Two ways to get text off a photo: one finds the text for you, the other waits for your brush. Here is how they actually differ, checked against both products in November 2026.
If the problem is text, PixPurge is the shorter route. You upload the image, press one button, and every caption, timestamp and label it can see comes off — no tracing, no brush size to pick. The catch is that detection is not a menu: it takes all the text it finds, including the bits you liked.
Cleanup.pictures is a general inpainting tool. You paint over whatever should disappear — a watermark, a person, a cable, a scratch — and it fills the hole. That makes it wider in scope and slower for plain text: on a page with forty words, you brush forty words.
Neither wins outright. Pick by what is in the photo: text only, go PixPurge; text plus objects, go Cleanup.pictures; both, keep both open.
Plan details and prices are what the Cleanup.pictures pricing page listed in November 2026. They change; check before you buy.
| What matters | PixPurge | Cleanup.pictures |
|---|---|---|
| How text gets selected | The model finds text on its own and clears the whole image in one click. Brush and box tools are there when only one line should go. | You paint over the text with a brush, then the model fills the hole behind it. Precise, but it is your hand doing the finding. |
| Account needed | Yes — a free account holds your credits and your results. | No for the free web tool; you can drop a file and start. |
| Free tier | 10 credits at sign-up. A 720p removal costs 3, so about three images. | Unlimited images, export capped at 720p. |
| Paid plan | Monthly plan or yearly pass; paid tiers unlock 1K and 2K output. | Pro at $5 a month or $36 a year for full-resolution exports. |
| Highest resolution | 2K on the paid tiers, 720p on free credits. | Full resolution of the file you uploaded, on Pro. |
| Batch and API | One image at a time. No public API yet. | No batch button in the free web tool; a paid API exists (image plus mask, one credit per call). |
| Watermark on results | None. The cleaned image downloads as-is. | No badge added; the free plan is limited by resolution instead. |
Three steps, about a minute. No card, no download, nothing to install on your machine.
The text remover sits at the top of the home page. A free account carries your 10 credits.
JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC up to 10MB. Press Remove Text and let the model find the text.
No watermark on the result. Too much came off? Undo, switch to the brush, and take only the words you meant.
10 free credits on sign-up · see plans
Working on something else? Remove a watermark from a photo · copy the text out of an image instead
Other comparisons: PixPurge vs PicWish · PixPurge vs WatermarkRemover.io