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15 Best Free Photo Editing & Sharing Apps For iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

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The genres of photography, image editing, styling and sharing, being among the most popular on the iOS App Store (after platformers and games in general, of course), are becoming increasingly saturated, which makes it quite hard for both new users and seasoned iPhoneographers to pick out the good ones. Seeing this as another opportunity to help our readers out, we’ve compiled a list of fifteen of the best free apps from the aforementioned genres. Read More

BeFunky: Apply Effects/ Frames, Edit & Share Photos On iPhone

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BeFunky is a photo editor for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, which is based on letting users edit their photos with complete ease. Admittedly, there are many iOS which have a lot to offer in terms of photo editing, but each of them has something unique, making it popular among users. Similarly, BeFunky has a few distinctive photo effects, frames and editing options. The app isn't a mere photo editor; it even has a cloud service where users can store their photos for free, and also view public shares by fellow BeFunky users. The app certainly has a lot to offer, and you can find everything about it by reading on. Read More

LoonaPix: Embed Photos Into Attractive Frames & Backgrounds [Android]

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The brimming photography category of the Android Market is not just all about apps that lets you snap the best moments of your life and share them across a handful of social networks. Instead, there are a variety of flavors on offer in this regard. For instance, there are apps that bring several exotic photo filters, effects and frames to the table. Then there are some that let you transform your snaps to give them a sketched look, so on and so forth. LoonaPix is a fun-filled multi-lingual photo-editing web and Android app that provides users with a variety of image frames and effect templates, within which you can embed your very own photos, and share your artistic work with your mates. All image templates are displayed on the app’s homescreen. All you need to do is import a photo from your device’s local storage, or grab a fresh one using the camera, do a bit of cropping, and leave the rest to LoonaPix. With just a few taps, you can create memorable photo montages, and share them with your friends on the go. The app maintains a list of recently used images so that you can easily use the same image on as many different templates as required without having to import it from the gallery again and again. There is also an option to add templates to favorites. Read More

Inspire For iPhone: Paint Realistically With Customizable Brushes

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Finger painting on an iPhone is usually considered a time-killer, but there are a few iOS apps which let you create beautiful masterpieces just as if you were painting on a real canvas, with real brushes. Inspire is one such app, and the features it offers are so detailed that a practiced hand can draw or sketch just about anything using Inspire. Not only are there highly customizable brushes available in the app, you can blend the colors you want to apply to perfection. Inspire has a lot of effects on offer, so read on to know all about them. Read More

Apply Extensive Customizable Effects To Photos With Paint FX For iPhone & iPad

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When it comes to photo editing apps for iOS, you have to make a choice between thoroughness and convenience. There is a class of apps which let you make changes to photos on an iPhone with a single tap, while others make sure that you get the exact result you set out looking for. Paint FX is an app which combines these two categories in perfect proportion. While using this app, you don’t get stuck trying to do too much before you actually get to see some change in your photo, but on the other hand, it also offers a respectable amount of customization. The app has a lot of filters and photo effects, and you can change them as well to match your needs. Read More

pudding.to: Yet Another Handy Alternative To Instagram App [Android]

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Popular photo-editing and sharing app Instagram might still be in the pipelines for Android, but that doesn’t mean that Android users have no alternative options to play around with their photos. pudding.to is a brand new and innovative location-based photo editing and sharing app for Android that lets users beautify their images using as many as thirteen gorgeous filters, tag photos using custom moods (pictorials), music tracks, location and brief description, and share them on the pudding.to network, as well as on Facebook/Twitter on the go. You can pick as many as four different images from your device’s galley, or capture a fresh snap, and edit and share it using various tools, tags and filters. Shared images are accessible via the pudding.to website as well as the app itself. That’s not all; with pudding.to, you get a chance to jump onto the photo-filled social network from where you can search for, explore, like and comment on all the images shared by other registered pudding.to users, including your social network friends. Moreover, the app displays detailed sharing statistics for each image, suggests new friends for you, lets you set custom notification alerts, specify a Sleep Timer (for notifications), block specific users, and browse its database by popular images as well as the ones shared from your vicinity. Read More

