Photo Apps

Instashare review: Transfer files between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac instantly

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Apr 10, 2013 a 11:53 am

Instashare lets you quickly and easily transfer video files, music files, PDF presentations, and more between iPhone, iPad, and Mac over local Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth. There's no pairing or fancy setup needed. As long as two or more devices are running Instashare in the same area, you're good to go.

Get all your social network photos in one place with Pixable for iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013 a 12:39 pm

Pixable for iPhone and iPad is a social networking app that pulls in all your photos from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. It's great for times when you may not want to browse through your Twitter or Facebook feeds but want to casually browse photos. While Instagram is easy to browse on its own, adding it in means you can browse all three in one single app. Considering Instagram doesn't have an iPad app, Pixable can make a good alternative.

Edit your portraits to perfection with Facetune for iPhone

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Mar 8, 2013 a 10:59 pm

Facetune is a powerful photo editing app designed to help you edit your portrait photographs into perfection. Not only can you remove blemishes, smooth out skin, and enhance eyes, but you can also fix gray hair, fill in bald spots, defocus the background, and even reshape your subjects face.

$1.99 - Download now

Flickr for iPhone updated with faster uploading and other improvements

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 a 12:39 pm

The photography app Flickr for iPhone has been updated with faster uploading and new features that address many user complaints including the ability to save photos from your Photostream to your Camera Roll. Flickr will also automatically save original, pre-filter photos that were taken with the app to your Camera Roll.

Free - Download now

Cycloramic automatically rotates your iPhone 5 to capture handsfree 360 degree video

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Jan 8, 2013 a 8:32 pm

Cycloramic is a really fun video recording app that will automatically spin your iPhone 5 around and record a video. As long as your iPhone 5 is placed on a smooth, flat surface, Cycloramic will use the vibrator in the iPhone 5 to make it spin 360 degrees. Not only is this impressive and just a lot of fun to watch, but Cycloramic is a great way to capture video of everyone sitting at a table during a dinner party or family gathering.

Get 3 months of Flickr Pro for free!

By Leanna Lofte, Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 a 4:04 pm

The excellent photo sharing network Flickr (that we recommend as an alternative to Instagram) is generously offering 3 months of Flickr Pro for free to all Flickr users. It's their holiday gift to all.

Instagram for iPhone updated with new filter and fixed privacy

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Dec 21, 2012 a 1:49 pm

Less than two weeks after adding the new Willow filters and other tweaks, Instagram for iPhone has added yet another filter called Mayfair. This update was actually available last night caused a bit of an uproar with a misleading privacy toggle. It appeared that private accounts were switched to public, but it turns out that was only a bug and private accounts were actually still private, and a new update today fixes that bug.

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Flickr for iPhone updated with better Facebook sharing and more notifications

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 a 4:19 pm

Just one week following its huge update that introduced filters, Flickr for iPhone has been updated again with a few more improvements including better Facebook sharing and more options for notifications.

Free - Download now

Flickr: the best alternative to Instagram

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 a 8:48 pm

Following the news of Instagram's new terms of service, many users are deleting their accounts, even after hearing Instagram's side of the story, so the natural question to follow all this drama is "what is the best alternative to Instagram?" My answer: Flickr.

Flickr for iPhone completely redesigned, introduces filters

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012 a 2:19 pm

In case you didn't have enough photo-flitering apps to update this week, with Instagram and Twitter, Flickr has also updated their iPhone app with a complete redesign and, you guessed it, filters! There are 16 different filters available as well a wide selection of editing tools.