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 is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
