Top 10 Free Photo Apps for Android

Vignette Demo is one of the most similar apps you can get to iPhone’s Instagram app. You can try up to 84 different film and camera effects to your photos with 59 different frames. Photos come out with a retro or vintage style. Output resolution is relatively small, which makes it ideal for sharing online. A paid version of the Vignette app is also available with more effects and photo options.

Pudding Camera offers a wide variety of effects and settings, including exposure settings of -2.0 to 2.0. Although the app is not entirely available in English, the user interface is attractive and easy to use, allowing you to browse photos by thumbnail and share photos via email, Twitter and Facebook.

Who needs professional photography equipment when you have the FxCamera app? This app takes some of the most popular camera effects and makes them conveniently accessible on your mobile device, including a ToyCam effect, Polandroid effect, Fisheye effect, SymmetricCam effect and Warhol effect.

If you’re a fan of Polaroid shots, you’re going to love this app. The app is simple to navigate, allowing you to snap your photo via its viewfinder where you can watch it develop right before your eyes. Change the film type and choose a font to write a caption at the bottom of your Polaroid photo for some added flare.

The Little Photo app has one of the most beautiful user interfaces of all Android photo apps. After snapping a photo, you can use the app to pull up a translucent menu that floats on top of the photo, allowing you to scroll through the effects and preview them before you select one. With this app, you can apply two layered effects to create even more depth.

PicSay is an award winning photo editor, giving you the opportunity to color correct your photos directly on your phone, add word balloons, write title captions, use graphics and apply effects. PicSay offers a free Lite version and the option to upgrade to PicSay Pro if you want access to extra tools, effects and styles.

If you're a fan of that old school, retro look, the user interface for this app actually becomes the camera, allowing you to look through the viewfinder and snap your photo on the fly. Choose from five sets of vintage vignetting, black and white, film scratch and cross processing effects. Photos are stored in a virtual darkroom on your phone and can be easily shared via social media.

People want the most control over their photos, and Camera ZOOM FX is an app that really delivers. You can access over 40 effects with additional options to add borders, frames, customizable grid overlays, white balance, night shots and there’s also a convenient one-click upload option for Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and other social networking sites.

To use this app, you will already need to have a collection of photos stored in your photo gallery since a viewfinder is not provided with the app. Once you choose a photo, you can apply a variety of filters and effects to it, including the popular fisheye and fun house mirror effect. You can also crop and rotate photos as desired before applying effects and sharing them online.

Although Action Snap comes equipped with a number of photo effects for you to use, the real magic lies in its ability to take a sequence of photos of a moving object or person and stitch them together to create one full photo. The app will sequentially arrange the images into panels displayed on a grid for a unique photo effect.