About This App
  • Category

    Video Players & Editors

  • Installs

    1M+

  • Content Rating

    Rated for 3+

  • Developer Email

    [email protected]

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Editor Reviews

Retake AI: Face & Photo Editor is a photography app designed to help you enhance and edit your portraits and selfies. I downloaded it from Google Play a few months ago after seeing some impressive before-and-after shots online. The app is free to install and has been around for a few years, available on both Google Play and the App Store. It has millions of downloads, which gave me confidence to try it. You don't need to create an account to start using most features, which is great for quick edits. While the core app is free, there are optional in-app purchases for premium filters and tools, and you'll see some ads in the free version, but they aren't too intrusive.

Using Retake AI is pretty straightforward. I mainly use it to touch up selfies before sharing them on social media. After you install the app and open a photo, you get options like 'Face Retouch' and 'Body Reshape.' The AI does a lot of the work automatically. For instance, the 'Skin Smoother' tool evens out skin tone with one tap. A simple tip from a regular user: always use the 'Before/After' slider to compare your edits. It's easy to overdo it, especially with smoothing or eye enlarging features. I also like using the 'Relight' feature to fix dark photos. The app saves your edited photos directly to your gallery, and the whole process is fast, which I appreciate when I'm in a hurry.

Compared to other popular photo editors like FaceApp or AirBrush, I find myself choosing Retake AI more often. The main reason is the balance it strikes. FaceApp has powerful AI features too, but I find Retake AI's interface simpler and less cluttered for everyday touch-ups. AirBrush is also good, but sometimes its effects can look less natural. Retake AI feels like it gives me enough control without being overwhelming. For quick fixes—removing blemishes, brightening teeth, or subtly reshaping a jawline—this app gets the job done fast. It doesn't have as many crazy filters as some apps, but for making my photos look better in a natural way, it's my go-to choice on Google Play.

Features

  • 🤖 The core AI-powered retouching is fantastic. Tools for smoothing skin, removing blemishes, and whitening teeth work with one tap and look very natural compared to manual brushing in other apps.
  • ✨ The 'Body Reshape' and 'Face Reshape' features are surprisingly subtle and effective. You can slim faces or adjust body proportions easily, which is a step above the basic slimming tools in many similar free apps.
  • 💡 The 'Relight' feature is a standout. It can dramatically improve a poorly lit portrait by simulating different light sources, something that often requires a separate, more complex app.
  • 📁 It handles saving and exporting very well. Edited photos are saved at good quality without heavy compression, which is a common issue I've found with other free editing apps on Google Play.

Pros

  • 👍 The AI skin smoothing is top-tier. It removes imperfections while keeping skin texture, unlike some rivals that make faces look like plastic.
  • 👍 The one-tap enhancements for eyes and teeth are brilliant. They save so much time compared to similar apps where you have to manually select areas.
  • 👍 The app is very responsive. Editing and applying effects happens almost instantly, which is faster than many other AI photo editors I've tried.
  • 👍 The free version offers a lot of value. You can do substantial edits without paying, whereas apps like FaceApp lock more core features behind a paywall.

Cons

  • 👎 The free version has ads that can interrupt the workflow. Some competing apps offer an ad-free experience for a one-time fee, which I'd prefer.
  • 👎 Advanced features like background change or style transfer are behind a subscription. Other apps sometimes offer these as one-time purchases.

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