Best Free Photo Editing App for Mobile
July 12, 2022
Best Free Photo Editing App for Mobile
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Free
Overall Satisfaction with Picsart
I mostly use Picsart for personal projects, but occasionally, while optimizing an image for the web, I'll use Picsart for quick fixes. Most recently for my job I've used it to make a vertical image horizontal with blurred background edges using the Fit tool. For personal projects, I use to crop, adjust lighting/saturation/brightness, etc., use a variety of filters (most recently my favorite has been "Noise"), blur backgrounds, change the color of certain objects, add stickers and overlays, add borders, and more. These are mostly edits for photos I post to my Instagram accounts.
- Basic Photo Editing - more robust than your basic iPhone photo editing tools, but much simpler (yet still powerful) and user-friendly than Adobe PhotoShop and Lightroom.
- Filters - a large variety of simple and complex photo filters with the ability to adjust the strength. A nice blend of filters can really enhance a photo without making it look heavily filtered.
- User friendly - all across the board, this app is super easy to use and really powerful too. I can't imagine editing a photo on my phone without it.
- There are a lot of features available to only paying subscribers, but all those features still appear for the nonpaying user, marked by the crown icon. Particularly with filters and stickers, it can be annoying to scroll through the majority of locked options to find the handful that is free. A filter option would be nice.
- It would be nice to have access to previous projects where you could still go back and undo edits you've made. The draft feature seems to only be good for one project at a time.
- Layers would be nice. That way when you use a sticker or add a photo on top and go on to make more edits, you could still move them around instead of just having to undo everything and re-add the stick or additional photo.
- Fit
- Adjust
- Flip
- Effects
- Streamlined editing with helpful tools that would take much longer to do manually in other software.
- Free software without a watermark like many other apps, so it costs nothing but storage space on my phone.
- Boosted my confidence in being able to post my photos, especially of myself, because I am able to better highlight the best parts of the photos and mask the distractions or less favorable parts of photos.
Picsart has a lot of the same basic functionality as Photoshop but is so much more intuitive and user-friendly. There's no wait for it to start up, exporting is super quick and easy, and the tools are super user-friendly. For quick fixes, this is my go-to. It's just so much faster and easier than Photoshop.
Do you think Picsart delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Picsart's feature set?
Yes
Did Picsart live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Picsart go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Picsart again?
Yes