PicsArt

PicsArt description

If you’re looking for an all-rounder photo editing app, Picsart is probably the perfect choice for you. This all-in-one editing app is one of the best in its kind and has managed to receive some pretty stellar comments and feedback. Picsart is much more than an app where you can add a few filters in your photos or throw in some beautifying tools – it’s almost a social app with everything you need to make your pictures look professionally edited and more gorgeous. Picsart is a free to download application for both iOS and Android users.

The Review

To start your editing experience with PicsArt, you’ll need to sign up and create an account for it. This seems quite odd for a simple editing app but as emphasized earlier, this is a lot more than a simple editing app. You can create an account by connecting through your Facebook or your Google Plus, or you can choose to sign up with your email address.

After completing this preliminary process, you’ll be directed into the main page of the app. New users can choose to watch a helpful startup tutorial to navigate around the app as well. The main homepage features several different tab. You can access the editing feature of the app through the ‘plus’ sign in the smack center of the menu in the bottom. From there you can select an existing photo from your phone to edit, capture a brand new one directly through the app’s camera feature, produce a collage of photos or even draw in a picture of your own.

The editing tool itself is diverse and offers tons of different options for users to make their photos look more enhanced and social media ready. These options include tools to make your picture frame look more refined including the free crop, stretch, motion, color curves and more. You can also add in your favorite filters on your photo for an extra splash of color. The beautify tool is also a popular tool to make your face look flawless. Through this tool you can smooth out the wrinkles on your face, clear acne and blemished, change your skin tone, whiten teeth, remove the red-eye effect and much more. Other editing options include add-on picture frames, stickers, text, drawing with brushes and pens, masking, cut-out, lens flare and more.

Apart from the main editing features of PicsArt, this app also keeps users in the now with the latest and most trending public photos edited by other users of the app. These pictures can be seen through the feed where users can choose to like and even leave a comment on photos they like. They can also follow a particular user, hence making the app almost a part of the social media genre.

You can also browse and search for photos through the search option in the app. This is great to provide you with some inspiration for your next photo edit or just to simply save an aesthetic photo for your phone.

Picsart also keeps things competitive by adding a challenges tab for users. Here you can participate in different photo editing challenges simply by adding the relevant challenge hash tag to the photos you edit and share publicly on Picsart. You can also customize your account on Picsart and give your profile some character. On your profile page you can add a display picture for yourself, a cover photo for your profile and customize your username and description.

Picsart is a wonderful app for editing junkies who enjoy flaunting their editing masterpieces to the world. It’s different because it lets you socialize and remain updated with other users on this platform. Of course as with all free apps, Picsart also has way too many ads and constant advertising of the premium subscription but these can be overlooked because of the variety of features the app offers.

Why do we recommend this app?

More than just an editing app; lets user socialize, check other users’ edited photos and participate in photo editing challenges
Powerful editing tools
Users can customize their profile and give it some character
Free to download

What can be improved in this app?

Too many ads that pop up after every other edit made
Frequent promotion of the premium subscription of the app

PicsArt is one of the top apps in the Photography app category, which belongs to PicsArt. It's last update was on January 23, 2018 and it has been already downloaded 100,000,000 - 500,000,000 times. On the app store it has now 7,013,556 reviews. After you get to PicsArt page on the app store, click install & enjoy it.