Instagram has made amateur photographers of us all. Whether we’re chronicling our daily lives in a series of snapshots and videos in Stories or carefully curating our love of food, fashion and travel in impossibly gorgeous grids, many people are trying to do it a little better, faster and with a modicum of regularity.
To help us up our Insta game, the techies among us have developed some excellent apps. Try these on for likes and watch your feed flourish.
If you want an easy app to help you create a fantastic feed, try Preview. Plan your Instagram by uploading potential content to the app and see how well it works in conjunction with previous posts in terms of colour, content and aesthetic. Simply import the relevant photos and swap them around to see what works best. Preview analytics will also give you an overview of the last seven days while their scheduling feature helps you plan upcoming posts.
When it comes to unreal sunsets, incredible vistas and perfect people shots, VSCO is your friend. Offering a range of amazing customisable filters and presets with which to level up your photos, VSCO allows you to create your own filter recipes and post to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
Somewhat limited in terms of their free version, VSCO, which has a social media community of its own, also allows a seven-day trial to truly get you hooked.
If you’re a social media marketer, aspiring influencer or just extremely invested in your Instagram feed, Planoly is the app for you. A platform from which to schedule your posts, check your analytics and preview your feed, Planoly is a planner’s dream but holds the phone on editing options.
Offering a free version that lets you schedule up to 30 posts a month, Planoly gives you the ability to truly pull through your desired aesthetic while allowing you to pre-compose captions and hashtags. Analytics that track your time and day of posting and most popular posts offer you invaluable information about your followers preferred content and may also inform what time, which day and what you post based on responsiveness.
Three free and of the best, these apps are available for Android and iOS with paid premium options for the ballers.
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