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Best oil paint effect apps

1.Brushstroke

Paid: $3.99 with in-app purchases

Brushstroke is an app created by Code Organa, that's available for iOS devices. It helps users to turn their photos into beautiful paintings. Among other things, this useful tool lets users share their masterpieces with family and friends.

  • Nicole Wells

    by Nicole Wells

    This is the only app i've tried that actually turns my pictures into realistic oil paintings unlike others. I've showed the pics ive edited to my friends and they all say that it looks really wonderful and could be displayed in a museum hehe

2.Adobe Photoshop Sketch

with in-app purchases

Adobe Photoshop Sketch is an app for both Android and iOS devices. Users can paint and create works of art using Photoshop brushes and all the layers you can think of. Create realistic paintings and customize them by adjusting their size, color, and opacity, among many other settings.

  • by Gerardo Chávez

    Adobe Photoshop Sketch is the best way to get the effects of oil paint with out any of the hassle of oil paintings, for sure!

3.Photo Effects Pro

Free download

Photo Effects Pro is a free app created by DHQ Solutions and is available for Android devices. It's a tool for people who want to edit their pictures. It gathers several tools for editing photos including filters, effects, text, etc.

  • Judy King

    by Judy King

    the amount of choices in this app is astounding yet the app itself is hard to understand especially if youre a first time user. they should make it ea More

  • Jeffrey Salazar

    by Jeffrey Salazar

    i have this and use it very often. it does pretty much anything and everything i need it to do and i would highly suggest this to others to use

  • by Thomas Rice

    Photo Effects Pro is a great app to help you edit pictures. It has many different effects as well as filters for you to play with.

4.Paint FX

Paid: $3.99 with in-app purchases
Paint FX is a photo effects editor, you can apply effects, colors, filters and more to all your pictures. It is a complete instrument for transforming any pic you want. 
  • Website:http://www.paintfxapp.com
  • Age rating:17+

  • Category:Photo & Video,Entertainment

  • Publisher:Sprite Labs

  • Size:218.39 MB

  • Genre:Not available
  • Barbara Palmer

    by Barbara Palmer

    If you're looking for the best oil paint effects app, Paint FX is a great app for that. Not only does it have the oil paint effects that you're lookin More

  • Charvi Sen

    by Charvi Sen

    its rlly easy to use and its fun! take a photo and edit everything to your hearts content!

  • Raymond Hunt

    by Raymond Hunt

    A really fun and unique way to edit photos. Different types of pictures with different lighting can have widely different results. This one is definit More

5.Cartoon Photo

Free download
Cartoon Photo is a free app that allows people to apply artistic effects to any picture. With this tool, you can transform your pictures into oil paintings, cartoons, pencil drawings, and much more.


  • Website:Not Available
  • Age rating:Teen

  • Category:Photography

  • Publisher:Game Brain

  • Size:4.40 MB

  • Genre:Not available
  • Yi Liang

    by Yi Liang

    I'm not a very artistic person, so I wanted to apply some effects to some pictures I had taken. Specifically, I wanted an oil painting filter, since I More

  • Patrick Ramirez

    by Patrick Ramirez

    The icon itself is pretty cool, so you know this app will be cool too. It's easy to use, and the layout of the app is nice looking!

  • by Mark Butler

    With 30,000+ reviews and over 16,000 5 star ratings, you would think that this is a great app. However, going by some of the more recent reviews, I wo More

6.Watercolor Effect Oil Painting

Paid: $2.99 with in-app purchases
Watercolor Effect is a beautiful app for those who want to put colour on their photos. All you have to do is to click your picture to add oil painting or watercolour effects.



  • Website:Not Available
  • Age rating:4+

  • Category:Photo & Video,Entertainment

  • Publisher:PSD2Filter Pte Ltd

  • Size:44.51 MB

  • Genre:Not available
  • Rigoberto Padilla

    by Rigoberto Padilla

    I am always snapping photos of my day and love to put effects on them. The effects I had been using have been getting kind of dull so I went searching More

  • Debra Bates

    by Debra Bates

    This is a pretty cool effect. I love what you can do to otherwise everyday photos. There seem to be a lot of errors though, maybe it will get better.

  • Peter Perez

    by Peter Perez

    Is a neat little Photoshop clone for iOS. The way the registration is worded, it implies that you get 30+ filters, but I only found 15 plus the initia More

7.Photo Painter

Paid: $0.99

Photo Painter is an app that lets the user transform all their photos into expressionist masterpieces. This interactive app allows them to apply different filters and textures to all their pictures. It's downloadable for Android devices.

  • Mercedes Sandoval

    by Mercedes Sandoval

    This looks like a really cool app that allows you to paint like the pros. It is also rated very well, indicating that people really like it and it ser More

  • Timothy Morales

    by Timothy Morales

    So bummed that this app is no longer available on play store but thank you for the apk!! hope it works just like the old app used to!!!

  • Paul Stanley

    by Paul Stanley

    Decent solution. Photo Painter has a decent amount of pain effects.

8.Oil Paint

Free download
Oil Paint lets you convert your pictures and images into oil paintings.  It is a useful tool for applying effects to your photos, and also for sharing them with your friends!


  • Russell Gutierrez

    by Russell Gutierrez

    I love to use photoshop and other apps to make some weird looking and awesome looking photos. Do you want to create those awesome looking oil portrait More

  • Catherine Walker

    by Catherine Walker

    This app is pretty cool since it's basically what it says it is and a few added bonus of sharing it with my friends. Try it out, you won't be disappoi More

  • Tyler Kelly

    by Tyler Kelly

    I downloaded the app Oil Paint to add some effects to a few pictures, and I must admit that it works really great! I printed the enlargements I wanted More

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