Smart Crop vs Photo Blends
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Crop
This video editing tool allows frame-by-frame cropping while videos play. It offers automatic face detection cropping and manual selection with various aspect ratios. Save and share your edited videos easily.
- Frame-by-frame video cropping
- Automatic face detection cropping
- Manual cropping with green area selection
- Multiple aspect ratio options
- Fast video cropping and preview
- Save and share cropped videos
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Crop your videos like never before! Smart Crop is the only app of the AppStore that lets you crop your videos on the fly, frame by frame, while you play them: Play your videos, and move and scale the green area to select what you want to crop in each frame of your videos. Smart Crop can also automatically crop your videos around a persons' face, or quickly crop your videos by selecting a part of them. Special features: • Crop your videos on the fly, frame by frame, while you play them: pinch and drag the green area to select what you want to crop in each frame of your videos • Crop your videos around a persons' face • Fast crop your videos by selecting a part of them with the green area • Several crop aspect ratios available to crop your videos on the fly, face crop and fast crop your videos: 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 2:3, 3:4, 9:16, 9:21... • Extremely fast video cropping: preview your cropped videos within seconds • Save your cropped videos in your camera roll, share them by email or export them on YouTube, or to other apps installed on your device • Embedded tutorial to find out how to use the different features of the app If you have any question, issue or suggestion regarding the app, just drop us an email at support@seb-appstore.com Check out many great other iPhone and iPad apps at www.SEB-AppStore.com
Photo Blends
Easily combine multiple images using various blend modes to achieve unique visual effects. Mask out unwanted backgrounds and save or share your artistic creations.
- Multiple image blending
- Blend modes (add, multiply, mix)
- Background masking
- Save and share creations
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Blend multiple photos with blending modes, adjust levels, tint, mask backgrounds and apply effects. Save edits to Photos and share directly from the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Photo Blends at Free against Smart Crop's $2.99. Photo Blends also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (80% vs 50%). Smart Crop's advantage is chart position (#194 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Blends is free to download; Smart Crop costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Photo Blends holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Smart Crop's written reviews are positive against 80% of Photo Blends's.
Smart Crop ships an update every 16 months, Photo Blends every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Crop | Photo Blends |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 14 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #194 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sebastien BUET | Anton Heestand |
Customer experience
Smart Crop
Photo Blends
In-app purchases
Smart Crop
No in-app purchases
Photo Blends
No in-app purchases
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