Photo & Video editors

1. Adobe Lightroom (Android, iOS)

Adobe Lightroom is a free, powerful, yet intuitive photo editor. Lightroom empowers you to create beautiful photos while helping you become a better photographer. It’s an easy-to-use app that has many editing options. Lightroom’s edits are always non-destructive by keeping the original image and the edits applied to it saved separately.

2. Snapseed (Android, iOS)

Snapseed is a comprehensive and professional photo editor developed by Google. This is a well-made program for editing photos and applying effects and filters on them. The application is available for devices with an IOS and Android systems, it also works stationary with OS X and Windows. Besides, the application is completely for free.

3. VSCO (Android, iOS)

VSCO is a place to express yourself, make beautiful photo and video, and connect with a creative community. Edit with a variety of mobile presets and tools while exploring original content made by creators around the world. The free version of the app gives users access to standard photo editing tools and some of VSCO’s presets, but membership is required in order to access tips, tutorials, video editing tools, and all other photo editing tools and presets. Similar to Instagram, users can also browse and like images that appear on their feed.

4. Inshot (Android, iOS)

This is an all-in-one video editor that is great for making stories on Instagram. You can change the canvas size and adjust from Instagram post size to Stories or YouTube size, you can also add music to the back of your videos from ITunes or featured music from the app. The other things you can do is to trim a video or add videos on the top of each other, as well as put them together, so they go simultaneously in your Instagram story.

5. Adobe Rush (Android, iOS)

This is a little brother of the professional desktop video editing software Adobe Premiere Pro. With this app you can start editing your video on your phone, then move to an iPad and keep editing the same project, and them move to a desktop PC or laptop Mac and continue working on it. For now it is only available for iOS, Mac and PC. Adobe Rush can take out the prize for simplicity and how intuitive it is and easy to use. The app supports widescreen, portrait and square videos.

6. Adobe Photoshop Express (Android, iOS)

Enhance, stylize and share your photos with ease. Tap into your creativity on the go with Photoshop Express–the fast and easy photo editor–used by millions of creative individuals. Edit pictures like the pros with this easy-to-use digital studio full of photo editing features on your mobile device.

Photoshop Express delivers a full spectrum of free photo effects and editing features at your fingertips. Personalize your experiences with borders and text, enhance color and imagery, create picture collages, make quick fixes and enhance your share-worthy moments.

7. Instasize (Android, iOS)

Instasize is the photo and video toolkit for social content creators.

Edit images on the go transforming them from unedited pics to Instagram ready posts in seconds. The days of switching back and forth between multiple apps to achieve one final edit are DONE. More editing tools in one place means quicker editing, leaving YOU more time to focus on your next photo upload, engaging with followers, and building your presence!

8. Glitch Cam (Android, iOS)

GlitchCam is the most stylish Video Editor with stunning glitch video effects. You can distort video in an artistic way easily with this glitch video editor. Besides, massive unique Music, VHS, 3d Vaporwave Effects, Retro Filters and editing tools make your clip even sparkle.

9. Splice (iOS)

Simple yet powerful, Splice makes it easy to create fully customized, professional-looking videos on your iPhone, iPad. Imagine the performance of a desktop editor, optimized for your mobile device. Just tap to trim clips, adjust transitions, add slow motion effects and more to create beautiful videos you’ll love to share. It’s never been easier to edit like a pro on the go.

10. A Color Story (Android, iOS)

A Color Story focuses on fresh photos and video, on-trend editing styles, and colors that pop. Rather than forcing you into a single look, the app has over 300 filters designed by top photographers and influencers, over 100 movable effects, over 20 advanced tools, Instagram grid preview + planning and much more.

11. Priime (iOS)

Edit your photos with powerful wide-color support that can now edit and preserve even more color and depth than ever before.

When you apply an edit to your Live Photos, Priime can apply the same edit to the motion portion of the live photo. You will be able to edit photos with filters designed and used by many of the world’s top photographers. The adjustment tools are engineered and designed to powerfully edit your RAW photos by taking advantage of the massive amount of data available with the RAW photo format.

12. A Design Kit (iOS)

A Design Kit easily adds modern, colorful designs to your photos anywhere and everywhere. Start with the realistic brushes (maybe in gold!) to draw whatever you want. Then choose from over 30 modern fonts to say it exactly right. Anchor it with classic design. Or maybe just cover the whole thing in stickers or collages. This app has realistic brushes that can draw in textures or color, 60+ modern fonts, 200+ designs, A TON of stickers and much more!

13. Huji Cam (Android, iOS)

HUJI Cam makes your moments as precious as the feelings of analog film with old memories.

Camera makers of every era always tried to capture the best moments and such an effort continued back in 1998 as well, whereby our memories became clearer. HUJI Cam has the effort of those days to leave precious moments as vivid and vibrant photographs.

