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After releasing Photoshop for iPhone in February, the promised Android version is here.
Credit: Ryan Whitwam
Adobe has spent years releasing mobile apps that aren't Photoshop, and now it's finally giving people what they want.
, real Photoshop. After releasing a mobile version of Photoshop on iPhone earlier this year, the promised Android release has finally arrived. You can download it right now in beta, and it's free to use for the duration of the beta period.
The mobile app includes a reasonably broad selection of tools from the desktop version of Adobe's iconic image editor, including masks, clone stamp, layers, transformations, cropping, and an array of generative AI tools. The app looks rather barebones when you first start using it, but the toolbar surfaces features as you select areas and manipulate layers.
Depending on how you count, this is Adobe's third attempt to do Photoshop on phones. So far, it appears to be the most comprehensive, though. It's much more capable than Photoshop Express or the ancient Photoshop Touch app, which Adobe unpublished almost a decade ago. If you're not familiar with the ins and outs of Photoshop, the new app comes with a robust collection of tutorials—just tap the light bulb icon to peruse them.
Photoshop on Android makes a big deal about Adobe's generative AI features, which let you easily select subjects or backgrounds, remove objects, and insert new content based on a text prompt. This works about as well as the desktop version of Photoshop because it's relying on the same cloud service to do the heavy lifting. This would have been impressive to see in a mobile app a year ago, but OEM features like Google's Magic Editor have since become more widespread.
The mobile app has some of the same generative AI tools as the desktop version. Credit: Adobe
It would be unreasonable to expect the mobile app to include all the features of a desktop client, but there are still some strange omissions. There are no filters, for instance, and you can only crop images by ratio rather than using pixels or other dimensions. Content-aware fill is also listed as "coming soon." Perhaps most annoyingly, you have to log in to use the app. That's not surprising, though, given that Adobe is going to charge for the app.
Adobe has not indicated how the eventual subscription will work. If it's anything like the mobile version of Lightroom, you'll be able to access a subset of features in the app for free. We'd wager all the generative and smart selection features that cost Adobe money to run will be locked behind a Creative Cloud subscription, which starts at $20 per month (after a recent increase) but includes the desktop versions of Photoshop and Lightroom.
We also don't know how long the beta will last. If you're interested in trying Photoshop for Android, you probably don't want to dilly-dally. It should work on most newer phones—you need to be running Android 11 or higher with at least 6GB of RAM. However, Adobe says the app runs best with 8GB of memory or more. The app itself needs about 600MB of storage space.
Credit: Ryan Whitwam
Adobe has spent years releasing mobile apps that aren't Photoshop, and now it's finally giving people what they want.
, real Photoshop. After releasing a mobile version of Photoshop on iPhone earlier this year, the promised Android release has finally arrived. You can download it right now in beta, and it's free to use for the duration of the beta period.The mobile app includes a reasonably broad selection of tools from the desktop version of Adobe's iconic image editor, including masks, clone stamp, layers, transformations, cropping, and an array of generative AI tools. The app looks rather barebones when you first start using it, but the toolbar surfaces features as you select areas and manipulate layers.
Depending on how you count, this is Adobe's third attempt to do Photoshop on phones. So far, it appears to be the most comprehensive, though. It's much more capable than Photoshop Express or the ancient Photoshop Touch app, which Adobe unpublished almost a decade ago. If you're not familiar with the ins and outs of Photoshop, the new app comes with a robust collection of tutorials—just tap the light bulb icon to peruse them.
Photoshop on Android makes a big deal about Adobe's generative AI features, which let you easily select subjects or backgrounds, remove objects, and insert new content based on a text prompt. This works about as well as the desktop version of Photoshop because it's relying on the same cloud service to do the heavy lifting. This would have been impressive to see in a mobile app a year ago, but OEM features like Google's Magic Editor have since become more widespread.
The mobile app has some of the same generative AI tools as the desktop version. Credit: Adobe
It would be unreasonable to expect the mobile app to include all the features of a desktop client, but there are still some strange omissions. There are no filters, for instance, and you can only crop images by ratio rather than using pixels or other dimensions. Content-aware fill is also listed as "coming soon." Perhaps most annoyingly, you have to log in to use the app. That's not surprising, though, given that Adobe is going to charge for the app.
Adobe has not indicated how the eventual subscription will work. If it's anything like the mobile version of Lightroom, you'll be able to access a subset of features in the app for free. We'd wager all the generative and smart selection features that cost Adobe money to run will be locked behind a Creative Cloud subscription, which starts at $20 per month (after a recent increase) but includes the desktop versions of Photoshop and Lightroom.
We also don't know how long the beta will last. If you're interested in trying Photoshop for Android, you probably don't want to dilly-dally. It should work on most newer phones—you need to be running Android 11 or higher with at least 6GB of RAM. However, Adobe says the app runs best with 8GB of memory or more. The app itself needs about 600MB of storage space.
