Cut Paste Photos

Review by eFreeware

Cut Paste Photos is a free Android photo editor from Dexati, a developer that has kept this app in the Photography category for years. The core idea is simple and appealing: take a subject out of one picture, drop it into another, and end up with a composite that looks deliberate rather than accidental. If you have ever wanted a family photo to include someone who missed the shoot, or a portrait set against a view you have never visited, that is the job this app is built for.

What makes it worth a closer look is the range of ways it lets you do that cutting. There is an automatic background eraser for quick extractions, a manual tool for precise ones, and a set of editing and effect features that turn a basic cutout into something more finished. The app has been installed more than 50 million times and holds a 3.8 average from 277,807 ratings, which tells me it has reached a very broad audience without satisfying every one of them completely.

It is free to install and supported by ads, and it also offers in-app purchases. The app's content rating is Everyone, and the most recent update arrived in April 2026, with background-changing improvements and SDK updates noted by the developer.

The automatic cutout that does the heavy lifting

The feature Dexati leads with is the AI background eraser. Point it at a photo and it isolates the subject, whether that is a person, a pet or another object, and removes everything behind it. The result is a cutout you can then place on a different background. For anyone who has spent time tracing an outline by hand, the appeal of a single-click extraction is obvious, and it is the reason most people would try this app first.

Where the automatic route struggles, the manual copy tool takes over. It lets you cut out exactly the parts you want, and the app includes a magnifying glass to help you work at the edges. A separate advanced editor is there for sharpening and refining those edges afterward, which matters because a cutout with a ragged outline tends to stand out badly once it sits on a new background.

I would treat the automatic eraser as the starting point and the manual tools as the correction. That combination is what makes the app useful for subjects the automatic pass handles imperfectly, such as hair, fur or objects with soft edges. The developer describes the automatic removal as instant, though how clean the result looks will depend on the photo you feed it.

Pasting, backgrounds and collage building

Once you have a cutout, the paste step is where the app's purpose really shows. You can place the extracted subject onto any background from your own gallery, which covers the straightforward cases: a different room, a different landscape, a group shot that needs one more face. The background library also draws on an image search that pulls photos from the web, alongside backgrounds the developer has licensed for use in the app.

Collages extend the same mechanic. You can assemble cut photos on the app's custom backgrounds, or build a freeform layout where you control the arrangement. Because the cutouts are transparent, a collage can mix subjects from several source photos without obvious seams, which is a much more flexible approach than cropping rectangular images side by side.

The photo source options matter here too. You can work from your device gallery or search for images within the app, so a composite is not limited to what you already have on your phone. For a project like adding a traveling companion into a vacation shot, or building a themed collage around a hobby, that flexibility saves a lot of preparation elsewhere.

Effects that go beyond a simple cut and paste

The app carries a long list of extras that sit on top of the cutting and pasting. Color pop keeps the saturation in one part of a picture while the rest turns black and white, which is a direct way to draw the eye to the subject you just extracted. Clone and mirror effects paste repeated copies of a person into the same frame, and the developer suggests pairing clone with a motion effect for a more dynamic result.

Text is handled with a dedicated editor that supports different fonts, textures and styles, and can be applied to photos or to collages. Double exposure is available as well, and the developer points to scenic nature photos as a good source for that layered look. A filter collection running into the hundreds covers the usual color and tone adjustments, and transform options include flipping a photo vertically or horizontally.

Stickers round out the set, with thousands included in the app. Individually none of these is unusual, but together they mean a cutout does not have to stay a cutout. You can take an extracted subject, place it on a searched background, apply a filter, add text and finish with stickers, all without moving to another editor.

What the app asks of you

The practical requirements are modest. Cut Paste Photos is free to download and runs on Android, and it is rated for Everyone. It is supported by advertising, and it also offers in-app purchases, so the free experience comes with both. If you prefer an editor with no ads at all, that is a consideration before you start, though the app itself costs nothing to try.

The developer publishes separate privacy terms. There is also a reporting route for problems with the AI features, reachable from the app's home screen menu. If you would rather keep your photos entirely on your device, that arrangement is worth reading up on before you commit a large project to it.

The other thing to bring is a little patience with edges. Automatic extraction does most of the work, but the manual cut and the advanced editor exist because not every subject separates cleanly on the first attempt. Expect to spend a few extra minutes on hair, fur and anything with a soft outline, and the finished composite will look considerably better for it.

How I would approach a first project

Start with a single, well-lit photo and one clear subject. A person standing against a plain wall is a much easier test of the automatic eraser than a busy group shot, and it gives you a fair sense of how much cleanup the manual tools will need. Paste the result onto a background from your gallery first, before trying the image search, so you can judge the cutout on its own.

When the edges need work, switch to the manual copy tool and use the magnifying glass to zoom in on the outline. The advanced editor is where you tidy the result. Doing this on one subject teaches you the workflow, and the same sequence then applies to every subsequent cutout, whether you are building a collage or adding someone into an existing photo.

For effects, I would add them one at a time rather than stacking everything at once. Color pop, a filter or a text layer each change the picture in a visible way, and it is easier to see whether a clone or double exposure is helping if the image underneath is already clean. The clone and mirror tools in particular work best when the original cutout is sharp.

A capable free editor for composite photos

Cut Paste Photos covers a specific job well: lifting a subject out of one picture and setting it into another. The automatic eraser makes that quick for straightforward subjects, and the manual tools and advanced editor are there for the cases where it is not. Around that core sit collages, color pop, clone and mirror effects, double exposure, text, filters and stickers, which together make it a fuller editor than the name suggests.

The trade-offs are the ones that come with a free, ad-supported app that also sells in-app purchases. The 3.8 rating from a very large number of ratings suggests a broad user base with mixed experiences, which is worth weighing against the convenience of a one-click cutout.

This suits casual photo editors who want to build composites, collages and clone effects on a phone without learning desktop software. If you regularly need to drop people or pets into new scenes and do not mind working around ads and the occasional manual cleanup, it is a reasonable free starting point.

What's new in version 11.1.0

Updated background changer. SDK updates.