Five best vintage photo apps
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Hipstamatic
A cult fave, it offers a variety of retro results and the perfect gimmick: Hipstamatic changes the lens, flash and film with one swipe of your camera phone.
Perfect for: The Hipster—the app interface gives your modern technology the look and sounds of an analog plastic film camera circa 1980.
Cost: $2
Vintage Scene
Perhaps most true to early-photography reproduction, Vintage Scene includes effects like distressed photo paper, giving an authentic and eerie quality to shots.
Perfect for: The Committed Antique Hunter—contemporary photos get a turn-of-the-century spin.
Cost: $2
Inspired by Polaroids, it delivers shots in the signature square frame and white border.
Perfect for: The Over-Sharer—with a built-in social media component it's easy to show the world those rose-tinted snaps. (Plus, get prints at printstagram.com.)
Cost: Free
Phototoaster
Going beyond amateur manipulation, users can adjust shots with basic, deluxe and supreme options and change the intensity with adjustment sliders.
Perfect for: The Wannabe Photographer—advanced options make the iPhoneographer feel like a pro.
Cost: $2
Vintique
This puppy offers the widest variety: a huge number of retro effects, including 49 antique-inspired frames and 32 vintage filters including "dim past" and "phantasm."
Perfect for: The Second-Hand Fan—it'll give your pics a kitschy frame Grandma would envy.
Cost: $1
