Snapseed

Photo editing on your phone

Snapseed is a photo editor for people who want to adjust images after taking them, whether that means making a quick tonal change or working through a more detailed edit. Its tools cover common fixes as well as selective adjustments, so you can change part of a picture without applying the same treatment everywhere.

Tools for specific edits

The editor includes controls for exposure, colour, contrast and curves, along with options for cropping and correcting perspective. A healing tool can remove small distractions, while selective controls let you target an area of a photo. Snapseed can also open DNG RAW files, giving photographers more room to adjust an image than they would have with a compressed file.

Edits are kept in a stack that can be revisited, changed or removed. That makes it easier to try different adjustments without treating each choice as final. The range of controls may suit people who enjoy tuning photos, though it can take time to learn where particular tools are and how they work.

Who it may suit

Snapseed is aimed at mobile photographers who want more than a preset filter, including people who shoot RAW and those who like to refine individual parts of an image. It can also handle simpler tasks such as cropping, straightening and adjusting colour. If you only want a one-tap look, its editing controls may be more than you need.

Google LLC makes Snapseed. Its Google Play rating is 3.96 from 1,734,713 ratings, and the app has 100,000,000+ installs. Those figures offer a quick sense of its reach and user response; whether its editing approach suits you is for you to decide.