The twenty five best photo and movie apps to download now
Contributors: Matt Warman, Indu Chandrasekhar, Mark Prigg, David Phelan, Helena Lee, Dipal Acharya, Ian Douglas.
1:10PM GMT twenty nine Dec 2013
Seene
Free; iPad and iPhone
A jaw-dropping app that lets you turn your iPhone into a basic 3D scanner, creating pictures that show up to stir in front of your eyes as you rotate the phone. It’s excellent joy, and plain to create your own 3D seenes.
Camera Awesome
Free; iPad and iPhone
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An amazing fully featured photography app, which has the bonus of being free, Smugmug’s Camera Awesome lets you capture, edit and add filters to your snaps. You can then share them on a range of social networks and photo sites, albeit you’ll need to pay for some filters. It’s also now available on iPad.
8mm Vintage Camera
£1.49; iPad and iPhone
This retro movie app is so good it was used by Malik Bendjelloul in his Academy Award-winning film Searching for Sugar Man. The improved cameras in the iPhone 4S and fresh iPad have helped to spawn some fine movie applications, and this is one of the best. Think of it as the Instagram of movie, applying retro filters and added style. Excellent value for money.
Adobe Photoshop Express
Free; iPad, iPhone and Android
Photoshop on the mobile and tablet just keeps getting better. Now with in-app purchases and even more effects and tweaks, this is a formidable photo-editing app. The base application is free and comes with slew of features for the budding photographer.
iPhoto
£2.99; iPad and iPhone
Apple, unsurprisingly, knows how to do it best when it comes to its own products, and iPhoto for iOS is still the best way to manage snaps on your iPhone or iPad. With a clean and easy-to-understand user interface, slew of photo-editing options and a superb album-management system, no Apple device is finish without it. The app also has some good sharing capabilities and iCloud support.
Repix
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
A well-designed little app that lets you lightly use brushes to add effects to your photos and switch the way they look fully, turning them into everything from oil paintings to movie posters.
Thomson Reuters’ Broader Picture
There’s slew of inspiration for photographers in this app from news agency Reuters. Explore world-class news photography in high resolution on your iPad.
Photo 365
£0.Sixty-nine; iPhone and iPad
This is all about daily uploads: posting an pic for each day of the year, then viewing events around the world via the calendar. Share pics to Twitter and Facebook within the app, and view friends’ efforts.
Diptic
£0.Sixty-nine iPad and iPhone; £0.63 Android
Despite being fairly self-explanatory, this is a useful application. Putting together photos on the iPhone and iPad isn’t actually that effortless: Diptic solves the problem by doing it for you, letting you combine numerous pictures into one pic.
Touchnote postCards
Free (in-app purchases); iPad, iPhone and Android
This app lets you share any photo you have taken with your iPhone or iPad. The difference is that Touchnote turns your snap into a real postcard and sends it to family and friends.
Frontback
Free; iPhone and iPad
It’s billed as the fresh Instagram, but Frontback has an added dimension: take a picture of yourself with the front camera and another of what you’re watching with the back camera, and then share your two-way snaps.
Pixable
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
The average social networker now has access to thousands of pictures in their network. Pixable connects with your social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to bring you a customised inbox of the most collective pics inbetween friends.
Act Movie FX
Free; iPhone and iPad
Created by Bad Robot, the production company of Starlet Trek director JJ Abrams, this app lets you add activity movie-style special effects to your own movies. Want to take your skiing holiday footage and turn yourself into James Bond? This is the app for you.
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
This is still one of the best applications around, with a vast number of users, an easy-to-use interface and superb photo-editing effects. Share Polaroid-style photos inbetween friends and followers.
Facetune
£1.99; iPhone and iPad
Ideal for cleaning up those holiday snaps, Facetune lets you apply effects to any pictures to give blemish-free skin and banish those bags under your eyes .
Movie Starlet
Free; iPhone and iPad
Lets you create your own music movie with a large diversity of special effects, some of which are in-app purchases. It even lets you use great-quality green-screen effects.
Comic Life
£2.99; iPhone and iPad
An effortless way to create your own comic books from your snaps, finish with wacky fonts and speech bubbles.
Camera+
£1.49; iPhone and iPad
Acting as a one-stop shop for photo-sharing and editing, this app is still something of an iPhone classic. You can send pics to everything from Facebook to Flickr.
Paper Camera
£1.49 iPhone and iPad; £1.Nineteen Android
Puts a superb paper filter onto your pictures and movie, making them look uncannily like A-Ha’s iconic Take On Me movie.
YouTube
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
The YouTube app for iPhone and Android has had several major updates recently so it’s now slicker than ever. It will even send movies to the big screen via Google’s Chromecast dongle.
Photosynth
Free; iPhone and iPad
The best panorama-creation app, it lets you upload and share pictures to Facebook and Twitter.
Everyday
Reminds you to take a snapshot of yourself every day, then stitches together a string of pictures to create a movie.
Toontastic
Create your own cartoons – from story-boarding stage to animation −in this joy iPad app, which will keep children and parents occupied for hours.
PhotoToaster
£1.49; iPhone and iPad
This amazingly full-featured photo-editing application boasts more than sixty effects plus eighty one-click settings.
snap talk
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
Practice a totally fresh way to share photos or movie with friends. Add captions and send your pics to some or all of your contacts. They’ll only have a few seconds to view them before the snapshots vanish, unless they take a screenshot of course.
