30 Best Free iPhone Apps For Photo And Image Enhancements

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Do you want to do more with pictures taken with your iPhone or iPod Touch than simply viewing or browsing them on the device? There are many free iPhone Apps that let you do basic to advanced photo editing on your iPhone.

Most of them come with a ‘Lite’ tag having some severe limitations like not allowing you to save your edited photos, or a ‘Free for a limited time only’ offer. Some of them even display ads on free versions. After a hard search to find really ‘free’ iPhone Apps for Photography, we came up with 30 best applications.

Here is the list of 30 Best Free iPhone Apps for Photo and Image Editing. Some of them are photo uploaders, some are rich image editing applications and some of them are just for having fun. While some of them have a broad range of features, some are focused on a single job.

In order to download these utilities you need iTunes installed on your PC. If you are looking for more free iPhone Applications, you might want to check our iPhone Apps section .

1. Flickr for iPhone

Flickr for iPhone is an official iPhone App which lets Flickr users upload and share their photos and videos easily. This free application lets you geo-tag your photos and arrange them in a set.

You can browse your photos by sets, tags and view recent uploads from your family and friends. Flickr for iPhone lets you search and view photos by people or places, mark them as Favorites and make comments.

Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch;

Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later; Languages: English, French.

Download Flickr for iPhone

2. iRetouch Lite

iRetouch Lite is a powerful and feature-rich iPhone photo editing application. Professional photographers will definitely love this free iPhone App which gives them the power and flexibility of a high-end image processing software.

The free version of this application has all the required basic Touch-Up tools including Clone Stamp, Smudge, Brighten, Hue, Color, Eraser, Pencil, Brush, Stamps with adjustable color, shape, size, opacity, hardness and 19 color blending modes. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.

Download iRetouch Lite

3. Koredoko

Koredoko brings back memories of all those locations in which you have taken your photos.

This free iPhone app for Photography adds geo-tagging information to the pictures taken with your iPhone’s camera.

When you browse these photos, you can see the place on a map, along with latitude & longitude, date and time.

Koredoko helps you to have stronger memories of your travel and vacation photography.

Download Koredoko

4. Free Zoom

This handy little utility lets you save a picture after zooming into any part of it.

Take pictures the normal way and let Free Zoom do the zooming work before saving the photo to your iPhone photo album.

Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.

Download Free Zoom

5. HDR For Free

Do you want your pictures to look mo

re bright and enhanced in their lighting?

You don’t have to use any professional Image Editing software to do that.

You can get HDR (High Dynamic Range) images right away on your iPhone with this free iPhone App for picture enhancement.

With HDR for Free’s 9 preset effects, you can get amazing pictures quickly.

This OS 3.0 compatible application lets you undo any changes.

Download HDR For Free

6. Photo Collage

Photo Collage lets you view your album photos as well as photos from a stream in a beautiful collage.

With this free iPhone/iPod Touch App, you can see photo collages of your friends, nearby locations (using the geolocation feature of your iPhone) and also from around the world.

Download Photo Collage

7. CROP For Free

You have taken a photo and then realized that you want to have less of the surrounding area.

Rather than adjusting your focus and taking a second shot, you can quickly crop the photo to your desired dimensions with Crop for Free, a free iPhone Photo cropping application.

Crop For Free lets you rotate photos as well. It does not lose image quality even after multiple crops.

Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.

Download CROP For Free

8. Private Pics FREE

Do you want to keep some pictures from not surfacing accidentally when one of your family members or friends borrows your iPhone? You can lock all those private pictures of yours with a safe password using this free iPhone security Application.

Private Pics Free lets you view, save, export pictures and supports swipe/pinch for changing/zooming pictures. It also lets you view a slideshow of your photos and email them without exporting.

A limitation of this free application is that it allows you to lock only 10 pictures at a time, in a single folder. In order to keep your private pics safe, you have to first add those pictures to Private Pics Free, and then delete them from your iPhone’s Photo Library.

Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or higher. Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish.

Download Private Pics FREE

9. Effect Touch Lite

This free iPhone Image Editing Application gives professional photo effects with a few taps, and no prior photo editing knowledge. You can quickly select one of the available effects and start applying that effect on pictures with your fingers.

You can choose from 9 different effects including brightness, contrast, monochrome (desaturation), blur (horizontal/vertical) hue and saturation adjustment, posterize, pixelate and solid color.

Apart from setting brush properties to give you the required softness and opacity for the photo effects, this free iPhone Application also lets you easily crop, rotate and downscale the picture. However this free version has a limitation of not being able to save images larger than 300×200 pixels. Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.

