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By the toolist.ai editors. Researched from Picsart's own pages and hands-on tests published by others, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 21, 2026.

Picsart review: pricing, features and what testers found

Picsart is an AI image editor and generator that also edits video and makes designs: background and object removal, AI enhance and editing, templates and a video editor in its phone apps and web editor, plus 200+ image, video and audio models (Nano Banana, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1 and more) on one credit balance. A free account covers the standard editing tools; Pro costs $15 a month, or $10.50 a month billed yearly, for 500 credits a month.

Our take

Picsart suits social media creators and small businesses who want one app for photo edits, designs, short videos and AI generation: background and object removal, AI enhance, templates and a video editor on phones and the web, plus image, video and audio models such as Nano Banana Pro, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.5 and Veo 3.1 on one credit balance. A free account covers the standard editing tools; Pro costs $15 a month ($10.50 billed yearly) for 500 credits a month and unlimited FLUX.2 Klein images, which the plan card counts as about 100 Nano Banana Pro images or about 125 seconds of Seedance 2.5 video, and Ultra runs from $47 a month ($37.50 billed yearly) for 1,500 credits to $250 for 10,000, per seat. Testing the Android app, Android Police's Ben Khalesi (August 2025) found its one-tap enhance kept a photo's natural look, found PhotoDirector better at removing people and unblurring an old photo, and kept Picsart on his phone for its all-round tools; MakeUseOf's Danny Maiorca (August 2024) found the web AI enhancer slow and had to reload it when it froze; XDA's Nolen Jonker (February 2026) found the free web editor enough for color work but limited to five layers, with AI selection and removal on paid plans; and TechRadar's Paul Hatton (December 2024) found background removal near perfect. None of them covers video generation, AI Playground, Flow or agents. The catches are credits that reset at each renewal without rollover and buy very different amounts by model, a pricing page that was testing Pro with 250 credits for some visitors, payments Picsart's terms call nonrefundable, and AI terms that let Picsart use your prompts and uploads to improve its own services and its AI providers'. This verdict rests on those four published tests, Picsart's own pages and terms, its App Store and Google Play listings and Trustpilot's reviews.

Based on Picsart's published plans and the hands-on tests linked below, not on a test of our own.

Good for

  • Social media creators and small businesses who want to edit photos, remove backgrounds, make designs from templates and cut short videos in one app, on a phone or in a browser
  • Trying many image and video models (Nano Banana, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1 and more) on one subscription and one credit balance, with unlimited FLUX.2 Klein images on either paid plan
  • Casual editing at no cost: a free account covers the standard editing tools, which XDA's tester found enough for color correction and grading
  • Teams making ads and localized variants in volume, on Ultra (priced per seat, with team seats and batches of up to 100 images)

