Head to head
These two overlap more than any other pair on the site: compress, resize, crop and convert are the core of both. The difference is where the file goes and how hard the free tier is metered.
The short answer
iLoveIMG and Photomop cover the same everyday jobs, but iLoveIMG uploads your file and Photomop does not. iLoveIMG's free Basic plan meters each tool separately at 30 compressions, 30 resizes, 3 background removals and 1 upscale a month, and processed files stay on their servers for one to two hours.
Updated
Not every tool in the catalogue has a working page yet: upscale image, remove object and passport photo are still being built. Everything else runs today, on your own device. We put that first rather than at the bottom, because it is the thing most likely to send you to iLoveIMG instead, and you should find it out here rather than after you have opened a tab.
Side by side
Every cell below is a fact one of the two of us publishes. Where we could not read a number on iLoveIMG’s own pages, the row says so rather than repeating what other sites claim.
| Photomop | iLoveIMG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where processing happens | On your own device, in the tab | On their servers, after your photo is uploaded |
| Free export resolution | No cap we impose. Your device sets the ceiling | No resolution ceiling is published, but most tools carry a 200 MB file size limit on the free plan |
| Watermark on a free export | No watermark on any export | Not published |
| Free allowance | No per-image credits and no export counter | Per-tool monthly caps: Compress, Resize, Convert, Rotate and Watermark 30 operations each, Blur face 10, Remove background 3, and Crop, Editor, Meme and Upscale 1 each |
| Account to use the free tool | Editing starts the moment the page loads | Not published |
| Paid plan starts at | $8.00 a month, or $5.00 a month billed yearly | $7.00 a month, or $4.00 a month billed yearly |
| Where it runs | Web on desktop, Web on mobile, Works offline once loaded | Web, API |
| Works with no connection | Yes, once the page and any model are cached | No, the image has to reach their servers |
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More than any other pair on this site, yes. Compress, resize, crop and convert are the centre of iLoveIMG's suite and they are also the four Photomop tools that have working pages today. Both take the single-page approach rather than the canvas approach: you land on the tool, drop a file in, set what you need and take the result away.
The difference is the step in the middle. iLoveIMG sends the file up to a server, runs the operation there and sends the result back. Photomop reads the file from disk into the tab's memory, does the work on your own hardware and writes it back out. Same job, same shape of interface, and a completely different path for your file.
iLoveIMG's Basic plan is free and documented per tool, which is more honesty than most of this market offers. Compress, Resize, Convert, Rotate and Watermark allow 30 operations a month each. Blur face allows 10. Remove background allows 3. Crop, Editor, Meme and Upscale allow 1 each. Most tools carry a 200 MB file size limit, and the comparison table shows Basic is not ad free.
One crop a month is the number that catches people out, because cropping is the job you do most and it is metered hardest. Photomop has no per-tool counter and no ads, and exports come back at the resolution you brought. Your hardware does the work, so there is no server bill for us to ration against.
Their own documentation states that processed files remain on their servers for one to two hours. That is a reasonable engineering decision: you need a window in which to download the result, and a cleanup job has to run on some schedule. It is stated openly rather than buried, which counts for something in a category where many vendors say nothing at all.
Whether it matters depends entirely on the photo. For a screenshot you are compressing for a blog post, an hour on somebody's disk is nothing. For a client's unreleased product shot, a medical image, a document with a name on it, or anything under an embargo, a retention window is a window, and the only way to have none is not to upload.
It has more tools finished. Upscaling, face blurring, watermarking, a meme generator and rotation all work today on iLoveIMG, and on our side upscaling, object removal and the passport photo tool do not have a working page yet. If you need one of those this afternoon, that is a real and immediate argument.
It also publishes a developer API through iLoveAPI, with 2,500 free credits a month on registration. Photomop has no hosted API today, and by construction an on-device tool is a harder thing to call from a server. If your workflow needs to be driven by code rather than by a person, iLoveIMG is the one that supports it.
iLoveIMG Premium is $7.00 a month, or $4.00 a month billed annually at $48 a year, and buys unlimited processing, an ad-free service, 2,000 AI credits and priority support. That is genuinely cheap for what it removes. Business pricing for 25 or more users is not published, so a team cannot work out a budget without talking to somebody first.
