What are good iPhone apps for editing photos directly on the phone?

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I’m new to iPhone photography and want to edit photos on the iPhone itself instead of transferring them to a computer. What apps are worth considering for adjusting things like brightness, contrast, white balance, saturation, sharpening, and applying filters or effects?

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I like two apps, one a camera app, the other an editing app:

  1. My favorite full featured editing tool is Snapseed. This allows you to take images from your Camera roll and edit with impressive control. It features selective adjust, allowing you to touch where you generally want edits, and offers edits like brightneess, contrast, whitebalance, and saturation. It also includes sharpening control, and of course a bunch of filter effects. My favorite is a finely controlled tilt-shift effect that is fun.

  2. Camera+: not an editing app per se, but a fantastic camera app that has some editing function. It has many features not found on the native app, including a pseudo-stabilizer function that works well. Camera+ includes many fun filters and effects. However, photo 'editing' is really limited to crop, as it resorts to 'scenes' rather than white balance, brightness, etc. Probably the best feature is that it has its own photo storage, independent of the Camera Roll, so that you can choose which images to save to the camera, and therefore the new iCloud PhotoStream.

  3. Adobe Photoshop Express: this is a fairly limited app, but with some nice 'before and after' features, and before Snapseed was my goto app for rotating images. Its free, so you get what you pay for. It will charge you for more features (as will the others) and also encourages you to get an Adobe account for photosharing. (no thanks)

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Based on the recommendations here, Snapseed is the strongest all-around choice for editing photos directly on an iPhone. It supports edits from the Camera Roll and offers useful controls like brightness, contrast, white balance, saturation, sharpening, selective adjustments, and effect tools such as tilt-shift. It’s a solid editor rather than just a filter app.

If you prefer a workflow more like Lightroom or Aperture, Process was recommended for its non-destructive approach, good performance, and ability to save presets and reuse looks across images.

Camera+ was mentioned as a very good camera app with some editing features and filters, but multiple answers noted that it’s better thought of as a shooting app than a full photo editor.

100 Cameras in 1 is more about applying stylized filters than doing detailed edits.

Overall: choose Snapseed for the best general editing tools on the iPhone, Process if you want a more non-destructive/preset-based editing workflow, and Camera+ if you also want enhanced capture features.

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