Does your business use Instagram?Are you looking for apps to help you create unique images and video for your Instagram feed?In this article, you’ll find 10 apps that make it easy to create and edit outstanding images and videos for Instagram.
Why Instagram Apps?
Instagram recently passed 150 million active users. To create lasting engagement with those users, you need to share beautiful and targeted content that resonates with your audience. If you’re not a professional photographer, this can present some difficulties. That’s where image and video apps come in.Finding the AppsMost of these apps are available for both iOS and Android. When they aren’t, a link to a similar Android app is listed as a substitute.
#1: Photo Editor by Aviary
Have you ever felt limited by Instagram’s settings? If so, download Photo Editor byAviary for a complete range of effects and color correctors. Its smart “one-tap auto enhance” will help you render a gorgeous photo.
Aviary helps you easily crop images—a feature that Instagram does not currently have. iPhone | Android
#2: Image Editing With Afterlight
Remember light leaks? Thanks to the Afterlight app’s vintage filters, you can easily recreate those old-timey effects on photos taken with your mobile device.iPhone | Android (XN Light)
#3: Create Artistic Images With Snapseed
Whether you’re already a mobile photo pro or completely new to it, Snapseedprobably sounds familiar. That’s because from redeye reduction and tilt shift to textured filters and straightening, its ranges of tools have long been the best addition to Instagram’s built-in filters.Snapseed is a must when you need to make elements of a photo pop, especially when showcasing products or logos in a real-life setting.iPhone | Android
#4: Slow Camera Shutter Plus
Have you ever wanted to create one of those amazing photos where glowing letters and shapes float in the air at night? Grab a couple of glow sticks and use the Slow Shutter Cam app to take long-exposure images with your mobile device.The app takes a bit of practice, but once you get the hang of it, you can produce amazing images.Here’s an example from Mission Bicycle.iPhone | Android (LE Cam)
#5: Bokehful
Bokeh is a classic photo effect defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light” and Bokehful imitates the effect with your smartphone.While a smartphone lens can’t create a bokeh effect, Bokehful will do the trick. It also comes with more whimsical patterns, like the heart-shaped ones used by Burberryabove. iPhone | Android (Delicious Bokeh)
#6: Tiny Planet Photos App
Tiny Planet has an out-of-nowhere, extreme fisheye–looking effect that turns any mobile image into, well, a tiny planet. The rounded images provide an appreciable dose of originality to your business’ Instagram feed.With Tiny Planet, you can capture landscapes in their entirety, as Baffaa did in the above image of Doha Harbor. iPhone | Android (Planet Camera)
#7: Add Typography to Your Instagram Photos With Overgram
Do you sometimes wish you could add text to your Instagram photos? Overgram‘s text overlay feature comes with a variety of fonts that match or complement your business image.Use Overgram to annotate your photos and provide useful information to your followers.iPhone | Android (PicLab)
#8: Shoot, Tune and Share With Facetune
Does your business show shots of employees and customers in its Instagram feed? Use the Facetune toolbox to correct portraits like a pro photographer and make sure to show everyone in their best light!Facetune helps correct tiny skin imperfections in two swaps and taps. iPhone | Android (Perfect365)
#9: Combine Multiple Photos With PicFrame
Sometimes the context one image provides for another is important and you’d like to post them next to each other. PicFrame lets you select multiple photos and organize them into a patchwork that posts as a single collage image on Instagram.Here’s how the NBA used a patchwork collage.iPhone | Android
#10: CrossProcess
You can never have too many filters. CrossProcess filters let you mimic the color and burned effects of old-school Polaroid cameras.iPhone | Android (Little Photo)