When a moment is gone, it’s gone foreverand our moments are so precious to us. As phones increasingly become our go-to device for capturing these memories, it's important to make the most of them.
Ensure your Android camera is as good as it can be with our list of the best camera apps for Android.
VSCO Cam
VSCO Cam isn't the most user-friendly camera on our list, despite its often minimal layout it takes a while just to learn which menu you're in.
But it is one of the best Android camera apps thanks to the amount of customization it offers, and the quality of its adjustments. VSCO Cam combines a camera with editing and sharing functions to provide an Instagram-like experience, only even more powerful.
While it doesn't house a one-click "beautify" option, it more than makes up for it with its premium temperature, tint, contrast and sharpen gauges.
A Better Camera
A Better Camera is basically as described: it's a superior camera app than the standard Android ones.
A Better Camera brings a number of interesting features like Best shot, which takes a number of photos in succession and then provides you with the least blurred, most impressive on. It's a simple idea but it works incredibly well.
A Better Camera also includes immediate post-processing, something which is absent in the camera apps from Sony, Samsung and co, and you can record video with real-time HDR.
Unfortunately, many of the apps best functions are only available via in-app purchase, so A Better Camera sometimes feels a bit like an annoying free-to-play game at times.
However, if you take a lot of pictures, and are okay with a little investment, A Better Camera certainly lives up to its name — and more camera apps should certainly make use of its slide-out grid gesture.
Camera360 Ultimate
Camera360 is hugely popular on the Google Play Store, offering a comprehensive camera app capable of pretty much anything.
It uses a lens-filter system that can be applied before a picture is taken, meaning you don't have to wait until later to see whether your picture is fixable by adding a cheeky filter. It contains a huge variety of options and effects, even if they aren't all entirely useful.
It's easy to use, though, and presents most of the important dials on the same screen so you can adjust multiple settings at the same time.
This is something which other cameras lack,but it's really useful to have everything in one place instead of going through several different screens.
Manual Camera
Most camera apps are designed to make photography as easy as possible for the end-user, removing complicated steps.
The result is some Facebook-friendly snapshots, but certainly not professional pictures. For experienced photographers, you may be more at home with Manual Camera, which provides a range of settings options that most other apps just don't offer.
Shutter speed, focus, white balance, exposure compensation - you control every detail of your picture. Also, this app lets you save images in the lossless RAW format, which offers completely new possibilities for further processing.
So, if you take photographs pretty seriously, but still want to use your smartphone, Manual Camera is an excellent, brand new solution. But beware, the app does require the many new APIs from Android 5.0 Lollipop, so it's currently only available to users with the update.
Pixlr Express
Pixlr Express needs to be used in conjunction with another camera app, as it’s just an image editor. But boy what an editor. You’ll be hard pressed to find more image editing options anywhere on Android, ranging from the strange low-poly and fire effects, to the typical gamut of photo fixers and alterations.
It has the option of automatic image correction, and adjustments such as heal, focus and splash, it feels like a near-Photoshop level experience. Some of the effects and features are more useful than others, I’m not sure “stickers” were ever a good idea for photo-editing, but there is plenty to tinker with to get your pictures looking polished.
You can also add text to your photos with a number of different font-styles.
What's your favorite Android camera app? Let us know in the comments below.
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