Cut and Paste Photo Editor

Review by eFreeware

Removing a person from a group shot, lifting a product off a cluttered table, or dropping a friend into a ridiculous scene usually means either fiddling with selection tools for twenty minutes or giving up entirely. Cut and Paste Photo Editor, from Daily Joy Studio, is built around exactly that job, and it has found a large audience doing it: more than 10 million installs and a 4.5 average across 145,104 ratings.

The app has been on Google Play since July 4, 2023, and its most recent update landed on September 1, 2026, bringing support for landscape orientation and optimization for larger screens alongside general stability fixes. It is free to install, carries ads, and offers in-app purchases. The content rating is Teen.

Here is what the app does and who I think will get the most value from it.

The two-step cut and paste routine

The core idea is deliberately narrow: cut what you need, then paste it where you want it. That is the whole workflow the developer builds the app around, and it is a sensible frame for anyone who has never touched a layer-based editor. You select an object, the app lifts it from its background, and you drop it into a new image.

The cutting side offers several tools rather than a single button. There is a background eraser, a lasso for drawing around a shape, a smooth option, a repair tool, an auto-cut mode and a magic cut. Between them, the developer promises a cut that holds up at the pixel level, whether you use the automatic route or trace the edges yourself with a finger. That range matters, because automatic selection tends to struggle with hair, fur or thin edges, and a manual fallback is what usually rescues those jobs.

Pasting is where the fun is meant to happen. You can place a cutout anywhere in a scene and merge several elements into one image, so a dog can end up in the sky or a traffic light at the bottom of the sea. Once something is placed, the app lets you adjust the result: change its color, flip it, duplicate it, or delete it if it does not look right. The developer describes these edits as smooth, without pixel damage, which is the kind of claim worth taking as a promise rather than a guarantee.

Face swap sits alongside the cutting tools as the headline trick. From a single selfie, the app's generator turns you into a range of art styles: a professional headshot, a cyberpunk look, a fairy-tale aesthetic, an athletic shot, a retro vintage frame and others. It is the sort of feature that invites experimentation rather than careful editing, and it fits the playful tone of the rest of the app.

Backgrounds, templates and the extras around the edges

Cutting an object out is only half the job; the other half is having somewhere to put it. The app includes an online library of ready-to-use backgrounds, covering scenic views, artistic backdrops and clean studio settings. You pick one and apply it, which saves you from hunting through your own camera roll for something that fits.

There is also a set of ready-made templates for instant use. Summer-themed designs, group and family photo layouts, creative compositions and wedding invitations are among them. The idea is that you drag your cutout into the template rather than building a layout from scratch. The same designs are pitched as useful for posters, social media banners and business cards.

Decorations round things out. Stickers range from comic headgear to festive touches, and a text tool offers more than 20 fonts with a wide choice of colors for captions. None of this is unusual on its own, but having stickers, text and templates in the same place as the cutout tools means a single project does not have to be shuffled between several apps.

The developer also makes a direct pitch to people selling online. The background remover is presented as a way to produce clean product images for marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify and Etsy. That is a different audience from the face-swap crowd, and it is a reasonable use of the same underlying tool: strip the background, drop the item on a plain surface, export.

What the app asks of you

The app is free to download, and it shows ads. In-app purchases are also available, so the free experience comes with both advertising and the option to spend.

On the practical side, the app leans on an online background library. The face swap feature works from a single selfie, so you need one photo of a face to begin. The cutting tools assume you are working with a photo you already have, whether that is a portrait, a product shot or something you snapped for fun.

The content rating is Teen, which is worth noting if the app is going to be passed around a household. Beyond that, the requirements are modest: a photo to work with, and a willingness to tap around the screen until the selection looks right.

Getting a clean cutout without fighting the tools

The smartest way to approach the cutting tools is to let the automatic options do the first pass and keep the manual ones for cleanup. Auto-cut and magic cut are the quick routes, and the background eraser handles broad areas. When an edge comes out ragged, the lasso and smooth tools are there to tidy it, and repair is available for spots that need patching. Starting manually on a complicated subject is the slow path.

Subjects with clear separation from their background will always be easier than wispy ones. A product on a plain surface, a person against a wall, or a car in open space gives the selection tools an obvious boundary to find. Busy scenes with similar colors between subject and background are where the extra passes earn their keep.

Once a cutout is placed, the adjustment options are worth using before you export. Flipping a subject can make a composition read more naturally, and duplicating it lets you build a repeated pattern or a crowd from one figure. Changing the color of a cutout is a quick way to make a pasted element feel like it belongs in the new scene rather than sitting on top of it.

The template route is the fastest way to a finished-looking image. Dragging a cutout into a prepared layout removes most of the composition decisions, which suits anyone making something for a social post or an invitation. For sellers, the plain studio backgrounds in the library are the ones to reach for, since a clean surface is what product listings tend to want.

Where the app's focus shows

This is a cut-and-paste tool first and a general photo editor second. The app is built around lifting objects, placing them and decorating the result with backgrounds, templates, stickers and text. Anyone hoping for a broad editing suite with tone curves, selective adjustments or layered retouching will find the app's attention is pointed elsewhere.

The face swap feature is built for quick, playful transformations from one selfie rather than for precise portrait retouching. It is built around art styles and fun headshots, and that is the spirit in which it makes sense.

The presence of ads and in-app purchases is part of the deal on a free app, and the Teen rating is a reminder that it is aimed at a general audience rather than young children. None of this undermines what the app does well; it just defines the shape of it.

A quick tool for cutouts and playful composites

The cutting toolkit is broader than a two-step pitch suggests, the background library and templates remove a lot of the friction after the cut, and the text and sticker options let you finish a project without leaving the app.

It suits casual creators making funny composites, invitations or social posts, and it suits small sellers who need product shots on clean backgrounds without opening desktop software. The face swap feature gives it a second, lighter personality for anyone who just wants to see themselves in a different style.

If you want a cutout in a hurry, this is a sensible place to start. Keep in mind that it is free with ads and in-app purchases, and that its strengths lie in cutting, pasting and decorating rather than in full-scale photo editing.

What's new in version 2.4.1

📱 Bigger Screens, Better Experience: We've optimized the app for large-screen devices, adding support for landscape orientation. ⚙️ Bug Fixes: Improved stability and fewer glitches.