QromaScan vs iCut
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QromaScan
Effortlessly scan and organize your physical photos using your iPhone and voice commands. Simply speak the date, location, and people to automatically tag and categorize your images as you scan them.
- Voice-activated scanning
- Automatic photo tagging
- Geotagging capabilities
- Contact and GEDCOM file integration
- Dedicated LED lightbox for optimal scanning
- Organizes photos into sharable digital images
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QromaScan makes it dead simple to scan and organize your photos in one easy step with the two things you use the most everyday; your iPhone and your voice. Just say the date, location and people in your photos, and QromaScan will tag and organize your photos as it scans! QromaScan requires the purchase of the QromaScan Lightbox, which provides the ideal environment for scanning your photos. It’s 12 brilliant LED lights are specifically calibrated to make your photos look brilliant without effecting the look. Forget about all those blurry photos with a big glare right in the middle of it last time you tried to take a picture of a picture. The QromaScan Lightbox aligns your phone and your photos perfectly, so you get a great photo every time. With QromaScan, your photos organize themselves using our unique voice recognition tagging system. Just say the date and location of the photo, and we will insert the right metadata into the photo. You can even tell us an address or location, and we will geotag the photo for you. Tagging people is easy too. QromaScan recognizes the names of the people in your contacts, and they can be used to tag you photos. If you use family tree software, QromaScan can import a GEDCOM file and use it with our voice recognition system to make it easy to tag family photos. Pick up a QromaScan Lightbox and you will be surprise how quickly your old box of photos can be turned into well organized and sharable digital images.
iCut
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Pick a photo and iCut removes the background cleanly. Works on the latest iOS. Saving is free with no watermark, and your photos never leave your device. Great for marketplace and online shop listings, social posts and stickers. ■ Remove the background, just by picking a photo • On-device AI finds the subject and removes the background automatically • Copy, share or save the result as a transparent PNG ■ Finish it as a product photo • Use white, black, any color or one of your photos as the background • Adjust a natural shadow, margins, and the subject's size and position • Choose the output size (original / 1024 / 2000 / 3000 px) • Save a transparent PNG and a white-background JPEG at once ■ Fix the details by hand • Trace to erase or restore, with the cursor just above your finger so it never hides the spot • Erase similar colors in one tap to cut out logos and illustrations • Choose which subjects to keep, or set an area before cutting out • Change how the edges are cut and try again ■ Batch background removal • Process many photos at once (up to 20 per run; 5 photos a day in the free version) ■ Peace of mind • All processing happens on your device. Photos are never sent to a server • Open images from the camera, Photos, Files or the clipboard • Supports iPad drag and drop, side-by-side layout and Shortcuts • Available in 16 languages, with Dark Mode ■ New in 1.1 • Lasso: draw around what you want to keep and erase everything outside it (or erase/restore inside) • Magnifier: see a close-up around your finger while you fix the details • ID photos: automatically sized from the face position for résumé, passport and other formats, with a background color of your choice, plus a print sheet (faces are never retouched) • Export stickers at 370×320 and 512×512 • Manual edits are kept until you save, so you can pick up where you left off • Open photos straight from the Share menu of Photos and other apps • Choose the sticker outline color: white, black or any color • ID photos: red background option, saved with 300 dpi information, and print sheets in 4×6 in too • Draw with Apple Pencil and move the picture with your finger (double-tap the Pencil to switch erase/restore) ■ Saving is free • Cutting out, manual edits, saving and sharing are free with no watermark, at the original size • Transparent PNGs stay transparent. iCut also explains how to send them when a chat app turns them white ■ iCut Premium • Removes ads and unlocks unlimited batch background removal • Unlocks background photos and subject placement • Choose a one-time purchase or a monthly plan Terms of Use: https://umebo.net/en/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iCut at none against QromaScan's 1. iCut also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). QromaScan's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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
Both are free to download. QromaScan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iCut asks for nothing beyond the download.
QromaScan ships an update every 6 weeks, iCut weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QromaScan | iCut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qroma LLC | Koichiro Umemiya |
In-app purchases
QromaScan
- QromaScan Import$4.99
iCut
No in-app purchases









