Comparison

Blur Square vs No Crop

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

Head to head
About

Blur Square

Create attractive blurred frames for your photos without cropping. Select an image, apply a blur effect, and adjust it with intuitive sliders. Save and share your creations easily to social media.

Highlights
  • Blurred frame effect
  • No cropping required
  • Adjustable blur and fade
  • Pinch zoom for control
  • Save to gallery
  • Direct sharing
Features
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Do you have a super-cool photo that you just can't bare to crop for uploading? Don't crop it! Use Blur Square to create a really awesome blurred frame effect instead. * To use, first select a photo from your gallery, then tap the lightning icon to see the blur. * You can tweak the effect by pinch zooming and modifying the fade and blur sliders. * Once your happy, tap the download icon to save it to your photo gallery. * Once saved you can share the photo to other apps (like Instagram) with another tap. If you experience any problems when using this app, please contact me for support (hello@playir.com).

About

No Crop

Easily post full-size photos to social media without cropping. This app offers a quick way to square your images and includes a variety of editing tools like frames, effects, filters, and text overlays.

Highlights
  • Post full-size photos without cropping
  • Square photos quickly
  • Add frames, effects, and filters
  • Add text, captions, and stickers
  • Blur image background
  • Save and share high-quality photos
Features
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No Crop provide a best way to post full size photo. No crop help you save your time, If you are tired of cropping images, It is the best way to square your photos quickly. Square sized is All-In-One Photo editor with many amazing frames, effects, filters, captions... FEATURES - Square size help to post entire photo. The best and simplest no crop photo editor - Make collage photo your photos be more popular with funny sticker and texts. - Add unique frames for inside photo: There are many beautiful frame for your photos - Unique photo effects art & photo filters - Blur image background is a powerful to make blur background for square function. - Add over 150+ texts, captions, stickers and funny emojis: You can add text and emoji together on you photo. - Writing text on photo with font studio - Pinch to resize the photo, Rotate, flip, crop photo with multiple ratio, 1:1 , 2:3, 4:3... - Save high quality photos and share to media social networks - Simple and easy to use interface. Thanks for your using and make feedback if you enjoy No Crop.

Screenshots

Blur Square4 screens
No Crop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: No Crop at 4.7 against Blur Square's 4.2. No Crop also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (11K vs 5). Blur Square's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). On price, review sentiment 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. Blur Square sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. No Crop asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

No Crop holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: No Crop has 11K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 39% and 40% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blur Square ships an update every 2 months, No Crop every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Blur Square versus No Crop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlur SquareNo Crop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings)4.7 (11K ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.1% of reviews40.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings511K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAshraf SamyHOANG PHAM

Customer experience

Blur Square

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive39.1%
Neutral8.7%
Negative52.2%

No Crop

All ratings10,598 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews180 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral9.4%
Negative50.6%

Bugs and requests

Blur Square

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

No Crop

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Save error when trying to save images
  • App crashes unexpectedly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow selecting multiple images to edit
  • Add option for plain black or white borders
  • Improve quality of exported images
  • Reduce number of ads

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Blur Square

One-time1
  • PRO Version$0.99
None

No Crop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Blur Square free?
Blur Square is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is No Crop free?
No Crop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Blur Square or No Crop?
No Crop is rated higher. Blur Square averages 4.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while No Crop averages 4.7 from 11K ratings.
Do Blur Square or No Crop have ads?
No Crop shows ads; Blur Square does not.
Which is updated more often, Blur Square or No Crop?
Blur Square ships an update every 2 months, and No Crop every 8 months. Most recently, Blur Square was updated on October 10, 2026 and No Crop on October 18, 2026.

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