10 Editing Apps That Can Make Your Life Look More Interesting Than It Actually Is

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Platforms: iOS; FREE  

Picture creating a digital photo album that incorporates images, text, and videos to make the most boring exposition look like a blast. Storehouse allows users to make and share visually attractive picture essays—snatching content from your iPad camera roll, Dropbox, Flickr, and Instagram. Just make sure to brush up on your storytelling skills. 

Platforms: iOS, Android; $10 

Cropping your cock-blocking buds in chick shots just got a lot easier, as the holy grail of software editing programs is made available on mobile devices and opens the lane to transform standard shots into mind-blowing portraits. Apply layers, combine images, and merge dope effects into the background through the use of your finger.

Platforms: iOS; FREE 

The coolest Vlog app out lets users create and watch videos layered with live web pages, YouTube clips, Twitter streams, and more. Advertised as a TV monitor in your hands, Touchcast makes it possible to produce broadcast-quality clips through a series of special effects. So now it's possible to produce your own version of The Truman Show, but with more of a digital touch.

Platforms: iOS; FREE  

Montaj is pretty much like a Vine-Instagram mashup that lets you take five-second clips and add Hollywood flair to them by developing film-inspired montages with filters. Aspiring, yet indecisive, filmmakers possess the editing tools to tell their own video autobiographies by shaking their iPhone and shuffling clips, audio, and filters to create unique visuals sharable via social media.

Platforms: iOS, Android; FREE 

The iPhone’s top-rated photo app serves as the “ultimate mobile darkroom,” promoting a number of ways to edit, crop, and add filters to photos. Manipulating contrast and exposure will enliven the most boring shots. Its built-in presets and custom adjustments also leave you in full creative control of the editing process. The latest software update adds a Level & Tilt feature to straighten images, along with pinch-to-zoom in Image Detail and improved accuracy for the cropping tool.

Platforms: iOS; $5 

Apple’s elite moviemaking program carries over the streamlined interface of the Mac OS X version, while bringing forth multi-touch gestures and tons of editing features to assemble HD clips. The option to choose from 14 trailer templates with awesome graphics and original scores, plus unique themes and animated drop boards in the Storyboard feature should help transform the simplest video clip into a work of art.

Platforms: iOS; $2 

When it comes to montages, sometimes it’s all about simplicity rather than creativity. Spark Camera embodies this theory by allowing you to grab seconds of a moment and come back to it later on by adding more content to conceive montages. Now fitness freaks can channel their inner Rocky and play out their favorite training moments from the fourth film, cheesy rock soundtrack included. Hearts on Fire!

Platforms: iOS; $3  

With over 194 high-quality effects and filters to offer, FX Photo Studio boasts the editing tools to enhance the most mediocre images into exciting shots. Turn photos from your camera roll into vintage snaps, dramatic black-and-white photos or grunge masterpieces, while adding signatures and special effects to the final product. 

Platforms: iOS; $1  

What Instagram’s done for retro imagery, 8MM does with vintage videography. The old school video camera lets you apply and adjust effects to videos in your library and comes with five unique themes that add nostalgic value to your home clips. There’s also the option to develop transitions and create a soundtrack using music files from iTunes. 

Platforms: iOS, Android; FREE  

The full-featured photo editor packs a robust toolkit equipped with a picture editor, magic effects, and drawing effects dope enough to enliven the lamest camera roll. Go nuts incorporating photo manipulations from clip art to cartoonized graphics, while sharing the final product with friends via social media.