Top 10 Free Photo Apps for iPhone

Every iPhone owner should have the Instagram app installed. Arguably the number one most popular photo app for the iPhone, Instagram comes with a wide range of vintage filters and optional borders that can be instantly applied to any photo. Not only is Instagram one of the best photo apps you can find in the app store, it also serves as a popular social network. Share your photos with other Instagram users and gather followers who admire your artwork. Instagram photos can be shared on the Instagram website or directly posted to your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or on other social media sites.

Snapbucket was created by Photobucket. It allows you to snap a picture, choose a style, and share it with all your friends. The Snapbucket interface and styles are similar to Instagram, where you can choose from a variety of filters like sunrise, film, ghost, antique, 70s and several others. Create sets, make special effects, choose vignettes, and apply different frames to all your photos before sharing them on Facebook, Twitter or by email.

If you’re looking for more of a modern art style, Picture Effect Magic can give your iPhone photos a high-quality pencil or paint drawn effect instantly. This app has one of the most extensive selections of effects to choose from. Effects include sepia, black and white, mirror, swirl, neon light, rainbow, emboss, and so many more. As a bonus, you can add objects to your photos like butterflies or flowers, and you can even adjust the color and brightness settings all within the app itself.

Adobe Photoshop is already one of the leading pieces of desktop software for photo editing, and now you can edit photos right on your iPhone with Photoshop too. Use simple gestures to quickly edit your photos by cropping, straightening, rotating and flipping any image. Adjust the color settings by changing the exposure, saturation, tint or contrast and apply a variety of sketch, soft focus or sharpening filters. You can also visit Photoshop.com and create a free account where you an upload and store up to 2GB of photo or video content.

This is an incredible photo app that allows you to take a photo and gray out everything in the image except for a selected person or object so that it stands out in vivd color. If you want, you can also change the color of something entirely. Make your hair green, an apple blue, or a cat pink. If you don’t like what you see, Color Effects has multiple levels of undo, so you can experiment over and over again until you get the colors you like. Import photos directly from Facebook, zoom in for extra detail and then share your photos again on Facebook with your friends.

It’s nearly impossible to take a panoramic shot with the iPhone camera alone, but the Photosynth app actually allows you to take several photos so you can stitch them together almost flawlessly, creating one beautiful photo. With an instinct of its own, the app actually takes the photo for you once you’ve lined up the camera lens properly, making it easy for nearly anyone to use.

GLMPS is not your average photo editing app, but it adds quite a unique touch to any iPhone owner’s app collection for photo taking When you snap a photo through this app, the app captures just a few seconds before the photo is taken, giving it an amazing mixture of photo and video combined. With this app, you can relive the moments that led up to that photo in video format so you can enjoy them whenever you want, in one of the most creative and artistic ways possible.

With all the nifty photo apps available and the convenience of taking high quality photos with your iPhone, there’s one thing that’s missing from all of it--a timer feature. Self Camera is an app that places a delay timer on the photo shot. So when you don’t have someone around to take the photo for you, Self Camera automates that for you on both the front and back camera. It can’t do any fancy image effects, but for those who need a timer feature that works, this is one of your best options.

Airbrushing isn’t just for magazines and professional models anymore. Now you can airbrush your friends, family and even yourself, straight from your iPhone with moreBeaute2. This app is great for brightening, lightening, and smoothing the color and texture of your skin in just two easy steps. Simply load up the photo in the app, adjust the brightness, smoothness, detail and tone of your skin to instantly transform your appearance.

If you’re a fan of ink but afraid of getting it permanently drawn into your skin, you can use the free version of Tattoo Shop to draw fun tattoos on your photos. This app superimposes custom written words and symbols in a tattoo-ish style on your images in just a few steps. Go ahead and tattoo your girlfriend’s name on your arm or your favorite rock band on your chest. This is a nice little app that you can use to showcase your creativity or explore your rebellious side.