10 Best Photo Editing Apps for Android and iOS in 2020 [Updated]

Emerging technologies are changing the way apps are used to function. Now, we have more sophisticated apps and software solutions that help in boosting the productivity of businesses. Whether you are a full-fledged business or a startup, high-quality images have become the basic need for digital promotion. That’s where photo editing app development comes into the picture. With the recent technological developments, photo-editing apps have leveled up their game and are helping businesses make their mark online, which ultimately helps in attracting more users.  

With a ton of photo editing apps available online, choosing the perfect fit for you can be a little confusing. We have created a list of the ten best photo editing apps for 2022 that will ease your search for the best app. Let’s dig in.

Adobe Photoshop Express

If you have ever done some photo editing, perhaps you’re familiar with Adobe Photoshop. Now, this popular name has a refined version in the name of Adobe Photoshop Express. The application has inherited all the features of Photoshop in the form of a mobile application. Photoshop Express is a go-go for easy, quick, and powerful editing on devices with a simple interface. In addition to the below-mentioned features, the app allows sharing photos on Twitter, Facebook, and other networking sites. 

• Provides user guidelines for how to use the app? 
• Fix crooked images using the Auto Settings 
• 80+ filters for instantly adding photos.  
• It has all the essential tools to crop, rotate, straighten, and flip pics. 
• Sharpen the details of your picture. 
• One-touch adjustment for exposure, contrast, and white balance.  
• Allows Importing and editing of photos in RAW format. 
• Available on both iOS and Android. 

PicsArt Photo Studio

If you would want to re-mix photos instead of having some light touch-ups using filters, then PicsArt is for you. The app lies somewhere between Paint and Photoshop. It is quite easy to use and has features covering almost everything for consumer mobile photography. PicsArt stands out for the massive number of options one has while customizing the photos. Tools for the basic options like crop, cutout, and stretch.  

• A massive collection of fonts, stickers, and much more. 
• Use brush mode for applying effects on a particular part of a picture. 
• Tools for adding sparkle, decorating text, and color adjustment. 
• Cut an object from one pic and paste it on top of another.  
• Provides an In-built camera powered by live effects. 
• It has adjustable transparency. 
• Allows the sharing of photos on social media sites.  
• Available on both iOS and Android 

Afterlight

Afterlight is a simple and fast photo-editing application. It possesses a simple and unique design equipped with powerful editing tools for fetching you the desired picture. In addition to the wide variety of toolkits, the app has some cool functionality like double exposure, dust, and color shift.  

• 15 Adjustment tools for bettering the positions of your images. 
• Total of 59 filters for enhancing the look 
• 66 natural and real light leaks  
• Tools for cropping and transforming the picture. 
• Customized Frames addition for your photo 
• Fine-tune the color and tone of your images.  
• Available on both iOS and Android. 

Airbrush

AirBrush is an easy-to-use photo editing application. It has a useful retouching tool and cool filter options to get good edits. This application is available for free but has several purchases and advertisements. It has an integrated camera surface with various live effects. In addition, AirBrush has an interactive surface and contains many tools for refining the tone of the picture. Also, after editing the image, one can immediately share edited photos on any social media site. The editing app supports Russian, Portuguese, English, and Chinese, and German. 

• Pimple and Blemish remover 
• Tools for teeth whitening and brightening eyes.  
• Coupled with natural and radiant filters for toning up the picture. 
• Adds natural-looking makeup like blush, mascara, and much more.  
• Crop, rotate, blur and do another such basic photo editing 
• Reshape the whole look by just a swipe of a finger 
• Available on both Android and iOS.  

Aviary

Aviary is just another photo editing app that has a feature-rich package for performing the editing. The app provides reliability with the tasks, and one can easily accomplish various manual adjustments just by a tap of fingers.  

• Single tap for enhancing the pic. 
• Brightness, color contrast, the temperature can be monitored 
• Has fun stickers 
• Filters to control saturation 
• Draw and add text to the picture 
• Both free and paid versions are available.  
• Available on both Android and iOS.  