14. Lumafusion (iOS)

The level of control that you get across the effects, the color grading and the audio tools and audio control are really second to none. Lumafusion supports portrait landscape and square video formats, and you can even change between them on the fly. One of the best standout features in Lumafusion is that you have got the ability to change the layout or the display of where everything is while you are editing. So, if you’re working on a small device like an iPhone, so you can remove some of the panels or change the layout.

15. Bazaart (iOS)

Award-winning app Bazaart will help you make beautiful edits, gorgeous photo manipulations and stunning collages with state-of-the-art creative tools, fast processing times, and unparalleled simplicity. Get ready to discover boundless creativity. It allows you to make beautiful edits, gorgeous photo manipulations and stunning collages.

16. Slow Shutter Cam (iOS)

Slow Shutter Cam brings new life into your device’s photo toolbox by letting you capture a variety of amazing slow shutter speed effects that you only thought you could get with a DSLR.

17. Lens Distortions (Android, iOS)

The highest quality effects to create the look you want. Each overlay is made by capturing real-world elements in-camera, giving you unparalleled detail and realism. Add elegant glass effects and natural sunlight, rain, snow, or fog. The effects are displayed in gallery view, which makes for easy comparison and selection. Enjoy 5 filters from each pack absolutely free. Want more filters? Unlock the entire suite instantly by subscribing to LD Unlimited.

18. KUNI Cam (Android, iOS)

Create beautiful photos and videos with a vintage touch. The app allows you to use beautiful filters for any type of photo and all the tools you need to create vintage style photos. Moreover, it is a fee-trial software.

19. PicFlow (iOS)

If you want to add more video to your feed, but you don’t feel up to shooting something, PicFlow can help. It creates 15-second slideshows using your photos, and you can add and edit the audio directly in the app. You can even control the timing of the slideshow, and you could create some really interesting visual effects by mixing in images editing with other apps on this list.

20. Ulike (Android, iOS)

Ulike will perfect your features with personalized fine-tuning.Touch-up your eyes, nose and mouth right after photo-taking. No more need for post-editing. Save your favorite edits that define your gorgeous features so you will never have to retouch again!

Follow the guideline and easily get the fashion blogger style’s pictures. Selfie, street snap, shopping, travel… With various themes, you can find suitable pose for different scenes. Never bored with our various filters and makeup tools. Style cover looks of your own.

21. Afterlight (Android, iOS)

Get full access to complete always-expanding filter library — created by photographers — you’ll never need another app to find that perfect pairing for your photos. Here you can edit your photos with precision using enhanced Adjustment Tools controlled by Touch Gestures, as well as Advanced Curves, Selective Hue / Saturation / Lightness, Overlays / Gradients, Grain and many more. Add finishing touches to your photos with genuine Light Leaks made with real 35mm film, natural Dust textures, and film emulation techniques like shifting RBG channels with Color Shift tool.

22. Prequel (iOS)

If you’re looking for an app you can use to record and edit your IGTV videos, Prequel is probably one of the best choices you can make. The app is equipped with a large selection of live video filters you can apply to the footage while the recording is still in progress. Prequel lets you create intros and outros in just a few quick taps, and you can also use the app’s beauty tools to whiten your teeth or to make your skin look silky smooth.

23. PicMonkey (Android, iOS)

PicMonkey’s photo editor and design app makes powerful pics. Ignite your social sphere with stunning social posts and cover images. Get more traction with banners, shop icons, and thumbnails. Touch up portraits for job boards and profiles. And much more. PicMonkey is an ideal solution for companies that want to add branded elements to their photos. The app lets you customise your colour palette, store branded fonts, and keep your logo on file to overlay on images.

The app is powerful enough for creative professionals. Simple enough for everyone. Apple Design Award winner and App Store Essential Procreate is the must-have app for digital artists.

Offering hundreds of varied pressure-sensitive brushes, an advanced layer system, and the breathtaking speed of Silica M, Procreate gives you everything you need to create expressive sketches, rich paintings, and gorgeous illustrations on an expansive, ultra-portable canvas. Work on the couch, on the train, at the beach, or while waiting in line for coffee.

25. Magisto (Android, iOS)

If you use Instagram for video marketing, you need Magisto. Effortlessly create quality videos by uploading your content, and Magisto’s AI-powered platform will do the rest. According to Magisto, their service is “visual storytelling as fast as writing a blog post.”

26. Stop Motion (Android, iOS)

Get Stop Motion Studio, the world’s easiest app to get you into stop motion moviemaking today! It’s simple to use, deceptively powerful and insanely fun to play with. Stop Motion Studio is a powerful, full-featured movie editor with a whole host of features like a simplistic, easy-to-use interface, overlay mode showing the differences between frames, grid mode to position animated objects more easily etc. Create beautiful movies! Choose from a whole lot of unique titles, credits, and text cards or create your very own with the built-in editor.Give your movie the perfect look with different video filters.

