Is there a good app for crop and straighten photos?
Poorly Executed: 17 apps already serve this, and 15 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. The right features exist but the execution is buggy, dated, or painful. Out-execute it.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to crop and straighten photos, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| profile photos cropped | ux | 2 | Half of profile pictures are cut off |
| photo cropping | bug | 1 | And now I can't crop my photos |
| photo cropping functionality | ux | 1 | the new app has its perks but it's hard to crop properly |
| photo cropping in layouts | bug | 1 | why does it cut off photos? Can't it figure out layouts where the whole photo is shown |
| photo viewer crops images | bug | 1 | When I want to click on pictures of food, it cuts the picture |
| photo cropping not adjustable | ux | 1 | when it comes to cropping the photos on your profile the app won't adjust it to how you want it |
| sharpen whole photo not just face | missing-feature | 1 | Wish the whole photo would sharpen not just the face |
| photo cropping too zoomed | ux | 1 | the cropping for the pics make it look so weird and too zoomed in |
| crop / invert colors how-to | missing-feature | 1 | Cómo recortó la imagen o invierto colores? |
| manual crop reduces photo quality | bug | 1 | it takes the quality away from my picture |
| poor photo cropping | ux | 1 | photo cropping is terrible |
| crashes when cropping photo | bug | 1 | App has crashed 3 times for simply trying to crop a damn photo |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image Resizer Pro - image crop | 4.3 | 6 | $0.99 |
| Exif Panoramic Fixer Pro | 5.0 | 2 | $2.99 |
| InstaSize: AI Photo Editor | 4.7 | 324,819 | Free |
| Face & Body Photo editor | 4.7 | 1,741 | $1.99 |
| Squaready Pro | 4.3 | 125 | $3.99 |
| Print to Size | 4.9 | 19,402 | $2.99 |
| Unsharp | 4.2 | 5 | $0.99 |
| Bimostitch | 4.5 | 33 | $7.99 |
Should you build it?
The right features exist but the execution is buggy, dated, or painful. Out-execute it. Opportunity here scores 42 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| francescovannini/photoslicer | stale | 9 | Python |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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