Top 100 most popular photo apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry

Image: John Kratz.

Editor's note: The following app lists, ratings, and descriptions were sampled from a range of app-ranking sites -- including the Android Market, BlackBerry App World and TopAppCharts.com -- on Aug. 29-30, 2011. Several lists provided by TopAppCharts.com feature constantly updating app rankings.

There are hundreds of mobile apps that take advantage of smartphone cameras, offering many ways to capture a single scene, and allowing users to quickly edit or customize digital images, wherever they are standing.

This report features a collection of paid and free mobile photography apps for a range of mobile devices, including Android-equipped devices, BlackBerry devices, iPhones and iPads. The lists include apps for taking photos, editing photos, and for assembling panoramic images.

Top 10 paid photography category apps for Android

PicSay Pro - Phot...
Shinycore
Rating: 4.7 stars (Above average)
(12,568 ratings)
$4.31
Award-winning photo editor with all the tools you need to spice up your pictures. Sharpen, remove red eye, crop & straighten, distort, insert cutouts of other pictures, paint, make color splash out of black-and-white pictures, add text, word balloons, apply effects like Cross Process, Lomo, Vignette, faux HDR, Tilt-shift, Pencil Sketch, and much more ...


Camera ZOOM FX
androidslide
Rating: 4.3 stars (Above average)
(6,599 ratings)
$4.88
Camera ZOOM FX combines powerful camera functions with stunning post processing - creating magic moments is fun and fast!! Over 90 unique FX - combine these in a non-destructive way to create infinite processing options. Blazingly fast performance: all effects render instantly on your device ...


Camera Fun Pro
SpiceLoop
Rating: 3.9 stars (Above average)
(5,026 ratings)
$0.99
Awesome point & shoot Photo effects lens for Android camera! Point & shoot Photo effects lens for Android camera. The most entertaining photography app - guaranteed! Just point your Android camera and see LIVE Photo effects on the screen BEFORE you click a picture - no fuss, no muss and no guessing how your pictures will turn out!


Vignette
neilandtheresa
Rating: 4.1 stars (Above average)
(5,295 ratings)
$4.06
Add film and camera effects to your photos: 84 effects & 59 frames; Retro/vintage styles; LOMO/Diana/Holga toy camera styles; Polaroid/instant camera styles; Cross-process, tilt-shift, photobooth, double exposure and more; Supports the full resolution of your camera (3.1MP, 5MP or 8MP); Flash (if your phone has one) (not working on Dell Streak); Front-facing camera support (on some phones); Self-timer and time-lapse; Digital zoom; Geotagging ...

Camera360 Ultimate
mAPPn, Inc.
Rating: 4.0 stars (Above average)
(4,823 ratings)
$3.99
Turn your phone into professional camera. Provides LOMO, HDR, axis shift, draft, ghost, etc. and multiple styles ...


Pho.to Lab Pro
VicMan LLC
Rating: 4.6 stars (Above average)
(305 ratings)
$2.99
With Pho.to Lab PRO you can easily create fun photomontages, cool contact icons, animated photo caricatures, e-cards and phone wallpapers! You will love the user friendly interface and the ease of use the app provides. Pho.to Lab PRO does not contain any ads and does not watermark your resulting images. Besides, it comes with extra groups of photo effects for which you would have to pay in the standard version ...


Paper Camera
JFDP Labs LTD
Rating: 4.3 stars (Above average)
(214 ratings)
$1.94
Real time cartoon and painting effects painted on your camera video feed!! See the world through a new, original, stylish and captivating lens, have a wonder in your own home and discover how cool is now your world in cartoon! This is the ultimate collection of cartoon/sketch/comic book/half tone/noir/neon and many other effects painted directly in your camera, no more boring post-effects, it's all real time, you simply won't stop wandering, wherever you are, having a look at things and cartoon-ize them ...

Pano
Debacle Software
Rating: 4.2 stars (Above average)
(223 ratings)
$2.02
Pano is an award-winning app that lets you take beautiful, seamless panoramic photos straight from your phone, no other software necessary ...


Pro HDR Camera
EyeApps LLC
Rating: 3.5 stars (Above average)
(580 ratings)
$1.99
Introducing Pro HDR Camera, the world's first real HDR app for Android! From the team that created Pro HDR for iOS, now you can automatically create stunning full-resolution HDR images with just a single tap on your Android phone. Please note that this app has been tested to work properly on Motorola, HTC and most Samsung phones. However, if you have a LG, Sony, or other device, the HDR capability may not function properly ...


Retro Camera Plus
Urbian
Rating: 4.0 stars (Above average)
(1,462 ratings)
$2.99
The paid, ad-free version of the free Retro Camera app. Take delicious old-school pics your friends will drool over. 5 cameras, 5 sets of vintage vignetting, film scratch, black and white & cross processing effects for that off-the-hip analog look. Inspired by the Lomo, Holga, Polaroid, Diana, the toy cameras & Hipstamatic ...

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