Social media is fun. Until your mom starts commenting on everything you post there, or your dad starts liking all sorts of dubious accounts of naked women.

At such a time, it’s time to leave the mass segment. But where? - a clear monopolist. But there are other applications that are still striving to take the iron throne in the world of photo applications. And they are not as bad as they seem. And in some ways they will be cooler than the much-hyped giant.

1. Hyper

Suitable for: hashtag lovers
iOS: for free
Android: not available

It was launched not long ago. Reminds me of a mixture of Reddit and Instagram. The app allows users to share multiple photos in one post and send photos to each other directly from the Internet (oh, magic!). Instead of focusing on any global goals, Hyper set itself the goal of creating a network of “channels” that are constructed by people themselves through hashtags. It turns out to be a kind of differentiation of people into specific types based on photographic styles.

2. Shots

Suitable for: people who are angry about cyber bullying
iOS: for free
Android: for free

Are you tired of people who shine with their lack of wit under your posts? Spam and online trolls are the worst thing the Internet has given us. Shots is an application for good people who want to somehow get distracted by looking at original photographs, because repetition is excluded in the application. “No negative comments,” say the creators. And you know, such a dictatorship is forgivable if you are tired of all this dirt around.

3. EyeEm

Suitable for: those looking for a more professional alternative to Instagram
iOS: for free
Android: for free

EyeEm is a free app that focuses on professional-quality photos. Lots of customization options, no censorship in photos. EyeEm is a great solution for photography lovers.

4.Moju

Suitable for: motion sensor lovers
iOS: for free
Android: not available

The main feature of this application is the motion sensor. You can create not only quick photos, but also something completely new. You can capture up to 24 frames per second to create moving pictures to share with friends. It's a funny thing, but that's where all the benefits end.

5. Flickr

Suitable for: people who send a huge number of photos
iOS: for free
Android: for free

Some will say that there is nothing new in this application. And this “someone” will be right. But a contender for the title of “Instagram replacement” doesn’t have to be anything new. Flickr has a large base of 87 million people and always has high-quality updates that enhance the aesthetic and technological aspects. In the end, there is the ability to save a full-size photo, and all this is in a convenient and understandable shell.

6. Hipstamatic

Suitable for: lovers of old-school photography
iOS: $1.99
Android: not available

$2 for an app with a dubious name. Isn't this robbery? But rave reviews from customers indicate that the money was well spent. Essentially, Hipstamatic is an analog-themed application that gives you a huge number of lenses and filters. But everything is excellent in quality.

The social network Facebook of the popular photo service Instagram forced users to look for escape routes. Having learned about this deal and anticipating serious changes in Instagram, many expressed a desire to stop using the photo service, close their accounts and go to another service. Which service should you choose if such close proximity to Facebook doesn’t suit you?

Picplz for iOS and Android was already replacing Instagaram with the latter until the version for Google phones was introduced. You can not only apply one of the 17 built-in filters, but also resize the image, cut out a specific part, flip the photo, adjust color, brightness, saturation and much more. In addition, Picplz allows you to attach stickers (hat, glasses, etc.) to photos, as well as add custom text.

You can check out Hipster for iOS or Android. Just like Instagram, the app offers dozens of built-in filters and frames that can be applied to images. However, Hipster has one great feature: you can add text to your photos, thereby creating real e-cards.

Autodesk's product is a bit heavy for a simple photo application, but it is the most advanced solution for the Android platform. Considering its origins, you should not be surprised at the variety of possibilities for photo processing. The program has 68 built-in filters, 73 lighting effects, and 193 frame options. On the one hand, it's impressive. On the other hand, such a wide choice is confusing. To solve the problem, Pixlr-o-matic is equipped with the function of randomly selecting parameters for your image, thanks to which you only need to press one button to create a unique photo.

For the iPhone, it’s practically Instagram’s twin brother with a single community. After processing the photo in Hipstamatic, you can upload it to Instagram. Whether the relationship between the two photo apps will change after the deal with Facebook is still a question.

