Remove Objects - Photo & Video

Review by eFreeware

If you shoot on a phone and keep ending up with photos or clips that are almost right, Remove Objects is built for exactly that problem. A stranger crosses the frame, a trash can sits at the edge of a street shot, a stoplight or a shop sign pulls the eye away from what you wanted to show. The app's whole purpose is erasing those elements after the fact, and it does it through selections you draw yourself rather than through a full editing suite.

That narrowness is the appeal. The app is a tool for marking unwanted things and taking them out. For someone who takes a lot of photos and videos and wants a quick way to tidy them up, that focus is easier to work with than an app that asks you to learn layers, masks and color grading before you can fix one distraction.

It is free to install, it carries ads, and it offers in-app purchases. Those are the terms, and they sit alongside a sizeable audience: more than 10 million installs and a 4.2 average from over 48,000 ratings. That is enough of a track record to suggest the basic idea lands with people, though the rating also hints that not everyone is equally happy.

A tool for quick cleanup, not a full edit suite

The audience I would picture here is broad but specific in habit. Casual photographers who want a holiday snap or a family photo free of a passer-by, and content creators who need a clip cleaned up before posting, are the obvious fits. Both groups tend to work entirely on a phone and want the fix to take a minute, not an evening.

It also suits people who already know roughly what they want gone. Because the app works by selection, you decide what counts as clutter and mark it. If your instinct on seeing a photo is "that sign has to go", you are the person this was written for. If your instinct is to adjust tone, crop composition and retouch skin, the app's scope is narrower than that.

It is pitched at everyone from casual shooters to seasoned creators, which is marketing language more than a description of difficulty. The workflow is deliberately simple: choose a tool, mark the area, apply the removal. Simple is the point, and it is why an app like this can sit alongside heavier editors rather than replace them.

Drawing around what you want gone

The core of the app is selection. You mark the unwanted object with a rectangle or trace around it with a lasso, and the app removes what you have marked. Signs, stoplights, trash cans, wires, posts and text are typical targets, and people removal gets its own billing, which suggests portraits and street scenes are the common cases.

Two details make that more useful than it might sound. First, you can select several areas in one pass rather than repeating the whole process for each object, which matters in a cluttered frame where a sign, a cable and a bystander all need to go. Second, there is a zoom option for fine-tuning the selection, and that is the part I would lean on most: the tighter your outline around the object, the less surrounding detail gets caught up in the edit.

The recent update adds a crop option for removing objects at the edges of a frame, which addresses a common annoyance. When the thing you want gone is half out of shot, cropping can be a cleaner answer than erasing, and having that choice inside the same app saves a trip to a separate tool.

Video removal works on a chosen stretch of time

Video is handled differently from stills, and the difference is worth understanding before you install. Rather than tracking an object across an entire clip, the app asks you to define the time interval during which the removal should happen. You pick the stretch where the distraction appears, mark it, and the app works on that window.

That approach fits short, specific problems well: a car passing behind a subject, someone walking through the corner of a shot, a moment where a sign or post intrudes. It is less about continuous cleanup across a long recording and more about targeting the seconds that matter. For social clips and short videos, that is often all you need.

I would treat this as the app's more technical side. Photos let you iterate on a selection until it looks right, while video adds the extra step of deciding when the edit applies. Both are part of one toolkit, and the shared selection tools mean the learning carries over from one to the other.

Free to install, with ads and purchases attached

The app costs nothing to download. It contains ads and offers in-app purchases, so the free experience comes with both.

The price of entry is low in the literal sense. There is no upfront cost, which makes trying it a small decision, and the app has been available since the end of 2019, with an update in early October 2025. That update reduced the install size, added the edge-cropping option and extended support to older Android versions.

For anyone weighing it up, the sensible approach is to install it, work through a few of your own photos and clips, and judge the result against the ads and purchase prompts you actually see. That is a more reliable guide than any description, mine included.

How it compares with the alternatives

The most direct alternative is a full photo editor. Those tend to offer object removal as one feature among many, alongside color adjustment, filters, text and collage tools. If you already edit your photos end to end in one app, adding a second one just for erasing may feel like unnecessary duplication, even if the dedicated tool is quicker at that single job.

The other option is desktop software, which generally gives you more control over how a removed area is filled in and how the result blends with its surroundings. That control comes with a keyboard, a mouse and a sitting-down workflow. Remove Objects is for the times when that is not available or not worth the effort, and the phone is already in your hand.

Between those poles, a focused mobile eraser is worth having because it is fast and does not ask you to learn anything else. The trade-off is that you are trusting the app's automatic result rather than shaping it yourself, and the quality of that result is the thing to check on your own images before you commit to it as part of your routine.

A focused eraser for phone photographers

Remove Objects is worth installing if your problem is specific and recurring: unwanted people, text, signs or small objects spoiling photos and short videos, and a preference for fixing them on the phone rather than at a computer. The rectangle and lasso selections, the ability to mark several areas at once, the zoom for tightening your outline and the time-interval approach to video cover the common cases without demanding much from you.

The caveats are the obvious ones. It is free with ads and in-app purchases, and the video side is built around choosing when the removal applies rather than around a clip-wide fix. The app is also a single-purpose tool, which is a strength for quick cleanup and a limit if you want a broader editor.

My suggestion is to judge it on your own material. Take a few photos with obvious distractions and a short clip with a passing object, run them through, and see whether the results hold up for how you share them. If they do, this is an easy app to keep around; if the edges of your edits bother you, a more manual tool will serve you better.

What's new in version 2.6.1

Reduced the size of apk Added crop option to remove object at edges Added support for android-19 devices