20 apps to make your photos even more beautiful

With the change in the way of communicating, photos and videos have gained space for being a quick and efficient way to convey a message. In view of this, the photos gained great space, visibility and also became a profitable resource on social networks, especially for bloggers and online stores.

Selfies, which are the famous relaxed self-portraits that are usually taken with the front camera of the cell phone or also in the mirror, have been very popular in recent years. Given this reach and dissemination, the need arose to improve the images that are almost always shared on social networks.

As a result, many applications specialized in photos have emerged with several options for filters, effects, frames, collages and specific clippings, some of which adapt the size of the photo to Instagram, which is the most used photo sharing application and where it is possible to follow the daily life of friends, bloggers and also artists.

Thinking about the importance of images, we have currently prepared a democratic list with 20 applications available for Android and iOS, these applications can provide the effect of a trip to a beauty salon in your photos or create montages to gather several photos in a single image. Check out the list of apps below to boost your photos:

1. Perfect 365

Free on the App Store and Google Play

The application, also called “beauty salon”, promises a model appearance, making 20 different tools available to users to enhance the photos. Among these tools are features to whiten eyes and teeth, remove blemishes from the skin, change hair color, as if they were virtual wigs and mainly apply makeup effects on the photo, such as eyeshadow, lipstick and false eyelashes.

2. Diana Photo

For $1.99 on the App Store and free on Google Play

This app allows you to merge two different photos and use multiple filters like any other photo editor app. Its differential is in the feature in which you just shake your cell phone and the application selects 2 photos from the cell phone group and presents a proposal for editing the image in just 3 seconds. The result can be surprising and a great alternative for the undecided.

3. VSCO Cam

Free on the App Store and Google Play

The great advantage of this app is a photo platform that is linked to the app itself, where you can follow photographers from around the world and also post your own photos. The original image can be compared with the edited one with just a touch of the screen and edits can be made through changes such as fading, temperature, cropping, vignette and even other purchaseable features.

4. Retry

Free on the App Store and Google Play

There are 2 versions of this application, a free one, which offers some paid features, and an improved one that is charged. The application provides an active filter in which it is possible to take the photo and choose the filter at the same time, since there are more than 100 options. The application also has the function of timer and photo in sequence, allowing also to choose the interval time between one photo and another.

5. Photogrid

Free on the App Store and Google Play

The highlight of this application is the mounting possibilities it offers! Image combinations can be made and enhanced by applying filters, inserting stickers and using a text editor. There are more than 300 montage layouts, allowing you to crop and adjust images that can be saved in high resolution, and even turned into video slides.

6. Rookie

Free on the App Store and Google Play

The application offers 116 filters divided into 10 themes and is a good option for those looking for vintage effects in their photos, but also provides effects such as skin softening, textures and blurring. The highlight of the application is to combine the feeling of analog photography with digital, even old-fashioned images can be modernized with 261 stickers and more than 200 frames.

7. Photomirror

Free on the App Store and Google Play

This application has attracted attention in the bloggers’ look-of-the-day photos and as the name implies, the application’s differential is the ability to mirror the images, even with 3D effect. Images can be mirrored right, left, up or down, and can also be projected inside geometric shapes. With dozens of effects, filters and collages, images can be saved in high resolution.

8. Instabox

Free on the App Store and Google Play

Easy to use, this application allows you to post the photo in its original size on social networks, without having to crop it. The advantage of the application is the ability to insert borders and frames, which can be solid colors or with textures. There are many photo collage templates, the possibility of merging between images and more than 30 filters to edit your photos.

9. Groopic

Free on the App Store and Google Play

The high point of this app is always leaving the group photo complete, just take 2 photos in the same pose, each with a different photographer and then the app takes care of combining the 2 photos and making them all appear in the same image. Collages and filters are free of charge, however the combined image has an additional cost.

10. Facetune

For $3.99 on the App Store and for $9.99 on Google Play

The app promises pictures that look like a fashion magazine, given the ease of retouching the skin using an easy-to-use and affordable feature, but with the effect of a professional feature. Facetune has features of a beauty salon such as “painting” white hair, enhancing the look and even aesthetic procedures such as changing the shape of the nose, smoothing chin lines and raising eyebrows.

11. WhistleCamera

Free on the App Store and Google Play

As the name of the application says in English, a whistle can activate the camera and allows the photo to be taken without directly touching the device, being a great way to avoid unforeseen events. Using this app can make your photos free of blurring effects, especially in selfies or driving photos. The app also offers auto focus, custom filters, frames and a timer.

12. Photo Frame

Free on the App Store and Google Play

Focused on montages, Photo Frame provides the sharing of edited images on social networks, by email and also by different types of messages. The application promises ease of handling and there are more than 60 collage templates to choose from, making it possible to save the image in the gallery with just one touch.

13. Repix

Free on the App Store and Google Play

The app aims to turn ordinary photos into works of art, providing 16 filters, a smooth crop tool, the ability to switch the tools used, and craft brushes to retouch photos precisely using your fingers. It is also possible to integrate the application with social networks, being able to choose the photo that should be edited directly from a Facebook album, for example.

14. PicsArt

Free on the App Store and Google Play

The photo editor allows you to enhance images with various image effects and also offers text tools. Drawing is also an activity that can be performed on your photos through PicsArt, but it is also possible to make collages in photo grids, freeform or even using another image as a background.

15. Click Serendipity

For $1.99 on the App Store and for R$2.50 on Google Play

The app was created in partnership with the blog A Series of Serendipity and offers more than 50 cute stickers for photos, 7 filters, 12 font options to write on photos and ready-made phrases like “good morning” and “books are love”. This is a great option to make your photos fun with cute frames and fun stickers.

16. Glitch

Free on the App Store and Google Play

With this application it is also possible to upload photos directly from an album, even if it is from a social network. The 3D effect is also offered in its visual effects, as well as “failing” the images, and causing a “pixelated” effect. It is possible to combine up to 3 photos into a single image and work on each one individually. The application also allows you to save photos in high resolution and is a good option to create psychedelic effects in your images.

17. Afterlight

For $0.99 on the App Store and for R$2.52 on Google Play

The application allows the photo to be taken by itself or chosen from the gallery, and it is also possible to adjust the contrast, sharpness and brightness. With this application, you can create professional-looking photos, with 15 adjustment tools, 74 filters, 78 textures and 128 different adjustable frames.

18. Adobe Photoshop Express

Free on the App Store and Google Play

The speed in editing images is seen as a great utility of the application that performs from basic functions such as cropping and red-eye reduction to controlling colors, shadows, temperature and panoramic photos. The application also has other paid features, one of which is a specific tool to remove stains.

19. SnapSeed

Free on the App Store and Google Play

With just one touch on the cell phone screen, the automatic correction is applied and the application takes care of analyzing the photo and applies the necessary correction. Using Snapseed it is possible to adjust the saturation, contrast and also apply filters with vintage effect, from the 50s, 60s and 70s and even black and white. Differentiated effects can be made with fading and creating edges.

20. Cymera

Free on the App Store and Google Play

A differential of the application is the possibility of creating an album to save the images in the application itself, without using the cell phone memory space. Making montages is also an alternative to editing images in this app, using stickers and text options. An additional part of Cymera are tools with a slimming effect, skin and hair correction, as well as teeth whitening.

Whether Android or iOS is the system on your cell phone, now you know several tools to rock photos on social networks. Choose the app that best matches your personality and get a lot of likes on social media.