BEST APPS FOR EDITING INSTAGRAM PICTURES

Best app for editing Instagram pictures, VSCO Cam is an award winning photo editor with an incredibly sleek and intuitive user interface. It’s the best way to edit your photos and share them with your friends on Instagram, Facebook and other social networks. Whether you’re looking for a specific, preset filter to enhance your photos or you want to fine tune your images using the advanced manual controls, VSCO Cam gives you complete creative control over all aspects of your photography.

BEST APPS FOR EDITING INSTAGRAM PICTURES

Before and after using Lightroom presets to edit photos for Instagram
Before and After with one of our presets called “Mt. Cook”
To make our edits even quicker and easier we designed our own Lightroom Presets (which are like custom photo filters). They’re made to work with the free Lightroom app and make your photos pop in 1-click. Then you can use the app to quickly make any adjustments to the edit so it’s perfect for that specific photo

You can check out our Mobile Presets here and see our editing tutorials on our preset Instagram @lhto_presets!
Before and after using Love Hard Travel Often Lightroom presets to edit photos for Instagram
Before and After with one of our presets called “Tuscany”
TouchRetouch
The TouchRetouch app is a godsend when it comes to removing unwanted objects or people in your photos! I’m not sure why we were so late to the game on this, but until recently we had to use our laptops and Photoshop ($$$!) to edit people and objects out. Not the most fun process when you just want a quick edit!

Editing an image in TouchRetouch, one of the best editing apps for Instagram
TouchRetouch home screen

A few days ago we edited people out on a patterned staircase as well as edited out a piece of furniture using TouchRetouch, and it was pretty darn impressive! It’s only $1.99 in the Apple app store, and worth every penny. (We also have tutorials showing this app on @lhto_presets)
Sliidr
Have you seen those carousel posts on IG where there’s one landscape image split across two photos (like photos 2 & 3 in the carousel below)? If so, it was likely done in the Sliidr app ($0.99 in the app store)! Because splitting landscape shots like this is its primary purpose, the app is super simple. However, if you want to play around with different types of posts it’s a nice one to use to add variety in your feed!
Lens Distortions
Idaho hot springs with a lens flare added using the Lens Distortions app, one of the best editing apps for Instagram
Lens Distortions is an awesome app for adding lens flares into your photos without using Photoshop! There are dozens of different lens flares to use and you can adjust them for the setting as you see fit.
PicsArt
Photo inside a hand holding an iPhone, editing using the PicsArt app
PicsArt has taken the place of Photoshop in my editing flow for quite a few things! It’s so great for adding things into your images (think fireworks, flowers, leaves, etc) since they have a huge stock image library. The app is also great for layering photos on top of each other to combine the two (like how in the above I added a different photo to the iPhone screen).
There’s actually so much you can do to get creative with this app – I definitely recommend playing around with it!

Tezza App
Swinging in front of mountains with a dusty photo and a caption “swing life away” – edited with the Tezza App
Tezza App is great for both editing photos and videos! It includes a small library of filters if you don’t want to use Lightroom, and allows you to adjust quite a few of the settings. The real reason we downloaded it, though, was for the “dust” effect and the yellow subtitles you see tons of creators using.
Best Video Editing Apps for Instagram
InShot – our #1 video editing app for Instagram!
If we’re being honest, learning video was the most daunting part of becoming travel bloggers. All the programs seemed super complex (& pricey!!) and we had no idea where to begin. And then we found this app – InShot (which is free in the app store)! GAME CHANGER!
Editing a video in InShot, one of the best video editing apps for Instagram
InShot editor view
You can make video montages, cut, slice, reverse, change the speed, etc. all in a super intuitive app! You can also change the aspect ratio of videos and add transitions, music, filters & text. Oh, and you can also use photos too if you want to make a slideshow of sorts.
Whether we’re stitching together a quick TikTok or IG video (below)
Or editing a video for a client (like below), InShot is our go to.
One thing InShot is not the best at, in our opinion, is filters. We find that making adjustments/filters in the app causes a degradation of quality, so now we first edit the colors in Video LUT or Creator Hub (see below) and then import to InShot to put the whole video together!

Video LUT
Video LUT is like Lightroom but for videos! It gives you the same control over the colors in your videos and allows you to make individual adjustments (instead of just applying an overall filter). They also have built-in video presets to use, and some creators also offer Video LUT presets to purchase just like Lightroom.
Editing a video in Video LUT, one of the best video editing apps for Instagram
Video LUT editor view
We’re admittedly pretty new to the Video LUT train, but it’s the one of the only video color editing apps we’ve found that doesn’t seem to degrade the quality. Plus, if you want to post both photos and videos in your Instagram feed and keep the colors looking consistent, this is a great tool!

A couple downsides of Video LUT, though, are that it’s $4.99 to buy and can be a little tricky to ramp up on. So before buying it we’d suggest really thinking about how much you’ll use it and how much time you’re willing to spend learning the app features.

VSCO
VSCO video editing app
VSCO is an editing app that’s been around a long time but their video editing keeps getting better and better! There are SO many presets and effects to choose from and the app is super intuitive (a lot easier to use than Video LUT above). It also allows you to have a really good amount of control over the adjustments after applying a preset (including the HSL tab!). Overall, if you’re looking for an easy video color grading app, VSCO would get my vote.
VSCO is a subscription-based app and it’s $19.99 for the whole year. Given the fact that is has hundreds of pre-loaded video and photo presets and many other fun ways to create, it’s definitely worth it.

Tezza App
Kissing by a Christmas tree in a vintage video edited with the Tezza App
Like I mentioned above, the Tezza App can be used for editing both videos and photos. For me, I love the video presets and the effects you can add to videos! You can add dust, subtitles, frames, and other effects that make videos super fun and vintage. Plus you can turn a normal video into a stop motion video in the app!

IMGplay
If you want to create your own GIF (like the one in the carousel below), IMGplay is going to be your best friend. This app makes it sooo simple to make a GIF from your photos. All you have to do is take a series of photos and them import them into the app. Then you can change the speed of the GIF, canvas size, etc.
When you’re done you’re given the option to save it in a video or GIF format (highly recommend video for IG posting!), choose how many times it loops, and determine what quality you’d like. It’s so simple and can really add a lot of fun to your content! Plus, it’s FREE in the app store!

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