Snapseed just got its biggest Android update in two years: Here's everything new

Android users can stop being jealous of their iPhone friends. Google rolled out Snapseed 4.0 to the Play Store, bringing the photo editor's biggest overhaul in years to a platform that hadn't seen an update since May 2024.

The headline addition is the Snapseed Camera—a built-in viewfinder that shoots in real-time film emulations, including styles inspired by Kodak Portra 400, Fujifilm Superia, and even Polaroid 600. You can tweak or reset those effects after the fact, so nothing is baked in permanently. That's the whole spirit of this release, really: non-destructive editing is now a core feature, meaning you can walk back any change or restore your original photo at any point.

Batch editing is also new, letting you apply a look to multiple photos at once — something the app's power users have been asking about for a long time.

The UI has been reorganized around three bottom tabs: Looks, Tools, and Export. It's a cleaner layout, though some early users on Android Police's comment section aren't thrilled, calling it dated and missing Material 3 design cues.

New tools include Color HSL, Dehaze, Halation, and Bloom—the kind of stuff you'd expect to pay for in a Lightroom subscription. Snapseed still charges nothing. No ads, no watermarks, no in-app purchases.

iOS got a version 3.0 update last summer, so Android skipped a number entirely and jumped straight to 4.0 to hit feature parity between the two platforms.

The rollout appears to be staged, so if the update hasn't appeared on your device yet, it should show up within the next few days.