Editor's Review
Half a billion installs put BeautyPlus among the most-used photo editors on Android, and the shape of it is familiar enough: a selfie camera that applies retouching live, plus an editor for pictures already sitting on the phone. Skin smoothing, reshaping, blemish removal, teeth and eye adjustments, makeup overlays and a large filter library make up the core.
Pixocial has kept extending it over the years, so alongside the retouch tools sit AI portrait styles, background removal and replacement, collage layouts, video editing with the same effects applied, and templates aimed at social posts. The camera side is the real differentiator, because seeing an effect before the shutter fires beats repairing the photo afterwards, and that is why a lot of people keep it installed.
A 4.55 rating reflects a tool that does the job asked of it. The friction is commercial rather than technical. A large slice of the interesting features sit behind the paid tier, upgrade prompts appear often, and the free experience carries advertising between edits. There is also the question every beauty app raises: heavy-handed defaults flatten skin texture into something plastic, and keeping an edit looking like a photograph of a person takes deliberate restraint.
Features
Live retouching in the camera before the shutter fires
Skin smoothing, blemish removal and facial reshaping
Large filter and makeup effect library
AI portrait styles and background replacement
Collage layouts and social post templates
Video editing using the same beauty effects
Standard editing basics such as crop, rotate and colour adjustment
Pros
Effects preview in the camera, not only after the shot
Very broad toolset for something free to install
Handles stills and video with one set of effects
Cons
The most interesting tools are reserved for the paid tier
Frequent upgrade prompts throughout the free experience
Advertising interrupts editing when you have not subscribed
Default beauty settings are strong enough to look artificial
