The mobile phone is really convenient for taking pictures anywhere and at any time, quickly, to capture funny moments or unrepeatable images. The problem is that, speaking of Android smartphones, the default application from the phone manufacturer is not always the best possible. If, therefore, we have a Samsung Galaxy or a Huawei and the photos are blurred when there is little light, or they shoot slow or are not offered many special effects to improve the image, then we need to find some alternatives. If then we also want to have the possibility to make changes to the photos, perhaps using filters or special effects, directly from the camera or immediately after shooting, then it may be worth changing the camera app and using a better one .
In this article we see the best camera apps for Android smartphones to make more beautiful photos with your phone and with more options .
1) Camera MX is clearly one of the best applications for taking photos with a high resolution Android smartphone, which also allows you to take photos on the go or Live Photos and which also includes tools for immediate retouching.
2) VSCO Cam for Android is an extraordinary application, very successful on the Apple Store, very powerful also on Android smartphones to take professional photos with your mobile phone and edit them immediately with its post production functions.
3) Bacon Camera is the app for professional photographers, where each setting is manual. The Bacon camera allows you to adjust the shutter speed, ISO and white balance and manual focus, all within an intuitive interface that replicates the type of layout of DSLR cameras. The downside is that the app is only compatible with some smartphones, the more powerful ones and with Snapdragon processor.
4) Candy Camera, an exceptional app for making more and more beautiful photos on Android smartphones, among the most popular on the Google Play store.
Candy Camera has been described in another article as a better app than Retrica for taking pictures with effects and filters.
5) Prisma, the app to transform photos into works of art, to take artistic photos.
6) Camera Zoom FX is another popular photography app for Android, with filters and effects and inevitable functions such as HDR.
The application is recommended for those who want something less basic, those who want more control, those who want real-time filters, those who want to take burst photos and adjust the white balance. Camera ZOOM FX allows you to do all these things, although some of the features require the premium paid version.
7) Open Camera, still for Android, is recommended for those who have an older smartphone because it is light as an app and full of functions often absent such as taking RAW photos.
8) Camera 51 (Android) is the app to find the perfect shot and take automatic selfies
9) Camera FV-5 Lite offers more control over the camera of the Android smartphone with special functions such as exposure compensation to manually adjust the amount of light while taking a photo. Another interesting feature is the long exposure support, for photographing, for example, the starry sky. The app, especially in the Pro version which costs 3 Euros, is perhaps the best to make the most of the smartphone camera, even if a little technical and not immediate.
10) AfterFocus, the very powerful app for those who want to create the "bokeh" effect in which the background part of an image is blurred.
11) Camera 360 is a super popular free app for many years, which allows you to take photos using wonderful filters divided into categories such as HDR, Retro, Sketch, colorful and magical in color (only one color in the photo, while the remains in white and black) and within these categories there are the number of filters to choose from. All filters are fully adjustable so you can change their intensity.
12) Cymera, free for Android smartphones, is another camera application downloaded by millions of people, which has all the options to add filters, to make photo editing operations, create collages and with many effects to improve photos.
13) A Better Camera is an excellent free app for Android that can be used to take normal photos, HDR, Panorama, group photos and with Sequence mode, self-timer.
The camera interface is very simple and easy to use, with accessible functions.
You can touch the viewfinder to focus, change photo settings such as exposure, white balance, focus, flash, ISO, etc.
It also allows you to remove unwanted objects from photos, take sharp photos at night and record videos.
14) HDCamera Ultra is a really slick app, better than the default cameras of many smartphones, with fast autofocus functions, with the possibility of silencing the sound of the shot, with tools to adjust the white balance and exposure and many effects .
Unfortunately, it has not been updated since 2015.
15) ProCapture is a not free but very powerful app, with a clear and complete menu of all functions, fast and full of useful tools such as the timer, color adjustments, brightness, white balance and many special effects .
16) LINE Camera is one of my most fun applications to use for taking photos, the perfect middle ground between simple and complex, absolutely and completely free. This application is a camera that allows you to take optimized photos without having to configure anything.
There are many built- in filters similar to Instagram ones and each filter can be further adjusted by changing brightness, contrast and saturation. Line also allows, with the buttons in the foreground and without having to search in internal menus: to view the grid, to take photos by touching the screen, to resize the photo on the fly before each sharing, to put the self-timer quickly, deactivate the sound, see the height level of the frame and take multiple shots . You can then add frames to images, over 100 possible, add stamps to photos, such as small icons, use brushes to add colors and other types of effects and also to write text on photos . There are over 100 types of characters to choose from, you can change the color of the text, adjust its size and position it where you want.
17) Cameringo is a non-free app, which costs 3 Euros, very rich in functions with filters, DSLR controls, functions for shooting without being noticed, close focus, HDR and much more.
18) Google Photoscan the app to scan paper photos and bring them to your phone in digital format.
19) Pixtica is for those who want to have some fun with filters and manual controls on the phone's camera, in order to create images for Instagram or simple photos to remember.
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Another interesting feature of Pixtica is its GIF Recorder. With it, you can create interesting and unique GIFs since they support filters.
20) Google Camera for Android is the official app of the Nexus and Pixel smartphones, also available for other models, very stable, easy to use, with advanced functions such as panoramic photos, lens blur, automatic HDR and 3D photos .
Unfortunately, the app has been withdrawn from the Google Play store, so you need to use different download sources like APKMirror.
Other applications to try are:
- HD video camera for Android
- HD Camera
READ ALSO: 10 Android apps to have a better camera on your mobile phone
In other articles, to complete the speech, I remember:
- App to edit photos on Android
- Best app to take Selfie photos on Android and iPhone
- App to take RAW photos with Android
Using the right app, we can then follow the guide on how to take better and not blurry photos with your smartphone, to become complete photographers.
