SlickFlick – iOS App Review
SlickFlick is a social sharing photo app that allows you to create stories based around your images.
Stats
Developer: Curious Quests Ltd
Category: Entertainment
Updated: November 30, 2012
Version: 2.1
Size: 12.6 MB
Rating: 12+
Price: Free/download
Our Rating: 4/5 ****
What Is It?
It’s a beautiful app created by an ambitious team of developers and backed up with £100,000 by a group of media & entertainment investors, to forge a new craft of telling stories with photos.
The app can be loosely described as an Instagram for animated picture stories.
Is It Easy To Use?
Once you’ve downloaded the free SlickFlick app, you need to register with your email address or connect with Facebook. You can also link your Instagram or Flickr accounts to access all your existing photo albums. Getty Images have also cut a deal with the developers and made its wholly owned photo library available and you’ll see on that following the sign up.
The home page is ‘slick’, as the name says, with a nice parallax effect.
Most functionality is intuitive making an otherwise complex creation process relatively seamless.
How Does It Work?
There are seven themes to select within the app, which effectively combine filters, fonts, captions and animations, and are designed to help you tell stories in various ways. Each theme is very different from the other and lends itself to a particular subject matter. LaDiDaa is great for a hipster style story set at a summer festival and XOXO is a purikura pop theme for teenage girls.
The essence of this app is that you make rich visual stories in seconds from your phone. Whether you ‘storify’ your old albums or point & shoot on the spot. The ability to make quick movie style stories allows you to cover current events that can go viral.
The app is social and fully networked so you can share your stories in the app or via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and email. You can follow users and get notified when they publish stories or react to yours.
Today SlickFlick has launched a new theme for users to document their winter season: office parties, Christmas turkey, ski holidays or New Year’s resolutions.
This app pushes many buttons for us here at TheAppWhisperer, we love the photography aspect of course and we love stories, SlickFlick is a winning innovate combination.
Should You Download It?
Absolutely yes do download it, it comes free from the App Store. This app manages to combine a visual storyboard with a very slick and portable interface making it an ideal app for your mobile photography obsession. Don’t miss it.
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)
