Background Eraser ⁺ vs Atelier Easel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Background Eraser ⁺
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This application provides cool photo editing tools that can help you easily edit photos. The operation is very simple. Gently apply the tool to the area to be cut. Whether it's life photos or landscape photos, you can create perfect masking effects. The font texture, photo beautification, background changes, and starlight beautification functions allow you to enjoy the fun of image editing! It is easy to remove unwanted objects from photos. Application features -Multiple starlight styles, one click production and generation. -Multiple text styles, add descriptive text, and create with just one click. -Use smudging and brush tools to quickly pick hair. -Erase the selected masking area. -Free to change the background of the image. -Free cropping of images. If you have any questions or suggestions during use, please feel free to give us feedback in the application.
Atelier Easel
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Paint, draw, and edit images with layers, brushes, and filters, by touch or with Apple Pencil on iPad. Easel is an image editor for iPhone and iPad. Paint with your finger, or with an Apple Pencil on iPad that responds to pressure and tilt. Work in layers with masks and groups, and edit photos directly from the Photos app. Files - Open Easel images, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, Photoshop (.psd), and Pixelmator Pro (.pxd) files - Save as an Easel image, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, or Photoshop (.psd) with layers, masks, and groups - Export presets that save a format, a quality, and a maximum size, and export several at once - Edit a photo from the Photos app's Edit menu - Preview Easel and Pixelmator Pro images in Files Painting and Drawing - Brushes, an eraser, fill and gradient tools, and an eyedropper - Round, pencil, calligraphy, airbrush, and chalk brush tips, with paper grain - Save your own brushes by name, alongside a few built-in ones - A ruler you move, turn, and stretch with your fingers, so you can draw straight lines along it - Vector shapes, lines, and arrows, plus a pen tool, node editing, and combining shapes by unite, subtract, intersect, and exclude - Text, including text along a path - Symmetry drawing: vertical, horizontal, or both - Swatches saved with each image Apple Pencil on iPad - Pressure and tilt shape each stroke - Shade with a tilted pencil, and turn the calligraphy nib as you lean it - See the brush outline under a hovering Apple Pencil or pointer Retouching - Smudge, blur, mosaic, heal, and clone - Liquify to push and pull pixels - Fill a selection from its surroundings - Remove the background, keeping the subject - Adjust exposure, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, vibrance, temperature, tint, hue, sharpness, and vignette Selecting and Transforming - Rectangle, ellipse, lasso, color-based, and object selection, including selecting a subject - Move, crop, rotate, and flip - Distort a layer in perspective or warp it on a grid - Guides, rulers, and snapping to help line things up Layers - Layers with blend modes, groups, and masks - Filters and adjustments on a layer: black and white, sepia, saturation, brightness, contrast, levels, curves, color balance, gradient map, mosaic, noise reduction, and Gaussian, motion, zoom, and lens blur - Change the canvas size, and place the artwork by an anchor, scale it to fit, or stretch it to fill Shortcuts - Resize images, convert their format, and remove their background with Shortcuts actions you can chain together Working Faster - Keyboard shortcuts with a hardware keyboard to copy, paste, nudge layers, size brushes, and zoom - A history panel to go back to any step and compare with the original
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Atelier Easel at none against Background Eraser ⁺'s shown. Background Eraser ⁺'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Background Eraser ⁺ | Atelier Easel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 周桂 吴 | Justin Xin |
In-app purchases
Background Eraser ⁺
No in-app purchases
Atelier Easel
No in-app purchases





