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As social media aficionados, I’m sure we’ve all seen many photos shared over the years on various platforms. The quality of photos varies, with some being so amazing that you may wonder how the photographer managed such impressive photos, especially on a smartphone. Of course the quality of smart phone cameras has improved greatly over the years, but what you may not have realized is that some of your favorite smart phone photos have been improved with the help of the best photo apps around!
Best Photo Apps for Your Smartphone
Today we’re sharing seven of the best – and as an Android user myself, I’m making sure to include apps that are available on the Android platform in addition to iPhones.
I’m including Instagram on this list because along with being one of our favorite photo sharing apps, it includes a few photo editing tools – obviously cropping photos to a square, cool filters, and with its most recent update, several new more typical tools. So while you can use the other apps listed to edit your photos for sharing on Instagram – or elsewhere – there’s a lot you can do right in Instagram!
VSCOCAM
One of the most popular photo editing apps in the iTunes App store is now available for Android too! This powerful photo editing app offers a lot of filters and tools to make your photos even more beautiful. I lovethe ability to view your photo before and after edits.
Photo Grid Collage Maker
Sometimes you want to share a quick collage on a sharing app like Instagram rather than sharing several pictures in a row. Photo Grid makes it easy to create a square collage and share it on Instagram – including options for different photo quantities and collage styles and colors.
Rhonna Designs
This awesome app allows you to make amazing graphics with your images – in addition to the traditional photo editing options, you can add text, color and stickers to really make your pictures stand out!
Pixlr Express
This fun all-in-one photo app provides so many different types of effects that there are almost endless choices – more than 2 million combinations – including filters, overlays, collages, frames, text, lighting effects, and so many more.
PicsArt
This creative app is another all-in-one photo editor that’s great for all photography levels. The drawing tools truly let you create art with your photos!
Flipagram
If you’ve used some of these apps to turn your photos into something even more special and you are dying to share several, you can use Flipagram to easily turn your photos into a short video that you can share on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter!
We all know that new apps are available every day – these are some of our current favorites, but we always love to hear about others! What are your favorite photography apps?
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Thanks for sharing such a wonderful types of apps for photo….i Want to tell you that i have also discovered a new and amazing app for photo grids and editing,frames and much more…name of the app is Photo grid Collage…I will suggest all of you to at least try this amazing app at once…link to direct download this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidframes.photocollage&hl=en
I keep seeing vscocam so maybe I need to see what all the fuss is about. I always use Afterlight, it’s another all-in-one, but has the option to buy some really cool additional effects and such.
Photo mate r2, handyphoto and repix are editors I found to be very usefull or powerful. Camera2, camera360 and a better camera are the additional photo taking apps I use, all have their time and place. Im trying an all android editing this year and along with what you mentioned the above are what I found will let me get close to lightroom /photoshop and onone pc software editing.
I downloaded three of those apps yest. Thanks for share:)!!
I just downloaded VSCO Cam! It looks awesome. I really like the idea of before and after. That is something I have always wished could happen!
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful types of apps which is really making my life better
Thanks! One of my favorite is Over for writing text over pictures. My other favorite is Waterlogue. It makes your pictures look like watercolors! So fun.
YES! I am always on the hunt for a GREAT photo editor on my phone, and I have YET to find one! Hopefully one of these work out for me! 🙂
I haven’t heard of the others. I will definitely check those out. My two favorites are Instagram and VSCOCAM.
Thanks for sharing these apps! Just downloaded 3 of them!
Thanks for sharing, I love using picsart, will definitely check out some of the others!
I love this post! Thank you so much for all of these tips and apps! I use a few of them but have some new ones in my arsenal now! Thank you thank you thank you!
Thanks I’ll check these out. I’ve been trying Pic Lab and it gives a lot I functionality.
Thanks for the list of all these apps!! I’m going to have to check them out 🙂
Love the ideas shared here. The list really huge and it will cover almost everything for any niche. Thanks for the such a lovely post!
Thank you so much for the very informative posts!
Great list of apps! I’ll have to check some of these out!
Great list, thanks for the share! Technology has made photo editing so much fun!
Thanks for all the recommendations! I just got the Beautiful Mess app which I’m liking so far. It’s simple and fun, which is all I expect 🙂
These are some of the best apps! I haven’t ever gotten into Vscocam but I know I need to!
Thanks for the great app recommendations!