Tag Archives: Photo Sharing

30 Day Challenge: Vote On & Share Photos Based On A Daily Topic [WP7]

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Photo sharing is not a new concept by any means, even for a relatively-infant platform like Windows Phone 7, so it is always nice to see apps which bring something new to this rather crowded genre. 30 Day Challenge is one such app, which brings an amazingly new flavor to photo sharing. Much like writer’s block, we all tend to ignore the cameras in our smartphones for long stretches of time, undecided which photo you want to snap and share. This app provides a solution for that, and presents users with an exclusive topic each day, requiring you to post photos related to that topic. Other people using 30 Day Challenge get three votes daily, and the photo with most votes ends up featured for all to see. Read More

Official Android, iOS Client Of Photo-Sharing Service Epicons Released

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Epicons is a relatively newer and simpler photo-sharing social network service that lets multiple users share their memorable photos with each other via personalized event-based albums (referred to as episodes). Apart from sharing your own images, you can also explore high quality photos shared publicly by other Epicons users from all across the globe. The service released its iOS client in the iTunes App Store almost a month ago, whereas the Android variant of Epicons has just recently been rolled out in the Google Play Store. The mobile app’s concept is pretty basic, as it lets you upload newly captured or locally stored images from your device’s local storage to your Epicons account without any fuss. You can create new episodes (albums) with custom privacy and sharing settings, and start filling them with relevant snaps. All images are presented under their respective albums in chronological order, and you can start exploring them in full screen via a simple slideshow. The app allows importing images from Flickr and Picasa, and lets you tag, rate and comment on any photo you like. Read More

Flixel: Create Animations, Apply Effects & Share With Others [iPhone]

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A few days back, we covered an iOS app named Viddy, which allowed users to share videos with their friends and other app users after making desired changes to it. Just like that app is an Instagram for videos, Flixel is an app which lets you do, more or less, the same thing, but with animations. This iPhone app won’t make you snap a lot of photos and then stitch them together in a complex manner to make an animation. All you have to do is to point your iPhone or iPad’s camera in the direction of a moving object, and you will have a fully functional animation, which can be edited and then shared with all your friends and personal network on the app. Read More

Pinweel For iPhone: Apply Filters To Photos & Create Group Albums

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Taking a picture using your iOS device is not much of a problem, as the camera in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is generally pretty good, and if that’s not enough, there are a lot of third-party photography apps available as well. The real problem, however, arises when you want to share those photos with your friends. The most commonly used method for photo sharing these days is email, which is not really intuitive and involves way too many steps. That’s why a photo sharing app is always a welcome addition to the App Store. There are many such apps, but Pinweel is pretty unique, owing to the fact that it allows you to share photos in real-time, and with multiple contacts. Not only that, you can edit a photo as well before you publish it to your account and social network. Read More

PicShop For Android: Photo-Editing & Sharing App With Meme Maker

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We have no final word on when (or whether at all) the official Android client of the world-famous photo-editing and sharing iOS app, Instagram, will release. However, that does not imply that Android users are dearly missing the app on their devices, or lacking quality alternative options in the photography genre. Previously reviewed apps, StreamZoo, pudding.to, Mobli and numerous others have already been lauded as handy alternatives to the photo-editing giant, and there are quite a few fresh players that are emerging onto the global scene with some additional goodies of their own to attract the users. Adding to the long list of Instagram-like Android apps is PicShop that gives the true power of photo enhancement, embellishment and sharing right in your hands. Initially launched in the iTunes App Store, PicShop has just made it’s way into the Google Play Store with full force. PicShop offers you a comprehensive suite of some of the most sought-after image editing tools including snazzy filters, effects, frames, sketching/doodling options, image enhancement, sharpening, cropping, flipping, rotation and correction tools, text boxes, comment bubbles, stylish stickers, horizontal and vertical tilt shift effects, a built-in Meme generator (yeah, you heard it right), Red-Eye and blemish remover, image auto-corrector, ample personalization and sharing options, and last but not the least, an unmatched ability to work on, and store images up to 8MP in size. Read More

Shoot & Share 360 Degree Photos From iPhone With SpinCam

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If you have read our list of 15 best photo editing apps for iOS devices, then you must have noticed that the one app which stands out from the crowd is Microsoft’s Photosynth. The panorama-stitching service brings something pretty unique to your iPhone, and lets you capture the scene around you in great detail, and from almost every angle. SpinCam is an app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch which is based on essentially the same concept (though it is nowhere near as advanced as Photosynth), and using it, you can shoot photos in 360. This means that the targeted objected will be captured from all sides, and then the app automatically stitches all the images to provide you with a single animation. Confused? Read on to know more. Read More

