The Best Free Photo Editing Apps On Android

These days pretty much everyone uses their smartphone to click photos and that means the market is flooded with photo editing apps. If you just got yourself an Android phone and are looking for an app that lets you touch up your photos, this list of best photo editors has you covered. We selected three photos — a selfie, a shot of a hotel room, and a picture of a mountains — and ran them through each app to test out their editing prowess. We downloaded many photo editing apps and tried to highlight apps that offer something unique or the ones that are the best among those with a similar feature set. We’ve found the best free photo apps on Android and you can download some of these to take your photo editing skills to the next level. For most people, using a separate photo editing app is going to be too much work.

Instagram realised this long ago as it added a suite of editing tools to its app, which started off as a place to add simple filters to your pictures. The app lets you adjust saturation, sharpness, contrast, and lots of other things in your pictures. We like the simplicity of the app’s editing tools a lot, although Instagram is so successful that you can sometimes recognise the filters just by looking at the resulting photos. Snapseed is a Google-owned photo editor that offers support for both JPG and RAW format images. This can be a useful feature to have if you shoot with a DSLR camera and need an app to edit these photos on the go. The app may appear simple but it features some cool editing features such as the ability to adjust levels and curves, which goes to show that this is an app with a surprising depth of editing features.

To give an example, it has a feature that allows you to set eight control points on the image and selectively apply enhancements to each point on the image. The app also makes it easy to say, blur a part of the image and correct underexposed parts of an image. Vsco is a really good photo editing app for iPhone and Android, but it takes some time to get used to. This app had all the editing tools of Instagram before the Facebook-owned photo app did. We like Vsco’s range of filters a lot more than those offered by Instagram and the app has a strong community of smartphone photography enthusiasts in case you want to see what people can do with the app. Autodesk’s Pixlr is a pretty good app for basic photo editing. The app has a neat interface that makes it easy to find effects and filters for you to apply. We found a very useful tool called “Pixelate” that allows you to quickly blur out any part of an image, apart from easy to use tools to edit the image.

We also liked the fact that they use simple terms such as “Brighten” and “Darken” to name all of their editing tools as it makes the app more accessible to everyone. Aviary also has a really nice UI and offers great tools in a relatively easy to use package. It lets you add frames and stickers, apart from the usual beautification and editing tools. The interface is the star of the show for this app and we recommend it for that reason alone. For instance, Aviary has a one-tap “Enhance” feature that does some colour correction and basic brightness and saturation adjustments to the picture. It also makes it really easy to doodle on the picture, apart from putting in all editing tools under the picture in neatly sorted categories. This is an unusual app that lets you add some amazing effects to your photos. You can add effects such as a light source, fog, and even rain, to your photos.