Cleanup.pictures vs Pincel vs PixelCut vs Photoroom
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Cleanup.pictures
One-click object and watermark removal from Stability/Jasper's Clipdro...
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Pincel
Credit-based browser photo editor: object removal to AI portraits
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PixelCut
Product-photo AI editor that rebranded to Pixa in March 2026
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Photoroom
AI photo editor for e-commerce
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.7 / 10 | 6 / 10 | 6.6 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | — | 250 exports/month with watermark (background remover, retouch, templates, and limited AI features) |
| Paid from | — | — | — | From $7.50/month (Pro plan, billed annually) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | — | 100M+ app downloads as of December 2023; $94M ARR in 2024 (89% YoY growth from $50M ARR end-2023) |
| Founded | 2021 | — | 2021 | 2019 |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Cleanup.pictures does one job — brush over something in a photo and it disappears — and the LaMa inpainting behind it handles small-to-medium removals convincingly for a free browser tool. It's changed hands twice (Stabi... |
Pincel's pitch is real: dozens of AI photo tools in one browser tab, no Photoshop subscription, full commercial rights on what you generate. For a one-off object removal or generative fill, it's fast and it works without... |
PixelCut earned its following doing one job well: turning a phone photo of a product into something that looks shot in a lightbox, via one-tap background removal, AI shadows and batch processing built for marketplace sel... |
Photoroom does its core job — cutting subjects out of photos and dropping them into clean product scenes — about as well as any consumer tool, and the mobile/web UX plus the batch pipeline make it a genuine time-saver fo... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.