Instagram photo filters have been a debated topic this week, before the rumor spread that there could be no privacy on the photos uploaded to the most famous photographic social network owned by Facebook and then there was the official denial. If the fact that Instagram is from Facebook (with the consequent invasion of privacy typical of the Zuckerberg social network), or if, simply, you want to find a better app to embellish or make special the photos taken with your iPhone camera or an Android phone, then you can continue reading and discover the best free alternatives to Instagram for Android and iOS .
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1) PicsArt is a free application for Android and iPhone that offers more advanced editing options than Instagram and most mobile photo apps.
With PicsArt, users can edit the images taken and saved in Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Google or Dropbox, with cutouts, captions, stickers and digital clipart, filters, corrections, frames, borders.
2) Candy Camera for Android and for iPhone
This free application only for iPhone is used to take photos by transforming the iOS phone into a phenomenal camera, full of features.
There are almost 300 effects, filters and editing tools and each photo can be immediately shared on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube or Flickr.
The sharing of each photo can also be automatic, without the need for manual intervention.
3) Snapseed for Android and iPhone is a great application that I have already talked about, which allows you to edit photos with effect filters using your fingers in a really easy way that makes the images look as if you are holding them.
It is probably the most powerful of all although it has the only limitation that the photos can be shared online only on Google+.
4) Hipster boasts an extraordinary integration with text and geotagging that allows you to create virtual postcards of each place to share on Facebook and Twitter.
You can then tag friends, add place names, dates and messages to images, in addition to the usual vintage Instagram filters.
Hipster can be installed on both iOS and Android and photos can also be viewed via the web on the official website.
5) Pxlr-o-matic (Android and iPhone) allows you to add filters, borders, color overlays, sepia tones to make photos look like 60s or polaroid snapshots.
Pixlr-O-Matic is perhaps the best app regarding the wealth of filters and changes that can be applied automatically to photos.
The images can be shared on Facebook, DropBox, iTunes, Flickr or sent via email.
6) Prisma is the app to transform photos into works of art thanks to special and unique photographic filters in the landscape.
7) Fotor is a very powerful app to edit photos on Android and iPhone, even better today than Snapseed.
Finally, in other articles I remember other lists regarding Instagram and photographic effects:
- Best Android apps for editing photos, photo editing and camera effects
- Free iPhone apps to edit photos