Snapseed

Snapseed is one of the finest professional-grade photo editing applications by Google. The software possesses a wide range of editing tools that can help in color, brightness, and contrast adjustments. The advanced filter collection allows easy editing for lens blurring, glamorous glow, frames, and HDR Scape. Snapseed is a fantastic option for people who don’t want to download multiple software to edit pictures.  

• Easy to use 
• Flexible exposure, color, and sharpening adjustments 
• Selective brush filters for editing a section of an image 
• An option for editing and exporting RAW DNG files as JPG. 
• Advanced features like healing brush, perspective cropping, and local adjustments.  
• A unique Retrolux filter is used to alter photos and create reel effects. 
• Available on both Android and iOS.  

VSCO

VSCO is a powerful editing application amongst professionals due to its stylish editing tools. The app has filters for enhancing image toning. Even the camera possesses some manual settings for giving ultimate control while shooting. The app includes a photo library, camera, and VSCO photo editor. It also has an online photo-sharing community. 

• Finest mobile and film-inspired presets.  
• Film X tools  
• Tools for white balancing, highlighting, and exposures, 
• Basic editing- crop, adjust color and sharpness. 
• Natural-looking cool effects. 
• A robust community offering curated work. 
• Available on both iOS and Android.  

Fotor

Fotor is one of the most elegant photo editing applications powered by a lot of cool features and image enhancement tools. This application offers various photo effects and image processing filters. You can avail more than ten special editing tools to adjust your photos’ brightness, lighting, contrast, and other aspects. With Photo Editor, you can also create collages with many collage templates. This application can be downloaded for free but contains advertisements. 

• Essential editing tools plus a collage maker 
• Ten plus special editing features 
• Feature-rich photo editor and photo licensing platform 
• Extend functions with scrollable functions for immediate adjustment 
• Many collage templates such as classics and magazines. 
• Available on both Android and iOS. 

YouCam

YouCam Perfect is a handy photo editing tool that allows you to decorate your portrait photos in seconds. Try the special editing effects and filters with one touch, crop, and rotate pictures. This mosaic is pixelated to blur the background, sketches, and HDR effects. This application is equipped with a face converter, eye bag eraser, and slimmer body to make your waist smaller and look slimmer. Overall, finding the best selfie photo editing application can be a big problem. YourCam Perfect also offers a selfie video option. This can be downloaded for free with some in-app purchases for additional features and contains advertising. 

• Real-time decoration effects in photos and selfie videos 
• Allows the cutting and removing objects 
• Tools for cropping, rotating and applying one-touch.  
• Find lots of faces for an instant touch to a group selfie 
• It offers a self-video option 
• Smile function to add a smile to each picture 
• Available on both Android and iOS.

Instasize 

If you are an emerging social media influencer or an established content creator, Instasize is the right photo editing app for you. In other words, Instasize can be described as a series of photo and video editing tools that offer several user filters and advanced editor functions. 

• Users can edit their photos in various aspects. 
• Choose from a variety of formats for different social media platforms 
• The ability to add creative text to your photos and videos 
• Serves to remove acne spots so that stains disappear 
• Available on both Android and iOS.  

Develop a Future-Ready Photo-editing App with Matellio! 

Photo editing app development has been making headlines in the global market with its amazing quality deliverables. Whether you are a business or an individual, high-quality photos or images are needed to promote your business or personal brand everywhere on the internet. Especially in the eCommerce industry, every sale depends on the image quality displayed in the product catalog. There are various challenges in developing an efficient photo editing app, but with the help of a full-fledged mobile app development company like Matellio, you can get an edge over the competition. 

Matellio offers high-quality, scalable, and feature-enriched mobile apps that fit perfectly with your business goals. We follow agile development methodologies to ensure the quality of our digital solutions. Our team of dedicated developers has diversified experience and a wide array of skills. Our flexible engagement models are designed to comply with your budget for app development. Get in touch with our experts to discuss your idea in detail over a 30-min free consultation call today!