EPIK - AI Photo & Video Editor

Review by eFreeware

Most editors pick a side. They either automate everything and leave you with a single slider, or they hand you curves and split toning and expect you to know what to do with them. EPIK, from SNOW Corporation, tries to hold both at once, pairing AI-driven retouching with a fairly serious set of manual color tools, and adding video work on top. That combination is the most distinctive thing about it.

It is a free download for Android with in-app purchases, and it has been installed more than 50 million times, holding a 4.3 average across over 638,000 ratings. That scale tells you it has found a broad audience rather than a niche one.

I would point it at people who edit portraits and casual video regularly and want one app for the whole job: cleaning up skin, reshaping a face, dropping on a filter, cutting an object out of a background, then applying the same treatment to a batch of shots. If your editing is mostly landscape work or you prefer to build color grades from scratch, the balance here leans toward retouching and trend-driven effects.

Portrait work is where the app puts most of its weight

The portrait toolset is the largest block in the app. A one-tap Looks feature bundles skin retouching, makeup, face tuning and filters into a single action, which is the fastest route for anyone who does not want to work through individual adjustments. From there you can go finer with blemish removal, wrinkle erasing and the AI skin correction, which the developer describes as handling blemishes automatically.

Face reshaping goes further than the usual sliders. There is 3D face adjustment, a mirror correction with separate left and right control, presets and perspective correction, all of which point at people who want detailed, natural-looking changes rather than obvious ones. Style, paint and fine-tune options cover makeup, and body and length tools address full-body shots. Hair color and hairstyle round out the set.

What appeals to me about this arrangement is that the automatic pass and the manual pass sit in the same place. You can accept the one-tap result and stop, or take over and adjust the jawline, the skin texture and the hair separately. For someone photographing the same faces repeatedly, that range is the reason to keep the app installed rather than reaching for a second tool.

The manual tools are not an afterthought

Behind the AI features sits a conventional editing suite that covers most of what a photo editor is expected to do. Color work includes HSL, curves, split tone and selective adjustment, which are the controls you reach for when you want to shift one hue without touching the rest of the frame. Mood adjustments cover lux, texture, grain, brilliance and vignette.

Composition and repair tools are present too: crop, rotate, mirror, flip, perspective and resolution adjustment, plus patch and clone for copying or repairing specific areas. Batch editing lets you apply changes across several photos at once, which matters if you are processing a set of shots from the same session rather than a single image. RAW files are supported, so images straight from a camera can come in without a conversion step first.

The recent additions build on that batch idea. Batch Beauty applies the same treatment to multiple selfies in one pass, and a carousel option applies filters and effects across a group of images together. A newer removal tool targets clothing wrinkles and shadows. None of this is exotic on its own, but together it means the app can handle a whole folder of photos rather than one at a time.

Filters, stickers and templates for quick results

For people who want a finished-looking image in a couple of minutes, the app leans on its trendier side. Filters, effects and relighting set a mood, while stickers, text, paint and shape drawing let you add elements by hand. A timestamp option records when a photo was taken, which suits documenting a project or a trip over time.

Templates are the other big draw here. The developer advertises thousands of customizable templates, which effectively means you pick a layout and swap in your own images rather than designing from nothing. For social posts, that is usually the difference between posting something and posting nothing.

The creative tools extend the same idea. AI Collage assembles several photos into one composition, spot color keeps a single hue while draining the rest, mosaic and blur effects cover areas you would rather not show, and layout options combine images into arrangements. Background and pattern tools let you build your own backdrops, and you can create custom stickers and filters rather than only using what ships with the app.

Video editing without a separate app

Video support is narrower than the photo side but covers the jobs most people actually need. Video mosaic applies a mosaic effect with automatic tracking of figures, so a moving subject stays covered as they move through the frame. Retro Clip produces vintage-looking video, and video face editing retouches faces within footage rather than only in stills.

That is a sensible scope. Rather than pretending to be a full video production suite, it handles the retouching and stylistic layer that people usually export to a second app for. If your clips are short and your goal is a cleaner face or a particular look, keeping the work in one place saves a step. Anyone cutting multi-track projects will still want dedicated software.

What you need before you start

The app is a free download, and it carries in-app purchases. There are no ads. Subscription questions are handled inside the app through the profile, settings and contact path.

Setup appears to be minimal: install it, and the editing tools are there. Recent updates have concentrated on making the editing itself faster, with batch beauty, carousel application and the wrinkle and shadow removal tool all aimed at cutting down the number of passes you make over a set of photos. RAW support means you can bring in camera files directly if that is how you shoot.

It is rated for teens, which is worth noting if you are considering it for a younger user. Beyond that, the practical requirement is simply a phone with enough storage for the photos and videos you plan to work on, since editing at this level tends to accumulate files.

Who gets the most out of it

The clearest fit is someone who photographs people. Portrait retouching, face reshaping, body adjustment, hair color and makeup all sit in one place, and the one-tap Looks option means you do not have to learn the individual controls to get a usable result. If you shoot the same faces often, batch beauty and batch editing turn that into a repeatable routine.

A second group is anyone producing social content who wants filters, templates, stickers and text without opening three apps. Thousands of templates and a collage tool cover the common formats, and the video features handle the retouching layer on short clips.

The manual color controls widen that further. HSL, curves, split tone and selective editing are the kind of tools that usually appear in a dedicated editor, and having them alongside the automatic features means you can start quick and finish precise. Photographers who work mostly in RAW and want a single place to process a shoot will find the combination useful.

A broad editor that rewards a little exploration

EPIK's strength is range. It covers portrait retouching, manual color grading, creative decoration, batch processing and light video work, and it does so in a free package with no ads. The 4.3 average from a very large number of ratings suggests that breadth has landed well with a wide audience.

The trade-off is that a toolset this size takes some finding. There are many features here, and the ones you want may not be the ones you meet first. The in-app purchases are the other thing to keep in mind; the app is free to download, but not everything behind it necessarily is.

I would recommend it to people who edit portraits and short videos regularly and want one app that covers both the automatic and the manual side of that work. If your editing is occasional and light, or you already have a workflow you are happy with, the depth here is more than you need.

What's new in version 7.4.31

[Batch Beauty] Cheat code to shorten editing time! Edit multiple selfies at once. [Remove] Naturally erase clothing wrinkles and shadows from your photos. [Carousel] You can apply filters and effects all at once.