Best 10 beauty cameras in the App Store
The beauty industry has gone to the next level with beauty camera apps that can remove your skin’s blemishes with a swipe. You can also perform miracles on your iPhone selfies like sharpening the jawline and flattening your tummy with the host of beauty cameras available in the app store. Some of them are terrible, some are good and some are awesome.
In this article, we dig deep to analyze the best beauty camera apps and list the Top 10 in the game. Read on.
- Score: 4.8 from 71.4k ratings
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
With this incredible beauty camera, you can actually animate your selfies and turn them into selfie videos, and adding animated effects. The amazing features of Magic Brush, Blender, and Layers let you unleash the artist inside you. Choose from the tonnes of shapes and colors wherever you touch. Go flaunt your coolest selfie on insta but do not overdo, else you may end up looking flakey.
Facetune
- Score: 4.9 from 141.5 k ratings
- Price: $3.99
Facetune calls itself the original selfie editor and it has good reasons. Its powerful features help you reshape your jawline, heighten cheekbones, change hair color and add artistic touches to make your photo your own. And while you are performing miraculous transformations on your selfie, you can compare it with the original picture at every step. The app is already a bang for your buck but the makers have also released facetune2 for free which kind of makes it a little irrelevant.
- Score: 4.7 from 33.7 k ratings
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
Retrica is one of the most popular and most used beauty cameras on the iPhone. The app is loaded with powerful features like the real-time filter for perfect selfies and live videos for amazing flexibility. The doodle and text options allow you to enhance your selfie with quotes and drawings while the GIFs and a huge collection of stickers add another layer to it. The live videos. The beauty camera doubles up as a social media platform through which you can directly share your selfies on Facebook. The ads are a bit nagging though.
- Score: 4.8 from 213.8 k ratings
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
More than 800 million people have downloaded this advanced beauty camera on their iPhones because of the wonders it can do to your picture. With over 30 tools, this app can help you remove your acne, wrinkles and other skin flaws, it can make your smile brighter and even whiten your teeth. All of this while keeping it natural. Other powerful features make you look taller or change your hair color. You can also try trendy makeup. There are some bugs after the latest updates which the developers must fix immediately.
- Score: 4.6 from 18.7 k ratings
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
The retouch and reshape tool makes this beauty camera stand out amongst the rest. With a clean and clutter-free simple interface, you can easily adjust the background, apply colorful filters and even do real-time makeup. The app’s flexibility allows you to adjust the lip color, get rid of some nasty spots on the face, and let the skin have the raw glow. A little shortcoming is its inability to save images with a transparent background.
- Score: 4.7 from 96.3 k ratings
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
Camera 360 is a pioneer in beauty cameras and has stayed at the forefront of the selfie game. With its original face retouching feature, you can simply wipe away all the undesirable stuff like wrinkles or blemishes from your face while keeping the natural look. The 21 micro-adjustments of this ‘Annual Featured App’ help you reshape your face and body to perfection. However, many users prefer the manual modes of the old version over the auto mode of the latest one.
- Score: 3.8 from 673.9 k ratings
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
Not exactly a beauty cam but this is one of the world’s most popular apps amongst selfie lovers. Basically, a social media platform that has rich beautifying features. It allows you to reimagine your world by adding some fairytale characters. You can also exchange daily picture stories with your real friends. The icing on the cake is the free cloud storage to store your memories but the same feature makes it a bit slow to load.
- Score: 3.2 from 117 ratings
- Price: $2.99 with in-app purchases
With the tagline ‘Frame the moments’, this iPhone beauty camera specializes in group selfies and macro pictures. With the ingenious AIRSNAP feature, you can trigger the camera phone from a distance, standing in the group. You can then spruce it up with image enhancement tools. Issues in connecting the two iOS devices are the cause for its low popularity.
- Score: 4.1 from 131k ratings
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
Used by over 100 million people, this app has all the bells and whistles of a regular beauty camera but it stands out for its unique weekly updates. Every week, new filters and styles are added to the existing arsenal of makeup tools. No wonder, in spite of frequent crashing, it has become the go-to app for selfie lovers wanting a bold new look or funky hair color.
- Score: 3.8 from 354 ratings
- Price: Free
With dozens of filters and stickers, this app is perfect to flaunt your jaw-dropping selfies on social media. With the built-in edit and upload feature, you can directly upload your selfies on FB or insta. To top it up, the beauty camera has stickers for every season and every occasion. Users have frequently said that this works best on iPad rather than iPhone. So a little limitation there.
Summary
Beauty isn’t skin deep and beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, but it doesn’t hurt to have fun with beauty cameras when the technology is available. Most apps have some common features of skin smoothening and some unique features like body shaping.
Choose the one that fits your style and your device. And while you are at it, you can give a great professional look to your selfie videos with a video editing app like Filmora for Mobile (formerly FilmoraGo) . It is one of the best and most powerful editors for iOS.