If you take a photo and no one sees it, did it happen? With so many ways to share your pics, you'll never have to find out.
Mobli
Sharing on Mobli is a real-time public affair. Once you post a photo (or video), it goes out to the world, available on one of the app's many channels, like Cars, Sports, or Music. Browse pics by topic, locations, or friend and see what others are looking at right now.
WIRED Darkroom feature lets you use filters and make other edits. App and web-based platforms.
TIRED Sluggish. No private-sharing option—but then again, that's the point.
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Flock
Flock uses locations services and your Facebook network to recognize when you're near friends who also use the service. Then it notifies you so you can see the photos they've taken or upload your own. It's all neatly assembled into shared albums viewable by you and said friends, as long as everyone has the app installed.
WIRED The app can go back through your camera roll to create group albums.
TIRED Requires geofencing, which drains the battery. Works only with Facebook friends.
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Facebook Camera
If you're one of Facebook's billion users, the social network's Camera app is a handy tool for creating a clean feed of just your friends' photos, absent all the text-heavy updates and political discourse. Select mobiles snapshots and share them in bundles with a quick description of each event. You can also create new albums or add to existing ones.
WIRED Darkroom feature lets you use filters and make other edits. App and web-based platforms.
TIRED Sluggish. No private-sharing option—but then again, that's the point.
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Even with the current TOS kerfuffle, photo sharing still kind of begins and ends with Instagram right now. Facebook's $1 billion baby is the best place for viewing and posting filtered square images. The app fosters a vibrant social network where people use the 17 filters to turn even the dullest shots into things worth sharing.
WIRED Tilt-shift, borders, and lux effect (similar to enhance on iPhoto). Deep social integration. Largest app-based photo-sharing community.
TIRED No easy way to see pictures in web browser, though it's getting better. Licensing changes have people bailing.
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EyeEm
EyeEm sets itself apart in the crowded photo-sharing field by helping you find images based not only on who you know but also on the where, what, and when of your snapshots. You get the expected filters and social tools, but you can also add tags like "coffee" or "sunset," then click on those tags to see an album of similar pics.
WIRED 14 real-time filters. Slick, intuitive.
TIRED On the sluggish side. Not as strong of a community as Instagram.
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