Meet the 7 apps that will give your amateur Instagrams professional gloss

Photographers, video personalities, fashion bloggers, and famous foodies use these seven apps to take their Instagrams to the next level, and you'd never even know it. Instagram's own filters go a long way toward making your lattes look far richer than they do in person, and a recent update added a slew of editing tools. But the popular photo-sharing app doesn't want to overload you with options, which is why its latest time-lapse feature is an entirely separate product.

But six other Instagram accessory apps have been making other users' photos look like pages from a magazines--and videos look like film clips--for quite some time. Here are the seven best ways to make your Instagrams stand out from the pack. (It almost goes without saying, but all of these apps make sharing photos to Instagram super simple.)

Afterlight

So you think Instagram's filters and editing tools have grown up You haven't yet met Afterlight. This photo-editing app has 59 adjustable filters, 66 textures, and 128 frames to fit every mood or season.

You can spend an hour tweaking the settings on one photo until you've transformed a photo of trees into a muddy watercolor, so you'll have to exercise some restraint. But Afterlight has options Instagram can only dream of, which make your photos infinitely more beautiful than your trusty Valencia/Lux combo can.