Cropper Reframe vs CleanAi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cropper Reframe
Easily transform landscape videos into perfectly framed vertical clips for social media. This app processes all footage on your device, ensuring privacy and no watermarks on free exports. It offers multiple tracking methods and cinematic transition options for professional results.
- On-device video processing
- Automatic subject tracking
- Manual and keyframe cropping
- Cinematic transition styles
- Live before/after preview
- Import from cloud storage
- Multiple export aspect ratios
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Cropper is the vertical video editor for iPhone. Crop wide footage to vertical for Reels, TikTok, and Shorts. Reframe with one finger. Add captions. Export on the phone. Nothing is uploaded. The app is free forever with a center Cropper mark. There is no time-limited trial. Cropper Pro removes the mark. CROP TO VERTICAL - Load a video, then turn the phone sideways to frame it - One finger drags the crop up, down, and across - Two fingers pinch to zoom - Hand, Keyframe, and Track sit beside the monitor - Movie or Smooth sets how the crop moves between keyframes - The next screen plays those keyframes. It does not add new ones You steer the frame. Cropper does not auto-center the shot. CAPTIONS Speech-to-text runs on the iPhone. - Edit every line - Styles on the player: Highlight, Bounce, Paint, Comic Book, and more - Place the line at the top, middle, or bottom - Auto detect, or pick a language. English is the default If captions are on, they show on the before and after pictures at export. ENHANCE AND LOGO - Before and after, side by side - Off, Light, Auto, or Manual - Manual: brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, sharpening, and denoise - Add a logo. Set position, size, and opacity - Play sits with the picture so you can check the grade EXPORT Before and after are at the top. Play is directly underneath. The crop, captions, enhance, and logo are in the file. Free exports keep the center Cropper mark. Pro removes it. 9:16, for Reels, TikTok, and Shorts. WHY CROPPER Most reframing apps upload the footage or hide the work in a timeline. Cropper keeps every frame on the iPhone. CROPPER PRO The tier name is what you buy: - Cropper Pro Monthly: $4.99 - Cropper Pro Annual: $19.99 - Cropper Pro Lifetime: $99.99 Pro includes unlimited clean exports, AI subject tracking, Light / Auto / Manual enhance, and up to 4K. No time-limited trial. The free app is how you try it: exports keep the Cropper mark until you buy Pro. Cancel a subscription anytime in Settings. MADE FOR - Sports: crop to vertical around the play - Podcasts: center the host in a tall frame - Fashion and product: keep the subject in frame - Anyone posting for Reels without giving up the wide shot Created and distributed by Aria Media Technologies, Inc. Designed by Rocco Contini, professional video editor for 20+ years and CEO of Aria Media Technologies, Inc. Privacy Policy: https://cropper.video/privacy Support: https://cropper.video
CleanAi
This app removes hidden metadata like device information, location, and timestamps from your photos and videos before sharing. It also offers a text rewriting feature to lightly rephrase captions while preserving meaning. All processing happens on your device for enhanced privacy.
- Removes EXIF, location, and device metadata
- Clears C2PA content credentials
- Preserves photo/video resolution and bitrate
- Lightly rewords text while retaining meaning
- On-device processing for privacy
- Batch cleaning for photos and videos (Pro)
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CleanAi clears the hidden metadata from your own photos and videos before you share them. Every file carries more than the image. Camera and editing apps write EXIF data: device, location, timestamps. AI tools write C2PA content credentials and generator signatures into the file itself. Platforms read this data on upload — it's how they know where a file came from, and how they decide to add an AI disclosure label to your post. CleanAi re-encodes your file natively through Apple's CoreImage and AVFoundation, the same frameworks the Camera and Photos apps use. The new copy carries none of the old file's metadata or credentials. Resolution and bitrate are preserved, with no visible quality loss. HOW IT WORKS Pick a photo or video, tap Clean, save the copy to your camera roll, then post it as usual. A photo takes about a second, a short video a few seconds. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Photo and video cleaning runs entirely on your iPhone. No upload, no cloud step, no account required, and no server ever sees your media. NEW: CLEAN YOUR TEXT Paste a caption, a description or a short post, up to 2,000 characters, and get a lightly reworded version. The meaning, tone, facts, names, numbers and links are preserved; only a few words and turns of phrase change. Not quite right? Tap Rewrite again. Text cleaning is processed by a third-party AI service, with your consent, and CleanAi never stores your text. WHAT IT DOES - Removes C2PA content credentials and generator signatures - Removes EXIF, location and device metadata - Works on photos and videos, with optional crop and trim - Lightly rewords your text while keeping its meaning and facts - Batch clean several files at once with Pro WHAT IT DOES NOT DO It does not touch posts already published, does not connect to any platform, and does not alter watermarks embedded in the pixels themselves. CleanAi only works on media you own and have the right to modify. WORTH KNOWING TikTok and Meta both state that the AI label is a disclosure, not a ranking factor. What it changes is how your work reads to someone scrolling past it. PLANS - Free: 5 cleans - Starter (15 cleans) and Creator (50 cleans): one-time credit packs, credits never expire. A clean works on a photo, a video or a text - Pro: unlimited photo & video cleans, up to 100 text cleans per day, and batch mode, monthly auto-renewable subscription Privacy Policy: https://www.cleanaiapp.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.cleanaiapp.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Cropper Reframe at 36 against CleanAi's 1. Cropper Reframe also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). CleanAi's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Cropper Reframe sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and CleanAi sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CleanAi holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cropper Reframe has 36 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cropper Reframe ships an update weekly, CleanAi every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cropper Reframe | CleanAi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (36 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rocco Contini | YANIS AREZKI AHMED HERDA |
Customer experience
Cropper Reframe
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In-app purchases
Cropper Reframe
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Annual$19.991 Year
- Cropper: Vertical Video Editor$99.99
CleanAi
- Pro$6.991 Month
- Starter Pack$1.99
- Creator Pack$3.99
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