This retro video app is so good it was used by Malik Bendjelloul in his Academy Award-winning film Searching for Sugar Man. The improved cameras in the iPhone 4S and new iPad have helped to spawn some great video applications, and this is one of the best. Think of it as the Instagram of video, applying retro filters and added style. Excellent value for money.
Adobe Photoshop Express
Photoshop on the mobile and tablet just keeps getting better. Now with in-app purchases and even more effects and tweaks, this is a formidable photo-editing app. The base application is free and comes with plenty of features for the budding photographer.
iPhoto
Apple, unsurprisingly, knows how to do it best when it comes to its own products, and iPhoto for iOS is still the best way to manage snaps on your iPhone or iPad. With a clean and easy-to-understand user interface, plenty of photo-editing options and a great album-management system, no Apple device is complete without it. The app also has some great sharing capabilities and iCloud support.
Repix
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
A well-designed little app that lets you easily use brushes to add effects to your photos and change the way they look completely, turning them into everything from oil paintings to movie posters.
Thomson Reuters’ Wider Image
There’s plenty of inspiration for photographers in this app from news agency Reuters. Explore world-class news photography in high resolution on your iPad.
Photo 365
This is all about daily uploads: posting an image for each day of the year, then viewing events around the world via the calendar. Share images to Twitter and Facebook within the app, and view friends’ efforts.
Diptic
Despite being fairly self-explanatory, this is a useful application. Putting together photos on the iPhone and iPad isn’t actually that easy: Diptic solves the problem by doing it for you, letting you combine multiple pictures into one image.
Touchnote postCards
This app lets you share any photo you have taken with your iPhone or iPad. The difference is that Touchnote turns your snap into a real postcard and sends it to family and friends.
Frontback
Free; iPhone and iPad
It’s billed as the new Instagram, but Frontback has an added dimension: take a picture of yourself with the front camera and another of what you’re seeing with the back camera, and then share your two-way snaps.
Pixable
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
The average social networker now has access to thousands of pictures in their network. Pixable connects with your social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to bring you a customised inbox of the most shared images between friends.
Action Movie FX
Created by Bad Robot, the production company of Star Trek director JJ Abrams, this app lets you add action movie-style special effects to your own videos. Want to take your skiing holiday footage and turn yourself into James Bond? This is the app for you.
This is still one of the best applications around, with a vast number of users, an easy-to-use interface and great photo-editing effects. Share Polaroid-style photos between friends and followers.
Facetune
£1.99; iPhone and iPad
Perfect for cleaning up those holiday snaps, Facetune lets you apply effects to any pictures to give blemish-free skin and banish those bags under your eyes .
Video Star
Free; iPhone and iPad
Lets you create your own music video with a huge variety of special effects, some of which are in-app purchases. It even lets you use great-quality green-screen effects.
Comic Life
£2.99; iPhone and iPad
An easy way to create your own comic books from your snaps, complete with wacky fonts and speech bubbles.
Camera+
Acting as a one-stop shop for photo-sharing and editing, this app is still something of an iPhone classic. You can send pics to everything from Facebook to Flickr.
Paper Camera
£1.49 iPhone and iPad; £1.19 Android
Puts a superb paper filter onto your pictures and video, making them look uncannily like A-Ha’s iconic Take On Me video.
YouTube
The YouTube app for iPhone and Android has had several major updates recently so it’s now slicker than ever. It will even send videos to the big screen via Google’s Chromecast dongle.
Photosynth
The best panorama-creation app, it lets you upload and share pictures to Facebook and Twitter.
Everyday
Reminds you to take a snapshot of yourself every day, then stitches together a string of images to create a video.
Toontastic
Create your own cartoons â€" from story-boarding stage to animation âˆ'in this fun iPad app, which will keep children and parents occupied for hours.
PhotoToaster
This incredibly full-featured photo-editing application boasts more than 60 effects plus 80 one-click settings.
snap chat
Free; iPhone, iPad and Android
Experience a totally new way to share photos or video with friends. Add captions and send your images to some or all of your contacts. They’ll only have a few seconds to view them before the snapshots disappear, unless they take a screenshot of course.
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