Exacto
A photo editing app that’s a cut above the rest
£2.99 FROM Samer Azzam, exactoapp.com Needs iOS 8.0 or higher
Cutting out an image on your iPhone is never
easy. Apps have to balance ease of use with accuracy; Exacto’s solution is a tool not unlike Photoshop’s pen tool.
Tap to add blue dots (your anchor points), then tweak your lines into curves with the black dots added between your anchor points.
This proves to be an accurate, if time consuming, method. It’s worth it though. Each point’s position can be adjusted, aided by a useful two-finger zoom function, to ensure close accuracy. Tap and hold to move a point and it temporarily disappears, creating an unobstructed view of your cutout and making point editing easier.
Once you’ve finished creating your selection, you can add another layer to add a secondary selection. This is particularly useful if you’ve cut around a circular object and need to cut out a hole in the middle, for instance.
Exacto crashed once in our testing, but that was on a very detailed image with a large number of dots. It’s also a little fiddly, but that’s the price you pay for accuracy.
While you’ll probably reserve this sort of work for your Mac, if you need to cut something out on iOS with a high degree of precision, Exacto should be your first port of call.