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Best 10 Filter and Effect Apps for Photos
A portrait studio in the palm of your hand. Create stunning artwork in moments with a wide variety of photo filters and special photo effects.
About Photo Filters & Effects
Photo editing is the physical process of altering an image, whether it’s a digital photograph, an illustration, or a more traditional photo-chemical photograph.
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YouCam Perfect - Photo Editor
Create the perfect selfie! Custom beauty cam, stickers & filters for pictures4.4 Ratings 2M+ Reviews 100M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh In App Purchases 1M+ ReviewsFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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FaceArt: Filters for Pictures
Funny photo filters and effects & selfie camera effects, art face filter camera!4.3 Ratings 479K+ Reviews 50M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Photoshop Camera Photo Filters
Style your photos & create scroll-stopping effects with the power of Adobe.4.4 Ratings 15K+ Reviews 1M+ DownloadsFreeFree![Google Play]()
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Photo Editor - Lumii
Photo Editor with 100+ Filters, Effects! AI photo enhancer & auto BG remover.4.8 Ratings 770K+ Reviews 50M+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Prisma Art Effect Photo Editor
Aesthetic Editor: cool editing photo to picture, make retouch & funny selfie4.6 Ratings 1M+ Reviews 50M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich In App Purchases 1M+ ReviewsFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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PREQUEL AI Avatar Photo Filter
AI portrait maker: effects to cartoon yourself. Edit aesthetic photos & videos.4.6 Ratings 535K+ Reviews 10M+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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SuperPhoto - Effects & Filters
Tons of awesome effects and filters for your gallery, camera & social photos!4.3 Ratings 46K+ Reviews 5M+ DownloadsFree Feature RichFree![Google Play]()
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Photo Editor Pro - Polish
AI photo editor & cartoon photo editor for collage maker, profile maker & aging4.9 Ratings 4M+ Reviews 100M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh In App Purchases 1M+ ReviewsFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Photo Lab Picture Editor & Art
Photo filters, picture frames, effects, collages & montage for quick touch-ups4.6 Ratings 4M+ Reviews 100M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh In App Purchases 1M+ ReviewsFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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B612 Camera&Photo/Video Editor
Meet trendy effects, filters, and stickers!4.3 Ratings 8M+ Reviews 500M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh In App Purchases 1M+ ReviewsFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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How We Choose The Best Apps
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Broad Search
Our unique algorithm scoured the App Store and Google Play Store by searching filters, cool photo effects, cool pic - photo effects and filters free and 4 other keywords. From there, we retrieved a total of 645 unique apps (83 Android apps and 562 iOS apps) as potential candidates. -
Additional Review by Editorial Team
Finally, our editorial team checks all apps in our best 10 list one by one to make sure these apps are of the highest quality. -
Filter only high-quality apps
We then selected the highest quality apps from the 645 apps listed. We compared the number of stars, downloads, and reviews along with the velocity of these apps to create a list of the Best Filter and Effect Apps for Photos for both Android & iOS.
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