Photomop is free to use today, and Pro is published at $8 a month or $5 a month billed yearly but is not open for purchase yet. At these prices the annual difference is smaller than a couple of lunches, so cost is unlikely to decide this. Where the file goes, and which tools exist today, will decide it instead.
What each one costs
Both ladders in full, monthly and yearly, because the large number on a pricing page is almost always the yearly rate and almost nobody pays it in month one.
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Photomop Free | $0 a month | Every tool at full resolution, with no watermark on the way out |
| Photomop Pro | $8.00 a month, or $5.00 a month billed yearly | Unattended batch over a folder, HD background packs, an API with 1,000 images a month, early access to new tools. Not open for purchase yet |
| iLoveIMG Premium | $7.00 a month, or $4.00 a month billed yearly | Unlimited processing, an ad-free service, 2,000 AI credits and priority support. The annual rate is billed as $48 a year |
| iLoveIMG Business | Not published | Custom priced for teams of 25 or more, adding an account manager and single sign-on. No figure is published |
| iLoveIMG iLoveAPI | Free tier a month | 2,500 free credits a month on registration, with paid tiers priced behind an interactive calculator and a 20% discount for annual billing. No fixed dollar tiers are shown |
Slide the table sideways to see every column.
Both columns are the same length on purpose. If ours were twice as long you would be reading an advert.
Pick this if the file should not be uploaded at all, or you resize and crop often enough that a one-a-month cap would hurt.
Pick this if you want background removal, upscaling and watermarking finished and working today, and an API to drive them from code.
The honest version
The case against us is short and worth saying out loud: upscale image, remove object and passport photo do not have a working page yet, so those jobs need another tool today, and there is no hosted API today, so a workflow that needs one has to look elsewhere. If either of those is the thing you need this week, iLoveIMG is the better answer today and this page is not going to argue otherwise.
Questions people ask
The things people search for once they have narrowed it down to these two.
The Basic plan is free, but each tool is metered separately. You get 30 compressions, resizes, conversions, rotations and watermarks a month, 10 face blurs, 3 background removals, and just 1 crop, 1 upscale and 1 meme. The pricing table also marks an ad-free service as a Premium feature, so Basic carries ads.
Their documentation states that processed files remain on their servers for one to two hours before removal. That window exists so you can download your result. If you would rather no server ever held the file, Photomop does the same compress, resize, crop and convert jobs on your own device instead.
Premium is $7.00 a month paid monthly, or $4.00 a month billed annually, which iLoveIMG states as $48 a year. It buys unlimited processing, an ad-free service, 2,000 AI credits and priority support. Business plans for 25 or more users are custom priced and no figure is published on the pricing page.
No. Every Photomop tool runs on your own device inside the tab. The file is read from disk into memory, processed there and written back out as a download, so no server of ours ever holds it. You can confirm this yourself by watching your browser's network tab while a tool runs.
Both do the job well. iLoveIMG allows 30 compressions a month on its free Basic plan with a 200 MB file size limit, and uploads each file. Photomop compresses on your own hardware with no per-tool counter, which matters most when you have a folder of images rather than one file.
Not today. iLoveAPI gives 2,500 free credits a month on registration and prices paid usage through an interactive calculator with a 20% annual discount. Photomop has no hosted API at present, so if your pipeline needs to be driven by code rather than a person, iLoveIMG is the better fit.
Same cluster
Each one is built the same way: the vendor's own published facts, checked at source, next to ours.
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Resize, crop, compress, convert and batch edit all work right now, on your own device, at full resolution and with no watermark. No account, nothing uploaded. Read how the on-device pipeline works if you want to check that claim before you trust it with a client’s photo, or the pricing page for where the paid line falls.