Watch out for

  • Every AI generation spends credits from one balance shared by image, video and audio models, and the cost depends on the model, resolution, length and audio: by Picsart's model price list a Nano Banana Pro image costs 5 credits at 1K or 2K and 8 at 4K, and Seedance 2.5 video 4 credits a second at 480p, 7 at 720p and 18 at 1080p; the pricing page's table puts a 4-second Veo 3.1 clip at 48 credits (72 at 4K). Pro's 500 monthly credits make about 100 Nano Banana Pro images or about 125 seconds of Seedance 2.5 video by its card, Ultra's $75 step about 500 images or 625 seconds.
  • Subscription credits reset when they renew and do not carry over. The Ultra card offers add-on credits that never expire, and the help center says extra credits can be bought on the website, but the pricing page gives no add-on price. Credits for a failed generation come back automatically, the help center says: most at once, some within 24 hours (the pricing page's FAQ says within 24 to 48 hours).
  • Picsart was testing its plans on October 21, 2026: some reads of the pricing page through a US reader (4 of 17 in one set, 8 of 22 in another) showed Pro at the same $15 with 250 credits instead of 500, and Ultra steps of 1,000 credits for $45 ($40 billed yearly), 1,500 for $75 (2,500 in the version this page follows), 3,000 for $129, 6,000 for $255 and 9,000 for $379. Check the credits on the card before paying; the help center says each plan's credits, features and price can change.
  • Picsart's terms (last updated June 30, 2023) call all payments nonrefundable, with no refund for part of a billing period, while the help center's refund page lets website subscribers send a request; App Store and Google Play purchases are refunded by Apple or Google. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled (the help center suggests cancelling 24 to 48 hours before renewal), and deleting the app or your account does not cancel one. By the terms, trials that take payment details bill automatically unless cancelled before they end; Klarna members can get 14- or 30-day Pro trials, and the pricing page itself offers no trial. Disputes go to individual arbitration unless you opt out in writing within 30 days.
  • Picsart's Generative AI terms (updated April 30, 2026) give it a perpetual, irrevocable licence to store, use and modify your prompts and uploads to provide the service and to improve its own services and those of the outside AI providers it uses, plus a licence to your outputs; neither those terms nor the privacy policy describes an opt-out. Prompts and images from the AI Image Generator's text-to-image feature may be publicly viewable and remixable by default, and features such as AI Avatar process facial geometry and are for adults only.
  • Commercial use has conditions: the help center says output from Picsart's generative AI tools can be used commercially, but the AI Playground FAQ says rights depend on each model provider's terms, Picsart does not guarantee you can copyright AI output or that it infringes no one's rights, library content needs the commercial-use filter or #freeforbusiness, and the music library is for personal use only.
  • The apps sell other plans at other prices: the US App Store lists Picsart Pro at $13.99 a month, $11.99 a week or $83.99 a year, beside Plus and Gold plans the help center no longer lists, and Ultra is sold only on the website. Ultra's price is per seat, and the help center says you cannot change the number of seats yourself after subscribing.
  • We found no published hands-on test of today's plans, video generation, AI Playground, Flow or agents: Android Police (August 2025) and MakeUseOf (August 2024) tested editing tools, and XDA (February 2026) and TechRadar (December 2024) link to Picsart or its App Store listing through sponsored or affiliate links. Trustpilot shows 4.4 out of 5 from 1,716 reviews on a profile Picsart has claimed and collects reviews for by invitation; of the newest 20, 16 came through its invitations and all 4 unprompted ones gave 1 star, and Trustpilot's AI summary cites unexpected subscription charges, credits lost when generations failed, trial notifications and slow refunds. Google Play users rate the Android app 3.9 out of 5 from 12.1 million ratings.

What Picsart does

Price

Free plan: Picsart Free, which has no card on the pricing page: the standard photo and video editing tools, custom dimensions, a selection of templates, fonts, stickers and shapes, community images and 100 MB of cloud storage. Picsart publishes no number of free AI credits; premium content and the full set of AI tools need a paid plan. On a free web account XDA's tester (February 2026) found about half the effects and up to five layers per project.

PlanBilled monthlyBilled yearly, per monthIncludes
Free free free Standard photo and video editing tools, custom dimensions, a selection of templates, fonts, stickers and shapes, community images and 100 MB of cloud storage; no published number of AI credits; premium content and the full set of AI tools need a paid plan
Pro $15 $10.50 500 credits a month (about 100 Nano Banana Pro images or about 125 seconds of Seedance 2.5 video at 480p, by the card); unlimited FLUX.2 Klein images; all photo and video editing features, advanced background and object removal, 1-tap enhancer and parallel video generations; millions of stock photos and Getty video clips, premium templates, fonts and stickers; 3+ brand kits; batches of up to 50 images; 100 GB of cloud storage; 15+ AI agents, the Picsart CLI and MCP; $126 a year billed yearly
Ultra 1,500 credits $47 $37.50 Price per seat: 1,500 credits a month, the lowest step on the Ultra card's credit selector; everything in Pro, and the card adds 200+ image, video and audio models, early access to advanced AI features, the option to buy add-on credits that never expire, up to 6.5 million Getty stock videos, batches of up to 100 images, 10+ brand kits, ad variations and localization, ad performance tracking, team seats and 300 GB of cloud storage a seat; $450 a year billed yearly
Ultra 2,500 credits $75 $60 Price per seat: 2,500 credits a month (about 500 Nano Banana Pro images or about 625 seconds of Seedance 2.5 video at 480p, by the card), the step the Ultra card opens on; otherwise as Ultra 1,500; $720 a year billed yearly
Ultra 5,000 credits $145 $115.83 Price per seat: 5,000 credits a month; otherwise as Ultra 1,500; $1,390 a year billed yearly
Ultra 10,000 credits $250 $200 Price per seat: 10,000 credits a month; otherwise as Ultra 1,500; $2,400 a year billed yearly
Enterprise not listed not listed Book a meeting with sales (the Ultra credit selector's 10,000+ step, which lists volume discounts on the credit rate and on-demand top-ups): custom credit volume at a lower rate per credit, with top-ups on demand

Prices last checked: 2026-10-30 on Picsart's pricing page. Full breakdown: Picsart pricing.

