Google Photos or Adobe Lightroom: Which AI Object Remover Should You Use?

On Android, we now have quite a few choices when it comes to AI-powered object removal for our photos. Google has Magic Eraser inside of , Adobe has powered by Firefly, and Samsung even has Object Eraser inside of its Gallery app. They all do the same basic thing, which is remove unwanted objects and people from photos.

But is one service better than the others? That’s what we’ll try to determine. We’ll feed the same image into both apps, Google Photos and Adobe Lightroom, and try to come away with which does it better. Because Samsung’s Object Eraser is exclusive to just Galaxy phones, we’ll bypass it, but we can tell you that Samsung’s solution is really, really good.

On my Galaxy S24 Ultra, if I plan to remove an object, I use Object Eraser over Magic Eraser almost every time. However, with Lightroom now capable, I might have to rethink which app I use. Let’s get to the testing, shall we? I’ll attempt to keep my commentary short and let the photos do most of the talking, but I wanted to provide a bit of insight into how I used the apps and the results.

Using Lightroom is extremely easy. You open whichever photo you want to edit, then simply hit the “Remove” button. From here, you circle or brush what you want removed.

The app then shoots the image up to the cloud for processing, which does seem to take a bit, but once it returns, the outcomes are very solid. Take the above image as an example. We had shipping containers behind us at this burn prop, and .