Smart Crop vs Video Cut Out
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
Video Cut Out
Easily create videos with transparent backgrounds and customize them with your own colors, images, or videos. Access a library of handpicked backgrounds and work offline with all data kept local. Produce high-quality videos up to 4K at 120 FPS.
- Transparent background creation
- Customizable backgrounds (colors, images, videos)
- Library of handpicked backgrounds
- Offline functionality
- Up to 4K resolution at 120 FPS output
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- Transparent backgound - Customize your background with personalized colors, images, and videos. - Handpicked background images and videos - Offline: All data remains local, never uploaded - Produce videos up to 4K at 120 FPS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Video Cut Out at 100% against Smart Crop's 50%. Video Cut Out also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.7 vs 3.7). Smart Crop's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, ads 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
Video Cut Out is free to download; Smart Crop costs $2.99 up front. Video Cut Out sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Smart Crop asks for nothing beyond the download.
Video Cut Out holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Smart Crop's written reviews are positive against 100% of Video Cut Out's.
Smart Crop ships an update every 16 months, Video Cut Out every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Crop | Video Cut Out |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.7 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sebastien BUET | Moderato Ltd |
Customer experience
Smart Crop
Video Cut Out
In-app purchases
Smart Crop
No in-app purchases
Video Cut Out
- Plus+14 Days trial$9.991 Year
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