Photography with high end smartphones now a days is a passion, smartphone users are definitely more or less photography enthusiasts who can do much more on their smartphones than just editing photos, adding new filters and making GIFs. With the latest iOS & android photography apps, not only you can change its brightness, contrast, orientation or anything else to make the photos more catchy but also you can transfer them directly to your desktop/laptop without using Bluetooth or any other data transfer means.

Android and iOS App developers are trying to offer more and more unique experiences to users through their photography apps and video apps. Here is the top 10 list of the latest photo and video apps for Android and iOS smartphone users based on real users experiences and number of downloads.

1. Just a Line – Draw Anywhere, with AR

Free

Google’s new app Just A Line allows Android users to draw their own AR (augmented reality) stickers over any objects or space in front of the phone’s camera. Users can doodle anything using the white lines on the app’s screen and then save it in GIF-like short video files. Touch the screen to draw, then hit record and share what you make with #justaline. Just a Line works on any devices that support ARCore such as Google Pixel, Asus ZenFone AR and OnePlus 5, which support Google’s ARCore platform.

For this, Camera is needed to let you draw in AR and record videos, Microphone is needed to let you record videos of drawings you make and Photos/Media/Files are needed to let you save videos of drawings on your device makes it one of the best photography apps.

2. Picstun

Freemium

Picstun is a professional photo animation app for pictures, which can be used to add some amazing animated video effects to a pic and animate it.

Take a snap using the camera option or select a picture from the photo gallery, crop and rotate it, add a colorful photo animation effect to animate photo, preview the animated pic, share and save it, using this free photo animator and video maker hd, or live photo editor app and video maker new.

3. vimage

Free

Created by a Hungary-based developer, vimage is a unique photo app which can bring photos to life by adding a looping motion wherever users wants. You can add wonderful, super-realistic looped effects to your photos making them a great-looking cinema-graph.

You need to pick or take a photo, choose the effect or motion, do some editing job and save & share the vimage.

4. Snapseed

Free

Snapseed is a complete and professional photo editor developed by Google which offers 29 Tools and Filters, including Healing, Brush, Structure, HDR etc.

5. Pixlr

Free

With Pixlr – the free photo editor, you can capture any moment and make it beautiful with over 2 million combinations of free effects, overlays, and filters. Once you’re done, share your finished work directly to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or your other favorite social networks.

6. Adobe Photoshop Express

Free

Adobe Photoshop Express is one of the best photo editing and collage maker tool for easy, quick and powerful editing on mobile devices. It has 60+ professional looks and advance corrections like Denoise and Defog for free. It gives you flexibility and control of images ranging from layouts, border size, color, individual pan, and zoom.

7. Photos Companion – A Microsoft Garage project

Free

Microsoft’s Photos Companion app is another attempt by the Redmond company to improve file sharing experience between Windows 10 PC and an Android smartphone or Apple iPhone. Users can connect their smartphone to any Windows PC by scanning a QR code on the Photos app on PC and then share any photos between them without involving Bluetooth or a USB cable. The only catch is that both devices should be on the same Wi Fi network.

8. PicsArt Photo Studio: Collage Maker & Pic Editor (Beta)

Free

PicsArt is the photo editor and pic collage maker on mobile with +500 million installs. It has free clipart library. PicsArt is all about making awesome pictures and having fun by remixing free-to-edit pictures into awesome collages and memes.

9. DSLR Camera : Photo Editor

Free

In this app, Image blur tool allows you to blur the background of your photo very fast to create amazing photos with blurred background.

You can select image from your gallery, crop your image, blur image background on finger movement, use Photo editing tools like Brush Size, Undo, Redo, and more to accurately blur photos.
Also, you can Add Text, Sticker on image, Set Brightness and effects on image.

10. Photo Lab Picture Editor: face effects, art frames

Free

This app make your image look creative in seconds without using a professional editor and set it as a contact icon, a wallpaper, send a signed virtual postcard to a friend or share it to any social network.

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