By Matthew Mountjoy
Publication Date: 2026-01-06 19:28:00
Google’s Snapseed photo editor has been around for a long time. While it is still a great editing tool that we compared against Adobe’s Lightroom previously, it has never really kept up with the pace of the evolving photo editing market, with the common opinion being that it was abandoned in favour of other projects, like Google Photos. However, Google has said otherwise.
Back in June, Google (to the surprise of many) released the Snapseed 3.0 update for iOS, and has now confirmed that the newest version is coming to Android.
Snapseed finally has some life
At the end of December, Reddit user and Snapseed team member Giles-O shared within the Snapseed subreddit that “we started working on updating Snapseed on Android.” Giles also shared that development began in November and that the update is still a few months away from its release to the public.
The Snapseed 3.0 update on both iPhone and iPad introduced a complete redesign of the…