Top 10 Free Android and iOS Apps For Taking Unique Selfies
If you love taking selfies, then you know very well that they don’t always come out as you want them to. But of course there are apps for these cases, which allow you to edit your photos in various ways in order to make them more impressive.
A good application should give you the basic filter effects and tools to crop your photos, enrich them with stickers, remove scars and marks from your face, and more.
Below we present you the best 10 free apps to take unique selfies and edit them with several useful tools.
1. PicsArt Photo Studio
PicsArt is definitely the most popular and best app that you can find on the internet right now. It is available both for mobile devices and for Windows PCs, and comes with unique tools to crop your photos, resize them, add filter effects, create collages with built-in templates and many more. There is also the option to create GIF images and videos.
Download PicsArt Photo Studio for Android here.
Download PicsArt Photo Studio for iOS here.
2. InstaBeauty
InstaBeauty is here to correct your “poor” selfies with the press of a button (or a tap on the screen). Just take a selfie and edit it with the default filter effects and various tools such as “Slim Face”, “Blemish” and “Big-Eyes”, so as to make it even more unique.
Download InstaBeauty for Android here.
Download InstaBeauty for iOS here.
3. Retrica
Retrica is a well-known app, thanks to its retro effects and unique tools. If you have photos that look better with an “artistic touch”, then Retrica is the application you are looking for. It includes more than 100 different effects, as well as a real-time collage generator (with over 20 layouts).
Download Retrica for Android here.
Download Retrica for iOS here.
4. YouCam Perfect
With YouCam you can see how your photo will look with various filters, even before taking it. You can also edit your photos- after taking them- with several tools for skin cleaning, wrinkles removal and making your face look more youthful in general. You can also change the shape of your face, your eyes, and even your eyelids, in any way you wish.
Download YouCam Perfect for Android here.
Download YouCam Perfect for iOS here.
5. FotoRus
With FotoRus you can create awesome selfie-collages easily, quickly and free. Collages come in various shapes, including portraits and circular shapes. The application also gives you the option to create private albums so as no one can access them, except for you. Tools for cleaning your face are included too.
Download FotoRus for Android here.
Download FotoRus for iOS here.
6. YouCam Makeup
With YouCam Makeup you can add makeup and edit your hair by changing its color. You can also add special effects, share your photos in social networks, and more.
Download YouCam Makeup for Android here.
Download YouCam Makeup for iOS here.
7. Mirror Image
With Mirror Image you can add a mirror effect in your photos, so that they appear in different shapes or even entangled into each other. Your application also allows you to add frames to your photos, create collages, add effects and filters, and in the end share them with your friends in social networks. There are over 60 different frames and over 40 filters that you can use together, including with tools for adjusting brightness, tint, and saturation of your photos.
*Note: Mirror Image is not available for iOS device, but an alternative app with similar functionality called "Photo Mirror Collage HD" can be used instead.
Download Mirror Image for Android here.
Download Photo Mirror Collage HD for iOS here.
8. Photo Editor by Aviary
Another very popular application is Photo Editor by Aviary, which not only includes all the basic tools for editing your photos, but also promises that all its filter effects are unique. The application is constantly updated with new filter effects (not all of them are free), while simultaneously updating the existing ones by making them better and more realistic.
Download Photo Editor by Aviary for Android here.
Download Photo Editor by Aviary for iOS here.
9. Pixlr – Free Photo Editor
From creating collages, adding effects and trimming photos, to the craziest and most unique tools that you need to edit your photos like no one else- Pixlr has almost everything. The app has many different effects and filters, all the basic tools for cropping, resizing and editing the colors of your photos, plus many more features that you will not find in any other similar application. Pixlr definitely worth trying out.
Download Pixlr – Free Photo Editor for Android here.
Download Pixlr – Free Photo Editor for iOS here.
10. Boomerang from Instagram
Boomerang is an app by Instagram that allows you to do record small videos and publish them with your friends and family. In general, it is an application for recording video selfies using the front camera of the device. Once you finish recording a video, the application will create an entertaining video presentation that consists of 10 different photos.
Download Boomerang from Instagram for Android here.
Download Boomerang from Instagram for iOS here.
Which apps do you use for taking selfies? Les us know in the comments section below!
