This is a list of notable mobile apps for use in photography and videography; it includes apps for photo capture, annotation, editing and manipulation, video capture, editing and manipulation. Apps only for video or image sharing or viewing are excluded.
Title | Function | Android | iOS | Windows Phone | Website/ Other OS | Open source |
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17 | 17 is a free mobile app similar to Periscope and Instagram that includes live video streaming, instant photo and video sharing functions. | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Adobe Photoshop Express | Adobe Photoshop Express is a Flash-based image editing web and mobile application from Adobe used to directly edit photos on blogs and social networking sites, so that users do not have to download or upload images. The application works with sites such as Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket. | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Artisto | Artisto is a video processing application with art and movie effects filters based on neural network algorithms. | No | ||||
Bazaart | Bazaart an AI-powered design platform with image and video editing capabilities for iOS, Android, MacOS, and the web | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Citizen | Citizen is a real-time hyperlocal crime and fire reporting app that notifies users based on their individual smartphone locations, issuing incident updates within a quarter mile. Users are updated with a list of details as they become available, and may add live video or other information. [1] | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Clips | Clips is an application developed by Apple that allows the user to combine videos and images and add filters, Live Titles (voice based titles) and music to create a video that can be shared on social media platforms. [2] | Yes | No | |||
DeepArt | DeepArt is a website and app that allows users to create images by using an algorithm to redraw one image using the stylistic elements of another image. | Yes [3] | Yes [4] | Yes [5] | No | |
eva | eva is a video social network that allows users to record and post short videos from their mobile phones. | Yes [6] | No | |||
EyeEm | EyeEm's image recognition technology uses artificial intelligence to tag and rank images based on an aesthetic score assigned to each photo. When users upload a photo via the Web Upload tool, this technology is applied to determine the discoverability of each photo, and suggest keywords. | No | ||||
Facetune | Facetune is a photo editing application developed by Lightricks used to edit, enhance, and retouch photos on a user's iPhone, iPad, Android or Windows Phone device. The app is often used for (yet not limited to) portrait and selfie editing. | No | ||||
Fishbrain | Fishbrain is an online mobile logging, photo-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to record data about and take pictures of catches, and share them either publicly or privately on the app | No | ||||
FX Photo Studio | FX Photo Studio is a digital photography application for the Apple iPhone. It is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, requiring iOS 4.3, or later. iPhone users may shoot photographs, download them from their iPhone camera, or from iTunes, and share photos they have edited to appear as though they were taken with a film camera, or like sketches. | Yes [7] | No | |||
Fyuse | Fyuse is a spatial photography app which lets users capture and share interactive 3D images. By tilting or swiping ones smartphone, one can view such "fyuses" from various angles — as if one was walking around an object or subject. | Yes [8] | Yes [9] | No | ||
Hipstamatic | Hipstamatic is a digital photography application for the Apple iPhone and Windows Phone sold by Synthetic Corporation. It uses the phone's camera to allow the user to shoot square photographs, to which it applies a number of software filters to make the images look as though they were taken with a vintage film camera. | No | ||||
Hyperlapse | Hyperlapse is a mobile app created by Instagram that enables users to produce hyperlapse and time-lapse videos. | No | ||||
CapCut | Developed by the well-known gait tech company Bytedance, owned by TikTok. | Yes | Yes | MacOs | Yes | |
iMovie | iMovie is a video editing software application sold by Apple Inc. for the Mac and iOS. | Yes [10] | No | |||
Users can upload photographs and short videos, follow other users' feeds and geotag images with longitude and latitude coordinates, or the name of a location. Users can connect their Instagram account to other social networking sites, enabling them to share uploaded photos to those sites. | No | |||||
iPhoto | iPhoto can import, organize, edit, print and share digital photos. | No | Yes | No | macOS | No |
Miaopai | Miaopai is a Chinese video sharing and live streaming service. | No | ||||
MixBit | MixBit's website lets users create dynamic shared videos. | No | ||||
Neighbors | Ring Video Doorbell's hyperlocal, moderated, private social networking neighborhood watch crime and safety portal allows users to share video captured by Ring and to crowdsource related information. [11] [12] | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Nextdoor | Nextdoor is a hyperlocal, moderated social networking service platform visible to confirmed users within a defined geographic area. The website and app offer photo and video posting, chat and messaging. [13] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Periscope | Periscope is a live video streaming app for iOS and Android acquired by Twitter before launch in 2015. | Yes [14] | Yes [15] | No | ||
Photomath | Photomath is a "camera calculator" for iOS and Android which uses a phone's camera for recognition of mathematical patterns from handwriting or notebooks and displays them directly onscreen. | Yes [16] | Yes [17] | No | ||
Photos | Photos is a photo management and editing application developed by Apple. | No | Yes | No | macOS | No |
Picas | Picas is free art photo editing application which uses deep neural network and artificial intelligence to automatically redraw photos to artistic effects. | Yes [18] | Yes [19] | Yes [20] | No | |
PicsArt Photo Studio | PicsArt is a photographer editing, collage and drawing application and a social network. PicsArt enables users to take and edit pictures, draw with layers, and share their images with the PicsArt community and on other networks like Facebook and Instagram. | Yes [21] | Yes [22] | Yes [23] | No | |