aremaC Is The Most Comprehensive Camera & Photo Editing App For iPhone

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If you’ve been following me anywhere – AddictiveTips included – you may have guessed that I am a huge fan of photography apps for the iPhone. It’s not only because of my interest in photography, but also owing to the fact that the capable cameras on iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S get really complemented by all the good apps out there in the iTunes App Store. AddictiveTips’ archives are full of brilliant photo apps, including the likes of Magic Hour and IncrediBooth, disposable camera replicas like Dotti, and Mosaic & Collage makers like Fotoyaki. Then there are feature rich photo editors like Pho.to Lab and Luminance, which let you tweak about any aspect of your photos, and capable camera replacement apps such as King Camera and TapShot, which can change the entire scope of how you handle your iPhone’s already-pretty-decent camera. What’s more, this is merely the tip of the iceberg, as the App Store is teeming with several other alternatives, many of which might be even better. Read More

Pictomaphone: One Of The Most Comprehensive WP7 Photo Editors Out There

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Windows Phone 7 might not be able to compete with Android and iOS in amount of apps any time soon, but there are a few apps in the Marketplace that keep reminding users of the perks of owning a Mango phone. There might not be many options for editing images in the Pictures hub, but there are many third-party apps which will let you do that, and out of all those apps, Pictomaphone might be the best in the Marketplace yet.  The app offers a staggering number of filters and photo effects, but that is not where its biggest strength lies. The app is really good as it does not make its users do too much work, and all the editing options can be applied with just a few touches. Having said that, advanced users can use Pictomaphone as well, as there are a quite a few thorough editing options available in the app. Read More

Sketch Me For iPhone: Convert Photos Into Drawings & Paint Over Them [Free For Limited Time]

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There are a lot of photo editing apps available in the iOS App Store, where some apps are focused on just one genre of photo effects. Sketch Me is one such app, the genre, in this case, being sketch effects. The app has seven variations of the hand-drawn effect, and in addition to that, it lets you doodle over your photos, and add annotations in colors of your choice. Read More

Aviary Photo Editor: Quickly Edit & Apply Effects To Photos [Android]

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Who needs a feature-laden standalone image-editing app when you can get all major options right from your Android’s gallery. Nope, we are not referring to the photo-editing features that the stock Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich gallery sports, but Aviary Photo Editor – Aviary’s freshly released Android plugin that lets you import your images from the device’s gallery or any file manager to its extremely user-friendly photo editor for editing, beautifying and tweaking them as required. We’ve already seen almost all the editing features that Aviary offers has to offer in previously reviewed Photo Effects Plugin by Aviary. However, this app is special in a way that it does not require you to install any additional apps, and most importantly, can put any of its photo-editing counterparts to shame with its looks and extensive set of features. Read More

InstaCam: View/ Download Instagram Images & Apply Photo Effects [WP7]

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Rumors might be abundant about the expected release of the official Instagram client for Windows Phone 7, but for now, Mango users have to make do with the unofficial clients available for the popular photo sharing service. However, the options available thus far do have their limitations, like the recently covered Metrogram, which lacked many of the key features which make Instagram a success. We might not have received the official app just yet, but finally, we have got the next best thing. InstaCam is a new WP7 app, which will let you do just about anything on Instagram, with the only drawback being that you won’t be able to upload photos to the official service. Apart from that, InstaCam lets you view, download and share photos, and you can apply photo effects to images on your phone as well. Read More

GrayPix Adds Grayscale Option To iPhone Camera Roll [Cydia Tweak]

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When it comes to editing and applying effects to photos you have in your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, iOS has an insanely large amount of apps which will let you do that, with Pho.to Lab, Fotoyaki & Bleach Bypass being some of our recently covered ones. However, no matter how many apps you can use to edit photos, it isn’t the same as getting more options in the stock Photos app. If you have a jailbroken iDevice, then Cydia does have a few options for enhancing the capabilities of the stock Photos app, and that is exactly what GrayPix does. Admittedly, it just adds the one option to Camera Roll, namely Grayscale, but it can prove to be a useful addition to your iDevice if you don't like to rely too much on third-party apps. Read More

