Comparison

Background Eraser 〜 Stickers vs Simple BackgroundEraser

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

Head to head
About

Background Eraser 〜 Stickers

Easily remove backgrounds from photos to create transparent images. Use these cutouts as stickers in other editing apps for photomontage, collages, and composite photos. Features include automatic AI cutout, edge detection, and automatic pixel erasing for precise results.

Highlights
  • Automatic AI background removal
  • Create transparent images
  • Use as stickers in other apps
  • Photomontage and collage creation
  • Edge detection for accurate erasing
  • Automatic pixel erasing
Read full description

◇ Background Eraser helps you cut pictures and make a picture’s background transparent. ◇ Use the results as stickers in other apps, such as PhotoLayers, for photomontage, collage, and composite photos. ◇◇◇ Features ◇◇◇ ◇ Automatic AI cutout for background transparent images. ◇ “Star” mode - Detects image edges to erase more easily and accurately. ◇ “Auto” mode - Erases similar pixels automatically. Accurate background transparent cutouts are essential when you want to superimpose photos and create high-quality composite photos. This app helps you make clean cutouts quickly and easily.

About

Simple BackgroundEraser

Easily remove image backgrounds by selecting similar colors or manually erasing. Features include zoom, crop, and a magnifier for precise edits. Save and share transparent images to your camera roll or other apps.

Highlights
  • Remove similar color backgrounds
  • Adjustable finger erase
  • Automatic wand erase
  • Magnifier view for precision
  • Crop photos
  • Rotate and zoom images
Features
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Simple PhotoEraser -- Cut Out Image Background Eraser This app help to remove similar colour of image/photo background easily, and save/share transparency image back to camera roll. Also can share to any other apps. Major features: - Easy rotate and zoom in/out with two fingers. Otherwise, easy drag with one finger. - Provide Magnifier view, make erase operation smoothly. - Crop Mode: crop your photos quickly and easily. - Wand Erase: select similar colour area automatically - Finger Erase: remove area with adjustable erase size. Other features: - Snapshot mechanism, latest 3 images will be backed up. These images will be recovered while crash accident. - Redo/Undo will only keep latest 10 images. - Remove small island pixels after wand/erase operation. Note: Some export methods will remove the transparent layer, such as COPY, LINE, etc. Save Image, AirDrop or Email will be better. === Detail for "Sponsor program(No ads during reward service period)" on iAP: We have run tens of operations for many years and will strive for long-term operation. However, please be noted that there will be no refund upon the suspension of service due to situations out of our control.

Screenshots

Background Eraser 〜 Stickers4 screens
Simple BackgroundEraser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Background Eraser 〜 Stickers at none against Simple BackgroundEraser's 1. Background Eraser 〜 Stickers also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (83% vs 57%). Simple BackgroundEraser's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Simple BackgroundEraser sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Background Eraser 〜 Stickers asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Background Eraser 〜 Stickers holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Background Eraser 〜 Stickers has 42K ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Background Eraser 〜 Stickers's written reviews are positive against 57% of Simple BackgroundEraser's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Background Eraser 〜 Stickers ships an update every 4 months, Simple BackgroundEraser monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Background Eraser 〜 Stickers versus Simple BackgroundEraser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackground Eraser 〜 StickersSimple BackgroundEraser
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (42K ratings) — better4.3 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better56.7% of reviews
Number of ratings42K — better27
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB28 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperhandyCloset Inc.DoItWell Application Ltd

Customer experience

Background Eraser 〜 Stickers

All ratings40,948 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews1,126 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral4.4%
Negative12.3%

Simple BackgroundEraser

All ratings27 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.8%
Written reviews60 reviews
Positive56.7%
Neutral10.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Background Eraser 〜 Stickers

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Cursor/selection tool behaves unexpectedly at times
  • Partial background removal even after using transparent option

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add video background eraser
  • Implement undo/draw function for more precise edits
  • Option to remove ads for a one-time fee

Simple BackgroundEraser

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Background Eraser 〜 Stickers

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple BackgroundEraser

One-time1
  • Donation program (NoAds)$3.99

Questions

Is Background Eraser 〜 Stickers free?
Background Eraser 〜 Stickers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple BackgroundEraser free?
Simple BackgroundEraser is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Background Eraser 〜 Stickers or Simple BackgroundEraser?
Background Eraser 〜 Stickers is rated higher. Background Eraser 〜 Stickers averages 4.7 out of 5 from 42K ratings, while Simple BackgroundEraser averages 4.3 from 27 ratings.
Do Background Eraser 〜 Stickers or Simple BackgroundEraser have ads?
Both Background Eraser 〜 Stickers and Simple BackgroundEraser show ads.
Which is updated more often, Background Eraser 〜 Stickers or Simple BackgroundEraser?
Background Eraser 〜 Stickers ships an update every 4 months, and Simple BackgroundEraser monthly. Most recently, Background Eraser 〜 Stickers was updated on October 30, 2026 and Simple BackgroundEraser on October 29, 2026.

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