to achieve less than satisfactory results. With Exacto you can make pixel-perfect selections that precisely trace the contours of any subject, no matter how intricate or complex. But that’s not all! Exacto even goes beyond the standard functionality of the Pen Selection Tool by introducing features that provide greater flexibility and control such as the ability to delete and insert points anywhere in the selection, the ability to reset control points, and most importantly, unlimited layers for making multiple selections. In addition, Exacto offers other advanced features that greatly enhance the user experience including unlimited undo / redo, projects autosave, instant preview, and much more! Here’s how it works: 1 - Place points around an area of interest then drag them into position to make a selection. 2 - Add layers to make selections of multiple subjects and areas in your photo. 3 - Keep track of your progress with the full-size instant preview option. 4 - Made a mistake? With unlimited undo / redo your entire editing history is preserved, from start to finish. So you can go backward or forward as many steps as you need. 5 - Must leave in a hurry? With autosave your work is never lost and you can pick up right where you left off at any time. 6 - All done? Save your photo cutout to the Camera Roll or open it in other apps. There’s no limit to the fun and exciting ways you could use your photo cutouts. For example, you could: 1 - Superimpose them on different backgrounds. 2 - Insert them in work or school presentations. 3 - Use them as stickers in chats. 4 - Use them in creating decorative art. 5 - Print them out and make actual cardboard cutouts for special occasions. and on and on! Experiencing issues? Have comments or suggestions for future updates? Please contact us at support@exactoapp.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: GRIP&SHOOT at Free against Exacto's $2.99. Exacto's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (616 vs 10). On review sentiment, 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
GRIP&SHOOT is free to download; Exacto costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Exacto holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exacto has 616 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of GRIP&SHOOT's written reviews are positive against 55% of Exacto's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
GRIP&SHOOT ships an update every 3 months, Exacto every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GRIP&SHOOT | Exacto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (10 ratings) | 4.5 (616 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 55.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 616 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Grip & Shoot | Tinkerworks Apps |
Customer experience
GRIP&SHOOT
Exacto
Bugs and requests
GRIP&SHOOT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Exacto
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on newer iOS versions
- Saving issues, unable to save with transparent background
Requested features
5 requests- Add a refine selection brush
- Ability to add a background layer
- Magnetic lasso tool
- Change the color of the selection outline
- Combine with creative composition tools
In-app purchases
GRIP&SHOOT
No in-app purchases
Exacto
No in-app purchases









