PREQUEL AI Filter Photo Editor

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4.6
366K reviews
50M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Prequel is an all-in-one editor app with photo filters, video effects for Reels, and presets for your photos & videos. Be visually creative, in one tap and let followers feel your mood!

Vintage camera effects for pictures, retro photo filters and video filters, which you can use for your amazing Reels! Presets for your photos! And so many other video and photo editing tools! You will always achieve standout content with our unique app—with its fonts for text on photo, stickers, Vintage, Film, Cartoon, Grain, VHS, Anime, Y2K, and other video and photo filters and effects you can be visually creative, in one tap!

Prequel is a must-have app if you want to upgrade your photo and video editing pipeline, use more photo filters and effects, make your social media content fit a specific aesthetic, or just quickly give your casual pics and vids a more elevated look to boost your followers!

FILTERS FOR PHOTO & VIDEO

Over 200 Hollywood-quality photo and video filters for latest trends and popular aesthetics: WES, Dark, Teal Tone, Sepia, Black and White, Grain, Retro, Vintage, Anime, Y2K, and many more! (And that’s just the tip of the iceberg with our effects & filters for photo & video!)

PHOTO & VIDEO EFFECTS

Cinematic, Retro, Film, Old Money, VHS, Lomography, and other VFX, frames, and camcorder emulators, as used by photographers and filmmakers who know a lot about effects for photos and videos!

ADJUSTMENTS

Market's best adjustments for working with color and light, including DOF, blurs, HDR, ultrasharp, midtone details, color density. Photo and video editing has never been easier!

BEAUTY TOOLS

Body and face editor features to perfect your look: works on photos and videos from your camera roll! Compliment the result with our presets and templates for photos, videos and Reels!

TEXT TOOL

Over 200 fonts for stories, highlights, and captions: the iconic subtitles, text behind objects, plus handwritten, basic, and contemporary fonts. Add text to photo on top of our filters, presets, or other tools and make your content even more attractive!

OVERLAYS, STICKERS, TEXTURES

Unlimited potential for further customization with 60+ curated texture overlays and 250+ hand-designed stickers on photo for your visuals! Use animated text stickers with your own custom text. Say what you want to say in style!

BATCH EDITING

Applying the same changes to up to 10 photos at the same time and saving edits as custom presets to reuse later. Save time on photo and video editing! Create presets out of edits with multiple filters and tools used!

BACKGROUND CHANGE

Incredibly easy, quick, and precise background replacement in photos for next-level creative expression!

THE GOLD SUBSCRIPTION

► Prequel Gold offers different subscription plans. Subscriptions will be billed weekly, monthly, or annually.

► Subscription for Prequel Gold auto-renews at the cost of the chosen subscription plan unless canceled 24 hours in advance prior to the end of the then-current subscription term. Unless you cancel the subscription before the billing date, you will be automatically charged the subscription fee for the next billing cycle in accordance with the conditions of the subscription plan chosen.

FOREGROUND SERVICE

Prequel app uses a foreground service to ensure uninterrupted file export, even when running in the background. This allows you to save content without keeping the app open. Foreground services are essential for tasks that require continuous execution, preventing interruptions and ensuring a smooth user experience.

Create unique content with our effects & presets for your photos & videos. Prequel is a photo filters and video effects editing app with the MOST aesthetic presets. It offers a handpicked selection of photo & video filters for pictures & Reels. Edit your retro photos and videos to make them stand out with a variety of vintage, trendy effects like Kidcore, VHS, Y2K, Dust, Indie Kid, Teal, Grain filter, Fisheye, Cartoon! Try it today!
Updated on
Feb 19, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
357K reviews
Adam Favre
February 21, 2026
I was very interested in using this app, but I have zero interest in paying more for a phone app than I do for a desktop editor. If I am not paying $250 ($5 a week x 52 weeks ) a year for lightroom, I am surely not paying that for a cell phone editor. Your pricing is absurd. Oh yeah, make the "ask" at the end my trial not right before I even try it. Come on guys... cell phone app.
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Candyfood
February 23, 2026
This app is super greedy. It shoves fake discounts on your face, tries to get you to subscribe to their subscription over and over and over, and wouldn't even let me save my picture without subscribing. I'm pretty sure I wasn't using any premium filters or anything, and if I was, I saw no indicator that the filters were paid only. The filters and editing options are great, yes, but I'm not a piggy bank. It's genuinely insulting to have ads shoved in my face before you even get to try the app.
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Amelia Land-Angevine
March 2, 2026
I used to love Prequel, it was my favorite by far. The quality and variety of filters and editing features are still great, but I am giving it one star because I am so disappointed to come back to it now and find that not only are so many more filters behind the paywall, but they removed the icon that shows you what's premium! A scuzzy tactic. I totally understand wanting to charge for some of them in this day and age, but at least give us the decency of telling us what is/isn't available.
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What’s new

Hi! We're working hard on making Prequel perfect for you and are ready with some updates.

Find in this version:
- Mix and match effects, filters, and tools to create custom edits that you can access anytime with an intuitive layout.
- Minor bug fixes.Thank you for all your feedback and support!