There are a few embeddable design editor SDK solutions out there, and choosing the best one for you can be a nerve-wracking process! That’s why we do as much research and analysis as possible for you. You can thank us later.
In this comparison, we’re stacking up Picsart to Img.ly.
Stay with us to find out which editor is better suited for you and all your business needs.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
- Overview of Img.ly vs Picsart
- Usage options and platforms
- Editing photos, videos and print content
- Available content and AI tools
- Automations and integrations
- Pricing
And more! Let’s dive in.
An Overview: Img.ly Vs. Picsart
What Is Img.ly?
Hitting the market as recently as 2018, Img.ly is a platform that provides photo and video editing SDKs, giving them the tools to integrate camera engine, a photo editor, a video editor or a creative too.
This platform is aimed at developers and businesses. It supports a variety of SDK types and integrations.
With Img.ly, you can integrate to your platform a variety of design and editing solutions to empower your end users to edit content.
What Is Picsart?
Launched in 2013, Picsart is one of the world’s largest AI powered photo and video editing software with over 150 million users. This platform helps you create content on mobile app, website or via many integrations like Shopify, Zapier, Google Drive and others. Picsart also offers SDKs and APIs of its famous and widely used tools, so you can bring creative photo and video editing tools to your business too.
With Picsart, you can embed Picsart’s Web Editor to your platform or integrate. Picsart is aimed at print, educational, e-commerce and marketing businesses, and other online platforms which want to improve their users experience.
Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s dig deeper and explore each platform’s features.
Usage options and platforms In Img.ly Vs. Picsart
Img.ly has always been a platform dedicated to helping developers integrate the editing software. Here’s some of what it offers:
- Creative editor SDK to integrate via SDK
- Photo editor to integrate via SDK
- Video editor to integrate via SDK
- Camera SDK
With Img.ly, you can integrate editors for mobile (iOS, android), web or on server.
You can find preset configurations and solutions for marketing tech, DAMs, Social media, Photo Printing, Web to print and Website builders.
So how does Picsart compare on the usage and platforms front?
Picsart offers separate “Editor SDK” and “Image editing API” tools to help businesses and developers choose the right tools to improve their product and business workflows.
In 2023 Picsart launched an Editor SDK specifically designed for Web to Print industry, as well as in 2024 a custom made video editor for media advertising
In the last 3 years Picsart has also launched image editing APIs powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as Remove background, Image Ultra Upscaling and Text to Image.
To summarize, at the moment Picsart offers
- Print solutions (photo print SDK and web to print editor SDK)
- Advertising solutions (for static content and dynanic content)
- Custom enterprise solutions
- Over 20 image editing APIs
Picsart can also be used as a mobile app or on picsart.com in case you don’t want the integration or that’s not relevant for your business.
Bottom line: Img.ly offers a good set of SDK solutions both for mobile and web, while Picsart offers powerful editor SDK as well as image editing APIs, as well as have subscription based product in case you want to use mobile app or web editor on picsart.com.
Editor SDK for photos, videos and print In Img.ly Vs. Picsart
Photo content editing
Picsart is renowned for its extensive photo editing capabilities. The SDK includes tools for cropping, resizing, filtering, retouching, and adding text and stickers. Picsart also offers a variety of AI tools, such as remove background, image upscaling, text to image.
Img.ly’s SDK also offers a comprehensive suite of tools for editing photos and static content. Users can apply filters, adjust colors, crop images, and add overlays. The SDK is particularly strong in providing high-quality image rendering, however it does not offer any AI tools and API integrations to take the editing to the next level.
Editor SDK for Videos
Picsart offers video editing capabilities that allow users to trim, crop, and apply filters to video content. Additionally, it supports adding music, text overlays, animations and transitions, making it a versatile tool for creating engaging video content.
It also has a special industry solution, allowing business in healthcare and financial services to add the health warning (ISI) or financial services solutions.
Img.ly primarily focuses on photo editing, it also provides basic video editing features. These include trimming, cropping, and adding filters. However, Img.ly’s video editing capabilities do not include the variety of transitions and special industry solutions.
Editor SDK for Print
Both Picsart and Img.ly Editor SDKs include features specifically designed for creating print-ready content. Users can work with high-resolution images, adjust color profiles, and set up designs for various print formats. This makes both platforms a strong choice for users who need to create content for both digital and print media.
What sets Picsart apart is Image Upscaling and Remove background APIs which are integrated to the SDK, so you can make a sticker or upscale a photo up to 16 times right within the print editor. Img.ly does not have APIs, but they have a set of automations they offer for the print industry such as variable data printing or photo album layout presets.
Available content and AI tools In Img.ly vs Picsart
Content
Both Picsart and Img.ly offer Template Studio – tool to design templates. Img.ly offers up to 20 example templates for you to test, while Picsart offers more than 2000 templates (including print ready), photos and fonts – all ready to use commercially and included in price packages.
AI tools
Img.ly does not offer any separate AI tools, so if you would like to integrate any, you can do that and find respective AI tools to upscale an image, integrate AI text to image generator – you can use the ones available on Picsart.io.
In case you would like to use all tools at once and worry less about integrations, then you could rely on Picsart SDK, as it already has many AI tools available for you to use within the editor, as well as separately. Credits are already included in all of your packages.
Bottom line: Img.ly offers intuitive template design and ways to upload content to the editor, while Picsart offers on top of Template Studio a library of content (templates, fonts, videos, photos) and AI tools included in the regular packages.
Editor SDK Automations and integrations
Img.ly doesn’t offer automations, but it does provide key integrations for content libraries:
- Photos – Getty Images
- Audio – Soundstripe
For content partnerships Picsart also has integrations with Getty Images, many license agreements. On top of that you could use automations for Picsart SDK and APIs via Zapier and Make. For print solutions you could also use Picsart’s SDK editor integrated with the EPS MDSF platform.
Bottom line: If you would need integrations and automations to improve your business workflows, Picsart SDK serves your needs better.
Pricing In Img.ly Vs Picsart
Img.ly doesn’t have its pricing published publicly and they do custom calculations depending on your use case, business size and needs after the demo call.
- Pricing is tiered and depends on your MAU, it starts at around $600 a month for up to 250 users and it goes all the way up to $2000 for larger user bases
- They offer 30 day free trial followed by 3 months of discounted price
After that yearly contracts are activated, so you would need to commit for a longer time period and pay for any extra things such as content, APIs and integrations.
Good thing about Img.ly plans is that for that price you get access for everything they have in their SDK library: mobile, web, video, photo and creative editor and can simply choose what you want to use.
Picsart’s pricing is transparent and its usage based. They offer separate packages for APIs (credit based), advertising solutions and print solutions packages, so you will need to know what you need.
- APIs can be purchased from few dollars a month
- Static ads editor SDK and Photo print editor SDK start at $99/ month
- Web to Print editor (with all content included) starts at $299/month
- Video ads editor starts at $299/ month
All packages come with included credits and you can buy more credits if you want to use more of any APIs for image editing. Packages are billed monthly.
There is also an option for custom development in case you want specific features – for that you would need to contact Picsart’s product and sales teams.
Bottom line: Although Img.ly pricing includes all platforms and all SDKs at once, it’s overall higher and has yearly plan after extended trial. Picsart offers lower prices if you know exactly what kind of editor you want (photo, video or print), all packages include content ready to use commercially. On top of that Picsart bills its customers monthly.
