Who wants to be photographed with your Smartphone and quickly share beautiful results to share, you need effective Tools for image editing. DW Digital life tests the most popular Apps. This week, the Selfie-camera-App “Retrica”.
“Retrica” is there, both for iOS and for Android as a free Download – of course, with the seemingly inevitable in-App purchases.
The App has numerous features to Create your photos, Videos, GIFs, and collages. In addition to a large selection of real-time effect filters, the App also has stamps, stickers, Doodles, ready for cutting options and texts to the embellishment. Also numerous Layouts for image collages, there are – so you can easily directly from the App send Designs to create. With the built-in camera up to 15 seconds of Video recording.
Unfortunately, the archived images in the Android Version, when you are editing with fewer features than the iOS Version available. In return, the App runs on iOS, in part, is not particularly fluent, and crashes sometimes. The quality of the results suffers when you Use some of the Filter considerably, for example, lettering to be illegible.
Retrica offers its “Retricans”, as Fans of the application call, a lot of filters and trial opportunities. If you have fun Editing and Selfies are your thing, you could Retrica for you to be interesting. Unfortunately, many of the filters are only available with the expensive Premium Version (5,49 per month/22,99 per year) and with a seven-day trial version available. In our opinion, this is too expensive, particularly because Standard Tools such as exposure or saturation, is missing completely.
Top 3 Pros:
- Up to 200 beautiful Filter
- Selection of stickers, Doodles, cuttings and texts
- Specially optimized for Selfies
Top 3 Cons:
- For Android users: less editing options than with iOS
- For iOS user: App not running
- Expensive Premium Version
Price: Free iOS and Android / Premium Version with a monthly payment: 5,49€ (annually: 22,99€)
Manufacturer: Retrica Inc.