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I’m sure everyone knows the feeling. You’re someplace special & want to capture the moment & your immediate reaction is to share with your friends or loved ones on social media. The best way to do it is by taking a selfie with your smartphone & by using your favorite social media app to post it. But your phone or social media apps aren’t always the best way to go about it. We take a look at 5 of the best apps to help enhance your social selfie experience. Read on…
Selfie apps abound online & are available in droves for both Android & iPhone. They are a time saver & a lot of fun to use if you’re a selfie freak. They can automatically apply filters to your photos & you can apply custom effects, often for free.
Here’s a short list of our picks in no particular order:
‘YouCam Perfect’ is one of the top-rated selfie photo editors on both Android & iOS. It allows you to apply real time effects before you take a picture. It’s ideal for taking group selfies & lets you apply edits to the whole group. You can adjust background resolution & highlight faces so you’re always the center of attention. The app even has a handy eye bag remover that gets rid of those ugly circles under your eyes with one click.
You can get it for free on Google Play here & on the Apple Store here.
Here we pick 2 different apps that you can use with hand gestures: Crunchfish’s ‘GoCam’ for iOS & ‘Snapi’ from eyeSight Technologies for Android: Both these apps are convenient & hands-free so no taps on your phone’s screen are needed. With these apps, you don’t need to stretch your fingers or hand to trigger your shot. Depending on which of the apps you use, you raise your palm and form a fist & open again or you make a peace sign gesture with your fingers to take a shot. Other hand gestures are also available for deleting the latest photo or wave to get detected.
GoCam is available for free on the Apple Store here & Snapi is also free on Google Play here.
The ‘B612’ beauty & filter camera app is available for both iOS & Android platforms & comes with 50+ filters that you can easily apply to your selfies before sharing them on your favorite social networks. You choose a filter by swiping your finger on the bottom of the screen & get a quick preview of how your pic will look. You can also apply a random filter by sliding your finger over the pic. The app also lets you make collages of up to 5 pictures, it has a timer & a tilt-shift for changing your depth of field.
It’s available for free in the Apple Store here & on the Google Play Store here.
‘FaceTune’ is a profile photo editor for iOS & Android. It’s a paid app but you may find it worthwhile to shell out a few bucks to get it. It’s a mini-Photoshop on your smartphone, letting you easily & conveniently touch up your selfies, making them look like they came out of a high fashion magazine. It does things whiten & brighten your teeth, enhance your eyes to let them look penetrating, color over gray hair or bald patches, vivify your makeup.
You can get it in the Apple Store here for US$3.99 & in the Play Store here.
‘BestMe Selfie Camera’ is only available on Android & is one of the most feature-laden apps in our roundup. It has 100+ filters, has a ton of stickers & emojis you can tack on to your face or body. It also has a convenient timer to let you get ready for your perfect shot. It comes with a blur effect specially designed for Instagram, special support for selfie sticks, & has great usability features.
You can get it for free on the Google Play Store here.
