It’s free and initially available on iOS; later this year, an Android version will be released.
Many of the design, editing, and generative AI features available in the desktop version of Photoshop are also included in the robust new mobile app from Adobe. According to Adobe, the app is currently available worldwide on iPhone and will be accessible on Android “later this year.” It interfaces with Photoshop on the web to enable creatives to work on projects across different devices.
Since 2010, a condensed version of the well-known editing program Photoshop Express has been accessible on mobile devices; however, according to Adobe, the new app is more robust and offers a wider variety of well-known Photoshop features. While Photoshop Express is comparable to more conventional mobile editing apps like Picsart and Facetune, the new Photoshop app appears more akin to the desktop experience. The two apps have some features in common, such as tools for resizing, masking, adjusting contrast and saturation, and removing objects or blemishes.
Numerous Photoshop editing capabilities, such as the Spot Healing Brush, Tap Select, layers, selects, masks, and tools for compositing and mixing photos together, are available to users of the free edition. Additionally, it offers Adobe Stock materials, incorporates Adobe’s Firefly-powered Generative Fill and Generative Expand AI capabilities, and natively connects with Creative Cloud applications like Adobe Express, Lightroom, and Fresco.
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A $7.99 monthly or $69.99 yearly subscription is required to use other Photoshop tools like Object Select, Magic Wand, Content Aware Fill, Clone Stamp, and the Remove Tool. Along with access to Generate Similar and Reference Image on the web-based platform, this premium Photoshop Mobile and Web Plan also comes with advanced blend modes for regulating transparency, color effects, styles, and light/dark adjustment choices.
Premium access to Photoshop on mobile will be available to all customers who currently have a paid Photoshop plan. Adobe has not disclosed any plans for Photoshop Express, which still offers a more reasonably priced $4.99 monthly premium tier membership.
If Adobe intends to offer both apps at the same time, it will be confusing, especially because it also has another mobile editing platform with the same name, Adobe Express. However, it’s a welcome and expected move to restart Photoshop on mobile devices. Photoshop Express never felt quite like Photoshop, even if it was helpful for making quick tweaks and creating graphics for social media.
Downloads for Photoshop Express on iOS have also been falling, and there’s a growing number of mobile editing apps to compete with these days. Canva has been steadily adding to its own suite of generative AI editing tools, and Apple completed its acquisition of Pixelmator’s Mac and iOS apps earlier this month.
Although the new Photoshop iPhone app’s user interface is still heavily optimized for mobile, allowing you to drag and select tools with your finger, the overall experience is more suited for creative professionals and time-consuming design tasks. Correction, February 25th: This story previously stated that Apple, not Adobe, had acquired Pixelmator earlier this month.
