Taking great photos for your social media accounts is a must if you want to get new followers. People love great photos and when you discover new content to post, you can add your content to a variety of great photo apps to get the best message out of them.

The following apps offer a variety of different frames, filters, and tools to enhance your photo. They can be used alone or together. In some cases, you can use a filter in one app and then the text tool in another to send your message with your photo. Your goal is to take a great photo, write your business name or a short product description on the photo, and get as many people to share it. That’s why you need all of the following apps in your directory – it keeps your content fresh and unique.

Instagram – While Instagram doesn’t have the most elaborate camera, it does have a variety of filters to enhance your photos. The best thing about Instagram is that you can post your photos directly to your followers. Unlike Facebook, you can reach a wide new audience by using hashtags. For example, if you add the hashtag #beautiful below your post on Instagram, other users can search through #beautiful and see your post. This is a great way to get new followers and likes for your post.

You can also search for other users who are using the same hashtags as you, or create your own individual hashtags so your followers can find what you’re posting. It’s more of a network tool than a camera, but that’s what makes it our top pick for the best small business photo app.

Enlight – While Instagram is free, Enlight is around $6.49 on the iTunes store. Cost aside, it’s a great app for altering photos to give them a cool twist. Enlight will do what a combination of other apps will do, so it’s handy to have without having to open a range of other apps. You can add text or filters, but you can also adjust the image by sharpening and decreasing or increasing shadows or highlights. Simply select one of the tools from the extensive menu and drag your finger from left to right to increase or decrease.

Enlighten is a photo adjustment suite at your fingertips. There are so many options for overlaying images and adding color to backgrounds to make images totally pop that you can’t pass it up as a tool to help you boost your social media presence and deliver great photos for your website.

Adding text is one of the best features of this app. This is the tool you need to write your business name, web address or hashtag on your photos. Alternatively, you can write a cool quote on your photo as they have a high engagement rate and will boost your profile.

Camera+: This app is the ‘enhanced’ version of the iPhone’s own camera app. Another paid product (around $3.79), Camera+ has additional features to the Camera app that claim to take sharper, clearer, and overall better photos than its free counterpart. If you are taking product photos for your website, this app offers additional stabilization and clarity. Other additional features include effects, lightbox, and separate exposure and focus.

Camera+ is the upgrade you need for a small cost. It will help you improve the quality of the photos you are taking to give it that extra touch of professionalism.

Afterlight – This app costs $1.29 from the iTunes store with in-app purchases. In-app purchases include different filters and frames. You can pay an extra $1.29 for these filters, but you don’t need them. Afterlight is an easy-to-use photo adjustment app that allows you to quickly brighten or colorize your photos by selecting the tool and then shifting the adjustment bar left or right depending on your preference. So instead of applying a preset filter, you have a bit more control over how you want your photo to look.

There are also some great frame and filter additions to give your photo a 70s vibe, like turning your photo into a letter of the alphabet or applying a dust or light filter that makes the photo look like it was taken with an old camera. Very cool.

Waterlogue/Brushstroke – While these are different apps, they offer a similar service and are both worth the money on their own.

Basically, Waterlogged takes your photographic masterpiece and turns it into a watercolor painting. There are a variety of different options for exactly what kind of watercolor you’d like and it’s an interesting twist on the standard photography app.

Brushstroke offers a similar premise to Waterlogue except that it turns your photo into a painting using acrylics and oils. Get ready to create a work of art where you can select your painting style and even the type of canvas you used. The canvas gives the photo texture as if you had painted it yourself. Another great feature of this app is that you can select ‘send’ which allows you to send it directly to a canvas print shop and hang it on your wall. But, for business purposes, this is another great app for creating engaging website content and social media posts.

Using any of these apps allows you to upload your photo to a variety of social media platforms or simply save them to photos to use wherever you want.