Price history

No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 21, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.

What hands-on testers found

We have not tested Picsart ourselves. These are the published tests we found that used it hands-on, newest first; follow the links for the full reviews.

XDA · Nolen Jonker · February 18, 2026

What they tested: Picsart's web editor on a desktop, first on a free account and then on a free trial of the paid plan, while testing Adobe alternatives: color and tone corrections with the adjustment sliders and filters, text with blend modes for watermarks, stickers and elements, brushes, templates and the AI tools. Jonker does not name the plan and does not test video, AI Playground, Flow or agents. Its one link to Picsart is a 'See at Picsart' button marked rel='nofollow sponsored'.

  • A free account gave every adjustment slider, about half the effects, the text tool, most stickers and elements and all the drawing brushes, enough for color correction and grading, but only five layers per project.
  • The trial unlocked the remaining effects, templates and elements and all the AI tools, which made creative designs quicker to put together; because object selection and removal run on AI, advanced selections need a paid plan.
  • Jonker found it no Photoshop replacement for professional work, with no vector editing, RAW support, high-resolution output or fine-grained control, but well suited to mid-level photo edits, quick designs and experiments, even on the free version.

Android Police · Ben Khalesi · August 26, 2025

What they tested: Picsart's Android app beside Google Photos, Photoshop Express, PhotoDirector, Remini, Fotor and Canva, with the same photos in three tests: a one-tap AI enhancement, removing people from a crowded photo, and unblurring an old childhood photo. He gives Pro as $14 a month (the US App Store sells it at $13.99 a month today, the website at $15) and left out blemish removal and advanced retouching; the test does not cover image or video generation, the credit plans or the web editor. The article has no link to Picsart.

  • On the one-tap enhancement, Picsart gave a subtle lift that kept the photo's original mood, where Google Photos turned the scene pinkish and Remini grayed the clouds.
  • Removing people from a busy photo, Picsart had no automatic subject selection and needed a manual brush, but its result looked promising; he named PhotoDirector the clear winner, followed by Picsart and Google Photos.
  • Unblurring his childhood photo, Picsart and PhotoDirector were the strongest; Picsart's result was balanced but still soft, while PhotoDirector brought back more facial and hair detail.
  • Picsart was the app he kept on his phone, for its all-round editing and design tools, and he judged it worth the extra cost over PhotoDirector ($14 against $10 a month), though he points readers who want cleaner results without the design extras to PhotoDirector.

TechRadar · Paul Hatton · December 15, 2024

What they tested: Picsart's mobile app on an iPhone XR, for TechRadar's series on apps its writers could not live without: background removal on a photo of a child with wispy hair, AI backgrounds, AI enhancement and the text-to-image generator. He does not name his plan; he describes a 7-day Pro trial and gives Plus at $5 and Pro at $7 a month without saying how they are billed, and he did not test video. Its App Store link runs through an affiliate redirect (apple.sjv.io on Impact, marked rel='sponsored'); its links to picsart.com and Google Play are plain.

  • Background removal took a couple of seconds and did a near-perfect job, even around the child's wispy hair and the objects she was holding.
  • The AI background tool placed the child convincingly in a range of scenes, one with her standing on a chair.
  • AI enhancement added clarity and smoothed skin blemishes even on a photo that was already good, and he liked being able to set the strength.
  • His prompt for a cute animal dressed as Father Christmas came out well on the iPhone XR, and he expected to use the generator regularly.

MakeUseOf · Danny Maiorca · August 26, 2024

What they tested: Picsart's AI enhance tool in its web app on one landscape photo, beside CutOut Pro, PicWish and PixelCut. A short test from August 2024 that covers no other Picsart tool and does not name his plan; its one link to Picsart is a plain link to the AI enhancer page.

  • It was one of the slowest AI enhancers he had used: it froze partway and he had to reload, which he doubted was down to his file size.
  • He expected better results with another kind of photo, since AI enhancers often leave landscapes looking flat; his favorite of the four was PicWish.
  • He noted that AI enhance is a premium feature.

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