Top 5 Photo Story/Essay Apps
There has been a huge rise in photo essay/story apps in the app store recently and we have created a top 5 list of some of the most popular, take a look below:
SlickFlick
SlickFlick allows you to read and create animated photostories on the fly. It comes with a great selection of redefined themes that you can add your images to. These images can be ones that are already in your photo library, or ones that you take within the app. Once you’ve decided on that, the images are displayed over your chosen theme. You can also add animated stickers and captions to the image and share it with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or within an email. There’s also a wonderful and growing online community that you can access within the app, allowing you to share your images and view others as well as engage and comment.
Backspaces
Backspaces has been taking the iPhone photography community by storm. It’s an excellent photo telling app and we have our Streets Ahead women’s Column section as part of it. Take a look here to see our section – you will see some wonderful images.
It’s really simple to use and is an excellent app for photojournalism.
ptch
Ptch allows you to combine photos, video and music into one minute pitches. Many users use if for the video function in particular, it’s simple to use and like most other similar apps, you can access your photos and videos from your device and share to the usual popular social media sites. You can also personalize your pitch with titles, captions and social comments.
Vida – Live Photo Stories – iOS and Android
Vida is another free photo and video story sharing app with more than 6 million users. Users share stories which include travel, food journals and stories on the fly. It comes with multiple story templates and live effect filters for still images. It’s available for both the iOS and Android platforms.
Picasca Mobile – Android
Picasa Mobile was originally designed to facilitate viewing and managing your online Picasa web albums and photos but it’s expanded quite a lot. As well as using the app as a virtual photo album, you can also invite friends to see your albums, view your contacts photo albums and upload video content and view any public videos. It’s not quite the same as the apps above but it is very similar.
This app retails for $0.99/£0.69 and you can download it here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