Download Effect Touch Lite

10. ZoomIn

This free iPhone application lets ZoomIn.com users upload their photos directly after taking a shot with their iPhone or iPod Touch’s camera.

zoomin.com is a free to use photo sharing website which gives unlimited storage. ZoomIn, the iPhone App, supports geo tagging of photos and easy uploading from iPhone’s photo album.

Requires OS 2.0 or later.

Download ZoomIn

11. InfraredCamera Free

InfraredCamera Free is a free iPhone app which lets you quickly apply infrared camera effect to photos taken in darkness or very less light.

Applying this effect enhances the lighting in your pictures and the objects become more recognizable.

You can choose from image sizes of 640, 800 or 1024 pixels width for saving the processed photos. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Download InfraredCamera Free

12. ePhotoChest

ePhotoChest is another iPhone Photos Security App to lock your private photos with a password. You can lock/unlock photo albums by a simple shake or face down of your iPhone.

Apart from keeping your secret photos hidden, ePhotoChest also can do some basic image editing like rotation. This free iPhone/iPod Touch App can also run a Slideshow of your photos, along with settings to control it’s time, effect, repeat, shuffle etc.

Requires iPhone OS 2. 0 or later. Languages: English, Japanese.

Download ePhotoChest

13. PhotoCleaner

PhotoCleaner is a simple iPhone App which can make your photos taken in low-light or at high speeds look better by removing the noise and grain in the images.

You can control the noise elimination in PhotoCleaner with an easy to adjust slider. Other interesting features include Brightness & Contrast adjustments, unlimited undo & redo option, editing in Portrait or Landscape modes, a full screen mode giving you more screen space for editing etc.

With PhotoCleaner, you can save processed photos in 4 different output sizes: 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1600×1200. PhotoCleaner supports pinch and swipe actions for zooming and panning respectively.

Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.

Download PhotoCleaner

14. FilterFX For Free

Do you want to quickly apply a filter effect to your photos taken with your iPhone or iPod Touch Camera?

Try Filter FX, a free iPhone App, which lets you apply one of 9 preset effects to your photos easily.

You don’t need Photoshop to make your photos look ‘Cool’, ‘Vintage’, ‘Soft’ or ‘Vivid’.

Other filters include Warm, Vignette Black, Vignette White, Black & White, Sepia. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.

Download FilterFX For Free

15. LocrUpload

LocrUpload is a free and official iPhone App for uploading photos to locr.com, a popular geotagging and travel photo community. This application uses the built-in location service of iPhone and iPod Touch to geocode images with latitude and longitude information.

Locr.com users can get their photos tagged with map data and also their images overlapped located on maps and satellite images from Google Maps, Google Earth, Yahoo Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Compatible with iPhone & iPod Touch;

Recommended using with iPhone 3G which gives best results due to it’s built-in GPS chip. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Download LocrUpload

16. HP iPrint Photo

Do you use a HP Inkjet printer for printing your photos. If so, you don’t have to transfer your photos from iPhone or iPod Touch to your PC to do the printing.

HP iPrint Photo, a free iPhone App officially given by HP, can print borderless 4” x 6” (American standard) and 10×15 cm(European standard) photos on any HP Inkjet printer connected to a WiFi (wireless) network.

Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.

Download HP iPrint Photo

17. PhotoSharpFree

PhotoSharpFree lets you improve the sharpness and crispness of blurry photos in your iPhone’s photo album. This free iPhone Photo app enhances your photos with a S

harpen filter and Hue Saturation & lightness adjustments. Processed image can be saved in 4 different sizes: 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1600×1200.

Other features include resuming a previous interrupted session, editing in Portrait as well as Landscape mode, full screen mode for better image viewing, support for Pinch and Swipe operations for zooming and panning the image.

Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.

Download PhotoSharpFree

18. EziSnap Zoom

How often have you wanted to take a close-up shot a person or place and zoomed into it with your iPhone Camera only to find later that the taken photo is not up to your expectation? EziSnap Zoom is a free iPhone App, based on the concept of snap zooming, or dividing the camera screen into 3×3 frames to get a well-focused photo composition. Another useful feature of EziSnap Zoom is it’s “Blur-Reduction” mode.

Set your camera in this mode and you will no longer get shaky shots from your iPhone camera. Just press the camera button and EziSnap Zoom will tell your iPhone to wait until your hands along with the device is stable enough to take the picture.

