Top Free Photo Editing Apps For iPhone and Android Smartphones

Set up your Instagram feed with these five free photo editing apps.

With the increase in the quality of smartphone cameras, many photo editing apps are used to enhance the pictures taken by smartphone cameras.

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Smartphone cameras have come to a point where the need for a point and shoot just becomes add on, whereas a smartphone fits in your pocket and can take pictures without having to go through hassles of storing them separately.

What also helps in posting good quality photos are varied uses of photo editing apps. And thankfully, there are plenty of photo editing apps on the app store for both iOS and Android smartphone users these days.

We have picked some of the the best ones that can be used for free, to add that extra magic to your photos.

1. Mirror Lab

Mirror Lab gives some interesting photo effects which change the photos like the little planet.

Mirror Lab is an interesting photo editing app to appear in a while. The user interface looks basic and the effects in this app can change the perspective of the photos.

There are many effects including the infamous spherical transparent ball which you might have seen on instagram.

You can download it from here

2. Photogrid

Photogrid claimed it’s rise to fame as 

Photogrid is more than five years old,chances are you might have used this app for creating collages on your phone, as photogrid now offers more than 300+ templates for collages.

The app has expanded and became a feature-packed photo editor, you can do more by creating slideshows and animated greeting cards as well. We suggest you keep this for the occasional friends and family collages.

You can download it from here

3. Pixlr

Pixlr has been consecutively been the editor’s choice of photo editing app both on iOS and Android.

Pixlr previously owned by Autodesk is one of the most popular apps on the Play Store for photo editing. The user interface of this apps looks clean. Pixlr filters and features are easy to use which is why users keep coming back to this app.

Having said that, users looking for more control and tweaks would be disappointed with Pixlr’s lack of advanced features, especially in the free version.

You can download the app from here

4. Photoshop Express

Adobe brings a sized down version of their popular photoshop to mobile.

Photoshop Express is one of the best photo editors on the plays store this is because of the user interface which isn’t complicated.

The free version is ad-free and has plenty of features to play around with the results after editing is of high quality, unlike other photo editors which lose detail while editing.

Whether you are a beginner or have been editing photos regularly Photoshop Express will deliver pleasing results during editing.

You can download it from here

5. Snapseed

The amount of features packed in Snapseed can rival some of the most used professional desktop software.

Snapseed is Google's free photo editor. This app doesn’t put a limit to your needs of features while you’re editing a photo.

Beginners will be astounded by the availability of all the features and it’s possible that many professional photographers also use this app for editing.

In addition to all the features, Snapseed also supports RAW format which can allow users to edit their DSLR photos on your smartphone, pretty cool, right?

You can download it from here