Prisma | Prisma is a photo-editing application that utilizes a neural network and artificial intelligence to transform the image into an artistic effect. | Yes [24] | Yes [25] | No | ||
Process | Process is a non-linear editing photography software designed for iOS devices. It can import, edit, and share digital photos, and perform non-destructive editing using hardware acceleration. | No | ||||
Roposo | Roposo is an Indian video-sharing social media service, owned by Glance, a subsidiary of InMobi. Roposo provides a space where users can share posts related to different topics like food, comedy, music, poetry, fashion and travel. | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Socialcam | Socialcam was a mobile social video application for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone, that was launched March 7, 2011 and ended October 28 2015 and was well known for the following functionality: applying filters to video, applying themes and soundtracks to video, and smooth integration with Facebook.. | No | ||||
TikTok | TikTok, (formerly, Musical.ly), is a video social network app for video creation, messaging, and live broadcasting. | Yes [26] | Yes [27] | Yes | No | |
Ustream | Ustream is an app for live-streaming. | Yes [28] | Yes [29] | No | ||
Vine | Vine was a download-only short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
WallaMe | WallaMe users can take a picture of a surface, then write, draw and add stickers and photos to the image. Once the Wall message is completed, it is geolocalized, remaining visible through WallaMe's AR viewer by those passing by (virtually). | Yes [30] | Yes [31] | No | ||
Snapseed | Snapseed is a photo-editing application for iOS and Android that enables users to enhance photos and apply digital filters. It was created by Nik Software, and is now owned by Google. | Yes | Yes | No |
Bump was an iOS and Android mobile app that enabled smartphone users to transfer contact information, photos and files between devices. In 2011, it was #8 on Apple's list of all-time most popular free iPhone apps, and by February 2013 it had been downloaded 125 million times. Its developer, Bump Technologies, shut down the service and discontinued the app on January 31, 2014, after being acquired by Google for Google Photos and Android Camera.
Amazon Appstore is an app store for Android-compatible platforms operated by Amazon.com Services, LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.
Google Play, which is also known as the Google Play Store or Play Store, is a digital distribution service operated and developed by Google. It serves as the official app store for certified devices running on the Android operating system and its derivatives, as well as ChromeOS, allowing users to browse and download applications developed with the Android software development kit and published through Google. Google Play has also served as a digital media store, with it offering various media for purchase such as books, movies, musical singles, television programs, and videogames.
This is a comparison of mobile operating systems. Only the latest versions are shown in the table below, even though older versions may still be marketed.
Facetune is a photo and video editing application used to edit, enhance, and retouch photos on a user's iOS or Android device created by Lightricks. The app is often used for portrait and selfie editing.
Periscope was an American live video streaming app for Android and iOS developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein and acquired by Twitter, Inc. before its launch in March 2015.
Snapseed is a photo-editing application for iOS and Android that enables users to enhance photos and apply digital filters. It was created by Nik Software, and is now owned by Google.
Picsart is an Armenian-American technology company based in Miami, Florida, United States and Yerevan, Armenia that develops the Picsart suite of online photo and video editing applications, with a social creative community. The platform allows users to take and edit pictures and videos, draw with layers, and share the images on Picsart and other social networks. It is one of the world's most popular apps, with reportedly more than 1 billion downloads across 180 countries.
Prisma is a photo-editing mobile application that uses neural networks and artificial intelligence to apply artistic effects to transform images.
Artisto is a video processing application with art and movie effects filters based on neural network algorithms created in 2016 by Mail.ru Group machine learning specialists.
Picas is free art photo editing application which uses deep neural network and artificial intelligence to automatically redraw photos to artistic effects.
Fyuse is a spatial photography app which lets users capture and share interactive 3D images. By tilting or swiping one's smartphone, one can view such "fyuses" from various angles — as if one were walking around an object or subject.
Photomath is an educational technology mobile app, owned by Google. It features a computer algebra system with an augmented optical character recognition system, designed for use with a smartphone's camera to scan and recognize mathematical equations; the app then displays step-by-step explanations onscreen.
FaceApp is a photo and video editing application for iOS and Android developed by FaceApp Technology Limited, a company based in Cyprus. The app generates highly realistic transformations of human faces in photographs by using neural networks based on artificial intelligence. The app can transform a face to make it smile, look younger, look older, or change gender.
Google One is a subscription service developed by Google that offers expanded cloud storage and is intended for the consumer market. Google One paid plans offer cloud storage starting at 30 gigabytes, up to a maximum of 30 terabytes, an expansion from the free basic Google Account storage space of 15 GB, which is shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos.
Google Messages is a text messaging software application developed by Google for its Android and Wear OS mobile operating systems. It is also available as a web app.
Prequel, Inc. is an American technology company and mobile app developer known for developing the Prequel mobile application, which enables editing photos and videos with filters and effects generated using artificial intelligence. Prequel was founded in 2018 by Serge Aliseenko and Timur Khabirov, who currently serves as the company’s CEO. It is headquartered in New York City. As of August 2022, it had been downloaded more than 100 million times.