The twenty five best photo and movie apps to download now
The twenty five best photo and movie apps to download now
Contributors: Matt Warman, Indu Chandrasekhar, Mark Prigg, David Phelan, Helena Lee, Dipal Acharya, Ian Douglas.
1:10PM GMT twenty nine Dec 2013
Seene
Free; iPad and iPhone
A jaw-dropping app that lets you turn your iPhone into a basic 3D scanner, creating pictures that emerge to budge in front of your eyes as you rotate the phone. It’s superb joy, and elementary to create your own 3D seenes.
Camera Awesome
Free; iPad and iPhone
Related Articles
An amazing fully featured photography app, which has the bonus of being free, Smugmug’s Camera Awesome lets you capture, edit and add filters to your snaps. You can then share them on a range of social networks and photo sites, albeit you’ll need to pay for some filters. It’s also now available on iPad.
8mm Vintage Camera
£1.49; iPad and iPhone
This retro movie app is so good it was used by Malik Bendjelloul in his Academy Award-winning film Searching for Sugar Man. The improved cameras in the iPhone 4S and fresh iPad have helped to spawn some superb movie applications, and this is one of the best. Think of it as the Instagram of movie, applying retro filters and added style. Excellent value for money.
Adobe Photoshop Express
Free; iPad, iPhone and Android
Photoshop on the mobile and tablet just keeps getting better. Now with in-app purchases and even more effects and tweaks, this is a formidable photo-editing app. The base application is free and comes with slew of features for the budding photographer.
iPhoto
£2.99; iPad and iPhone
Apple, unsurprisingly, knows how to do it best when it comes to its own products, and iPhoto for iOS is still the best way to manage snaps on your iPhone or iPad. With a clean and easy-to-understand user interface, slew of photo-editing options and a excellent album-management system, no Apple device is finish without it. The app also has some fine sharing capabilities and iCloud support.
Repix
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
A well-designed little app that lets you lightly use brushes to add effects to your photos and switch the way they look downright, turning them into everything from oil paintings to movie posters.
Thomson Reuters’ Broader Picture
There’s slew of inspiration for photographers in this app from news agency Reuters. Explore world-class news photography in high resolution on your iPad.
Photo 365
£0.Sixty nine; iPhone and iPad
This is all about daily uploads: posting an photo for each day of the year, then viewing events around the world via the calendar. Share photos to Twitter and Facebook within the app, and view friends’ efforts.
Diptic
£0.Sixty nine iPad and iPhone; £0.63 Android
Despite being fairly self-explanatory, this is a useful application. Putting together photos on the iPhone and iPad isn’t actually that effortless: Diptic solves the problem by doing it for you, letting you combine numerous pictures into one picture.
Touchnote postCards
Free (in-app purchases); iPad, iPhone and Android
This app lets you share any photo you have taken with your iPhone or iPad. The difference is that Touchnote turns your snap into a real postcard and sends it to family and friends.
Frontback
Free; iPhone and iPad
It’s billed as the fresh Instagram, but Frontback has an added dimension: take a picture of yourself with the front camera and another of what you’re watching with the back camera, and then share your two-way snaps.
Pixable
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
The average social networker now has access to thousands of pictures in their network. Pixable connects with your social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to bring you a customised inbox of the most collective pics inbetween friends.
Act Movie FX
Free; iPhone and iPad
Created by Bad Robot, the production company of Starlet Trek director JJ Abrams, this app lets you add activity movie-style special effects to your own movies. Want to take your skiing holiday footage and turn yourself into James Bond? This is the app for you.
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
This is still one of the best applications around, with a vast number of users, an easy-to-use interface and fine photo-editing effects. Share Polaroid-style photos inbetween friends and followers.
Facetune
£1.99; iPhone and iPad
Ideal for cleaning up those holiday snaps, Facetune lets you apply effects to any pictures to give blemish-free skin and banish those bags under your eyes .
Movie Starlet
Free; iPhone and iPad
Lets you create your own music movie with a thick multitude of special effects, some of which are in-app purchases. It even lets you use great-quality green-screen effects.
Comic Life
£2.99; iPhone and iPad
An effortless way to create your own comic books from your snaps, accomplish with wacky fonts and speech bubbles.
Camera+
£1.49; iPhone and iPad
Acting as a one-stop shop for photo-sharing and editing, this app is still something of an iPhone classic. You can send pics to everything from Facebook to Flickr.
Paper Camera
£1.49 iPhone and iPad; £1.Nineteen Android
Puts a superb paper filter onto your pictures and movie, making them look uncannily like A-Ha’s iconic Take On Me movie.
YouTube
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
The YouTube app for iPhone and Android has had several major updates recently so it’s now slicker than ever. It will even send movies to the big screen via Google’s Chromecast dongle.
Photosynth
Free; iPhone and iPad
The best panorama-creation app, it lets you upload and share pictures to Facebook and Twitter.
Everyday
Reminds you to take a snapshot of yourself every day, then stitches together a string of photos to create a movie.
Toontastic
Create your own cartoons – from story-boarding stage to animation −in this joy iPad app, which will keep children and parents occupied for hours.
PhotoToaster
£1.49; iPhone and iPad
This exceptionally full-featured photo-editing application boasts more than sixty effects plus eighty one-click settings.
snap talk
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
Practice a totally fresh way to share photos or movie with friends. Add captions and send your pics to some or all of your contacts. They’ll only have a few seconds to view them before the snapshots vanish, unless they take a screenshot of course.