Did you know that some of the most shared, viral images were created from smartphone picture editing apps? Learn the best apps available to help you enhance all of your social imagery.
You can use these apps to create images from scratch or to edit pictures that you’ve taken with filters, texts, and other graphics.
Before a big launch or when planning out your social media plan for the month, look around your every day life to see what you can use in your social promotion.
Stop feeling overwhelmed and just get out there and do it!
Have you ever seen someone’s edited photo and wondered what apps they used?
This post is just for you. I have compiled a rather large list of different apps that you can use to edit your images on-the-go!
Use the apps to add text to your images like #hashtags or your website url for your business.
A Beautiful Mess
This is one of my newest fav apps. It comes in a free version and paid. It allows you to add on text, images, borders and filters. It is from the bloggers of A Beautiful Mess.
PicPlayPost
Have you seen people posting videos where there are two or three different videos in frames? THIS is the app baby! You can combine different videos into ONE using this app! You can also combine multiple pictures into one with this!
Over
Over is a quick app that allows you to add text over your images. There really isn’t much to talk about with this app, it’s quick, simple, and pretty self explanatory.
PicLab PhotoEditor
Another awesome photo editing program with different filters and text features.
Square Ready
If you are planning on posting the image on Instagram or your Facebook page, use Square Ready to crop the image before editing it. With the new iPhone update, I almost always shoot my images in Square mode because this prevents me from losing part of the image because of the square crop. This app helps those who are not on an iPhone or for those who didn’t shoot in square mode.
Pixlromatic
Another cool app that lets you edit your images by adding cool filters, lens light, and so much more. You can use this app on the web or download it straight to your smartphone.
Line Camera
One more photo editing app that includes filters, stamps, borders, and more!
Phonto
A simple app that allows you to add many different types of text to your images.
Filterstorm
This is a fierce photo editing tool. You can adjust photos like you can with expensive desktop applications. A great feature of the tool is that it allows you to save a series of edits under automation.
Lenslight
The name of the app is what the app does. Using Lenslight, you can add in different lights to your image from adding in sun glares to bokeh and surface glares.
Masking Tape
Another app that’s name gives it away as to what it does. You can add fun and creative tapes paired with text to your images for an artistic look.
Tilt Shift Generator
This is a great app for city scapes. A super fun app that allows you to apply many ToyCamera effects to your images. It gives your pictures a miniature look!
PicFrame
Want to post a picture that has more than one picture on it? Use PicFrame to frame out one or many images with this app.
FlipAGram
A picture montage with a video element and pair it to music! THIS is my favorite. LOVE it.
Afterlight
Create cutouts of your images with shapes like circles, hearts, and triangles. This one also has filter features for your images.
Incredibooth
An incredibly fun app, pretend your smartphone is an old-school photo booth! Be the life of the party or live event with Incredibooth.
Camera Timer
One advantage digital and film cameras have always had over smartphones is their ability to delay a picture. Now here is an app perfect to delay a picture being snapped. Set the timer on this app and pose!
Bonus Tip
Here are two apps that you can use to add your logo or a watermark to your social images for brand recognition. Use either Watermark It Pro & iWatermark once you have your images designed and ready for upload. Run them through these apps to finalize with your logo!
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Do you have a favorite app to edit images not listed here? OR is one of your favorite apps listed? Leave a comment below!
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Pic-Tap-Go – AMAZING! it is my go-to app with tons of filters to make photos better…or more stylized if you choose to go that route.
VSCOcam – again more filters, but nothing super cheesy!
DoubleCam – it flips the camera immediately after taking one photo, then takes another from the flipside. Fun to experiment with. Great for a self portrait/scene combo all-in-one.
Snapseed – Google’s photo editing app that allows for pretty specific editing as far as exposure, contrast, saturation, tint, etc in certain areas!
These are great Tiffany!! Can’t wait to download these and test them on out! xo
I’m in love with Over (put words on it…great for quotes!), Phototoaster (awesome edits/filters), PhotoMarkr (watermarking), and Typic Pro is my latest fave for creating visual quotes. In fact, I did a tutorial the other day on making a FB cover image, using mostly my iPhone. Pretty darn proud of that!!! 😀
Beautiful Mess is a blast! I’m gonna go check out those other ones…especially the photobooth one, that sounds like a BLAST!
Yay Amanda!! Thanks for sharing yours too!! xoxo, Ali
Excellent post however , I was wanting to know
if you could write a litte more on this subject?
I’d be very grateful if you could elaborate a little bit
further. Cheers!
Awesome post!! I really love Word Swag. Fun and lots of options!
Thanks Tami!!! So glad you liked it, will definitely have to check out Word Swag! xoxo
Thanks for this list, Ali! Awesome! Do any of these allow you to add a custom graphic onto a phone photo? My logo is “Pete the Lone Orange” and I would love to be able to simply add his avatar to photos that I take around town. Thanks in advance for any insight you can offer!
Hey Tiffany! That is a fabulous question and I am adding them to the post now! Here are two options for you!
iWatermark
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iwatermark/id357577420?mt=8
Watermark It Pro
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/watermark-it-pro-add-brand/id640495432?mt=8
Thanks for your question 🙂 xoxo, a
Great summary Ali!
Thank YOU Alice!!!! xoxo
There’s an app to add orange labels with different things… Such as shots or broken hearts etc… Can someone give me the name of the app? Thanksss
*great post*
Hi Everyone,
I cannot recall the name of this really cool App that I had on my old cellphone and forgot to transfer. It basically allows you to manipulate any photo to add features like ‘Brushstrokes’ and ‘Cartoon’. Those two were amongst many other options. It was just a one word name. I’ve Google searched but it hasn’t come up. I would recognise the name if I heard or saw it. Any ideas what it cld be?
Thanks so much
Are you thinking of Prisma? If not, it does the things you’re looking for! 🙂