best photo apps

Best Photo Apps

We select the best photo apps for iPhone, iPad and Android from cool cameras to photo editor tools.
1. Fotor
Looking for a flexible photo editing app that s easy to pick up and produces quality results? Fotor delivers all of this, and best of all you can download it for free. This versatile app lets you edit, collage and share images, plus you can discover masterpieces snapped by other users.
The latest version, Fotor 5.7.0, comes with the world s first focus feature. Making the most of new SLR technology, you can now use your phone to create pictures with greater depth and clarity. Simply select a focal point, adjust the emulator to your preference, and create a high definition finish.
2. Lifecake
Save and organise pictures of your children growing up with Lifecake. In a timeline free from the adverts and noise that clutter most social media channels, you can easily look back over fond memories and share them with family and friends.
Touted as a time machine of your child s life , you can skip to select stages and compare different dates. You decide who can see your images, and because Lifecake is now a Canon company you can order a printed album of your precious photos.
3. Qwik
Qwik describes itself as the fastest and easiest way to make pretty photos, and with other 600 filers, plus tons of fonts and frames, it s hard to argue with them.
Edit your images in seconds with straightforward hands on tools, and share them with Qwik s online community. With new filters and features being added every week, Qwik is constantly keeping itself fresh and exciting.
4. VSCO Cam
Connect with amazing photographers from around the world, and create your own stunning photography with VSCO Cam. Create your own VSCO Journal to join in with the community and find inspiration form other users. Unlike other social platforms, your followers and clout are not displayed, giving everyone an equal creative playing field.
VSCO Cam comes packed with top performance features, including high resolution imports, and before and after comparisons to show how you built up your edit. Introduce yourself to the cimmunity by downloading it for free.
5. Camera MX
The Android exclusive photo app Camera MX combines powerful enhancement tools with a beautifully simple user interface. Thanks to intelligent image prcoessing you can take visibly sharper snaps, as well as cutting and trimming them to perfection in the edit.
In the latest version you can record those hard to capture moments with the shoot the past feature. Take pictures before the actual photo and never miss a moment again.
6. Lensical
Lensical makes creating face effects as simple as adding photo filters. Lensical is designed for larger displays and utilises one handed gesture based controls making it the perfect complement to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus s cameras.
7. PixelWakker
If you re a fan of pointillism then this is the photo app for you. PixelWakker breaks down your images into their component pixels and that s where the fun begins. You can apply one of four great effects pixel image, dots, line, or color rain to your pics and watch in wonder as dot art unfolds before your eyes. Okay, this app is quite limited but the results are excellent and as it s free, you may as well git it a whirl.
8. PicLab HD
PicLab HD is a nifty app for creating those inspiring images that you get all over the internet these days. You know, the ones featuring a photo probably with at least one retro filter applied with a helpful aphorism layered over the top in an attractive, friendly typeface. Yeah, those. PicLab HD makes them an absolute doddle, enabling you to either snap a photo or grab one from your photo library, then go to town on it.
As well as adding typography lots of fonts and full control over size, positioning, opacity, rotation, and colour you can also layer illustrations, ornamentation and other design elements on top of your image. PicLab HD features full layer based editing and also packs plenty of tools for making your original photo look its best, with loads of lighting and film effects to choose from as well as preset photo filters and adjustment tools for fine tuning the brightness, contrast, exposure, saturation, and the blur level of your photos.
9. Sktchy
Connecting with people around the world in a new way, here you can choose from a selection of photographs, uploaded by the Sktchy community and create a portrait from that image.
Sktchy co founder Jordan Melnick comments Our community of artists is growing every day because Sktchy is the perfect place for them to find inspiration and share their art with the world, in part because of the neat way we layer portraits over the photos that inspired them.
10. Photoristic HD
Photoristic HD is an iPad image app that s just powerful enough to be quite useful without overloading you with features that you don t really want.
It s all about the photo editor it features standard image adjustment tools (white balance, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, vibrance and saturation), with additional colour controls, a black and white mode, split toning and a hefty collection of presets for Instagram style quick fixes.
It s fast and easy to use and can handle images up to 20 megapixels, and while they re not exactly giving it away it comes at a fairly reasonable price for its no nonsense set of genuinely useful photo tools.