Beauty Camera - Selfie Camera

Review by eFreeware

If you take a lot of selfies and want them to look finished before you post them, Beauty Camera - Selfie Camera is built with you in mind. It is a free Android app from Mobile_V5 in the Beauty category, and its pitch is simple: retouch your face, add makeup and stickers, and shoot video with effects applied as you go rather than after the fact.

That live approach is the part I keep coming back to. Instead of capturing a plain photo and then working through a separate editor, the app applies its beauty effects, filters and stickers in real time, so what you see in the frame is close to what you get. For anyone who wants a shareable picture without a long editing session, that is the appeal.

It is also a popular app, with more than 10 million installs and a 4.9 average from over 40,000 ratings. It has been on Google Play since July 2023 and picked up updates as recently as September 2026, so it is being actively worked on rather than left to sit.

Who tends to get the most from it

The people most likely to enjoy this app are those who treat a selfie as a quick creative project. If you like trying different looks, cycling through filters and stickers until something clicks, and posting the result to a social platform within minutes, the app's combination of live effects and one-tap sharing fits that rhythm well.

It also suits anyone who wants retouching options without paying for a subscription. The app is free to download and use, with no in-app purchases. The trade-off is advertising, which is present in the app.

I would not picture this as a tool for someone doing careful, layer-by-layer photo work on a desktop or in a professional editor. It is a phone-first app oriented around faces, quick makeup adjustments and social-ready output, and its strengths sit in that direction.

Live retouching and makeup while you shoot

The core of the app is real-time beauty processing. Skin smoothing, teeth whitening, acne and blemish removal, and eye brightening and enlargement are all described as effects you can apply as you capture, along with dark circle reduction. The developer also lists face reshaping for cheekbones, nose, chin, jaw and forehead, plus body reshaping, so you can adjust proportions rather than only clean up skin.

Makeup is handled as its own set of looks. Foundation, lipstick, blush, contour, highlight, concealer and hair dye are all available, and the app lets you adjust the strength of beauty and makeup effects to suit your face. That adjustability matters, because a fixed heavy preset rarely looks right on everyone.

There is also an accessory layer: sunglasses, hats, glasses, hairbands, earrings and necklaces can be added to a shot. Between reshaping, makeup and accessories, the app covers most of the small adjustments people make to a portrait before sharing it.

Filters, stickers and the playful side

Filters are the largest single category here, with more than 300 themed options and effects intended to set a mood. They are meant to be applied live, so you can preview a look before committing to it, and the selection is broad enough that the same face can read very differently depending on what you pick.

Stickers lean toward fun. The app includes face-tracking and AR stickers such as animal faces, cat ears, beards, flower crowns, tattoos and emoji-themed hats, alongside a large general sticker library for selfies. These are the kind of additions that make a photo feel like a moment rather than a portrait, and they are clearly aimed at social posting.

The developer has kept this side fresh through updates, with summer stickers, new makeup styles and additional templates arriving in recent versions. If novelty is part of why you open a camera app, that cadence is a point in its favor.

Collages, photo editing and video

Beyond the camera itself, the app includes a collage maker with photo grids, preset templates, freestyle layouts and scrapbook-style arrangements for your favorite pictures. Frames are part of the same toolkit, which makes it straightforward to assemble several shots into one image without a separate app.

The photo editor covers the practical corrections: blur for depth, removal of people, buildings and other unwanted objects, cropping to a specific ratio, straightening, rotating and changing the background shape. Text and stickers can be added to images as well.

Video is treated as a first-class feature rather than an afterthought. You can shoot clips with trendy effects and music, trim them with a video cutter, and put together duet videos for platforms like Instagram or TikTok. Between capturing, trimming and adding music, the app covers a basic social video workflow in one place.

What it costs and how it is funded

Beauty Camera - Selfie Camera costs nothing to download or use. The app contains advertising. There are no in-app purchases offered, so there is no premium tier to weigh and no paid unlock sitting behind the features described above.

For a free app with this many tools, that arrangement is reasonable, and it means the decision is simply whether the advertising is something you can live with. If you are sensitive to interruptions in a camera app, that is the one cost to consider before installing.

How it compares with other routes

The main alternative for this kind of work is a general-purpose photo editor, the sort that starts from an image you already have and offers detailed control over color, tone and layers. Those tools can do more with a single photo, but they generally expect you to shoot first and edit afterward, which is a different habit from the live approach here.

A second route is the built-in camera software that ships with most phones. Those apps are convenient and already installed, but they typically stop at basic filters and offer little in the way of face reshaping, makeup or sticker libraries. If you want those specific effects, a dedicated app is where you find them.

A third option is a paid beauty or portrait editor, which may offer more advanced retouching in exchange for a subscription. This app takes the opposite position: no purchases, advertising instead, and a broad set of live effects aimed at quick social output rather than precision editing.

A capable free pick for selfie-first creators

Beauty Camera - Selfie Camera does one thing broadly and does it for free: it turns a phone camera into a live beauty and makeup tool with filters, stickers, collages and basic video editing attached. The 4.9 average from more than 40,000 ratings suggests a lot of people find that combination useful, and the recent updates show the developer is still adding effects and templates.

The caveats are straightforward. It is not a precision photo editor for someone who wants granular control over a single image. Its strengths are speed, variety and the fact that the effects are applied while you shoot.

If you post selfies and short videos regularly and want retouching, makeup and playful stickers in one free app, this is a sensible install. If you prefer to adjust photos live while you shoot, this app is built around that approach.

What's new in version 3.3.0

V3.3.0 🎉Improve styles, trending effects 💖Improve performance, better effects V3.2.9 🌹New effects, more templates 🎁Improve video function, better feature V3.2.8 🔥Summer stickers are now available, Give it a try ⭐New makeup styles launched