21 Ways to Do More With Instagram

21 Ways to Do More With Instagram

Like any social network, there are various add-ons available for Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service. Karan Bajaj tries out some smartphone & web apps to enhance your experience

Instabam 

An iOS only app, it lets you view photos from around you. Photos are picked up from random Instagrammers who have included a location in public photos on the network. They also have a website that does the same thing. 

Instasize 

One issue with Instagram is that it crops your image to a square format. Instasize takes care of this by adding white or black bars to your image. The edited image can be directly exported to Instagram where you can apply effects & upload. 

Textgram / Instatext 

Both these apps let you create 'graffiti' Instagrams (with text). You can choose between various font types, colours, emoticons, frames as well as various backgrounds before posting to the network. 

Instagallery 

An alternative viewer app for Instagram, Instagallery gives you a grid view of photographs for a better view. You can zoom into the photos, download and save them to your phone as well as share to other social networks. 

Line Camera 

Love Instagram's square format? Just use Line camera instead of your phone's default camera app. You can select a square resolution and add effects & frames in a jiffy. Then you can directly send the photo to Instagram for sharing. 

Instafollow 

Instafollow is a must-have app if you like to keep track of your followers. It displays new followers, shows you people who have unfollowed you as well as people who are not following you back (so that you can unfollow them if you want). 

Instachat 

True to its name, Instachat is an instant messenging app for Instagram users. It lets you do one-on-one, real-time chat with your Instagram friends in a similar way to WhatsApp. You can also send emoticons, photos and audio messages with read receipt functionality. 

Instake 

Instake for iOS lets you save photos from Instagram to your phone's image gallery. You can select individual photos or download all photos that you have posted, liked or that are visible on your feed — 

with just a touch. 

Instaweather 

Overlay a weather report and location on your Instagram photos using this free app. There are nine different ways to add the effect and you can also choose the amount of weather details to be displayed. 

Instarepost 

Instarepost works in a similar way as Twitter. Using the app, you can instantly repost a photo you like on your own Instagram photo stream. Note that the original author's name is automatically superimposed on the image when you repost. 

TagsForLikes 

In this app, you need to first select the category to which your picture belongs. It will then search for and list the most popular hashtags being viewed/searched for on Instagram, related to that specific category. Just copy the suggested tags and post your photo. This will help you with getting more likes on your photos as well as boost your follower count. 

Clockstagram 

Clockstagram is an iOS app that displays the time on your device using Instagram photos. Since the app pulls photos from Instagram's 'popular' photo feed, you don't need to login. It also automatically creates a background of photos (faded out) & the images on the digital clock change every minute. You can see what it looks like on www.clockstagram.com. 

Flipagram 

The only paid (and iOS only) app on this page costs 55 and lets you create a video from your instagram photos. Select the photos you want, arrange them as per choice, add a background audio track and add a title to the video. Once finished, it can be instantly shared to your social networks.

Courtesy : Techtonic, Time of India dated 30-1-2013