Free App Friday: Social Photo Sharing
Posted 08/19/2011 at 3:00pm
| by Florence Ion
Summer time is almost to an end, and you've probably got a ton of photos to sift through and upload to the web. Our suggestion is that you start with the incriminating blackmail photos first to get that over with, and then work your way up to the all-smiles group pictures. To get those photos to the web from your phone, here are four free apps that work in conjunction with your favorite social networks. Because it's Free App Friday and no one should have to pay for an app on a day like today.

You know it because your friends used it, but have you jumped on the Instagram train yet? The app lets you share your photos across a spectrum of social networks, and gives you the option to add a vintage hue to them or even tilt-shift your photo.

Like Instagram, PicPlz lets you style your photos with photo filters and then share them with friends via Twitter of Facebook. You can also look through photos from other users and check out the most interesting that have popped up in the feed.


If you're big on taking photos with your iPhone 4, but not a fan of its narrow vertical dimensions, use Squaready to crop your photos the way you want them. The app features an easy-to-use interface with numbers detailing the right stops for going through the editing process. When you're ready, you can send them to Instagram to apply a filter and upload them to the web, or simply upload them to Evernote.

Since I don't usually take pictures of myself, I rely on other friends to snap photos for me. But, I don't always get to physically hold on to that photo and store it away on my hard drive. Vvall lets you and your friends instantly swap photos together as long as they also have a vvall account (currently, none of my friends on Facebook seem to have such an account…). The app also enables you to do a full-size multiple upload and import photos from services like Instagram, DailyBooth and PicPlz.