Cut and Paste Photos

Review by eFreeware

If you have ever wanted to drop a face from one picture into another, or add someone who missed the group shot, Cut and Paste Photos is built for exactly that. It is a free Android photography app from ZipoApps that handles cutting subjects out of an image and placing them into a different one, with background removal and a set of editing tools alongside. The pitch is straightforward: get a composite done quickly without opening professional editing software.

That narrow focus is the appeal. Rather than spreading itself across every editing task, the app centers on the cut-and-paste move and the steps around it. With more than 50 million installs and a 4.6 average from 359,981 ratings, it has clearly found a large audience among people who want this specific job done with as little friction as possible.

I would expect it to suit casual users first: someone assembling a family collage, swapping faces for a joke, or adding a pet, a car or a tree from one photo into another. It is rated for Everyone, and it is pitched as an alternative to expensive editing tools, so the intended user is someone who wants results without a steep learning curve.

The cut-and-paste move at the center

The core of the app is what the name promises. You cut a subject out of one photo and paste it into another, and the developer frames this as a two-step process. People, animals, trees, cars and backgrounds can all be lifted from one image and dropped into another, which covers most of what a casual composite needs.

Face swapping is the example the developer returns to, and it is a good illustration of the workflow: cut a face from one picture, then paste it wherever you want it. The same logic applies to adding a picture into another picture for creative combinations, and to merging cutouts from several photos into a single image.

Background removal sits underneath all of this. The app is meant to erase a photo's background quickly so the subject is left clean for pasting, and the developer describes this as taking only a few seconds. That speed claim is the developer's, not something I can verify, but the idea is that you are not expected to trace every edge by hand.

The developer also says the app preserves the original resolution and image quality of your photos, which matters for composites, since pasting a low-quality cutout into a sharp background tends to look obviously wrong. If that holds, cutouts should blend into their new surroundings rather than standing out as soft or pixelated patches.

Editing tools that finish the job

Cutting and pasting is only half of a composite. The app includes editor tools for touching up the result, described as advanced, so you can adjust an image after the cutout has been placed rather than exporting something rough and fixing it elsewhere. The app covers enough ground to stand in for professional editing software for this kind of work.

Beyond single cutouts, the app supports combining material from multiple photos into one image. That opens up collages, group scenes assembled from separate shots, and picture-in-picture style arrangements where one image sits inside another. These are part of the same flow rather than separate modes.

The overall promise is creative output without professional help: remove the background, merge the images, then enhance them with the built-in tools. For someone making a birthday collage or a joke photo for a group chat, that combination covers the whole job from start to finish.

What the app asks of you

The app is free to install, and it carries ads along with in-app purchases. The practical point is simply that this is an ad-supported free app with paid options inside it. If you prefer a completely ad-free experience out of the box, that is worth weighing before you start.

On requirements, the app is an Android photography tool, and the most recent update adjusted it for Android 11. The same update mentions a corrected image restore function and an improved automatic eraser, so the background removal and recovery behavior have both been touched recently.

The app was released back in April 2018 and was last updated in July 2026, so it has had a long run with continued maintenance. That history is a reasonable signal that the tool is still being worked on rather than left as-is.

Getting the best out of a composite

The quality of a cutout depends heavily on the photo you start with. Subjects that stand out clearly from their background, with decent lighting and a clean edge, are going to be far easier for an automatic eraser to isolate than busy scenes with similar colors throughout. If you are planning a face swap or a group collage, shooting or choosing source images with that in mind will save you cleanup later.

Because the app supports pulling from several photos at once, it helps to decide the final composition before you begin. Knowing which subject goes where means you can cut each one with the right scale in mind, rather than pasting and re-cutting repeatedly. The built-in editing tools are there for the final adjustments once everything is in place.

It is also worth remembering that this is a focused tool. The developer's claim that it can replace professional editing software applies to the cut-and-paste workflow it is built around, not to editing in general. Treat it as a quick way to move subjects between photos and assemble composites, and the feature set lines up with what you would expect.

Where the app draws its limits

The whole design revolves around cutting and pasting, so the app is at its best when that is the task in front of you. Precise cutting, fast background removal, editor tools and picture-to-picture combinations are the main features, and those four cover the ground the app is meant to occupy.

That means the experience is shaped by the source photos you feed it. Automatic background removal works best on clear subjects, and the developer's promise of results in seconds is a marketing claim rather than a guarantee for every image. Complex edges and cluttered backgrounds are the situations where a cutout is most likely to need manual attention afterward.

The free, ad-supported model with in-app purchases is the other consideration. Ads and paid options are part of the package, and that is the trade-off for a tool offered at no cost.

A focused tool for quick composites

Cut and Paste Photos does one job and does it in a way that is easy to understand: lift a subject from one image, drop it into another, clean up the background and finish with the editing tools. For face swaps, group photo fixes, collages and picture-in-picture combinations, that is a sensible set of capabilities in a free app.

The audience is the casual editor rather than the professional. If you want to add a missing person to a family photo, move a pet into a different scene, or put together a playful collage for friends, this is the kind of tool that fits. The 4.6 average across a very large number of ratings suggests plenty of people have found it useful for exactly those tasks.

My recommendation is to install it if the cut-and-paste workflow matches what you need, and to go in expecting an ad-supported free app with purchases available. It is not trying to be a full editing suite, and judged on the job it was built for, it looks like a practical choice.

What's new in version 2.6.8

- Adjusted to Android 11 - Corrected image restore function - Improved automatic eraser function