5 best photo editing apps for iOS

| Updated: Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 14:45 [IST]

iPhones and iPads are capable of capturing moments with all the crisp details and brightness intact. The built-in Photos app also has plenty of nifty features to rotate, resize and crop pictures, and the filters are a notable feature as well.

But if you wish to make your good photos look great, these photo-editing apps available in the market provide you with the tools to do wonderful things to your photos. For instance, these apps will bring about several enhancements to your photos by adding several effects.

Serif Affinity Photo

The app is also available on Macs but the iPad version despite being essentially the same device has every tool, panel and palette redesigned. Apple's Metal graphics engine also helps to optimize the performance of the app.

Devices: iPad

Price: £19.99/US$19.99/AU$30.99

Google Snapspeed

Despite a rather clunky interface, the Google Snapspeed is a worthy tool to be added to the arsenal of pros as well as amateurs. The most notable features available are:

a) RAW image editing

b) Lens blur

c) HDR effects

d) Selective enhancement

e) Color and white balance adjustment

f) Geometric fixes

g) Manual and automatic fine-tuning of image parameters

Devices: iPhone, iPad

Price: Free

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

This app packs plenty of powerful tools to edit, import and share, but most are available only through a Creative Cloud subscription.

The notable features of the device are:

a) Graduated filter

b) Quick Develop panel

Devices: iPAd

Price: Free (Subscription plans begin at $9.99 per month)

Adobe Photoshop Fix

Adobe Photoshop Fix gets its name from the desktop app and its features are aimed at fixing common occurrences in photos, the notable features being:

a) Face-Aware Liquify

b) Defocus feature

Devices: iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Price: Free

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VSCO

Packed full of easily adjustable filters and readymade presets, the VSCO has amassed a huge community of followers over the five years since its debut.

The features that are worthy of note to be found in this app:

a) Minimal interface

b) One-tap presets

c) Adjustable filters

Devices: iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Price: Free