C2 For Android Allows Location-Based Photo Sharing With Random Users

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Bored? Looking for someone to befriend you? How about interacting with an unknown bloke sitting in a random part of the world by just sharing your photos with them? Fresh to the Android Market, C2 is a fun-filled location-based photo sharing app that connects you to a random user from virtually any part of the world, with whom you may share a string of live photos captured via your device’s camera. All you need to do is snap a quick photo and let the app work its trick. Once an image is captured, the app shares it with a random user and establishes a new connection between you and the user. From thereon, you and your ‘random’ partner can share as many images with each other for as long as you wish to keep the session active. To express your sentiments towards the shared photo, you have the option of choosing from multiple emoticons. The app supports maintaining a detailed log of all the sent and received images, as well as all the users that you’ve partnered via C2. That’s not all; using the app, you may also share the best and most memorable images on Facebook, Twitter and/or Weibo to let the world know of your new friends. Images shared via C2 can be viewed in full screen, and support multi touch gestures so that you may easily rescale, rotate and reposition them on the screen as required. Read More

Real-Time Photo, Text & Voice Sharing App Coco Voice Comes To Android

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Coco Voice is a free cross-platform IM client for Android and iOS-powered devices that allows users to share text, photo and voice messages with each other in real-time over the internet. Initially available only in the iTunes App Store, the app has just made its way into the Android Market, sporting all the cool features that we get to see with its iOS counterpart. Using Coco Voice, you can initiate a conversation session with other app users to share voice messages in real-time, just like a walkie talkie. Each shared voice message is played almost instantly in high quality, and gets stored as an individual audio clip within the conversation history. In fact, the app supports saving your entire conversation sessions, so that you can take a glance at your recent chats with friends, and listen to their messages as many times as you like. The app also lets you natively post status updates on the Coco Voice network, Facebook and Twitter. It also supports sharing text as well as email messages from within the app. Real-time status bar notifications keep you apprised of any friend/chat requests, as well as other activities from the network that involve you in one way or the other. All in all, a fast, simple and fun way of interacting with your buddies via your smartphones/tablets. Read More

Via.Me: Cross-Platform Photo Styling & Sharing App For iOS & Android

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Instagram is among the most popular iOS apps of all time. The photo sharing service has been on the top of its genre for so long that the idea of a competitor app appears almost laughable, but the team behind Via.Me seems to think otherwise. Via.Me is a new iPhone app that, like Instagram, lets its users apply filters to their photos, and then share them with a single touch. The filter collection pretty impressive, and sharing options include your own social network, as well as other users of Via.Me. You can follow your friends to stay up to date with their posts, forming a Via.Me network of your own. Update: Via.Me now has an Android app, too. We've added a link to its Play Store page at the end of the article. Read More

15 Best Free Photo Editing & Sharing Apps For iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

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The genres of photography, image editing, styling and sharing, being among the most popular on the iOS App Store (after platformers and games in general, of course), are becoming increasingly saturated, which makes it quite hard for both new users and seasoned iPhoneographers to pick out the good ones. Seeing this as another opportunity to help our readers out, we’ve compiled a list of fifteen of the best free apps from the aforementioned genres. Read More

Snapstar For Android: Location-Based Photo Sharing App That Focuses On Earning & Spending Points

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From the team behind Spotvite – a fun Android app that lets you instantly create and share location and category-based recreational events – comes another fantastic app called Snapstar. Based on the concept of location-based photo exploring, capturing and sharing, the app lets you earn rewards in the form of star points for continuously sharing pictures with the world, every time enhancing your chances to become a true ‘Snap star’.Points earned through the app can then be used to unlock and view photos uploaded by other Snapstar users from a particular location. Once you unlock a location, and tag it to your own shared image, it belongs to you until someone else unlocks it by spending a few points. In addition to this, the app sports a slew of socializing tools that help you explore stuff shared by worldwide users, become friends with them and comment on their photos. All these features, when combined with an intuitive and user-friendly interface, make Snapstar a must-try app. Read More

Create Video Slideshows From Images In Seconds With PhotoPixar

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The basis of every social networking service is sharing. We share everything with the world and our friends, including images, videos, articles, our own thoughts etc, and comment on things shared by others. Whether this change in the way we interact is for the better or for worse is a debatable topic, because on one hand, people have begun sharing a lot more than they used to, but on the other, they now meet a lot less than they used to. So, there is an increasing gap in actual, interpersonal social contact. Social networking services like Facebook and Google+, and the now obsolete MySpace and Orkut, have been mostly used for one thing – Photo Sharing. These days, pictures of any event, both important and unimportant, are uploaded to Facebook almost in real time. PhotoPixar is an application for Windows that lets you create video slideshows of photo albums in minutes with effects, audio and captions. Read More

InstaCam: View/ Download Instagram Images & Apply Photo Effects [WP7]

