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While we have covered several apps that let you apply filters to images in the past, today’s release is a little bit different.

Courtesy of Mike Rundle, you can now use Filters for iPhone , an app that’s basically a visual effects photo editor.

What’s intriguing about this offering is that none of the filters are locked behind a paywall of in-app purchases. It's a sleek filter editor that brings over 800 ways to transform your photos.

Using Filters App

Filters has a clean and simple user interface with vibrant popup menus contrasting against a black background. This helps the user focus on the image and see how a filter looks on a photo, as well as preview adjustments.

While the menu icons have no labels, the user can understand what he/she is getting into courtesy of the recognizable icon glyphs. The app also presents different animations when the user is accessing different menu items, which is a great touch.

Upon launching the app, there is a short tutorial dictating how the app works. After swiping the few screens, you can edit the first demo image. The polaroid icon in the top left can be tapped to import an existing image or access the photo library. While you can’t take a new photo directly from within the app, the camera app is just a swipe away from the CC.

Filters has tools in 3 categories; adjustments, overlays, and filters. There are over 800 filters and overlay types, including vintage, dramatic, cool, warm, texture, color and light leaks. Filters enables users to apply as many effects on the images as they like. Also, apart from the basic image adjustment options, such as contrast, saturation, brightness, temperature, and exposure, Filters has multi-effect adjustments – Smart Fade, Color Boost, Shine, Luna and Intimidate.

After you’ve tweaked the image, tap and hold on the image to compare the original image and the edited one. The app also supports multi-touch features to zoom in and out during the edits. The ‘revert’ button can be used to start over. And when you’re satisfied with the results, you can tap on the icon showing a paper airplane to save the result to the device, send it to Instagram, or launch it in another app.

Final thoughts

The developer has done a great job, giving iPhone users an app that’s easy to navigate and has over 800 filters. So if you enjoy applying filters to photos, and are fed up of paying for in-app purchases, this is the app that should be on your device.

You can download Filters for iPhone from the App Store for $0.99. Let us know if you give it a try and feel free to leave comments.

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