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The Internet is not a great place for honesty. Do you know how I know this? One hint is the fact that Facetune is currently in the top 5 of the top paid apps for the iPhone. It's a $2.99 portrait photo editor that lets you improve your looks before uploading a profile picture or otherwise sharing photos of yourself online.

Facetune provides 10 easy-to-use tools that let you pinch and swipe to edit your photo. For each tool, you use two fingers to zoom in and move around your image and one finger to apply an effect.… Read more

Clipster is a combination of social video creation and tutorial tool, streamlining the process of making videos while giving you enough tools to make them unique to your personality and vision. The result is an easy-to-use app that helps you craft engaging videos in just a few quick seconds, while building a library of clips you can use for future videos.

Clipster starts with a fairly basic but comprehensive five-part tutorial, walking you through how to create your first clips. You can then either use the existing clips that Clipster loads with or start recording your own right away. Recording … Read more

While it certainly won't win any style awards, Effecto Photo Editor brings some quality edits to your gadget's photos. It's not a replacement for some of the more social editors or for all-in-one apps, but it has lots of ways to touch up your photos. The multiple layers of customization are where it really shines, though.

The app doesn't do itself any favors with its 90s-grunge layout. Once you get past its looks, though, you'll notice plenty of great features. The app offers cropping, retouching, and other goodies that will make your photo look better. … Read more

Photo Editor for Instagram will let you edit your photos with different effects and frames, but it makes all the wrong moves to get you there. All you get for putting up with the annoying ads are some run-of-the-mill features and shaky performance.

This app appears with the name "Color FX" in your app locker and "Photo Makeover" in all of its menus. Whatever you call it, Photo Editor for Instagram has nothing to do with Instagram, so don't expect any of the look and feel of that app. It does co-opt some of Instagram'… Read more

Analog Camera is a simple photo editor from RealMac software, the same folks who made the to-do-list app Clear. Like Clear, the app is as bare bones as it gets, but the minimalist design and intuitive controls make photo sharing incredibly quick and easy.

Analog Camera is not a full-featured photo editor in the same vein as apps like KitCam or PhotoToaster. Instead, it offers only a couple of features in the interest of convenience and quick sharing. When you launch the app, you immediately see the viewfinder so you can take a picture right away. But at the top … Read more

An app like Message Editor is a great way to compose and share messages without actually engaging in a conversation or making a fool of yourself with a friend or family member. Perfect for joke conversations, fake images or memes, or just having fun on social networks, Message Editor emulates the interface of the iOS messenger, well.

To use Message Editor, tap on any of the pre-filled word bubbles onscreen. You can then edit the message, the time the message was sent, and any images attached to that message. You can also edit the sender of the messages from the … Read more

Color Photo Edit almost completely eliminates the wait time common in most photo editing apps, allowing you to change things like color levels, brightness, and contrast, and see the results in real time in your image of choice. The result is an easy-to-use, feature-rich app that goes above and beyond many of its peers without overloading users with too many menus or buttons.

Color Photo Edit opens with a test image so you can see how the tools work. You can also easily load your own photo or take a new one and play with it. The basic menu allows … Read more

Insta Photo Editor will require plenty of patience. You have to sift through ads and tons of other junk to get to the goods this app offers. Once you find them, you'll probably be disappointed.

Before you use this app, you have to page through two different ad requests. These want to put ads on your browser, status bar, and more. You can only say no to one of them, and it keeps coming back every time you load the app if you do. As for the editing, itself, it's pretty standard. You can do some minor crops … Read more

There are dozens of photo editing apps on the App Store, many of them free. But far too many of those free apps are lacking some of the basic functions that are needed for a photo editing app to be useful, or they have cluttered, hard-to-use interfaces. BeFunky Photo Editor has none of those issues, and combined with Facebook sharing, channels to view and share photos through the app, and much more, it is one of the better options on the App Store.

The BeFunky editor is a dual-purpose tool. The first role of the app is to connect you … Read more