Metrogram: View & Share Instagram Photos From Windows Phone 7

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Instagram is the famous photo sharing service for iOS, and as yet, users of no other platform have got an official client for it. Android has many third-party clients for the service, like Streamzoo, but Windows Phone 7 does not even have that - not until now, at least. Metrogram is a new WP7 app, using which, you can view photos from Instagram, along with their comments and other relevant data. The app also allows sharing those photos with your social network. Read More

Join The Dark Side Of The Force With Darth Maul Me For Android

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If you’re a Star Wars fan, then you must be brimming with anticipation for the upcoming 3D variant of The Phantom Menace. For those of you who don’t yet know, Lucasfilm recently announced that a 3D version of Star Wars: Episode I will be hitting theaters around the globe on February 10, 2012. To promote the launch of the film, the production company has released an app for Android smartphones that is sure to keep you entertained till the film is finally released. It’s called Darth Maul Me, and is its name suggests, it turns photos of you or your friends into the saberstaff-wielding, crimson faced villain from Episode I. For details, screenshots and more from the dark side of the force, proceed past the break, you must. Read More

[Giveaway] Extend The Background In Photos With AntiCrop For iPhone [Paid]

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There are millions of photos shared across various social networks all over the world every day. It is a known fact that iPhone’s camera is the source of a majority of these shared photos. As iOS devices are being used so extensively for photo sharing, a proportionate amount of photo editors exist in the App Store. You can find hundreds of apps which can crop an image for you; even the stock Photos app in iOS 5 can do the trick. However, what if you want to do just the opposite thing on a photo, that is, extend its background? AntiCrop is a new app, which will let you un-crop images, giving you a photo with an extended background behind the main object in it. Read More

Nostalgio For iPhone/ iPad: Make Photo Collages & Add Effects To Them

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Fotoyaki is an iOS app that allows users to create amazing mosaics from their photos, in addition to many other features. Nostalgio is another similar app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, which comes with all the features necessary for creating collages out of any picture in your device’s library, or shot straight from the camera. Not only that, you can edit the created collage, and add a few effects to it as well. The best feature of the app is its ability to perform the desired task with a single touch, and simply by choosing from a detailed array of conveniently laid out options. Read More

Fotoyaki: Apply Effects And Create Mosaics & Collages From Photos [iOS]

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What iOS lacks in terms of editing options in the stock Photos and Camera apps, it more than makes up for it with the availability of a lot of third-party photo editors. There is no shortage of apps in the App Store that let users make their photos more interesting before they share them with the world. Each photo-related app has its own set of fans, owing to the fact that almost all of them come with one or more distinguishing features. Fotoyaki is yet another photo editing app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and in addition to having a good collection of filters, it can also be used to create mosaics out of the photos you have in your collection. Read More

Pho.to Lab: An iOS App With An Insanely Huge Photo Effects Collection

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We cover a lot of photo editors for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and most of the time, they have some features which make them different from their competitors. However, Pho.to Lab is an iOS app which is really a cut above the rest. Admittedly, the app does not have a lot of editing features, but there are more than 450 photo effects & filters that you can apply to any photo using the app. The app's ample filter and effect collection is neatly categorized, and most of them could be applied to photos with a single touch. The listed filter categories in Pho.to Lab include everything from cartoon effects to photo frames and collage filters. Read More

Photo Power: Feature-Rich iPhone Photo Editor With Fine Tuning Control

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When it comes to photo editors for iOS, there is no shortage of apps that can be used to tinker with your photos and add all kinds of effects to them. We have covered a lot of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch photo editors, like Bleach Bypass and Luminance among many others, but there are still many popular ones that haven’t been touched just yet, mainly because there are free alternatives available for them. Photo Power is one such app, which was priced at $2.99 until recently. Now, however, the app has gone free, and that’s why we decided to take a good look at it. Read on to know everything about this convenient and feature-rich photo processor. Read More

Edit Photos, View EXIF Data & Apply Filters With Photo Light For WP7

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Even a platform like Windows Phone 7 has no shortage of photo editing apps. There are apps for just about every aspect of image post-processing. However, there is still room for new apps in that category, apps that integrate most or all of the most popular features, as no one likes to use too many apps for editing one photo. Photo Light is a new, free addition to Mango’s photo editors, which really has the potential to become a one-stop shop for basic photo-editing on your WP7 device. Read More