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Rumors might be abundant about the expected release of the official Instagram client for Windows Phone 7, but for now, Mango users have to make do with the unofficial clients available for the popular photo sharing service. However, the options available thus far do have their limitations, like the recently covered Metrogram, which lacked many of the key features which make Instagram a success. We might not have received the official app just yet, but finally, we have got the next best thing. InstaCam is a new WP7 app, which will let you do just about anything on Instagram, with the only drawback being that you won’t be able to upload photos to the official service. Apart from that, InstaCam lets you view, download and share photos, and you can apply photo effects to images on your phone as well. Read More

[Giveaway] QuickShot For iPhone: Automatically Upload Photos & Videos To Dropbox

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If you are an iPhone user running iOS 5, then you must be aware of the iCloud integration offered by this latest iOS version. One of the most used feature of iCloud is Photo Stream, which automatically uploads all your Camera Roll photos to the cloud. No one can doubt the usefulness of this capability, but if you are already using some other cloud storage service, like SkyDrive or Dropbox, then it poses a bit of a problem, as your photos are divided across different services, and it becomes relatively hard to manage them. Fortunately, for Dropbox users, now it is possible to easily share your photos and videos over the cloud storage service with the amazingly useful app QuickShot. The app will automatically upload all the photos and videos shot with its camera to Dropbox, and you can even sync older media with ease, too. Read More

Square For Windows Phone 7: Fast Contacts & Photo Sharing Via QR Codes

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It has been discussed Ad nauseam on a variety of forums that Windows Phone 7, like iOS, does not support Bluetooth file transfer. For this reason, the Mango community is always looking for new ways to transfer data quickly and efficiently between two devices, and even across platforms. Square, the newly released WP7 app, is the perfect solution for sharing contacts, images and your business card with people in your vicinity. The app works with QR codes, and allows you to send and receive data within seconds. Read on to know all about this excellent app. Read More

Metrogram: View & Share Instagram Photos From Windows Phone 7

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Instagram is the famous photo sharing service for iOS, and as yet, users of no other platform have got an official client for it. Android has many third-party clients for the service, like Streamzoo, but Windows Phone 7 does not even have that - not until now, at least. Metrogram is a new WP7 app, using which, you can view photos from Instagram, along with their comments and other relevant data. The app also allows sharing those photos with your social network. Read More

Hipster Brings Its Postcard-Style Photo & Location Sharing App To Android

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Smartphone app stores and the web may be brimming with plenty of photo-sharing social networks and apps, but not all let you share photos like Hipster does. The app allows you choose from several retro-style postcard templates to add your photos to, fill the chosen postcard with a short note, tag a location of choice, and share it with the world. Through its dedicated official iOS and Android client, Hipster lets you explore, access, create, design and share stylish geo-tagged postcards from your smartphone on the go. Although the official Hipster app has just landed in the Android Market, its iOS variant has been around in the iTunes App Store for quite some time now. Read More

Textie Brings Its Cross-Platform IM & Photo Sharing Client To Android

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Textie is a simple yet efficient cross-platform (and free) messaging app for Android and iOS devices that lets users send unlimited text messages to other app users, mail contacts and/or most US mobile carriers over the internet (Wi-Fi/3G). The app sports an IM-style chat interface through which you can not only share simple text messages, but also send high quality images to multiple contacts at once. Initially available only in the iTunes App Store, Textie has just made its way to the Android Market. The app has a simple, customizable interface, automatically fetches contacts from your address book, provides secures connections using SSL and push notifications for incoming messages. Read More

Pinspiration: Explore Pintrest To View & Share Interesting Photos [WP7]

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In today’s digital world, there is no shortage of social networks that are focused on letting people interact with their friends and loved ones. Admittedly, the field is dominated by Facebook and Twitter, but there are other smaller players in the game as well, which have amassed a considerable fan-following. Pintrest is one such social network, which aims to connect people via interest-based photo sharing. While there is no official Windows Phone 7 app for the service yet, now it has become possible for WP7 users to explore Pintrest via its third-party client, named Pinspiration. Even if you don’t have a Pintrest account, the app is a good way of finding out what this service is all about. Read More

Cloudy Exporter For iPhone: Sync Photos To iCloud From Any Album

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Once you master its use completely, iCloud is an amazingly useful feature for iOS devices. Of all the areas handled by iPhone’s cloud service, Photo Stream is the most popular. If you own more than one Apple device, it really is convenient to have every picture you take with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch available across all your iDevices immediately. There is a slight catch though; Photo Stream only syncs photos from the Camera Roll of an iDevice. If you are used to having photos in albums other than the native Camera Roll, those pictures will just be ignored by Photo Stream. That’s where the free app, Cloudy Exporter, can come in handy, as using it, you can sync photos to iCloud from any album. Read More