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Muhammed Swalih / Nov 26, 2017

10 Best Photo Editing Apps for Android

Best Image Editing Apps for Android

We all do photo editing in one way or the other. Normally we do photo editing for cropping, re-sizing, and red-eye removal. Android developers are really making best apps for direct photo editing on the Android device. These apps are really helpful to directly edit your existing image or newly taken photo on Android without using PC or Mac.

It today’s day and age, when social media is taking over, it is growing more important to look as best as you can. Are you trying to improve your Instagram profile? Look better on multiple images on a Facebook album? Maybe you’re trying to improve your amateur photography skills and increase the end result of an image you’ve taken? It has never been easier to do just that, with a vast amount of programs and apps available today. So don’t worry – you won’t have to spend countless hours learning, and pay for someone to do your edits. Stay tuned and check out the list of the top 10 best photo editing apps for Android.

1. VSCO

Considered one of the best image editing apps for Android today, it has a huge community of people using it on a daily basis. It’s described as an advanced Instagram type of an app, with way more settings, and filters ready to download. VSCO has all the tools you’d expect, it is just like photoshop for Android – changing exposure, contrast, temperature correction, and more. You can align your image, skew it to your liking, change the tint and color correct. You can have a 7 day trial of the premium features, but you’ll have to input your payment details beforehand. Using it for free isn’t a bad thing, you’ll have a variety of filters in your arsenal, which you can share with a big community of photographers.

VSCO: Photo Editor
VSCO: Photo Editor
Price: Free

2. Google Snapseed

Google Snapseed is an advanced photo editor app coming from the tech giant Google, as the name suggests. It’s a free-to-use app, allowing you to import not only JPEG and PNG images, but RAW camera images as well. You have about 29 filters and tools at your disposal, so won’t have a trouble choosing the right one. The option to make and save custom filters and apply them to other pictures you take is available, and you’ll love it. If you take a perfect selfie but notice a neighbor photobombing in the background – no worries! Snapseed has your back by a feature called Healing, allowing you to remove unwanted part of an image.

Snapseed
Snapseed
Price: Free

3. Bonfire Photo Editor Pro

Another Android image editing app that is raising in popularity slowly is Bonfire. Before we go any further, this one is free to use, but it offers some in-app payments. It is equipped with all the features we’re already used to – color correction, brightness, temperature, and sharpness. The thing that sets this one apart is a huge amount of filters available, over 110! That means you can take out the artist inside you to come out and play. You can create weird shapes, make your image cartoonish, replace colors and make a masterpiece. Skin blemishes are a thing of the past with this one, and some AI algorithms help you retouch your photos to the maximum.

Bonfire Photo Editor Pro
Bonfire Photo Editor Pro
Price: Free

4. Fotor Photo Editor

The name might sound familiar to you because Fotor is a well-known program on Windows. You’ll get to see what it brings now that it has spread over to Android. First of all, it is an app that many people around the world use to improve their social media feeds. It has all the tiny adjustment options for you to use, sharpness, brightness, crop, fade, a collage of images. The thing that sets this one apart is the one-click tool for Fotor to optimize your image using their algorithm. It is free to use, although you’ll have to log in, but that a small annoyance for the features it delivers.

Fotor - AI Agent Photo Editor
Fotor - AI Agent Photo Editor
Price: Free

5. Prisma

This one is a little bit weird at the first glance. It is not your usual photo editing app for Android, that’s for sure. Prisma can make your photos a masterpiece, literally! Are you a fan of Picasso, Claude Monet, or other world famous artists and painters? This allows you to transform your photos using the styles of famous artists, and take them to the whole new level. You can also use transformations into various patterns, ornaments, and shapes, along with modern filters. It is one of the best picture editing apps for Android.

Prisma Art Effect Photo Editor
Prisma Art Effect Photo Editor
Price: Free

6. Pixlr – Free Photo Editor

Another famous app is the Pixlr – a free photo editor, as the name says. It is mostly intended for social media sharing, but it proves useful in many other areas. You will be able to create photo collages with various borders, effects, and color levels, and use their Auto Fix tool for quick balance. The ability to play around with your photos has never been more fun. You will have over 2 million combinations of filters, effects, and overlays for you to use, and create a perfect image.  You can follow them on social media for daily tips, trick or just inspiration.

Pixlr AI Photo Editor
Pixlr AI Photo Editor
Price: Free

7. Facetune

As a result of an ever-growing need for people to touch up, and improve their physical features, the apps like this are growing in popularity. Facetune is an app intended for easy and fast portrait and selfie edits. Seems like you think you don’t need it? In order to convince you, we’ll mention that even the celebrities need a touchup for the magazine covers. But that’s expensive, and why pay when you can use Facetune? Let’s see what it can do for you since no one is perfect – blemish removal, dark circles under the eyes are gone. You will probably glow in pictures with their white teeth removal tool, and skin tone adjustment tools.

Facetune - Ad Free
Facetune - Ad Free
Price: $5.99

8. Photo Effects Pro

This app is definitely intended for all those people that like having fun with their pictures. The emphasis is certainly on fun effects with this one, and less on filters. You’ll be able to add colorful borders, stickers, funny font texts, and collages of pictures. There certainly is an option to add funny hats, cat paws and dog ears, which is what we know and love on Instagram. The best of all – it’s free to download and use, so if you’re on a tight budget, this is for you.

Photo Effects Pro
Photo Effects Pro
Price: Free

9. Cymera – Best Selfie Camera

As a result of Instagram and Snapchat popularity, the need for an app like this has never been higher. First of all, are you the one that is taking 25 selfies to pick the best among them? Well, no need for that, because Cymera app is here to assist you from now on. It has a beauty camera built it, and therefore it has never been easier to take the best selfie.  You can choose between 7 camera modes (Lomo, Fish-eye, etc.), and with anti-camera shake and timer, you will certainly put your best face forward. With an ability to retouch your features instantly (skin tone, enlarge eyes and smile) you will surely rise in popularity in an instant!

Cymera - Photo Editor Collage
Cymera - Photo Editor Collage
Price: Free

10. Adobe Photoshop Express

We’ve saved the best for last – you can’t find a human that hasn’t ever in his life heard of Photoshop. In conclusion of our list, let us present to you a free app by Adobe. Don’t be scared, you surely won’t need the level of knowledge like on a Windows version. Photoshop address is one of the best image editing apps on Android, for easy, fast and powerful adjustments. You will have a wide variety of filters to choose from, and you’ll certainly take your pick really fast. You can flip, crop, straighten, input HDR and big files, and therefore create an awesome photo without worries. Photoshop Express can handle all times of images, including RAW, and finally, share those images on social media with a click of a button.

Photoshop Express Photo Editor
Photoshop Express Photo Editor
Price: Free

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