Comparison

CropSize vs Big Photos

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

Head to head
About

CropSize

Precisely crop, resize, and edit photos for various projects and social media. Offers advanced control over dimensions, color adjustments, and metadata. Automate tasks with batch processing and save custom workflows.

Highlights
  • Precise photo cropping and resizing
  • Multiple resize modes (Stretch, Insert, Clip, Canvas)
  • Customizable aspect ratios and units
  • Photo filters and effects
  • Batch processing for multiple images
  • Save and reuse editing workflows
  • Metadata editing (DPI, creation date)
Features
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CropSize is your go-to app for precise image resizing and editing. Make your photos the perfect size, composition, and quality for photo library, social media, and various projects. Enhance results with accurate color adjustments and properly crafted metadata. Automate the entire editing process with batch processing and workflows. Share and print your creations in the right format and dimensions. All these tasks are easily achievable with CropSize—an excellent addition to your photo editing toolkit! As an essential element of your editing arsenal, CropSize plays a distinctive role as it allows to specify exact sizes and positions for image crop and resize, where other apps offer only approximate solutions. It also provides detailed information throughout the editing process, making your experience more transparent and intuitive. Additionally, the app's ability to operate in various units of measurement can notably streamline your workflows. With these comprehensive features, CropSize ensures you have the control you need to achieve your editing goals: PHOTO CROP • Crop photos in Standard and Inverse Crop modes, using pixels, inches, centimeters, or percentages • Adjust the size and position of the crop frame using gestures or by entering values on the keyboard • Rotate images smoothly within a 0-360° range with a slider or specify rotation angle via keyboard (Long press slider) • Change the crop aspect ratio using customizable presets (Long press Ratio button) • Adjust the crop position and size by one pixel in correction mode (Tap a marker) • View crop-specific image details, including size, position, rotation, and estimated file size IMAGE RESIZE • Resize images in Stretch, Insert, Clip, and Canvas Size modes, using pixels, inches, centimeters, or percentages • Specify exact image size via the keyboard or customizable presets, up to 9000 x 9000 pixels (81 megapixels) • Resize proportionally with a percentage slider or specify the relative size via the keyboard (Long press slider) • Adjust position using gestures and one-pixel corrections for Insert, Clip, and Canvas Size modes • Preview changes in actual size • View resize-specific image details, including size, offset, and estimated file size PHOTO FILTER • Apply any combination of photo filters and effects, including Chrome, Bloom, Vignette, Sepia, Sharpen, Blur, and more • Adjust filter intensity using a slider or horizontal on-screen gestures • View changes Before / After using two-finger gestures BATCH PROCESSING & WORKFLOWS • Edit multiple photos simultaneously, applying the same combinations of crop, resize, color, orientation, and metadata changes to all of them • Use workflows by saving entire editing sessions as reusable Programs on the History screen, and accessing them from the Load screen • Edit up to 50 photos shared with CropSize from other apps or the Photo Library PHOTO METADATA • View image details on the Load and Metadata screen • Update photo DPI and creation date • Provide information and copyrights using up to 25 fields of IPTC metadata • Remove original GPS, EXIF, TIFF, and JFIF details from your photos • Create and manage multiple metadata profiles for better organization IMAGE ORIENTATION: • Flip and rotate images using one-finger swipe gestures on the Main and Batch Processing screen SHARE AND PRINT: • Choose export formats: Auto, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and HEIC, with compression quality for JPEG and HEIC • Specify metadata settings using one of your previously created metadata profiles • Configure export filenames using original values, custom entries, or filename patterns • Save images to the Photo Library, automatically organizing Results and Originals into a convenient album structure • Print multiple photos on A4, Letter, and other page sizes using exclusive “Print Plus” option from sharing menu GUIDES • Explore our step-by-step guides: https://www.cropsize.com/guides • Watch the video overview of main features: https://vimeo.com/188002923

About

Big Photos

Enlarge or downsize photos to custom dimensions with advanced editing tools. View images at pixel-level detail, remove privacy information, and convert photos to styled paintings. Supports batch processing and picking pictures from videos.

