Freemium★
Fotor
Easy online photo editor with a wide AI toolbox: enhance, remove, restyle and design in one place.
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Overview
Fotor is an online photo editor built for easy fixes: crop, resize, lighting, color and retouching. Its AI toolbox adds one-tap enhance, background and object removal, upscaling and old-photo colorization. Style converters turn photos into anime, cartoon or sketch versions. AI generation makes images, avatars and headshots.
One account works across the web version and the Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android apps. Basic is the free plan, and Fotor lists its exports as watermarked. Pro, Pro+ and Max are subscriptions that drop the watermark and add batch editing. AI tools run on credits, and new accounts get none.
Key features
✓One-tap AI enhance & unblur
✓Background removal & replacement
✓Object removal brush
✓AI upscaling & old-photo colorization
✓Photo-to-anime, cartoon & sketch styles
✓AI image, avatar & headshot generation
✓Batch editing for up to 50 photos at once
✓Collage, poster, logo & passport photo tools
✓Developer API, including background removal
When to use
Use Fotor if:
- You want quick fixes in the browser: brighten a dim photo, crop, retouch a portrait, without learning software.
- You have a set of photos that all need the same crop, resize or filter. Batch editing needs a paid plan.
- You want AI extras now and then: unblur an old shot, colorize a black and white photo, cartoon a portrait. These cost credits.
- You occasionally need light design work too: a collage, a flyer, a passport photo, in the same account.
- You move between devices and want the same editor on web, desktop and phone.
When NOT to use
Skip Fotor if any of these describe you:
- You edit RAW camera files. Adobe Lightroom is built around them.
- You want layers, the system Photoshop uses to stack and blend images. Photopea works that way in a browser.
- You want free exports with no watermark from the editor. Fotor's free plan watermarks JPG, PNG and PDF exports.
- You will use one AI job over and over, like restoring a box of old family photos. A dedicated photo restoration tool goes deeper than a suite's side feature.
- Design is the main job and photos are secondary. Canva is built for that.
Frequently asked questions
Basic is the free plan. It covers crop, resize, the brightness and color sliders, curves, vignette, film grain and blur. Fotor's pricing page lists Basic exports as watermarked JPG, PNG and PDF. Pro, Pro+ and Max are subscriptions. They drop the watermark and add batch editing, the full effects and template libraries, and transparent PNG export.
Fotor's pricing page lists the free Basic plan as watermarked JPG, PNG and PDF exports, and watermark-free export as a paid feature. Some standalone tool pages work differently. The background remover, background changer and glare remover each download free and unwatermarked, with no account.
The web editor, desktop apps for Windows and Mac, and mobile apps for iPhone and Android, with one account syncing across them.
Yes, on a paid plan. The batch editor takes up to 50 images at once. On a free account only the first image processes and the rest stay locked until you upgrade.
AI features like generation, enhancement and style conversion run on credits. New accounts do not get free credits. Fotor says credits can be earned in its Rewards Center through tasks and daily check-ins. Every paid plan includes a credit allowance.
Fotor covers many different fixes, which suits occasional use of each one. If one job dominates, restoring old photos, upscaling, or product shots, a specialist tool built around that single job usually fits better at volume.
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