The iPhone is the most used device in the world for taking photographs. The iPhone camera is in fact of excellent quality and is capable of capturing high resolution images, almost as if you were using a professional camera. If after taking the photo we want to make changes or add filters, in this guide we have collected the best free apps for iPhone to edit photos with filters and effects . Using these apps we will obtain various editing options, with filters and special effects to be applied to the images, so as to prepare them for sharing on Instagram, on Facebook or on any chat. For the guide we will report only the free apps, so you can edit all the photos without having to spend money on expensive and useless apps.
Best apps to edit photos on iPhone
Below we have collected what we think are the best apps to use to edit photos on our iPhones. We can also download and try them all, so we can test them and choose the one that best suits our needs.Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop Express is the free application with which we can use the famous Photoshop photo editing program on the iPhone.
In reality many photographic filters and particular effects are paid but, for basic changes such as cutting, cropping, changing light, contrast, brightness, basic effects, edges, frames etc. are available for free. Also from Adobe you can also download Photoshop Mix (to make cutouts and merges) and Photoshop Fix (to fix photos making them more beautiful).
For iPad, you can also buy the official and complete version of Adobe Photoshop for iPad .
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Snapseed
Snapseed is perhaps the best photo editing application on iPhone.
With this app, produced by Google, we will be able to apply filters and special effects to each photo in a simple way. The tools tab has a myriad of features, with which we can add saturation to the images, make the photos sharper and highlight an element by coloring the remaining objects in black and white shades. Numerous visual effects are also available to make your photos truly unique before sharing them on social media or chats.
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The wealth of effects and filters (all free) combined with the quality of the images have made the fortune of this application, which is among the most popular and downloaded by far. In addition to uploading and editing photos taken with the iPhone's camera, the app has its own camera section, so you can immediately capture and edit the photo without using any other tools.
Retrica
Among the most professional apps that we can use to make perfect photos we certainly find Retrica, available free for iPhone.
With this app we will be able to take photos using the internal camera section, so we can immediately apply the photographic effects offered (including the retro effect, the effects of light and shadows and the filter that gives a touch of class to each photo taken).
If you want to take professional and well-kept photos, Retrica is definitely the best app that we can use on the iPhone.
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Prism
Another very nice app to edit photos on iPhone with artistic effects is Prisma.
By uploading photos and images on the app we can choose from hundreds of artistic filters, capable of transforming each shot into a picture painted in oil or on canvas, with a very realistic effect. We talked about this app in depth in our article Photos become paintings with artistic effects on Android and iPhone .
VSCO
VSCO is another excellent app to edit photos on iPhone with filters and effects.
With VSCO we get, in addition to numerous filters and an integrated camera section, access to its community, where we can find portraits, selfies and other photos edited with the app. VSCO offers a very minimal interface within everyone's reach, with which we can easily edit photographs and make cutouts, change exposure, temperature, or apply effects and filters of all kinds. VSCO has become very popular thanks to its automatic filters that significantly change the appearance of the photo to make them appear, in some cases, more dramatic or, in other cases, retouched by a professional.
Fotor
Fotor is another very powerful app to edit photos from iPhone for free.
In this app we will find, in addition to the filters and the advanced editor, a large community with shared artistic photographs and with new effects and collages that we can exploit at any time for our purposes. We talked about this app in depth in the article at Fotor, the best advanced photo editing app .
Other apps to edit photos on iPhone
The apps reported so far are considered the best that we can install on the iPhone to edit photos on the iPhone with filters and effects, but the store is full of apps that deserve to be tried, in particular if we have not found ourselves very well with the apps reported in previously. Below we can find a list of all the best apps to edit photos and apply effects for free on iPhone.
- Pixlr is a great app to give photos some very modern effects and then share the images on social networks. The iPhone and iPad application asks to create an account or log in with the Facebook account. To create a new photo, just click on the camera icon on the bottom of the screen and shoot. You can add an effect to a photo already saved on the iPhone by tapping the Gallery button. Effects do things like change the colors and shades of the image or change the edges to give it a personal touch. The images, if shared, can be viewed by other PicYou users and can enter the gallery of the most viewed images in general.
- Pho.to Lab, another excellent free app, is less strong in sharing but richer in special effects to edit and improve photos. Pho.to Lab has very funny effects and allows you to apply photo montages quickly by putting your face, for example, in the place of Santa Claus or inside the cover of a magazine. In the free version, some effects are not available but there are still many, divided into various categories: monsters, photo filters, cartoons, magazine covers, collages, drawings, frames and more. Pho.to can also take new photos to edit directly or process images from the gallery.
- Canva, app to edit photos of extraordinary quality, at the level of Fotor, which comes from the online service of Canva.com, ideal for creating banners, thank you cards or covers and images for Facebook and many other graphics projects.
- Litely is a new free application, similar to VSCO Cam, with many high quality photo filters. In addition to the filters there are standard photo editing tools such as exposure compensation, brightness, vividness of colors and more. The app is simple and very beautiful to see and use and one of the few to support RAW files.
- Timer Apps is a free application only for a limited period. It allows you to set a timer to take multiple shots in series, in rapid succession.
- Color Splurge allows you to apply that effect whereby a part of the photo is colored and stands out, while the rest remains in black and white.
- PhotoFox is an image search engine (based on Pixabay) that allows you to combine our photos with others. There are also filters, colors, sketches, stickers, the possibility to add text, frames, etc.
- Lens Distorsions is an app that edits photos by adding a glass filter, weather effects, various illuminations such as blurring, glare, fog, rain, snow and shimmering effects.
- Repix, a Prisma-like app that transforms photos into painted images, with more precise control of each change.
- Polarr App Editor is great for improving photo quality, with filters, selective adjustments tools, overlay effects and changes to people's faces.
Conclusions
On the iPhone we are really spoiled for choice if we are looking for a free app to edit photos on the iPhone with filters and effects! There is really no better app than the other, at least among those indicated at the beginning of the guide: we therefore recommend you try them all, so as to find the best for the type of photos and images we use.In another guide we saw together the best selfie apps on the iPhone, ideal for using the front camera and adding filters and effects to our face. Still on the "face" theme, we can also read the guide to the App to correct face and skin imperfections and defects in the photos, which allow you to improve the faces in the photos by applying make-up with makeup effects, cleaning the skin, whitening the teeth, removing the dark circles and many other effects.
If instead we are looking for the best camera apps, so as to replace the default one on the iPhone, we recommend you read our article at 10 Apps to improve photos .
