Here are my 4 favorite photo apps that will help you up your smartphone or iPhoneography game!

Download these apps and tools and you'll have great creative control over your phone images.

GoldenHour.One

GoldenHour.One is an app that tells you when a certain location is going to be at its most photogenic. It goes much more in depth than telling you the sunset/sunrise time. GoldenHour.One factors in things like weather, time, elevation, and the moon and sun’s cycles. It accesses your phone’s compass and map, too, so it can actually guide you to the perfect location and which direction to shoot. Want to plan a few days in advance? Yep! It can help with that, too. Bonus: it’s a well-designed, easy to use app!

Unfold

Unfold is an app designed to supercharge your Instagram Stories and add even more character to them. It’s a neat app that helps you add even more design flair (or minimalism) to your Stories by using its templates to help make your Stories beautiful. The power of Unfold, perhaps, lies in its simplicity! You may not always recognize Unfold templates as they come across your Stories, but you've definitely seen them. They're everywhere! From companies and brands with carefully curated Stories, to individuals who want to step up their game, Unfold templates are for everyone.

Lightroom Mobile

Some would argue Adobe Lightroom is the very best photo editing app for smartphones, and there are many reasons to agree! Because files and edits are stored in the cloud, you can access images from any device. This makes it easy to start working on your computer, then pick up where you left off using your phone or tablet. Some pros and hobbyists like the freedom RAW images offer, and very few apps support these larger, more complex files. Lightroom is one of the few that do, and it does so wonderfully. In Lightroom Mobile, batch editing saves you time by allowing you to copy and paste edits. You can then jump into each image and fine tune each image as needed. Lightroom was not only planned to be an editing tool, but also a photo organization hub. This is maybe one of the greatest benefits of the mobile version - your photos can be neatly organized in folders and albums!

Stop Motion

Stop Motion Studio is an amazing app to create awesome stop action movies with a whole bunch of unique features. It has a frame-by-frame editor, a timeline feature, and a sound editor. For the kids (or kids at heart), you can add mouth and eye shapes to LEGO figures to create facial expressions or have them speak!

Each of these photo apps are worth your while and will give you wonderful results on-the-go! What are your favorite photo apps?