27. Photofox (Android, iOS)

Powerful image making. You’ll never believe what you can create on iPhone with Enlight Photofox. Whether you’re an aspiring or experienced artist, you’ll be blown away by all the creative possibilities packed into this one sophisticated photo editing app: from layers and blending modes, to special effects, brushes, fonts, tonal adjustments, film, black and white and duo presets. With Photofox photo editor, you’ll turn the ideas in your head into brilliant art from your phone, without the price tag of complicated desktop software.

28. Filmic Pro (Android, iOS)

Filmic Pro v6 is the most advanced cinema video camera for mobile. Ever. Filmic Pro has been enhanced with cutting-edge capabilities and the most responsive manual filming app available on iPhone and iPad. Get the exact image you want with full control over focus, exposure, white balance and variable speed zoom. With audio meters, gain control, stereo support and headphone monitoring, Filmic Pro ensures you get the whole story.

29. PicsArt (Android, iOS)

PicsArt is a photo editing application. With PicsArt make simple edits, add text, drawings and effects to photos you take with your camera. Make lots of arrangements such as blending, filters and cropping photos with picsart.

PicsArt app offers time lapse, burst, front and back cameras effects, stickers, backgrounds and collage. Also it allows drawing (on the photo, blank, or background), thematic contests and photo search. Drawing mode is amazing with enough features and controls to make it quite accurate and fun.

30. Clips (iOS)

Clips is a free app for making fun videos to share with friends and family. With a few taps you can create and send a video message or tell a quick story with artistic filters, animated text, music, emoji, and fun stickers featuring characters from Star Wars, Disney, Pixar and more.

31. Hyperlapse (iOS)

Create amazing time lapse videos with Hyperlapse. Using Instagram’s in-house stabilization, Hyperlapse shoots polished time lapse videos that were previously impossible without bulky tripods and expensive equipment.

When you shoot a time lapse video with Hyperlapse, your footage will be instantly stabilized to smooth out the bumps from the road and give it a cinematic feeling. Capture an entire sunrise in 10 seconds — even from the back of a moving motorcycle. Walk through the crowds at an all-day music festival, then distill it into a 30 second spot. Capture your bumpy trail run and share your 5k in 5 seconds.

32. ProCam 7 (iOS)

ProCam offers unparalleled control and quality with DSLR-like camera functionality and full featured photo / video editing capabilities. The app provides whole manual control: manual exposure, shutter speed, ISO, focus, and white balance controls. You can choose your video frame rate and resolution when taking video, or choose from multiple shooting modes like Night Mode, Burst Mode, Slow Shutter, and 3D Photos. Like most of the camera apps on this list, ProCam 6 lets you capture RAW, JPG, TIFF, and HEIF images, and there’s a live light level histogram. For editing after capturing a photo, ProCam 6 includes 60 filters, 17 lenses for fun effects, multiple adjustment tools, and video editing capabilities.

33. 8 mm (iOS)

The original retro film camera used by millions of users.

8mm Vintage Camera captures the beauty and magic of old school vintage movies right through your viewfinder. Dust and scratches, retro colors, flickering, light leaks, even frame shakes, all can be instantly added with a single tap of the finger.

34. Plotaverse (iOS)

Tell your stories with animated photos and videos that can be shared on your Instagram thanks to Plotaverse. Share your images as looping videos, Gifs, Stickers and Live Wallpapers. This new and innovative app gives you the tools to easily animate any image in minutes while adding video overlays for next level effects. The intuitive interface allows for easy navigation among the animation tools, bringing your images to life in a few simple taps.

35. Video Editor (iOS)

This is an easy video editor with comfortable editing options, filters and many other effects for your videos. It is an iOS-only app with options that let you add filters to video, play with speeds, crop videos, and add music and voice overs. A free version comes with basic features, while adding text titles, transitions, and other finishing touches are available as in-app purchases.

36. Quick — GoPro (Android, iOS)

With the Quik app, you can create awesome videos with just a few taps. Choose your favorite photos and video clips then let Quik work its magic. In seconds, it finds great moments, adds beautiful transitions and effects, and syncs everything to the beat of the music. Customize your story with text, music and easily share it with friends. Editing has never been this fast! If your brand is high intensity and your videos often feature stunts, this app is perfect for you.

37. Videoleap (iOS)

Discover how easy it is to get creative with video! Whether you want to make artistic Hollywood-level films or simply share memories and moments with friends, Videoleap is a breakthrough video editor just for you. Pros will take advantage of powerful high-end editing features while amateurs will have fun cutting and combining clips simply, intuitively and on-the-go.