# Retouch4me review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> AI retouching plugins and cloud retouching for photographers

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Retouch4me sells AI retouching tools for photographers and videographers. Its plugins handle skin, teeth, eyes, dust, backdrops and color matching, and run inside Photoshop and other editors. Apex combines them in one plugin, Arams culls and batch-processes shoots, and cloud retouching runs on credits. Plugins are also sold as perpetual licenses.

- **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators
- **Made by:** RELU OÜ
- **Website:** https://retouch4.me
- **Runs on:** macOS, Windows, Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want month-to-month plans: Start, Pro and Business are billed yearly.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Retouch4me has a free plan, and paid plans start at $14.08 per month, billed yearly at $169 ($20 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Two free plugins: Frequency Separation and Color Match Free; Retouch4me also lists free HSL and upscaler tools.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free plugins | $0 | Frequency Separation and Color Match Free, with hundreds of color filters. |
| Start | $14.08 per month, billed yearly at $169 ($20 billed monthly) | 2,400 retouching credits a year, 108,000 culling credits, 20 GB of MyShot storage; 1 retouch = 1 credit. |
| Pro | $24.92 per month, billed yearly at $299 ($35 billed monthly) | 6,000 retouching credits a year, 300,000 culling credits and 40 GB of MyShot storage. |
| Business | $63.25 per month, billed yearly at $759 ($90 billed monthly) | 18,000 retouching credits a year, 1.2 million culling credits and 100 GB of MyShot storage. |
| Photo plugins | $145 one-time, from, per perpetual license | A collection of 15 photo plugins sold as perpetual licenses with unlimited local processing; a sale price of $94.25 is shown. |

Read from https://retouch4.me/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Retouch4me before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Perpetual plugin and video sale** (Other savings): A week-long sale lists photo plugins from $94.25 (regular $145) and video plugins from $80.60 (regular $124), with a countdown on the page. Source: https://retouch4.me/pricing
- **Annual plans cost 30% less than monthly** (Annual discount): The pricing page says paying yearly costs 30% less than monthly and credits all of the year's retouches on day one. Source: https://retouch4.me/pricing

## Key features

- **AI retouching plugins:** Separate plugins cover skin, heal, dodge and burn, teeth, eyes, stray hairs, mattifying, fabric, dust and clean backdrops.
- **Apex all-in-one plugin:** Combines the retouching tools in a single plugin with a real-time preview, billed through cloud credits.
- **Culling and batch processing:** Arams selects best shots automatically and processes whole photoshoots in batches.
- **Color correction:** Color Match and Lab plugins apply color filters and AI color correction, and 3D LUT tools are sold separately.
- **Video plugins:** Heal, dodge and burn, dust and color match plugins are sold for video, listed for DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro.

## Good for

- Portrait, wedding and event photographers retouching in Photoshop
- Studios that want to buy plugins once rather than subscribe
- Retouchers who want automatic culling before editing

## Worth knowing

- Subscriptions are billed yearly on Start, Pro and Business; unused credits are forfeited without refund when a subscription is canceled.
- Perpetual plugins run locally without internet but the vendor recommends a powerful computer.
- The yearly plans carry a Limited Offer label, so the monthly-billed $20, $35 and $90 may be the standard rate.
- Generative credits are listed on each plan, but the page says generative features are still to come in Apex.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Retouch4me sells AI retouching plugins for skin, teeth, eyes and colour that run inside Photoshop and other editors, plus the Apex plugin and Arams culling. Start is $14.08 a month billed yearly. Only two plugins are free, yearly billing is forced on every plan, and unused credits vanish if you cancel.

- **Value for money: C.** Start is $169 a year ($14.08 a month), between the middle and dearer quarter of AI image tools. Perpetual plugins start at $145 each.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Two plugins are free, Frequency Separation and Color Match Free. The retouching itself is paid.
- **Features: C.** Skin, eye, teeth and dust plugins, Apex, culling and video plugins. The page says the generative features are still to come in Apex.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You install plugins into Photoshop or another editor and set them up.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Mac and Windows with the web, and 7 integrations, but no phone apps.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Retouch4me's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among AI image and video generators

- Retouch4me's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 63 of the 168 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 42.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 75 of 168) and worst on features (C, above 6).
- Its paid plans start at $14.08 a month, against a middle price of $11.88 for the category: 76 of the 120 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 36 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Retouch4me you would be making a video editor. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $168.96 a year.

- You could not: A video editor.
- You could not: A real app for macOS and Windows. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom and Capture One among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Capture One, Affinity Photo, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro

**Tags:** AI features, One-time purchase, Video editing

## Alternatives

- [Evoto](https://toolgpa.com/tools/evoto): AI portrait retouching and batch photo editing for photographers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/evoto-vs-retouch4me)
- [Luminar Neo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/luminar-neo): AI photo editor sold as a one-time license, from Skylum. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/luminar-neo-vs-retouch4me)
- [Topaz Labs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/topaz-labs): AI upscaling and enhancement apps for photos and video. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/retouch4me-vs-topaz-labs)
- [Photoroom](https://toolgpa.com/tools/photoroom): AI product photo editor for e-commerce sellers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/photoroom-vs-retouch4me)
- [Fotor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fotor): Photo editor and AI image and video generator with credit plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fotor-vs-retouch4me)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://retouch4.me/pricing
- https://retouch4.me
- https://retouch4.me/apex

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/retouch4me
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