Smile Photo Editor is a photo editing app designed to help you add and enhance smiles in your pictures. I've been using this app for a few months now, and it's become my go-to tool for fixing photos where someone wasn't smiling or their smile looked a bit off. The app launched a while back and you can find it on both Google Play and the App Store. I downloaded it from Google Play, and it has millions of installs, which made me feel confident about trying it. The best part is it's completely free to download and install. You don't even need to register or create an account to start using it, which I really appreciate for privacy and simplicity. There are some ads in the app, but they're not too intrusive, and I haven't felt the need to make any in-app purchases to enjoy the core features.

Using Smile Photo Editor is super straightforward. After you install the app, you just open it and pick a photo from your gallery. The main tool is the smile editor, where you can adjust the mouth to create a natural-looking smile. My tip is to use the 'auto-smile' feature first—it often does a great job with one tap. If it's not perfect, you can manually tweak the corners of the mouth and the teeth. I also like to use the other editing tools it has, like brightness and smooth skin, to make the whole photo look better after fixing the smile. It's become a habit for me to quickly run group photos through this app before sharing them, just to ensure everyone looks happy.

Compared to other similar apps, like Facetune or Adobe Photoshop Express, I choose Smile Photo Editor because it does one thing really well. Those other apps are powerful, but they can be overwhelming and sometimes expensive. This app is focused just on smiles, so it's simpler and faster for my needs. When I just want to fix a smile without learning complex editing, this is the app I open. It feels more lightweight and user-friendly than the bigger names in the photo editing genre on Google Play.

• 😊 The core smile editor is fantastic. You can transform a neutral or frowning mouth into a genuine smile with sliders for width, height, and teeth visibility. It feels more specialized and easier to control than the general 'liquify' tool in apps like Retouch.
• 😊 It offers a 'teeth whitening' feature alongside the smile adjustment. This one-two punch is really effective because a bright smile looks more natural. Many other editors treat these as separate, more complicated steps.
• 😊 The app includes basic photo enhancement tools (like filters, crop, and adjust). This means I can do final touch-ups without leaving the app, whereas with some single-purpose apps, I'd have to use another editor afterward.
• 😊 The interface is very simple and guided. For someone who isn't a pro editor, this makes the process less intimidating compared to feature-packed apps like PicsArt, where finding the right tool can be confusing.

• 👍 It excels at its single purpose: creating natural-looking smiles. The results often look more believable than forced smiles edited in other apps.
• 👍 Being completely free to download and use its main features is a huge plus. Many competitors lock core editing behind a paywall.
• 👍 The speed is a major strength. You can install, open, edit, and save a photo in under a minute, which is faster than loading a heavy app like Lightroom.

• 👎 The ads can sometimes pop up at inconvenient moments. A popular app like Snapseed handles ads less disruptively.
• 👎 The manual controls, while good, could be a bit more precise for fine-tuning very subtle smiles, which some premium apps offer.