SimpleSign HG vs Photo Rubber
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleSign HG
Display full-size characters and words on a full screen with customizable fonts, colors, and backgrounds. Long sentences can slide across the screen with animation, useful for various situations like quizzes or communicating from a distance.
- Full-screen character and word display
- Customizable fonts and colors
- Image background support
- Sliding animation for long sentences
- Save sentences and colors
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Full version for free app “SimpleSign”. Display full size characters and words in the full screen. Long sentence can slide through screen with animation. - Showing score or answer of quiz in party - Contact to the person that stands far from you - Substitution of signboard etc. It is useful in many situation. [Functional Description] - Appears one character on screen from 45 different characters - Changing color of character and background - Changing font type - Set an image as the background - Long sentence can be displayed by one line or paragraph with sliding animation on/off [Differences from free version of SimpleSign] - No more advertisement - Sentence and color can be saved - Feature to set an image as the background
Photo Rubber
Easily obscure sensitive information in photos before sharing. This tool allows for precise blurring, cropping, and resizing to prepare images for social media or direct sharing, while also managing EXIF data.
- Precise blurring of unwanted areas
- Cropping and resizing for social media
- EXIF data viewing and deletion
- Zoom up to 20x for detailed editing
- Undo functionality for all edits
- Direct sharing to social media and mail
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The "Photo Rubber" is very convenient blur application to be able to easily cover the place that you do not want to show before contributing a photograph. You can also hide the slight wrinkle / stain with thinly blur to the small point. You can operate these series of work with one the "Photo Rubber". And all operations are very simple! 1.Trim an unnecessary part and zoom in the place that you want to show. 2.Blur the small place that you do not want to show. 3.Resize it to size in conformity to the destination SNS site. 4.Confirm the photography date and time, GPS information, etc. which has been deleted. 5.Send to SNS directly. If you do not need to edit, You are reliable when you always confirm photograph information with "Photo Rubber" and contribute it. !! Thanks for all! Exceeded total 970,000 DL. Ranked in #7 at the top free ranking of photo & video category in Japan, and #3 at "Most used free app ranking" by AppBank. [Useful point of Photo Rubber] - The Photo Rubber does not reduce image size without your permission, Therefore, a picture of the part not to blur off does not decline. - You can zoom an image up to 20 times scale and can confirm the details and can edit directly. - You can confirm strength of the blur while rubbing it, and blur becomes more strong when you rub it more. - In the "Colored Blur" mode, You can blur with the color of the point where you started to touch. - In the "clear" mode, You can clear the point where you rubbed. - You can simply trim frame by adjusting corner marker. Aspect ratio adjusting also OK. - You change the image size easily by selecting menu with recommended size. - All editing features come in Undo. Undo buttons will repeat by long press. - You can see the information (exif information) stored in a photograph in visible form clearly and you can appoint it in one-touch which information you want to delete(all the basics delete it). - You can send to Mail/Twitter/Facebook/LINE or every app which can process image. Off course you can save the image to photo library with one touch. [Information from Photo Rubber] The Photo Rubber does not reduce image size without your permission when it is very large size, and blur it with original image size.Therefore, a picture of the part not to blur off does not decline. But big memory may be necessary for this processing. You may find a flag of surrender message with effort for ten seconds when going to blur too big image size at a time. In that case, please do resizing it to slightly small size. You can edit the image smoothly when you use smaller image. If your primary usage is posting to SNS, you should set the auto resize for suitable size to posting site. [support URL] If you want to know detailed usage or latest information, please come to http://www.takechansoft.com/photorubber/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Photo Rubber at Free against SimpleSign HG's $0.99. Photo Rubber also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.5). SimpleSign HG's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Photo Rubber is free to download; SimpleSign HG costs $0.99 up front. Photo Rubber sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SimpleSign HG asks for nothing beyond the download.
SimpleSign HG ships an update every 10 months, Photo Rubber every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleSign HG | Photo Rubber |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 89.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | idota limited | KAZUYA TAKECHI |
Customer experience
SimpleSign HG
Photo Rubber
In-app purchases
SimpleSign HG
No in-app purchases
Photo Rubber
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