Best Photography and Photo-Editing Apps for Students

Photo app lets students share learning by making anything talk

Bottom Line: With its playful premise and ease of use, ChatterPix can be a fun, creative app for elementary school classrooms.

Photo- and video-editing tool captures the world with a cartoon lens

Bottom Line: Engaging tool may require a focused prompt to get kids thinking about how to use the available options.

A few navigation flaws, but a fun way for kids to get creative

Bottom Line: Flexible tool with some frustrating but harmless navigation issues.

Easy photo-editing tool sparks creativity, teaches basic art techniques

Bottom Line: Experimenting with the tool's open-ended features involves kids in the creative process.

Create, collaborate and share with versatile design tool

Bottom Line: From interactive presentations to group collaboration to parent communication, Canva is a one-stop shop for a variety of classroom tasks.

Popular sharing site potentially useful as a classroom photo resource

Bottom Line: Make use of some incredible photographs in your classroom, but don't let students wander astray on the site.

Magical design tool extracts colors, patterns, and more from images

Bottom Line: The rare combo of "wow" factor and utility, this tool help students recognize and use the designed world around them.

Impressive photo-editing app focuses on compositing, blending imagery

Bottom Line: While it's tackling a slightly niche design need (blending, layering, compositing photos), Photoshop Mix is an incredible tool that makes these processes shockingly simple on mobile devices.

Top-notch photo editor helps perfect pics for creative projects

Bottom Line: This is a powerful, free creation tool from the industry leader in photo editing.

Impressive, easy-to-use tool for creating and editing images

Bottom Line: Sumopaint can spark students’ creativity, encourage them to be artistic, and provide them with new, image-related tech skills.

Stellar photo app promotes sharing, creativity but has risks

Bottom Line: An absorbing, endless gallery of images that's fun to browse but tricky for classroom use due to privacy and content concerns.

Create and share videos with cool effects, tons of language options

Bottom Line: This slick video creation app is fun, empowering, and accessible in lots of languages, but be careful with sharing.

Social media-aimed creation app has cool features, some pitfalls

Bottom Line: For students, there's a lot of fun to be had and valuable editing skills to be gained, but teachers will need to do all the instruction and deal with the ads.

Versatile, intuitive, engaging collage maker yields impressive designs

Bottom Line: With some privacy setup, and possibly upgrading to the paid version, this can be an excellent design tool for creating custom collages, teaching graphic design, layout, and photo editing.

Reliable photo editor built for design and social sharing

Bottom Line: A great, social media-friendly option for teaching teens design, layout, and photo editing, but the paid version is more competitive with other tools.

Popular photo tool behind "VSCO girl" phenomenon is worth a look

Bottom Line: It offers more polish than many competitors and is less of a popularity contest than Instagram.

Easy, amazing art with high-quality lessons, creation, and sharing

Bottom Line: ArtStudio provides exciting digital tools and helpful information for high school artists.

Free, full-featured photo and image editing app impressive, daunting

Bottom Line: It's a great choice for students and teachers with needs beyond simple tweaking, cropping, and color correction, but requires significant self-directed learning.

Top-notch photography app crams in professional functionality

Bottom Line: PicsArt Photo Editor & Collage offers teens and adults extensive, flexible, real-world functionality in a tight mobile package.

Extremely powerful photo editor will equally delight pros, amateurs

Bottom Line: It successfully walks the fine line of photo-editing features, offering satisfying experiences for those making quick edits and those crafting perfect images.