Comparison

PhotoPatch Lite vs Cut Paste Photos

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

Head to head
About

PhotoPatch Lite

Features
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Edit and overlap two images in a professional and easy way just using your fingers! Overlay them in creative ways with transparency and blending effects. Select which parts of the images to keep or to erase, add effects to the images. Enjoy a realistic preview of the final result during the entire workflow. Being made by a photographer, this app is conceived with ease of use in mind. Features: - Load background and foreground images from the photo library. - Swap the foreground and the background images and choose the best overlay combination. - Move, scale and rotate the foreground image with your fingers and align it to your liking. - Flip the foreground and background images horizontally or vertically. - Select/unselect areas of the foreground or background images through selection tools and options. - Selection tools: brush, eraser, magic wand, linear and circular gradients with creative user selectable parameters (edge hardness, tolerance, opacity points, ...). - Enable the magnifier on brush and eraser tools for fine-tune masking. - Apply filter effects to the foreground and background images (17 presets available). - Tune the foreground and background images (exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, vibrance, hue and sharpness). - Overlap the foreground and background images with 19 different blending effects. - Vary the transparency of the foreground and the background images. - Undo/Redo your latest action. - Export/Import foreground and background selection masks. - You can even use any other image as a selection mask for the background or foreground image for outstanding creative results. It will be automatically stretched to fit the image it masks. - Enjoy a realtime realistic preview for the entire workflow. - When you're happy with the preview, just press the patch button and the foreground image will be merged to the background one. - Export the resulting image with full original metadata to the Library, Facebook, Twitter, by E-Mail, etc. - Two export formats supported: JPEG (with user selectable quality) and PNG. - Three export sizes offered: Web (max 640 pixels), Medium (max 1024 pixels), Full (original size). - A help page is always available inside the app. The ease of use of this app really opens your mind in a creative way. You can use it to apply textures, watermarks, frames, making double exposures. Just repeat the patching process with different foreground images to make multiple exposures. I'm also an art photographer, look at my portfolio for some samples what you can do with multiple exposures (www.marcoristuccia.com). NOTES This free version ("PhotoPatch Lite") has the following limitations in comparison to the Pro version: - It only exports at Web resolution (max 640 pixels wide). Higher resolutions are disabled. - It only allows JPEG format, PNG format with transparency is disabled. - It only allows JPEG qualities up to 6. Qualities from 7 to 10 are disabled. - The tool's magnifying glass (for fine refinements) is disabled.

About

Cut Paste Photos

Features
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Convenient simple image editor just for cropping and overlaying photos. Simple tools. Nothing extra! The application will allow you to cut a photo along the contour and overlay it on another photo. You can cut out absolutely any object, even the smallest one in any photo, as you can cut it out using two handy tools: the pencil and the lasso. The pencil draws your picture and, at the desired transparency, turns into an eraser. Choose any pencil width. To make the object translucent, select medium transparency of the pencil. Edit edges - manipulate transparency. You can click on the "magic" tool next to the save button: it will allow you to make objects fit perfectly into the background. To crop even the most complex object, you can greatly enlarge the image in manipulation mode (finger), and carefully trim the outline with a pencil or lasso. You can create complex compositions of objects and applications in just a few minutes! Layer as many objects as you want on top of each other. To do this, simply select several photos from the gallery, crop several of them along the contour, and leave one as the background, arrange the pictures beautifully, and then save the composition to the gallery. Tip: first select an overlay image so that it is convenient to cut, and then select a background - the overlay image will not disappear anywhere. Just click on the overlay layer at the bottom and the overlay will move to the top. If you don't like some picture on the screen, swipe it so that it is almost completely hidden and it will be deleted. Saving works by cropping the area. You choose the rectangular area in crop mode that you want to save. Just select an area with a rectangle and click the checkmark, the photo will be saved to the photo gallery. Don't worry about the order of the pictures. The layers (pictures) are shown at the bottom of the screen. With one click on the layer, move the layer above the others. Everything is very simple! You control the order of objects and background. The only thing that may confuse you is the mode you need (manipulation, pencil/eraser or lasso). After training in just a couple of minutes everything will be elementary! Delight your friends on social networks and instant messengers with unusual pictures. Make fakes, memes and jokes! Our application is a simple and convenient tool for all occasions, which can be useful both for memes on social networks and for businesses, websites, logos and banners, when there is no full-fledged editor at hand, and time is running out in minutes. Use the application anywhere: cafe, metro or airplane - the application works offline! Simple technologies from Pimur. Thank you for reading this text to the end. Be sure to share your feedback below - it is very important to us!)

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PhotoPatch Lite at none against Cut Paste Photos's 1. Cut Paste Photos's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 12 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Cut Paste Photos sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. PhotoPatch Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PhotoPatch Lite ships an update every 12 months, Cut Paste Photos fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
PhotoPatch Lite versus Cut Paste Photos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhotoPatch LiteCut Paste Photos
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsFortnightly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS11.08.1 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco RistucciaKseniya Smirnova

In-app purchases

None

PhotoPatch Lite

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Cut Paste Photos

Subscriptions1
  • Premium$0.991 Month

Questions

Is PhotoPatch Lite free?
PhotoPatch Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cut Paste Photos free?
Cut Paste Photos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PhotoPatch Lite or Cut Paste Photos have ads?
Neither PhotoPatch Lite nor Cut Paste Photos shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PhotoPatch Lite or Cut Paste Photos?
PhotoPatch Lite ships an update every 12 months, and Cut Paste Photos fortnightly. Most recently, PhotoPatch Lite was updated on October 26, 2026 and Cut Paste Photos on October 27, 2026.

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