Adobe Photoshop is finally coming to Android phones in 2025

Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular image editing tools on the market, used widely among photographers, graphic designers, and digital artists. But while most Photoshop users feel tied to workstations or laptops with the desktop software, Adobe is finally launching Photoshop for smartphones. However, if you’re using Android, you’ll have to wait a bit longer.

Yes, in age-old tradition, there will be an iPhone version before Android gets a turn; but Adobe’s announcement does commit to an Android launch later in 2025. In the meantime, the iPhone version is available starting today.

Photoshop Mobile features

The mobile-oriented Photoshop variant should be roughly on par with the iPad version, which doesn’t have full feature-parity with the desktop version, but includes vital features like layers, blending modes, adjustment layers, and masks.

Adobe is designing for touch and faster workflows, which puts an emphasis on intelligent selection tools that can quickly identify objects and precisely find edges. This makes it easier to adjust colors, add effects, or clip parts of images for compositing. Other standard tools are also present, like the Spot Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, and typography tools.

While full feature parity isn’t possible, there is full support for Adobe’s PSD format, meaning the mobile version should be able to open any file created on the desktop (and vice versa). Integrations are also supported for Adobe Express, Fresco, and Lightroom so they can fit into a multi-app workflow.

And naturally, a big part of the announcement and demonstration focuses on generative AI using Adobe Firefly. This tool plays a big role in the Generative Fill and Generative Expand features; and as Adobe has been careful to point out, Firefly has been trained only on Adobe Stock and public domain images with expired copyright, meaning the produced content is considered commercially safe.

Pricing

The mobile Photoshop app is free to download and use, and it has some features like object selection, but many of the key features like object removal and layers aren’t available without a paid subscription. All the features are unlocked with any existing paid plan that includes desktop Photoshop, which also includes the iPad and web versions. Adobe is also creating a new Photoshop Mobile and Web plan priced at $7.99/month or $69.99/year for access to the complete mobile feature set and full access to Photoshop on the web.

Adobe didn’t offer much detail about a Play Store release date, only that it would be “later this year.” While that is vague and leaves a lot of room in the next ten months, previous apps like Adobe Express and Premiere Rush have averaged a six-month gap between the first iOS and Android versions, placing a potential release date around late summer. On the other hand, there are Adobe MAX events scheduled for April and October and the possibility of a special event in the middle, so it’s anybody’s guess.