Comparison

Portrait Polish vs PixelGone

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

Head to head
About

Portrait Polish

This app offers natural portrait retouching for selfies and headshots. Enhance skin, add lip color, and apply flattering presets with intuitive controls. It preserves your original photos while allowing detailed editing and comparison.

Highlights
  • Natural skin smoothing
  • Lip color and gloss controls
  • Ready-made presets
  • Manual fine-tuning
  • Before and after preview
  • Zoom and pan for detail
  • Dark editing interface
Features
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Portrait Polish is a private, camera-style portrait editor made for quick, natural retouching. Enhance selfies, headshots, and full-body portraits with soft skin polish, balanced brightness, lip color, lip gloss, and flattering ready-made looks. The editor keeps the photo front and center, so you can zoom, pan, compare before and after, and save a polished copy without changing your original image. Why people use Portrait Polish: - Natural skin smoothing for faces and visible skin - Lip color and gloss controls for a finished look - Fresh, Soft, Glow, Matte, and Vivid presets - Manual fine tuning when a preset is not enough - Before and after preview while editing - Pinch zoom, pan, and zoom buttons for detail work - Simple dark editing interface inspired by camera apps - No account, no social feed, no complicated workflow Portrait Polish is built for people who want photos to look a little cleaner, brighter, and more polished while still looking like themselves.

About

PixelGone

Features
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PixelGone makes it easy to remove unwanted objects and distractions from your photos. Choose a photo, position the reticle or draw over the area to remove, then let PixelGone reconstruct the image directly on your device. Features: • Precise reticle for small corrections • Freehand selection for larger objects • AI-powered image reconstruction • Undo, redo and reset controls • Export without modifying the original photo • Fully local processing Your photos are processed entirely on your device and are never uploaded to a server.

Screenshots

Portrait Polish4 screens
PixelGone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Portrait Polish at daily against PixelGone's every 9 days. Portrait Polish also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Portrait Polish ships an update daily, PixelGone every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Portrait Polish versus PixelGone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPortrait PolishPixelGone
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB215 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpace 64 LLCMaxime Daymard

In-app purchases

None

Portrait Polish

No in-app purchases

None

PixelGone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Portrait Polish free?
Portrait Polish is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PixelGone free?
PixelGone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Portrait Polish or PixelGone have ads?
Neither Portrait Polish nor PixelGone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Portrait Polish or PixelGone?
Portrait Polish ships an update daily, and PixelGone every 9 days. Most recently, Portrait Polish was updated on October 24, 2026 and PixelGone on October 13, 2026.

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