6 Best Photo Editing Apps for iOS and Android

by Photo Book Expert on December 10, 2021

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Love taking photos with your smartphone? If so, you deserve the best possible editing features for cleaning up those photos, adding filters and effects, and bringing your photography to life.

Fortunately, you have a wide range of great software choices available both for Apple phones running iOS and Android devices. Here are a selection of free and paid photo-editing apps to help jumpstart your photography career!

1. Snapseed

Cost: FREE

Platforms: iOS and Android

Snapseed offers advanced photo editing on virtually every mobile device. Owned by Google LLC, Snapseed is recognized by pretty much every tech and software review company as a must-have photo editing software. The best part is that it’s completely free while rivaling expensive desktop photo editing software with its vast array of features.

2. Adobe Photoshop Express

Cost: FREE

Platforms: iOS and Android

If you’re a diehard Photoshop fan, you’ll feel right at home with this stripped-down free version of one of the world’s most popular photo editing tools. You won’t find all the editing options you may be used to on the full desktop version, but you’ll still have access to most of what you need to bring out the best elements of your photographs with a variety of filter, texture, and tweaking features.

3. Prisma

Cost: $8.00/mo or $30/yr

Platforms: iOS and Android

Looking to make your pictures look weird? With Prisma, you won’t simply be adding more color to the grass or bringing out your friend’s freckles. Instead, you’ll be able to transform your images into bizarre, often psychedelic works of art. Take that ordinary photo of your dog on a hiking trail and make it look like he’s running on the edge of a volcano – the world is yours.

4. Canva

Cost: FREE

Platforms: iOS and Android

Another out-of-the-ordinary photo editing app, Canva isn’t really about regular photography. Instead, it’s about incorporate striking visuals with a range of vignettes, filters, and textures to make your images look as professional as possible. If you’re a social media manager, you’ll love how Canva lets you make posters and other great eye-catching content for your marketing campaigns.

5. VSCO

Cost: FREE (Limited Functions)

Platforms: iOS and Android

If you’ve ever used Instagram and its many filters before for editing your photos, then you’ll feel right at home with the more advanced version of it found in VSCO. In fact, the myriad filters available here are nothing short of stunning and can be adjusted on the fly, as can every other aspect of your images including borders, exposure, temperature, contrast, cropping, and much more.

6. PicsArt

Cost: FREE (Limited Functions)

Platforms: iOS and Android

PicsArt is one of the more versatile, advanced photo editing tools on this list. The options available in PicsArt allow you to make virtually every basic adjustment and a ton of more advanced ones as well. Whether you want to add dramatic tones and splashes of color to your pictures to make them more cinematic or you want to completely alter the way your face looks in a selfie, you’ll find every option you need inside this free photo editing app.

 

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