ImageToolbox
🖼️ Image Toolbox is a powerful app for advanced image manipulation. It offers dozens of features, from basic tools like crop and draw to filters, OCR, and a wide range of image processing options
A free and open-source Android app with dozens of photo editing tools including cropping, filters, background removal, OCR text extraction, and AI image enhancement, available on Play Store and F-Droid.
Image Toolbox is an Android application for photo editing and image manipulation. It covers a wide range of tasks, from basic operations like cropping, drawing on images, and resizing, to more involved processing such as applying filters, erasing backgrounds, editing EXIF metadata, running OCR (which reads text from images), and AI-based image enhancement. The app is available on both the Google Play Store and F-Droid, the open-source Android app repository.
The app targets Android API 24 and above, which corresponds to Android 7.0 and later devices. It is built with Kotlin using Jetpack Compose, the modern Android UI toolkit, and supports the Material You visual system that adapts the color scheme to match the phone's wallpaper on supported Android versions.
The README describes the tool as suited for both photographers who want quick editing on mobile and developers who may want to study or build on the codebase. The feature list in the description mentions dozens of capabilities, from simple tools to more complex image processing options, though specific details about each feature are spread across the project wiki rather than the README itself.
The project has an active community on Telegram with a chat channel and a separate channel for continuous integration updates. A wiki page is linked from the repository for FAQ and extended documentation. The codebase is open source. Background removal and AI image enhancement are listed as features, but the README does not explain the underlying implementation within the visible section.
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Where it fits
- Edit photos on Android by cropping, drawing, resizing, and applying filters without any desktop software.
- Remove image backgrounds automatically using the built-in AI-powered background eraser on your phone.
- Extract printed text from photos using the OCR feature and copy it directly to your clipboard.
- Study the Kotlin and Jetpack Compose source code as a reference for building complex Android image-processing apps.