Next on the list is the free PickYou. The iPhone client allows you to take photos, apply filters to them, and share the results with friends. Everything is as usual. Once the buzz around Instagram began, the San Francisco-based startup expressed hope for an influx of new users. In three months, PickYou was downloaded 500 thousand times.

Photoshop Express for iOS and Android provides ample opportunities for processing digital photographs on the gadget's display and their subsequent transfer via the Internet. The client is equipped with an intuitive user interface and has a “go-to” set of tools for quickly editing and sharing digital photos. It is possible to purchase 45 effects and 18 picture frames. Using Photoshop Express, you can resize photos, adjust contrast and brightness levels, and add simple special effects. Processed images can be posted on Photoshop.com, Facebook, Twitter or Flickr.

Streamzoo for iOS and Android is practically a clone of the Instagram app. You have access to 14 built-in filters, 15 frames, color control, and support for the tilt-shift effect. In addition, Streamzoo allows you to tag your images for easier search on social networks. In addition to photos, Streamzoo supports working with videos.

Lightbox is a free Android app that offers a standard set of features. Allows you to share photos via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr and Foursquare. Users like its interface, judging by the reviews. After downloading Lightbox Photos, you just need to register in the service, take a few frames, apply the effects you like and post the frame on social services. Everything is simple and accessible.

EyeEm for iOS and Android positions itself as a service for finding interesting images on a specific topic, event or location. Once you create a photo, you are prompted to give it a theme and indicate the location where it was taken. Thanks to such parameters, it becomes very convenient to view images, as well as photographs of other users created while attending an event. Image editing is not the main function of the application, but users can apply 14 built-in filters and 12 frames, which are enough to create a high-quality frame.

On July 17, the Snapster application, developed by VKontakte, appeared in the App Store. This application, in its functional features, is a kind of domestic competitor to such well-known products as Instagram and Snapchat, which is especially popular in the USA. There is no need to look for any special differences between the applications, however, Snapster can still offer us several unique features.

Since this application is aimed at simplifying as much as possible the processes of creating and preparing photos before posting them on a social network, inside we can find 19 filters that were created with the help of professional photographers. The application can also carry out other simple photo editing processes: brightness, saturation, contrast, color correction, and so on. But this will not surprise the modern user, so the developers have added the ability not only to create their own photo processing presets, but also to borrow filters created by other Snapster users.

Another interesting feature of this application is the presence of a timer that allows you to destroy photos after sending them to your interlocutor. That is, you yourself set the time after which the photo will be deleted from the device of the user who received this photo. If the recipient comes up with the idea of ​​taking a screenshot of the received photo, then you will receive a notification about this, but, unfortunately, nothing more - his device will not explode, a criminal case will not be automatically brought against him, and so on.

Snapster's interface is largely similar to the above-mentioned applications, so it is unlikely that anyone will have to spend a lot of time mastering it. After installing the application, your friends from VKontakte will be automatically integrated into Snapster, and you will be able to actively monitor their activities. Although this product is a copy, I am sure that it will find its target audience among Russian-speaking users.

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Instagram saved humanity from 150 million dull photos by turning them into works of hipster art. And no matter how you feel about tight-legged guys, it’s impossible to imagine posting photos online without Instagram. But what if you don't have an iPhone? How to deal with your inner hipster? Gadget selected and tried 7 web services that completely replace the famous photo application.

Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that allows users to take photos, apply filters to them, and distribute them through its service and a number of other social networks. Instagram takes photos in a square shape - like Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid cameras. Most photo apps on iOS use a 3:2 aspect ratio. The application is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices running iOS 3.1.2 and higher, as well as phones running Android 2.2 and higher with support for OpenGL ES 2. It is distributed through the App Store and Google Play, respectively.

1.Rollip

Rollip is a service for people without time and imagination. It embodies asceticism with a set of 40 selected filters and a form for sending a file. The authors said “no” to fashionable sociality and customization, even getting rid of the opportunity to add a frame and at least somehow change the effects.
On the other hand, this approach frees up time for Look At Me - it took Gadget less than a minute to test all the capabilities of the web application. An excellent opportunity to convert time into fantasy, which will inevitably be needed for further processing.

