The Best Photo Editing Apps in 2019 and Beyond

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Visual marketing is a necessity these days. If your company isn’t churning out high-quality images on a regular basis, it’s probably falling behind its competition. Fortunately, there are plenty of photo editing apps you can use to fill your social profiles and blog posts with beautiful pictures.

In this article, we’ll share with you our picks for the best photo editing apps available in 2019 and beyond. Let’s get started!

The Conditions for Our List

Before we dive into our picks for best photo editing apps, we need to clarify the conditions for our list. Each of the solutions below meets these two criteria:

  1. Free to Use: Our list doesn’t include any paid apps, which means you can download and start using each one immediately. Some of the apps may include upgraded features that users must pay for, though.
  2. Available on iOS and Android: Also, each of the apps on our list can be used on both iOS and Android devices. We don’t discriminate! Whether you rock the Apple iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, or some other device, you’ll be able to use these tools.

Now that we have that out of the way, let’s dive into our list of best photo editing apps!

The 5 Best Photo Editing Apps

What are the best photo editing apps for iOS and Android devices in 2019? We’re glad you asked! Here are our five picks, in no specific order:

1. Snapseed

Photo of the Snapseed app.

Source: iPhone Photography School

Snapseed is a powerful photo editing app from Google. It includes all the usual photo editing app features such as tuning, cropping, and straightening tools. But it also comes with a bunch of customizable filters, frames, text options, and an impressive sharpening tool that makes it easy to turn slightly out of focus pictures into crystal clear images.

Another stand-out Snapseed feature is its Selective Adjust tool, an incredibly handy tool that allows users to pinpoint specific areas in their photographs and adjust the brightness, contrast, and saturation — without affecting the rest of the image!

There are plenty of other tools and features packed inside the Snapseed solution too. That’s why it was an easy pick for our list of best photo editing apps.

2. Adobe Photoshop Express

Photo of the Adobe Photoshop Express app.

Source: Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is the unquestioned leader in the world of desktop photo editing. So much so that its name has become a verb. Most of us have probably asked at one time or another, “Hey, can you photoshop that image for me?”

Well, as it turns out, Adobe makes some pretty amazing smartphone apps as well!

Adobe Photoshop Express isn’t as powerful as its desktop counterpart. But it does include most of the tool’s main features and packs a serious punch. With this app you’ll be able to adjust filters, colors, lighting, and sharpness. It also has a snazzy red-eye detector and can be used to quickly annotate images with text and digital stickers.

For most folks, Adobe Photoshop Express is all that’s needed to make stunning images. But if you’re looking for more, Adobe also makes Lightroom and Capture for smartphones.

3. VSCO Cam

Photo of the VSCO Cam app.

Source: Uncrate

VSCO Cam is one of the more popular photo editing apps on the market, in large part because of its amazing filters, which try to recreate the soft, authentic look of real film. We have to admit, photos that include VSCO filters really do look amazing!

But there’s more to VSCO Cam than just a few pretty filters. The app also comes with important editing capabilities like cropping, borders, and vignettes and can be used to adjust exposure, contrast, color tones, and more.

If you’re looking for a fully-featured photo editing app with some of the best filters available, VSCO Cam might be the perfect tool for you.

4. Visage

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Source: iPhoneness

The selfie has been dominating social media feeds for years now. We don’t anticipate this photo trend going out of style anytime soon. So why not do what you can to ensure your selfies are the best that they can be?

Visage makes it easy to retouch portrait photos. Can’t stand the pimple on your forehead? Wish your teeth were a little whiter? Want to smooth out your skin and really make it shine? Visage can make all that happen in just a few clicks!

Visage can be used for free, but there’s a drawback. Every photo edited with the app is automatically given a branded hashtag that can’t be removed. If this bothers you, Visage can be purchased for $4.99 a month or $9.99 a year.

5. Instagram

Photo of the Instagram app.

Source: Trapped Magazine

Believe it or not, Instagram is actually one of the best photo editing apps available in 2019. Its filters are legendary. It also includes a lot of eye-catching effects, stickers, text overlays, and more that you can use to spice up your images.

Plus, you’re probably going to share your photos on Instagram anyway. Save yourself a little time and use the app to edit them as well, rather than going back and forth between tools.

For folks who want to edit and share photos quickly, we recommend Instagram. Especially if said photos don’t require serious editing.

Bonus: Niche Photo Editing Apps

How about a few more bonus apps for you to play around with? The following three tools are great for specific, niche purposes.

1. Foodie

Photo of the Foodie app.

Source: Android Community

Scroll through your Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter feed and you’re bound to see a few foodie pics. In fact, you’ve probably taken and shared a few yourself.

The Foodie app is the best photo editing app for these kinds of shots. It comes with over 30 different filters, each designed to enhance the appeal of your tasty grams. If you regularly shoot food, you need Foodie. End of story.

2. Live Collage

Photo of the Live Collage app.

Source: UnlockBoot

Collages are always fun pieces of content. They can be used to easily show before and after photos, group images together from the same event, and more. If you can appreciate a good collage, you should definitely check out Live Collage.

Live Collage features a wide variety of different layouts and lets users add text in different fonts, colors, and sizes. It also has a few basic photo editing options as well.

3. Prisma Photo Editor

Photo of the Prisma Photo Editor App.

Source: 9to5Mac

Finally, we have Prisma Photo Editor, which will turn your photos into drawings or paintings. There are other tools that do this too but they can’t compare to Prisma Photo Editor. The end results always look so realistic!

If you’re looking to create unique content, Prisma Photo Editor is definitely worth a download.

Step Up Your Game With Photo Editing Apps

Visual content like photos allow companies to attract new customers and grab their attention. Fortunately, creating eye-catching imagery isn’t nearly as difficult as it used to be. Download one of the best photo editing apps we mentioned in this article (listed again below for your convenience) and start creating. Good luck!

  1. Snapseed
  2. Adobe Photoshop Express
  3. VSCO Cam
  4. Visage
  5. Instagram
  6. Foodie
  7. Live Collage
  8. Prisma Photo Editor

What do you do with all those beautiful images once they’ve been created? Hopefully you have a way to quickly store and organize. If not, we recommend CleanPix. Our software service is the best way to manage your company’s media library. Try it for free today and see for yourself!

– Jacob Thomas

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