To turn them off - and to have the video editor, plus more tools, filters and content - you have to buy a premium subscription for $11.99 for a single month or $55.99/year. However, ads for PicsArt premium pop up frequently (and annoyingly) in the middle of editing processes. In-app tutorials are easy to follow, and challenges prompt users to submit their creations based on a specific type of edit or a theme winners are selected by community vote. You can use Remix Chat to share and collaboratively edit photos with the 150 million monthly users of PicsArt, or only with your friends. The full-featured camera module includes pre-capture effects and photo tools.

In addition, you can quickly select or create fun stickers, combine your pictures into highly customizable collages, add artistic text and share. It provides lots of creative control, excellent image-editing tools and a large variety of attractive filters. PicsArt is our top pick of the best photo editing apps, because it's fun, easy to use, yet covers just about all the bases for consumer mobile photography.

But there's a big caveat: The videos, which are capped at 60 minutes, *must* be square-shaped.PicsArt (Image credit: Future/Sally Grotta) (opens in new tab) Photos and videos can be mixed and matched, and you can capture media live or tap into your photo library to create a video. The app has a simple interface: a big “Hold-to-Record” button, a square-shaped live camera preview in the middle, and a variety of animated elements you can add at the top. But with its pre-built animations and an easy drag-and-drop timeline, the new app makes vacation/home video creation seem less daunting and more enjoyable. I've taken a gazillion hours of GoPro/iPhone footage that have never seen the light of day, because of the headache of sorting and editing the video. The free app, set to launch in April, is more customizable than the automatically generated slideshows made by the Photos app’s “Memories” tab, but less complicated than iMovie. It’s the Goldilocks of Apple’s video editing apps – not too simplistic, but not too complicated either. Apple’s adding another mobile video editor to the mix: Clips.

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