Photographers are always fond of having picture-perfect moments. Today smart-phone cameras offer great optics to capture high-resolution and sharp images. With lots of images getting clicked on smart-phones, there are tons of free and paid photo editing apps available, which allow you to shoot, edit, organize, and share images on your mobile phones in a better way.
This article focuses on 5 best photo editing apps both for android and iPhone. These apps are easy-to-use and are recommended for every photographer’s smart-phone.
VSCO
Price: Free
Platform(s): Android and iOS
Features:
- Advanced photo and video editing tool.
- The vintage film looks by Fuji, Kodak, Agfa, and others.
- Moving collage by layering images, videos, and shapes.
- Advanced photo editing tools like Split Tone and HSL.
- Excellent 3-in-1 camera for social sharing.
- Photo sharing in a community of photographers.
- Easy adjustment of exposure and focus of the camera.
- 3 flash modes with gridlines for a balanced composition.
- Built-in camera for manual setting of shutter speed, white balance, and ISO.
- Adjustment tools include crop, clarity, exposure, contrast, straighten, sharpen, and saturation.
- Editing tools include grain, saturation, contrast, and more.
- The paid version includes 130+ filters.
Google Snapseed
Price: Free
Platform(s): Android and iOS
Features:
- Professional photo editor.
- 29 filters and tools including brush, healing, structure, HDR, and more.
- Precise control of exposure and color.
- Adjustable colors for natural-looking images.
- The brush enables selective retouching, brightness, saturation, and warmth.
- Stylized or plain text on images.
- Background softening for beautiful photographic portraits.
- Glamour glow for adding fine glow to images
- Tonal contrast for selective shadows highlights, and mid-tones.
- HDR scape for stunning effects of multiple exposures.
- Double exposure for blending two images.
- Face enhancement by adding a focus on eyes and lighting on the face.
- Capable of shooting and editing RAW images.
Camera+
Price: $2.99 for iPhone and $4.99 for iPad
Platform(s): iOS
Features:
- Easily control light or dark shots.
- Separate settings for focus and exposure.
- High-quality self-portraits.
- Burst mode for taking rapid streams of shots.
- Up to 6x advanced digital zoom.
- Scene modes include sunset, food, portrait, night, beach, and many more.
- Great border designs for wonderful finishing touches.
- Stabilizer to ensure steady shooting and gridlines for composition.
- Advanced tools like red-eye remover, a tone adjustment tool, vignette, and white balance.
- Share your captured and edited images on Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr.
- Easy user interface with impressive filters and tools.
Adobe Photoshop Express
Price: Free
Platform(s): Android and iOS
Features:
- All-in-one photo editor for designing collage, making stickers, and editing photos.
- 45+ filters to choose from.
- A wide spectrum of tools, effects, and photo filters.
- Enhanced photo effects, selfie editing, and quick fixes.
- You can sharpen the details, reduce color noise, and smooth out the graininess.
- Customize images with stickers, create captions and memes.
- Apply dramatic filters, effects, color temperature, and vibrancy to the image.
- Add borders, frames, and stamp creations to the images.
- Remove spots and blemishes from selfies and portraits.
- Automatically adjust contrast with one-touch adjustments.
InstaSize
Price: Free
Platform(s): Android and iOS
Features:
- 100+ filters for instant enhancement of all types of images.
- Variety of resizing options for instant cropping of stories, banners, etc.
- 10+ photo adjustment tools such as brightness, sharpness, contrast, and more.
- 6 retouching tools which include blemish remover, whitening tools, glow enhancer, and more.
- 30+ border packs for great customization of your images.
- Photo SPOTS, which helps in finding unique photo locations near you.
- Color grading options available for video content editing.
- Grid planning and shuffling of edited images.
- Text editor with 20+ fonts.
- Easy to navigate and intuitive in design.
