photo apps

Lapse, the app turning your phone into an old-school camera, snaps up $30M

It can cost a fortune in 2024 to find an analogue camera, buy film (and maybe special batteries) for it and take pictures that then need to be paid for to be developed. Yet the experience had a charm

The AI photo app trend has already fizzled, new data shows

Is the AI photo app trend already over? Over the past several months, AI-powered photo apps have been going viral on the App Store as consumers explored AI powered–experiences like Lensa AI’s

BeReal: Hype or hit? What to know about the Gen Z photo-sharing app climbing the charts

An app called BeReal, founded by former GoPro employee Alexis Barreyat along with Kévin Perreau, launched in December 2019 with its idea of asking users to post an unedited photo once per day after r

Microsoft acqui-hires cinemagraphic photo app Swng

Computer vision and clever imaging technology remain hot areas in consumer and enterprise apps, and today Microsoft is picking up talent and tech from a startup called Swng Technologies to give it som

Microsoft Pix can now turn your iPhone photos into art, thanks to artificial intelligence

Microsoft is rolling out an update to its AI-powered photo editing app, Microsoft Pix, that aims to give Prisma and others like it some new competition. While the app was originally designed to enhanc

Photo-blending app Dubble is back from the dead

Dubble is officially (re)launching today, in v2, after a year-long hiatus off the app store while the team re-engineered the backend and applied some gloss and community-requested features on the fron

Snapchat is raising more money around $20 billion valuation

Snapchat may have first made its name in the crowded world of mobile apps with an ephemeral messaging service, but the startup and its wildly popular app are not disappearing anywhere soon. TechC

Forq automatically shares your food photos with the world

Forq is on a mission to collect your food photos (they call them "snackshots") on its Instagram-like app. Today, the company is launching out of beta with new functionality, including an option to let

Two new apps, Daycap and VideoSlam, help you create GIFs and videos to remember your day

Two recently launched applications, Daycap and VideoSlam, make it easy to summarize your day in the format of videos or GIFs, which can then be shared out to social media. Do you need these apps o

Google Acquires Odysee, An App For Private Photo/Video Backup And Sharing, Team Joins Google+

Google may be soon adding more offline and private sharing features to its Google+ Photos service. It has acquired Odysee, an iOS and Android app that let users automatically back up photos and vid

Tango Teases “Music Pix,” A Social App For Making Instant Photo Slideshows

Tango, the mobile messaging platform that raised a massive $280 million from Alibaba earlier this year, has quietly rolled out a new photo-sharing application called Tango Music Pix. The app lets you

FoKo Expands “Enterprise Instagram” Product To Desktop

FoKo, the enterprise photo sharing applications that gives companies a private Instagram-like experience, has announced a new desktop version to share items such as CAD drawings, which might not be av

Custom T-Shirt Design App Snaptee Launches Partnership Program

Snaptee, the iOS and Android app that lets users design and order their own custom T-shirts, has launched a new revenue-sharing program for photo-editing and design app developers. The startup's first

Mobile Photo And Video Platform Mobli Signs Up To The New NASDAQ Private Market

On the heels of raising a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/06/instagram-competitor-mobli-gets-60m-from-carlos-slim-to-build-a-visual-search-engine/">$60 million round at a $1 billion valuation<

Everpix, The Cloud-Based Photo Startup, Is Shutting Down

When it comes to photo-oriented web services, for every slam-dunk success like Instagram, there seem to be <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=photo+sharing+app+shut+down">quite a

Kodak Alaris Calls To App Developers With New Print API That Sends Photos To Target & Elsewhere

Kodak may have filed for bankruptcy, but its brand and business carries on. Today, the Kodak Alaris group is launching <a target="_blank" href="https://www.kodakdeveloper.com">a new service for mobile

Instagram Denies 25% Holiday User Drop From TOS Backlash, And Here Are Real Explanations For A Usage Dip

Sure, it's not unlike the New York Post to be <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism">sensationalist</a>. But in this case it misinterpreted data to suggest Instagram

Trey Ratcliff On The Rise Of Social Photography [TCTV]

Trey Ratcliff, the travel photographer known for popularizing HDR (high dynamic range) photo techniques online through his very popular <a href="http://www.stuckincustoms.com/">Stuck In Customs</a> bl

Y Combinator-Backed Chute Launches A Twilio For Photos

We've heard a lot about photo-sharing apps over the last year or two, and although the launch of a new social photo app may result in eye-rolling by some, images are becoming an ever-more important me

Technology Advancing Art: Photo Apps Are The Folk Art Of Our Generation

Around 2004-2005, puzzled non-tech journalists continually asked me why people were using MySpace -- this was before social networking was a common phrase, before moms & dads were using social sit
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