Highlights
  • Enlarge/downsize photos to custom sizes
  • Remove GPS and privacy information
  • High-quality blow-up results with crop tool
  • Unlimited zooming for large images
  • Rotate/flip at any angle, support alpha channel
  • Batch resizing and sharing
  • Photo to styled painting conversion
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Based on Big Photo - "Best 100 iPhoneography Apps" - italianeography.com 1. Big Photos provides multiple options to enlarge or down size your photos or images to any custom sizes, set metadata options - set or update copyright and author information, remove GPS and privacy related information 2. Big Photos provides crop tool to crop a "small" portion out of your full resolution photos/images, and produce high quality "blow up" results. 3. Big Photos provides full resolution viewer with unlimited zooming capability to view large images or photos over 45MPs (like panoramas) up to 115MP for latest iPhone/iPad, as well as small icons, all in full resolution, and zoom into pixel level. 4. Big Photos provides Rotate/Flip at any angle, support alpha channel (transparent region) 5. View EXIF data and estimate print size with the extension "Info By Big Photos" 6. Pick picture from video for editing/saving 7. Unlimited batch resizing of same sized photos, or freely select any number of photos to share with preprocessing - auto crop to square, downsize to certain dimension, export to JPG/PNG/TIFF. 8. Photo reviewer - excellent support for painting from photos - configurable zoom scale or display size, viewports saved for continuous views. Also a great tool for examining image details for large photos. 9. Photo to styled painting. 10. Super resolution - improve quality where size up. In-App purchase required except the extension "Info By Big Photos" For user terms and conditions, please visit: https://zynsoft.net/user-terms-and-conditions/ For privacy policy, please visit: https://zynsoft.net/privacy-policy/ (Keywords: full resolution, digital zoom, photo viewer, photo reviewer, crop, resize, scale, rotate, flip, very large photo, very big picture, very large image, huge image, huge picture, huge photo, iTunes File Sharing, photo import, photo export)

Screenshots

CropSize4 screens
Big Photos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CropSize at 83% against Big Photos's 25%. CropSize also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Big Photos's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Big Photos is free to download; CropSize costs $4.99 up front. Big Photos sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. CropSize asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CropSize holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CropSize has 413 ratings behind it against 54, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of CropSize's written reviews are positive against 25% of Big Photos's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CropSize ships an update fortnightly, Big Photos every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
CropSize versus Big Photos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCropSizeBig Photos
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (413 ratings) — better4.0 (54 ratings)
Positive reviews82.7% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings413 — better54
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB239 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAliaksei KhutarshchykauZynsoft LLC

Customer experience

CropSize

All ratings411 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive82.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative12.0%

Big Photos

All ratings53 ratings
Positive71.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative24.5%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative68.8%

Bugs and requests

CropSize

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Resized images not saving correctly
  • App crashing on launch
  • Inability to export edited images

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for Live Photos and videos
  • Allow importing images from file system
  • Improve batch processing workflow
  • Add more image editing tools
  • Provide better visual feedback during editing

Big Photos

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CropSize

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Big Photos

Subscriptions3
  • Photo Edit and Zoom$2.991 Year
  • Batch Photo Services$3.991 Year
  • All Inclusive Services$4.991 Year

Questions

Is CropSize free?
CropSize costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Big Photos free?
Big Photos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CropSize or Big Photos?
CropSize is rated higher. CropSize averages 4.7 out of 5 from 413 ratings, while Big Photos averages 4.0 from 54 ratings.
Do CropSize or Big Photos have ads?
Neither CropSize nor Big Photos shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CropSize or Big Photos?
CropSize ships an update fortnightly, and Big Photos every 2 weeks. Most recently, CropSize was updated on November 6, 2026 and Big Photos on November 3, 2026.

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