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Pro In-camera professional photography tools
You can set up exposure, aperture, focus, warmth, brilliance, shutter speed, etc. before taking the shot. In other words, while there are great photo editing tools and filters available with maximum customization for creating great pictures, this is one camera app that is actually more of a came...
Pro 15 in app tools
This app has many of the tools users expect and more. These include exposure, temperature, contrast, saturation, sharpening, and more.
Pro Option to tap any part of the screen to take a photo
With VSCO cam, a mode can be selected where a photo can be taken by touching anywhere on the screen, not just one specific button.
Con Lack of direction
Instead of doing a great job at one thing, this app spreads the focus over a number of mediocre features. Overall, everything is good, but this app doesn't stand out.
Pro Good platform for exposure
Instagram is the photo sharing app with the most users.
Pro Great photo filters
Instagram's adjustable filters can completely change the way a photo looks.
Pro Tons of editing tools
Instagram lets users adjust brightness, temperature, saturation, highlights, shadows, and sharpening.
Con Awkward framing
Photos shot in Instagram must be in a square format. Uploaded photos must be cropped to be square shaped.
Con Filled with children
Instagram is extremely popular with middle school and high school kids.
Pro Mix of dSLR features and standard app features
These features include white balance, night shooting mode, ISO adjustment, focus adjustment, exposure, contrast, saturation, and more.
Pro Stable-shot mode
The stable shot mode is a feature that will only let a photo be taken when the camera is still. This feature is used to eliminate motion blur.
Pro Voice-activated shooting mode
A voice activated shooting mode takes a picture when there is noise.
Con Missing important features
This app doesn't support HDR mode or panoramic shots.
Pro Full manual control in Photo, Timelapse, and Video modes
On devices with Camera2 API support (currently LG G4, Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 Edge), ProShot offers full manual control over ISO, shutter, white balance, and focus, in any mode, even during video recording.
Pro Supports multiple aspect ratios
ProShot has options for 4:3, 16:9 and 1:1 aspect ratios allowing the shooter to choose what best suits their intended shape. It also has support for custom aspect ratios, so 3:2, 21:9, 50:3, and more are all possible.
Pro RAW and other format support
ProShot can shoot in RAW, RAW + JPEG and JPEG formats, giving ample options for one to shoot in.
Con Requires Android 5.1
ProShot requires that the Android OS is on version 5.1 or higher in order to install and work. Considering there is only a developer preview for this version to date, it basically can not yet be installed. Even when 5.1 comes out there will not be many devices using it. Developer's note: there...
Pro Control over ISO, exposure times, and f-stop
Much like a dSLR, Camera FV-5 gives users control over light sensitivity, time that the shutter is open, and f-stop.
Pro Exposure compensation
In order to reduce the chances of over exposure, there is an option where exposure compensation can be activated.
Pro Exposure bracketing
Camera FV-5 has a setting where several pictures will be taken in rapid succession at different exposures.
Con Menu is stuck on landscape mode
Even when the device is held in portrait, the app's menu is stuck on landscape. This bug makes it more difficult to read whatever is displayed.
Pro Free unlimited cloud storage
This app automatically syncs an unlimited amount of images to the cloud.
Pro Over 100 filters
This app boasts over 100 filters. In addition to these filters, additional settings show up for each filter. For instance, HDR mode has 4 different settings in order to be situation appropriate. Each filters's intensity can be adjusted on a scale of 0 to 100.
Pro Dedicated selfie mode
The selfie mode ensures that all flaws and blemishes are minimized.
Con No rotation for image cropping
When cropping images, the size of the image can be narrowed, but users cannot choose the angle at which the image is cropped.
Pro Macro mode
Allows more close-up shooting of focused subjects than default iPhone camera.
Pro Manual controls
Manually adjust focus, as well as aperture, ISO, and shutter speed to a certain extent.
Pro Can save as lossless TIFF images and other high quality formats
Those interested in lossless formats will be able to save as a lossless TIFF. Alternatively one can save as more standard high normal or optimized quality JPEG formats.
Con No panorama mode
There is no panorama mode offered in the app, meaning if that is a needed feature a different app will need to be used making this not an all in one solution.
Pro Great for editing portraits
This app includes blemish removal and easy red eye removal
Pro It's free!
Restrictions apply, extra features are available with a monthly fee.
Pro Shares directly to Facebook
Photoshop Express lets users public their edited photos to Facebook straight from the app.
Con No text tool
There is no way to add text to a photo in Photoshop Express
Con No noise reduction option
As a common feature in image editing apps for Android, you would expect Photoshop Express to have it as well.
Pro Easy to use
The app doesn't overwhelm you with functionality or hide it behind unlabelled icons. It displays about 5 tools at a time beneath the image and allows you to swipe through the complete list of tools horizontally. Most interactions with the software are kept in that bottom row so you can always s...
Pro Free
The core functionality of the app is offered for free without any ads. You can optionally purchase additional effects.
Con Covers just the basics
There are 20 tools for image manipulation. They allow you to change the sharpness, crop the image, apply filters to it, add frames, etc. There are also tools for one tap redeye and blemish removal.
