What's your favorite photo editing software for the iPhone?
January 25, 2025 7:50 AM   Subscribe

I'm looking for something reasonably simple to use which allows me to edit quickly and doesn't kick down the size/quality of the image when I save the edited version. I don't care about beauty filters or facetune. I have an iPhone 16 Pro with up to date software. I'm willing to pay for it, but prefer a one time payment to a subscription.
posted by frumiousb to Computers & Internet (7 answers total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
Looking for any particular features? I believe the Photos app doesn't compress, but it's of course limited.
posted by michaelh at 8:36 AM on January 25 [1 favorite]


Best answer: I rather like photomator. Lots of nice options and, just like photos, operates on photos nondestructively. ie - it operates on your photos in your library and (like photos) you can always revert those changes.

*Photomator and Pixelmator have been around a long long time, but they've been acquired by apple which may or may not be a good thing in the long term. Acquisitions are hard.
posted by mce at 8:46 AM on January 25 [2 favorites]


Best answer: Gentlemen Coder’s Raw Power provides a lot of photo editing power if you’re looking for a photography oriented solution, from one of the lead developers of the much missed Aperture. It is available for a reasonable one time payment, and integrates with the Photos app.
posted by rambling wanderlust at 9:07 AM on January 25 [1 favorite]


Best answer: It depends what kind of "editing" you're looking for, but for a certain sort of editing (tweaking colors, HDR effects, and so on), Snapseed is a good, simple, and free choice that unlike a lot of free photo apps doesn't downscale the photo, it keeps the full resolution of the original.
posted by etealuear_crushue at 12:30 PM on January 25 [1 favorite]


I have a 16 Pro Max and do some fairly serious color correction and the like in the basic Photos app. What kinds of things do you need to do?
posted by advicepig at 1:58 PM on January 25 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Sorry for the late response! I'm looking for something a few steps up from the Photo app. Some presets for sprucing things up are nice. I realize this is vague, but I want something a bit better than the basic app.
posted by frumiousb at 1:25 AM on January 26


I've been using Snapseed for years and years. I absolutely love it, doubly so now that I have an iPhone because of the way it integrates with the iPhone editing chain.
posted by dbx at 6:01 AM on January 26 [1 favorite]


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