Photoleap
All-in-one creative photo editor
About Photoleap
Photoleap is Lightricks' general-purpose photo editor, and the counterpart to Facetune in the same portfolio: where Facetune works on faces, Photoleap works on everything else. It covers the jobs that sit between a phone camera roll and a finished image - removing a stranger from a holiday photo, cutting a subject out of its background, combining several shots into one composition.
The problem it addresses is that the useful operations in photo editing are destructive and fiddly. Removing an object from a photo traditionally means cloning pixels by hand; separating a subject from its background means drawing a mask. Both are desktop tasks that take practice. Photoleap does them as single operations on a phone, which changes them from a project into something you do while waiting for a train.
Photoleap is developed by Lightricks alongside Facetune, Videoleap and LTX Studio. The app is free to download with a set of free tools, and the full feature set is behind a subscription with a seven-day trial.
You import a photo and choose an operation rather than a tool palette. Background removal and object removal both work by selection: you indicate what should go, and the app fills what was behind it. Layer-based work - overlays, combining photos, collages - stacks images and lets you blend and mask between them, which is the closest thing here to conventional desktop editing.
The AI tools generate new pixels rather than adjusting existing ones. Image-to-video animates a still photograph into a short clip, and the generative effects produce variations on the image you started with.
Output is a standard image or, for the animated tools, a short video, exportable to the camera roll or straight to social platforms.
- •Remove Background From Photo - separates subject from background in one operation, producing a cut-out you can place on anything else
- •Remove Objects From Photo - deletes unwanted elements including objects, people and text, filling the gap behind them
- •Combine Photos - layered compositing with blending and masking, for collages and composite images
- •AI Image To Video - animates a still photograph into a short video clip
- •Photo Filters and Effects - the conventional filter set alongside generative effects
- •Image overlays - stacking and blending images with adjustable opacity and blend modes
- •Photo Retouch and Image Brightener - corrective adjustments for exposure and blemishes
- •Blur and Animate Photos - selective blur for depth effects, and motion applied to stills
Photoleap suits people editing photographs that are not portraits: social posts built from several images, product shots that need a clean background, holiday photos with a stranger in them. It is a reasonable first step for anyone who finds desktop editors overwhelming but wants more than a filter.
It is a phone app first, so it is the wrong choice for high-resolution work or anything requiring precise output control. And the pricing is not published on the web at all - the site advertises a seven-day trial and shows the subscription price only in the app store, which makes it hard to compare against tools that publish a number. Anyone weighing the cost should check the App Store listing before starting the trial.