2. InstantRetro

A simple application with a nice “hand-drawn” design. Provides a choice of 8 effects of various washes on 35 mm film and amateur photographer sliders - the degree of darkening of the edges, lightening of the center and color fading. There is a feature of framing it with a Polaroid frame with an inscription.
InstantRetro is integrated with Facebook, but does not welcome contacts within itself. The only opportunity to get acquainted with the works of other creators is to rummage through the tiles of the latest posted photographs.

3. Pixlr o-matic

An unusually beautiful Flash application from Autodesk with three stages of creativity - choosing a color, texture and frame. The number of possible options for each effect amounts to three dozen, so you have almost 30 thousand combinations at your disposal.

The input photo can either be downloaded from disk, or taken into a web camera, and received back as a link or a finished file.

4.Picplz

Picplz is a cross-platform service that gives photo maniacs what they want - apps for iOS and Android, a simple web interface, a Twitter-like social network and 11 simple photo filters. The service integrates with a variety of third-party networks - Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous and others - and tries to associate you with existing contacts as much as possible - for example, Twitter users you follow will automatically be included in your following list on Picplz . Here you can follow everyone, like everyone and comment on everyone.

Of the photo filters, the Russian Toy Camera is especially noteworthy, referencing the era of the first color photographs of the Union, where any Lomographer dreams of finding himself.

5.Picyou

Picyou is a browser-only Twitter for photos. The set is quite standard - lists of readers (watching?) and read (watched?), tags, likes, comments, top most popular works. All this is implemented minimalistically and very simply.

There are only 8 photo effects, there is only one frame, but it is possible to select an area for cropping.

6. TiltShiftMaker

Everyone's favorite "toy" figure effect with intuitive settings - that's what TiltShiftMaker is all about. The application allows you to select the width of the “squint” focus, blur strength, bokeh type and save the processed photo in various sizes.

One hundred percent ambush for those who haven’t played enough.

7. Picnic

Picnic is a large online Photoshop that contains almost all the functionality of the listed applications, with the exception of likes and comments. In Picnic you can not only apply the styles that are relevant for the season, but also manually set the sharpness, brightness, contrast, tonality, remove red eyes, cut the photo or reduce its size - in general, everything for which in Russia it is customary to break an Adobe product .

Among other things, there is a whole pack of graphic effects, including the coveted Lomo and Holga. The product is free, but there is also a paid version for $2/month, which offers additional design styles and the ability to upload photos in batches.

Sometimes you “live” on one social network for so long that it becomes boring. Nothing can surprise you, there are the same people and the same pictures all around. Or, on the contrary: there is not enough functionality or professional communication. There may be many reasons to try to replace Instagram with something more interesting. And we will help with this.

Instagram Alternative #1: Snapseed

While Snapseed doesn't offer its own photo network, it does give you plenty of options for editing your photos.

In addition to automatic correction that optimizes your photos at the touch of a button, you can use a variety of effects and filters. For example, you can crop photos or apply vintage or black and white filters to them. You can also create HDR effects.

Snapseed is available as an app for Android and iOS, as well as a PC download.

Instagram Alternative #2: Flickr

Images can be uploaded directly from the application and edited using filters in real time. When you sign up for Flickr, you'll receive 1 TB of free storage.
Flickr is available as a web resource and as an application for Android and iOS.

Photos like on Instagram: Pinterest

On Pinterest, images are also the focus. You can post your own photos on your page. In addition, you will also receive messages from other users - not only from those who are friends with you, but also according to a selection of interests.

The user can also link his Youtube account to his page. Naturally, the interest can be deleted. There is both a web service and a Pinterest application.

Instagram Alternative No. 4 from Germany: EyeEm

With 20 real-time filters, EyeEm allows you to enhance your photos as you upload them and create true works of art.

The service is available for Android, iOS and web. By the way, you can use it to sell your photographs.

More than just photo editing and sharing: Tumblr

Tumblr is more than a photography community. In addition to images and GIFs, you can also share texts, as well as video and audio files. Layouts, colors and fonts can be customized.

Just create a blog on Tumblr and connect with a network of like-minded people. Hashtags can be used to easily track specific topics.

The service is available both via the web and as an application for iOS and Android.