Top 10 Apple Apps To Increase Your Enjoyment Of Instagram
To many Instagram has become a way of life, described widely as a ‘photo twitter app’ and with well over 4 million users it has almost becoming an institution. Of course, along with the sucess of one app a bucket load of other apps try to jump on the band wagon, but rather than rain on the parade they have actually increased and improved it. Take a look at these apps and start getting more out of the original.
We have combined the top iOS and Mac apps in this round up. There are so many brillant apps and we’re populating those lists now. Keep checking back for that.
Instagallery – browse Instagram photos
Instagallery allows you to view a gallery of Instagram photos on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. It allows you to view Instagram photos taken by your friends. See an assortment of popular photos. Or look at all the photos you’ve posted. Photos are shown at full size, matted against a neutral background.( ( You can easily jump to photos by the same person, taken in the same location, or with a tag from the photo being viewed. Save your favorite sets of photos to revisit in the future, or go back to a recent photo set you’ve seen. It also allows you to use AirPlay to share any photo by displaying it on an Apple TV.
Instamap – real-time Instagram browser
With Instamap, users can browse through Instagram photos according to a location or a tag. No matter what part of the globe or what tag they choose, they can see the corresponding photos live, as they get posted. The photos can be viewed in tile view or pinned to a map. Once a gallery is chosen, the photos appear individually, together with their details, and users can “like” them. From this point on, it is just a matter of swiping.
Users can also view popular Instagram photos or their own stream gallery. The possibility of real time browsing through a defined subscription is what makes Instamap stand out among other similar apps. All in all, it provides the necessary features to make Instagram browsing easy and fun.
Instashow
Instashow displays on your iPhone and iPod touch a live stream slideshow of Instagram pictures with various frames.
Instabam
Instabam is a way to view the world around you through the eyes of Instagram users.( ( It works by using your location to find pictures taken nearby on the popular photo app Instagram. ( ( You can change the distance of your search and view the location of the photo on map.
InstaRadar
Search & Explore Instagram in a geo way. InstaRadar let you search and explore Instagram geographically.
InstaDesk – Mac App
An Instagram Client for the Mac. ( ( InstaDesk lets you not only browse your or your friends Instagram pictures, but easily explore the social graph and find new people to follow. With InstaDesk you can browse beautiful pictures, newest uploads of your friends, or interesting people to follow. Furthermore, you can comment on pictures, like them, download them, or watch them in slideshows.
My InstaAlbum – Save My Instagram Photos And Share
My InstaAlbum allows you to download and save your photos of Instagram. You can see your photos through Calender View, Grid View , Map View and Tag/Place/Filter View. Upload to Facebook & Dropbox at once, Also upload to Twitter Status/Profile.
InstaDaily LITE – competitions for Instagram
Looking for more fun ways you can use Instagram? Compete with other Intagrammers around the world taking pictures based on the same subject. Gain points and fame. Become the world’s top Instagram user.
Postagram
Postagram makes it easy to send a printed photo postcard in the mail to yourself, friends or family anywhere in the world. Take a photo with the app, or use a photo from your iPhone library, Instagram, or Facebook.
Carousel – Mac App
Carousel is a simple, beautiful way to explore Instagram on your Mac in a minimal footprint. View your feed, popular photos, your photos, comment, like, save photos and much, much more. We’ve also implemented a full set of keyboard commands to make operation flawless and four wonderful themes to personalize Carousel to your liking.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
2 Comments
Instagrafie
thx for the nice overview of mac apps for instagram, i think we will write also an article in our germen instagram blog about it.
instagram
I do agree with all the concepts you have introduced for your post. They’re really convincing and will certainly work. Nonetheless, the posts are too quick for novices. Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post.