What more, you can turn your complete iPhone screen into one big shutter button, so that you never miss a good moment because of a slight miss of your finger on the small default button. EziSnap Zoom also has a “Fullscreen shutter” mode which does auto-focus by simply touching your camera screen. Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.

Download EziSnap Zoom

19. Shutterfly for iPhone

Adding to our list of free iPhone Apps for Image Uploading is yet another photo uploading application, this time it is for Shutterfly users.

Shutteffly for iPhone lets you easily upload, view and share your photos from your iPhone or iPod Touch to your online Shutterfly albums.

You can also enjoy your pictures in a full-screen slideshow and email them to all your iPhone contacts. Requires iPhone OS 2.1 or later.

Download Shutterfly for iPhone

20. Fisheye For Free

Want to give a quick warping effect to your photos?

Try Fisheye for Free, a free iPhone App to make your pictures look like they have been taken with a fisheye lens.

Fisheye for Free includes 3 preset fish eye levels and lets you undo applied effects.

Download Fisheye For Free

21. DotCamera

Make your pictures look like they have been printed on a very low resolution printer with DotCamera, a free photo converter.

DotCamera is a simple application to have some fun with your photos. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.

Download DotCamera

22. Free Photo Filters

Looking for some extra effects for your photos? Free Photo Filters lets you apply Lomography, Polarizing, Black and White, and Retro Effect Filters at a snap of a finger.

This free iPhone App for Image Editing comes with 4 preset filters to give special effects to your photos.

Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch (2G).

Download Free Photo Filters

23. PhotoFrame

Want to make the most out of your iPhone or iPod Touch? Turn your favorite device into a digital photo frame and play Slideshows of your photos wherever you go with PhotoFrame.

This free iPhone App plays photos from your iPhone album as well as a Flickr stream.

You can view Flickr photos tagged by people. PhotoFrame lets you con

trol the Slideshow’s speed and number of frames. You can also save interesting Flickr photos to your iPhone’s photo album.

Requires iPhone OS 2.1 or later.

Download PhotoFrame

24. Mill Colour

Mill Colour is a free iPhone App which brings professional color grading features to your iPhone.

Brought free by an award-winning team of Colourists, Mill Colour lets you apply filters to your images with precision and subtlety.

Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch.

Download Mill Colour

25. PanoLab

Want to create panoramas from your photos to give you 3D memories of your vacation spots? Try PanoLab, a free iPhone App which lets you assemble panoramas from your photo library on your iPhone itself.

PanoLab’s advanced perspective correction and linear projection techniques bring reality to your panoramas.

You can share your creation with your friends and family via email or simply save it to your iPhone.

This free version lets you join up to 30 images to create a panorama.

Download PanoLab

26. OilCanvas

Ever wished you could make a beautiful oil painting, but lack the skills for it? Well, if you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can create a painting pretty much similar to those masterpieces found in museums.

Try OilCanvas, a free iPhone app which quickly turns your photos into oil paintings to share it with your friends and family through PhotoShare, email, blog or popular social networking sites.

You can literally paint your photo with your finger tips with OilCanvas’ preset brushes.

Languages: English, Japanese. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.

Download OilCanvas

27. vSketch

vSketch is yet another fun and easy to use iPhone App to quickly turn your photos into sketches or paintings.

You can convert your pictures into either black and white or that 70’s color you have seen in so many of your parents’ or grandparents’ photos.

Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.

Download vSketch

28. Flash For Free

One thing that an iPhone’s camera lacks is a good flash to take pictures in low lights. You can overcome this drawback of your iPhone with Flash for Free, a free application which adds light to your night time photos and makes them more bright.

You can select any of the 9 available flash preset levels to give the ‘Flash’ effect to your pictures.

Flash for Free supports undo option. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.

Download Flash For Free

29. NearPics

You are on vacation on a far away land. Maps and tour guides may be of help in finding nearby interesting places, but are not so much fun.

If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, then you can see all photos taken in nearby places, so you know what more is awaiting your exploration.

NearPics is a free iPhone App which uses your iPhone’s built-in location service to give you photos of nearby locations, obtained from panoramio.com.

Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.

Download NearPics

30. SepiaCamera

Make your photos look like they are from a distant past with this free iPhone App. SepiaCamera does only one thing, it applies the ‘Sepia’ filter to your photos.

While there are many filter applications which include the ‘Sepia’ effect in their list, you may still want to try SepiaCamera for applying the effect directly to all photos taken with your iPhone’s camera rather than selecting each photo from the album.

Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.

Download SepiaCamera

Have fun with your photos in iPhone!

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