Adobe releases Photoshop for Android
Photoshop will be available on various platforms as part of a subscription model. After desktop, iPad and iPhone, an Android version will now follow.
Photoshop for iPad (pictured here) was the first. Now Adobe is also developing Photoshop for Android.
Adobe Photoshop has been available for some time not only as a desktop version but also as a mobile version. Adobe first released a version for the iPhone in February 2025. Now an Android version is also being released. Adobe specifies Android 11 or higher versions and at least 6 GB RAM (8 GB recommended) as system requirements.
Beta status and subscription prices
Like most products, Adobe is initially only releasing its Android Photoshop as an unfinished beta version. Among other things, the implementation of Adobe fonts is not yet complete.
However, users can access the full app free of charge during the beta phase. As on the iPhone, the finished Android version will only offer the basic tools and show the upgrade screen at every conceivable opportunity. If you want to use the full range of functions, you have to take out a subscription for 8.99 euros per month or 79.99 euros per year.
Functional scope of the beta version
Adobe has ported a whole range of functions to the iPhone that are also part of the Android beta. These include layers, masks, fill modes and adjustment layers as well as various selection tools. With the new tap selection tool, motifs can be selected using a finger gesture. The object selection tool and magic wand are also available.
The Area Repair Brush, Remove and Copy Stamp and the Generative Fill AI tool retouch selected image areas. The manufacturer also integrates free objects from the Adobe Stock library.
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Model iPhone Photoshop
The paid functions of the iPhone version include object selection, magic wand, generative fill and expand, remove tool, complete blending modes, lighten, darken, clone stamp, area repair, Adobe fonts and, last but not least, export as PSD, TIF, JPEG and PNG. This makes the subscription-free version largely useless. Above all, the image output is the killer argument: without export, the images remain trapped in Photoshop.
As Adobe appears to be following the example of Lightroom in its Photoshop product policy, it is likely that the iPhone and Android versions will be largely identical in the long term.
(akr)