Pro Zero unnecessary bells and whistles
While this app is loaded with features, all of them are called for.
Pro Minimalistic/easy to use interface
The interface starts with three different buttons (pictures, videos, settings) and each level umbrellas in order to access the huge amount of features. While using the interface, there are many features that make operation simple. In order to access recent pictures from the camera, swipe left. In...
Pro Many options and settings
While taking a picture, the options include: HDR, flash, white balance, exposure, contrast, saturation, additional camera settings, burst mode, fast mode, front/back toggle, silent shutter, stable shot, panorama, self timer, and grid. Additional settings include: picture and video size, scene mod...
Con Doesn't let users choose where to save photos
By default, this app makes sub folders to save photos in instead of letting users choose whether or not to store photos in the default library.
Pro User friendly
The interface is clean, simple, and easy to navigate.
Pro Very stable
This app is much more stable than other apps of similar nature
Pro Over 620 frames, effects, and montages.
Although Photo Lab is a little more expensive than other apps, but the variety of features makes the price well worth the benefit.
Con Users must pay for ad-free version
For the ad-free version, it costs $3.99 for Android users.
Pro Lens Blur
A recently added feature to Google Camera, Lens Blur gives you the SLR like function of creating images with shallow depth of field, or limited areas of focus. Basically, lens blur will only blur the background in order to put more emphasis on an object.

Pro Simple clean interface
Google Camera has a very easy to use and simple interface, with the most important controls right at your fingertips. Google has redesigned the Camera app for every skill level of user, making photography more accessible to everyone.
Pro HDR mode
HDR can be activated or deactivated with one swipe of the thumb.
Con Limited device support - Only available for Google Nexus and Pixel
In 2016 they stop providing Google camera for non google devices. You can download APK and install. But it crashes and most likely the video camera will not work.
Con Photo Sphere does not work on all CPUs
For example, Android-Lenny 4.4 does not support this.
Con Requires Android 4.4+ (KitKat)
The Google Camera app system requirements do require Android 4.4 (KitKat) or better, as a result this does leave out a lot of older phones and tablets. The app does take advantage of features of higher end phones, so you will need to upgrade if your device has an older version of Android.
Pro No sign up required
In order to use this app, you don't need to sign up!
Pro Free with no ads
"Free" includes no limitations.
Pro Offers photo frames
The frames include: instant, Filmstrip, Halftone, Grunge, Classic frames, and more.
Pro Apple watch compatible
The apple watch provides a preview, remote trigger, change mode (picture to hdr, record video, low light+) possibly more.
Con Exif data faulty or non-compliant
A better file renamer was unable to read Exif data from files produced from procamera.
Pro Adjustable filter intensity
Any filter can be applied on a scale of 1-12 and filters can be applied in layers over each other.
Pro Easy and polished UI
The VSCO cam has a minimalistic approach to the interface. The color scheme is mostly black and grey, and many buttons don't have labels.
Pro Option to tap any part of the screen to take a photo
With VSCO cam, a mode can be selected where a photo can be taken by touching anywhere on the screen, not just one specific button.
Con Lack of direction
Instead of doing a great job at one thing, this app spreads the focus over a number of mediocre features. Overall, everything is good, but this app doesn't stand out.
Pro Offers an extensive array of effects
"Adjust color, add effects, rotate, crop, resize, frame, clone, and draw on your photos"
Pro Supports "draw mode"
You are able to add a personal touch by drawing on your photos using your Android
Pro Supports multiple languages
Supported languages include: English, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, German, French, Japanese, Portuguese(Brazil), Italian, Catalan, Traditional Chinese, Hebrew, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Swedish, Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Bengali, Indonesian, Persian, Vietna...
Con Extremely generic name
This makes it very difficult for users to accurately research "Photo Editor" on the internet.
Pro 1TB of free storage
Flickr offers 1TB of free storage with no limits on image resolution. This makes for a great place to store ones photos due to the high amount of storage available for free.
Pro Can be set to auto-upload images
Flickr has an app on Windows, OSX, iOS and Android, called Flickr Uploadr (available for download in the tools section) that can automatically upload images to Flickr. It can even pull images from external drives and other cloud storage services such as iCloud.
Pro Good search
Flickr is capable of searching images by a combination of content, color, shape, depth of field, style, pattern, size, license and other options.
Con There are limits on file sizes
Images can't be more than 200MB a piece and each video can't take up more than 1GB of space.
Con No support for lossless file formats
Photos can only be saved as .jpg, .gif (non-animated) and .png files.
Pro Fast performance loading photos
QuickPic displays photos ultra fast and performs better than most stock gallery apps. Developed with speed in mind, QuickPic will make working with any library of photos lightning quick.
Pro Supports hidden images
In order to hide an image, start the title with a period. This can be great for privacy purposes.
Pro Supports multiple online photo album services
QuickPic integrates with: Flickr, Picasa, 500px, and many more.
Con Untrustworthy
It's owned by Cheetah Mobile. That says it all.
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