Best Android camera, photo editing and video apps

With some 2.6 million apps on the Google Play Store, Android users would think that there are many awesome camera apps to make the best of their smartphone cam. Anyone who has ventured in a search for a great Android camera, photo, or video app, however, is inevitably faced with a plethora of low-quality apps with horrific last-century design and questionable stability and functionality.
CAMERA APPS
PHOTO EDITING
VIDEO
OTHERS
Camera MX is one of the best camera apps around, and best of all ― it's free! Well, there are some filter packages you can buy separately, but even without them, the app offers plenty of features. One of them is called "Live shot" and lets you capture a few seconds which you can then turn into a GIF. And if you activate the Shoot-the-past mode, you'll be able to go through the last few seconds of what your camera saw before you took a picture, letting you select the best frame available – a very handy feature if you were capturing something fast-paced like a friend jumping in a pool, for example.
Price: Free | Download
Full manual control:
Open Camera
Price: Free | Download
Add bokeh to your shots:
AfterFocus
Bokeh is not an easy effect to achieve using a smartphone, which is why it's so marketed as a premium feature. While stock camera apps add the effect when you take a photo in portrait mode, and maybe allow you some adjustments right after that, with AfterFocus you can add bokeh to any picture you want, no matter when or how you took it. To do that, first, you'll have to put some manual work into it. AfterFocus has a "smart" function that lets you separate the object you want in focus from the background relatively easy, but if you want a perfect result, you can do everything yourself. Once you've defined each zone you can start applying different effects and adjust them until you're happy with the result.
Price: Free | Download
Filters in style:
VSCO
The full preset pack costs $5.99, and while you have some free presets, the app starts to truly shine when you unlock the potential of all the presets. VSCO also allows you to edit the strength of each filter, as well as edit all aspects of an image non-destructively. Apart from its filters and effects, VSCO also comes with a ‘journal’ with ideas for shooting, and the app gets the job done as a camera replacement.
Price: Free | Download
All-around image editing:
Snapseed
Regardless of those minute shortcomings, it remains the most feature-rich editor out there and it’s completely free, unspoiled by any kind of in-app purchases or other bloat.
Price: Free | Download
Advanced photo editing:
Adobe Photoshop Express
Price: Free | Download
RAW file editing and more for the pros:
Adobe Lightroom
Price: Free | Download
Best video editor:
KineMaster
Price: Free/$1.99 | Download
Maximum bitrate in video:
HD Camera Pro
While HD Camera Pro can be used for both pictures and videos, its main advantage is that it allows you to take a full manual control over video recording quality in particular. You can choose your resolution, frame rate, maximum duration of the video or the size of the file. The app lets you choose the source for the audio if you want to use an external microphone. But the most valuable asset of HD Camera Pro is the option to select a higher bitrate for video, topping at 100Mbps. Our only gripe with this app is that ads are sprinkled quite generously throughout it, but hey, developers have to earn money somehow, right?
Price: Free | Download
Framelapse
Price: Free | Download
Superimpose
Price: $0.99 | Download
Fragment
Price: $1.99 | Download
Facetune
Taking selfies on your smartphone is an obsession that is not going away ― in fact, we’re getting better and better front cameras making those shots look better. But in order to make yourself look your best, Facetune is a perfect app that does not just add an ugly overly smoothening filter to your face making it look as if it belonged to a plastic doll. If you’re into good looking portraits, Facetune is a good app to try.
Price: $0.99 | Download
Planetical
Price: Free | Download
Mirror Photo Editor
Price: Free | Download