If photography is your daily hobby or you’re a professional photographer, you probably love to share your works. There are a lot of photo-sharing services out there on the internet and this is mainly what people do nowadays on the internet – they share photos. iPhones and other iOS devices have become a part of many people’s life. Photography has extended widely on mobile devices, thus, it’s even more important to have photo sharing apps. In this article we’ll discuss the top 10 photo-sharing apps for iOS.
- Flickr is one of the first and most popular photo-sharing services. It’s powered by Yahoo! and it’s used mainly by professional photographers and people keen on photos. Flickr can be used by an average user as well. It lets share your snapshots to public or privately. Download this app for free on your iPhone or iPod touch.
- Facebook is well known as the most popular social network all over the world. Sharing a photo on Facebook is just as easy as writing a status. You have a lot of privacy option there as well. You can share your photos to public, to your friends, close friends or just for you. The app has been recently updated to match iOS 7 design, which is great to know. Facebook it’s a universal application for all iOS devices and it is available for free.
- Instagram is a relatively new service which has gained tens of millions of users in a short amount of time. You can set Instagram of upload your photos automatically to your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous profiles. You can customize your photos with different built-in filters and cinematic stabilization. It is available for free in App Store and has been updated to a flat design earlier today.
- Bump is quite an unique app and photo-sharing between two devices has never been so easy and fun. With Bump, all you need to do is open the app on both devices, slightly bump them and boom – the photo is sent. It works with computers as well. Download this app for free on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.
- Google+ is a social network powered by Google that has been recently merged with the popular photo service Picasa. You can easily share photos with friends, family and co-workers. You can create short animations, HDR photos, panoramas, and even photo booth-like pictures.
- Tumblr lets you interact with the social network by posting pretty much anything from your iOS device, including photos. In fact, the majority of Tumblr blogs are mainly photo blogs. The iOS app has been recently updated and brings more responsiveness and ease of use. It features a Home screen where you see the latest posts from people you follow and you can search by tags. Download the free app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
- Path is somewhat different and unlike the other apps we’ve discussed above. It’s concept is about to share photos more intimate photos, safe in the knowledge that only your family, closest friends will see them. The UX is fairly simple: take a photo, tag people to share with, and upload to the stream. The web experience has been brought to iOS, resulting in a free app on App Store.
- Twitter. You know Twitter not as a photo sharing service, but still it comes in handy with you don’t want to use other services on this list, or simply because all your friends use Twitter exclusively. It is available for all iOS devices for free.
- Shutterfly is a great free service that people have been using for many years on the web. Not the great experience comes to iOS within a simple app. Assuming you have a good internet connection all the time, you can store all your photos there. It is easy then to share your snaps with other people using direct links.
- Last but not the least, Photo Stream comes very handy if you want to share several photos or albums with your relatives or people in your contact list. The great thing is that you don’t have to use any of the above services and apps, as Photo Stream is a built-in feature in iOS. To find you how to share photos via Photo Stream, check out our latest iOS Tips and Tricks guide.
Top 10 best photo sharing apps on iOS