Instagram may be reigning supreme in the photo-sharing community with 130 million users, but that does not mean it is the only app to use when sharing your images. Here are 17 alternatives to Instagram.
Some have positioned themselves as direct competitors, while others are attempting to fill a niche they feel isn’t fulfilled by Instagram. Each of the apps listed here, which are in no particular order, offer photo-sharing, an in-app camera ability (well almost, The Impossible Project App doesn’t have a camera feature as such, but it allows you to scan instant prints with your iPhone) as well as a degree of social networking. However, to what extent each of these features are provided differs greatly between each app.
If you’re on Instagram but are concerned about its T&C’s or if you’re just looking for a different way of sharing your photos, then read on to find the perfect app just for you. If you need a refresher on what Instagram is all about, you can read my review of the app here .
tadaa
Buy from iTunes App Store [1]
From Hamburg-based developers, tadaa is a slick and well-featured photo-sharing app. Searching photos, and hence people to follow, is easy with nine different galleries of trending/keyword defined images.
As such, there’s always a lot of activity on the app. Besides the usual set of photo filters, tadaa also manages to pack in some decent editing tools, such as Contrast, Brightness and Saturation adjustments.
The app, on the whole, is well-thought out and constructed. However, tadaa’s killer feature is the ability to import all your Instagram images. Simply tap the Instagram Import data button, sit back and your timeline will quickly fill up with your images.
So all that effort you’ve put into Instagram isn’t lost should you decide to switch to the app.
You can read my full review of tadaa here .
Flickr
Buy from iTunes App Store [2] • Google Play Store [3]
Despite the Flickr brand being linked with photography since 2004 and having an iPhone app from 2009 onwards, it’s only in the past 12 months that many photographers have come to see the app as a serious contender to Instagram.
As you would expect, the app links to your Flickr account on the main website. This allows you to see all the images you’ve already posted as well as those of your contacts.
However, where the Flickr app now stands out is in its powerful set of photo-editing features. Tap the camera function and either take a photo or select one from your photo library and you are then presented with a wide range of tools with which to make adjustments to your image. These alone are worth downloading the app for.
You can read my full review of Flickr here .
Oggl
Buy from iTunes App Store [4] • Windows Phone store [5]
From the makers of Hipstamatic comes Oggl, their take on the photo-sharing app. Hipstamatic is well-known and respected in the iPhone photo community, having garnered a sizeable band of followers, including the inspiration for this blog, so it’s no surprise that Oggl unashamedly taps into this fan base.
Oggl features all the same “film†and “lenses†as Hipstamatic, but is now much more focused on the social aspect of photography.
The app is free download, but there is a subscription if you want to access all the available photo filters. And like Hipstamatic, Oggl, once you get used to its interface, is simple to use. You can even change filters after you’ve taken an image, something that you still can’t do in Hipstamatic.
However, what’s really neat about Oggl is that you have all the same sharing options you had with Hipstamatic â€" you can still post Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, as well as share your images with other Oggl users.
You can read my full review of Oggl here .
EyeEm
Buy from iTunes App Store [6] • Google Play store [7]
EyeEm is all about find images. Instead of seeing just images from people you’re following, like Instagram, you’re greeted with a collage of photos all tied together with a keyword. This keyword or tag, could relate to a word, such as sunrise, to describe the images, or it could be a place â€" EyeEm taps into your iPhone or Android’s GPS to automatically give each image a location tag.
The tagging is an important feature of EyeEm as it enables you to build a small community around certain types of images. Besides that, EyeEm offers all that you would expect from a photo-sharing app.
The camera feature has a decent range of filters as well as the option to share your images on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr and Foursquare. EyeEm is considered by many in the photographic community to be the serious option for photographers looking to share their images.
You can read my full review of EyeEm here .
Links
- ^ Tadaa (itunes.apple.com)
- ^ Flickr App (itunes.apple.com)
- ^ Flickr App (play.google.com)
- ^ Oggl (itunes.apple.com)
- ^ Oggl (www.windowsphone.com)
- ^ (itunes.apple.com)
- ^ (play.google.com)
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