Top 7 Photo Retouch Apps for Stunning Visuals

Photo retouching is more than smoothing skin. You might want an app for portraits, object removal, color and filters, or photo resolution enhancement. Pick the best tool for these jobs from the following 7 photo retouch apps.

Photo Retouch Apps: Quick Overview

Part 1. Apps for Portrait Retouching

Facetune

Facetune is built around portrait retouching. You have tools for smoothing skin, removing blemishes, reshaping facial features, whitening teeth, makeup, hair adjustments, filters, lighting, and color correction. There's also object and background removal, so you can do quick cleanups beyond just face retouching.

Platform: iOS & Android

Free limit: Free to download with some tools unlocked, but free users hit a weekly limit of 3 free saves.

Pricing: Monthly, quarterly, and yearly subscriptions are available; the current Facetune site shows a 7-day free trial, and exact prices can vary by plan and platform.

Best for: Portrait and selfie retouching with beauty-focused tools.

Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop on mobile brings more precise retouching with its layers and masks. You can use Spot Heal, Remove, Clone Stamp, selections, and color adjustments to clean up faces, objects, and other parts of an image. The iPhone and Android versions aren't identical, so available features can vary by platform. You can check the exact differences in Photoshop Help.

Platform: iOS & Android

Free limit: Free basic editing tools; some advanced tools and generative features require premium.

Pricing: $7.99 per month or $69.99 annually via the Photoshop Mobile & Web plan.

Best for: More controlled mobile retouching when you need selections, layers, object removal, or precise adjustments.

Part 2. App for Removing Unwanted Objects

TouchRetouch

TouchRetouch is designed for removing distractions from photos. It can erase unwanted people, objects, wires, power lines, meshes, blemishes, and other background details. It also offers a Clone Stamp when an automatic result needs manual cleanup.

Platform: iOS & Android

Free limit: The free version currently allows one export every 24 hours.

Pricing: In-app purchases: weekly plans range from &1.99 to $9.99, and yearly plans range from $14.99 to $49.99.

Best for: Removing photobombers, wires, signs, anything unwanted.

Part 3. Apps for Color Correction and Filters

Adobe Lightroom

Lightroom is good at making a photo look cleaner, more balanced, or more polished rather than reshaping a face. The mobile app provides exposure, color, white balance, curves, presets, selective editing, masking, and tools such as Generative Remove and Lens Blur.

Platform: iOS & Android

Free limit: Free mobile app with basic editing tools and presets; some advanced features are premium.

Pricing: Lightroom plans start at US$11.99/month for the annual, billed-monthly plan in the US; mobile access can also be used for free with premium upgrades.

Best for: Color correction, tone adjustment, presets, and finishing a photo after retouching.

Snapseed

Snapseed is a good choice if you want free detailed manual edits. It's got over 30 tools and filters: Healing, Portrait, Selective adjustments, Curves, Color HSL, White Balance, Details, plus a bunch of film-style effects. It even supports RAW files on devices that can handle them.

Platform: iOS & Android

Free limit: 30+ tools and filters with no subscription, in-app purchases, ads, or watermarks.

Pricing: Free.

Best for: Manual color correction, selective adjustments, and a wide range of filters without a subscription.

Part 4. Apps for Photo Upscaling and Restoration

AVAide Image Upscaler

AVAide Image Upscaler is an online AI tool on mobile Safari or Chrome, with no installation. It is useful when the problem is low resolution or blur. The tool offers 2×, 4×, 6×, and 8× enlargement using AI algorithms. When you upscale a portrait, the AI is smart enough to smooth the skin at the same time.

Platform: Safari, Chrome, and basically any browser

Free limit: Enlargement up to 4× of the original resolution. 6× and 8× enlargement plus batch upscaling is unlocked with payment.

Pricing: $9 for 100 images, $19 for 250, or $49 for 1000.

Best for: Quickly increasing image resolution or improving clarity when you do not want to install an app.

Remini

Remini focuses on AI photo enhancement. It can improve blurry or pixelated photos, which helps sharpen portraits and selfies taken with an unfocused camera, or restore old low-res photographs. Because the app reconstructs image detail with AI, results can vary depending on the quality and content of the original photo.

Platform: iOS & Android

Free limit: Free to download, with ads and usage limits. Premium unlocks additional features.

Pricing: Subscriptions cost $9.99 monthly or &50 per year.

Best for: Restoring old photos and enhancing blurry portraits.

Part 5. How to Choose a Photo Retouch App

Part 6. FAQs About Photo Retouching Apps

What does photo retouching include?

Photo retouching can include removing blemishes or unwanted objects, refining facial features, adjusting color and light, adding filters, cleaning up backgrounds, and improving selected parts of an image. The exact tools vary by app.

Can I retouch a photo for free on iPhone or Android?

Yes. Snapseed is completely free. Other apps such as Photoshop, Lightroom, Facetune, TouchRetouch, and Remini offer free versions or downloads with some features behind paid plans.

Will photo retouching reduce image quality?

Usually it won't, but if you repeatedly save the image as a JPEG, or you sharpen or enlarge it too much, it can become blurry. If so, you can fix it with Remini or AVAide Image Upscaler.

Can I use these photo retouch apps on both iPhone and Android?

Yes, all the tools mentioned before work across platforms, but some features can be different on iOS or Android.

By Jane Pineda on Oct 10, 2026