Fun Camera Apps for Android

Taking photographs and sharing them is a snap with your Android device. With these quirky photo apps you can make that experience even more fun.

Use Pixlr-o-matic to a give even the most mundane of photographs a professional touch.  Pixlr-o-matic offers three steps to enhance your images – effects, overlays and borders. There are over 100 effects to change the tone and lighting of your image, 280 overlays to add special effects like raindrops, scratches, glitter etc and almost 200 different borders. Combined together, this free app offers over 25,000 different finishes, all through a well-designed and easy to use interface.

PicsSay is a popular app, which, as the name implies, makes your pics “speak up”, with balloons, titles, graphics, markers and more. You can color-correct your images and add effects like distortion or pixelation. The paid version of that app offers even more image editing capabilities like sharpen, red-eye removal, crop and straighten along with more effects and props to decorate your images.

Faced with a beautiful panoramic landscape, the average mobile cam user used to carefully take multiple photographs and painstakingly join them together on a computer. With Photaf Panorama, capture a 360 degree panorama in a single smooth movement. The app uses the phone’s orientation sensor to automatically handle taking the photographs and combining them into a seamless panoramic view. You can then upload the photograph into Facebook, straight from the app.

Doodle Cam is a fun camera app for Android to turn the world around you into a doodle. It has six different doodle effects including pencil, fineliner and chalk and four quality levels for each effect. You can preview the effects in real-time, before you snap the picture.

Camera Illusion is a free, ad-supported app that allows you to apply filters, effects, masks and borders in real-time. You can look through the camera on your Android phone, apply the filters and masks and see the world with your applied effects even before you snap a picture. The app offers a variety of filters for artistic, vintage or fun transformations. On top of this, you can apply the special effects like fish-eye, mosaic, mirror, fat, light tunnel etc. Finish off your picture with a photo frame. This app scores over similar apps of its ilk for its real-time preview and the interesting and unusual filters. You can save both the original image and the “effected” image to your phone and share them via email, multimedia message or Facebook.