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CLUSTER MOBILE-REMOVAL-BACKGROUND · 17 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2012-06-12

AI photo editing apps

This cluster consists of mobile-first AI photo and video editing apps, with core features like background/object removal, generative fills, text-to-image, retouching, and collage creation. Entry dates span 2011 to 2026-07, with a thin and uneven spread—roughly one product per year in many years—so no clear shape. Traction leaders (TPZ AI, Kapture, YouCam Perfect) each show 0 stars, indicating minimal user engagement signals. The market seems saturated with overlapping feature sets.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUN 2011: 1JUN 2012: 1NOV 2012: 1JAN 2013: 1APR 2013: 1MAR 2014: 1FEB 2015: 2JUL 2019: 1NOV 2019: 1OCT 2020: 1MAR 2023: 1JUN 2024: 1SEP 2025: 1JUL 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2
JUN 2011SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 10 commercial · 3 enterprise · 1 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 17 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01TopzAI: Photo Video Enhancer0★6 dayslivecommercialMobile app that uses AI to enhance photos and videos, upscale resolution, colorize images, and remove backgrounds.
  2. 02Kapture - Photo & Video Editor0★1 moliveMobile app providing professional photo and video editing with AI object removal, color grades, and creative effects on iPhone.
  3. 03YouCam Perfect:AI Photo Editor0★1 molivecommercialAI photo editing app offering background removal, retouching, and text-to-image or text-to-video generation for casual social media editing.
  4. 04tinge0★18 days—hobbyAI app that colorizes black-and-white photos on-device, transforming old images into full-resolution color versions without uploads or an account.
  5. 05Kitaba - Arabic Fonts & Design0★9 dayslivecommercialMobile app that overlays Arabic text and fonts on photos, designs images, and edits pictures with AI-assisted tools for content creators.
  6. 06GisseleGeo0★24 days—hobbyMobile web app that edits photos and generates videos using AI image and video models.
  7. 07Picsart AI Photo Editor, Video0★23 daysliveenterpriseAI-powered photo and video creation app offering background removal, object removal, image and video generation, and design templates.
  8. 08BeautyPlus-Selfie Photo Editor0★18 daysliveenterpriseSelfie camera and photo editing app with AI beautification, portrait generation, background removal, and enhancement tools for mobile users.
  9. 09Photo Lab — AI Image Editor0★16 dayslivecommercialA mobile app that works with AI to create collages from multiple photos to create photo effects.
  10. 10Darkroom: Photo & Video Editor0★29 dayslivecommercialMobile app that edits photos and videos with AI-powered object detection, RAW file support, and professional color grading tools.
  11. 11Pixlr AI Photo & Video Editor0★28 dayslivecommercialMobile app that uses AI to edit photos and videos, generating collages, fills, object removal, and background removal for content creators.
  12. 12Adobe Photoshop: Photo Editor0★1 molivecommercialMobile photo editing app with AI tools for retouching, background removal, and generative fill to create images.
  13. 13Image Toolbox0★1 moliveopen sourceMobile app that edits, converts, and enhances images using AI-powered upscaling, background removal, OCR, filters, and batch format conversion.
  14. 14Microsoft Designer0★8 daysliveenterpriseApp that creates images, stickers, wallpapers, and designs from text prompts and edits photos with AI tools like background removal.
  15. 15Photo Editоr0★24 dayslivecommercialMobile photo editor that uses AI to remove backgrounds and objects, generate images from text, apply artistic styles, create collages, and turn selfies into cartoons.
  16. 16Photo Studio: AI Photo Editor0★8 mostalelivecommercialMobile app that edits photos with AI tools for background removal, avatars, text-to-image generation, and collage creation.
  17. 17Photo Editor - AI Photo Edit0★5 molivehand-codedcommercialPhoto editing app with AI filters, collage creation, slideshow maker, and music video features for mobile users.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.