Apps to Make You a Better, More Artistic Instagrammer

This is a list of iPhone apps to take your Instagram game up a notch.

Nov 15, 2014
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Social media has taken over the world. And by social media, we mean Instagram, no matter if you love to love it or love to hate it. It's given literally anyone the opportunity to claim his or her way to fame (and more) with only a phone. And no, we aren't talking about those who buy followers.

There's way more to Instagram than just up-close and personal selfies and nature pictures. For the artistically inclined people out there who need some direction, we’ve come up with a list of Apps To Make You A Better, More Artistic Instagrammer. 

Glitché

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Price: $0.99

This super cool app will take your regular photos from ordinary to psychedelic. Glitchè has taken the art of pixelation and distortion and put it in the palm of your hand. Once an art form achieveable only with the help of Photoshop, Glitché helps even the most unexperienced user to create captivating illustrations.

Hyperlapse

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Price: Free

Relatively new to the app world but definitely a contender for "best new app," Hyperlapse, allows users to create time-lapse videos without the use of professional equipment and hours of editing. With automatic image stabilization and the ability to speed up footage up to 12 times the orginal speed, this app turns your iPhone into an intricate piece of equipment able to create wildly addicting videos. Users can record an entire day's worth of footage, transform it into a 30-second clip, and then squeeze it into 10 seconds. The possibilities are endless.

Afterlight

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Price: $0.99

Although it's not the easiest photo editing app, Afterlight is one that always produces amazing results. With 59 filters, 66 textures, cropping and transforming tools, frames, and much more, you're definitely equipped to make your photos special.

Notegraphy

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Price: Free

The trend of adding text posts on Instagram is long gone (except for in the celebrity world of quote-aholics, it seems), but Notegraphy may be the app to bring it back. Users are given the ability to make eye-opening, colorful, and graphic illustrations to get their message noticed. Your followers will think you took a graphic design course.

Instafisheye

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Price: $1.99

Fisheye is a photography technique that involves a large camera with a protruding lense, used to create a hemispherical image. There are also fisheye lenses you can attach to your phone camera, but why do that when this app can do all the work for you? With this app you can add a fisheye effect to any picture or video, resulting in rare images sure to make your friends jealous.

Drake Shake

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Price: Free

This is the closest you'll probably get to Drake, ever...sorry to break the news. Drake Shake allows users to add a picture of Aubrey himself to any picture (including nudes, ladies). When the user shakes their phone, a different photo of Drake is chosen, hence the name.

Sktchy

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Price: Free

Sktchy is a hub for artists to get inspired and create. The app allows users to upload a picture as “Inspiration” or choose an image to sketch and post. The process can take a while depending on the user's willingness, but the end result is definitely worth the wait.

Photochop

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Price: Free

With Photochop, a user can crop their face, body, etc., and place it on any background, from the beach to the jungle where Anaconda was shot (just a suggestion).

Path On

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Price: $1.99

One of the most unique photo editing apps on our list, Path On allows users to add creative text to an image. The twist is that users draw lines where the text will be placed, so the text can go diagonally, horizontally, in a circle, etc.

GoldfrApp - Tales of Us

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Price: $0.99

Pop duo Goldfrapp came up with this awesome photo experience to promote their album. It gives you the ability to combine two pictures in order to create one amazing composite image. The app also includes a feature that allows the user to shake their phone, and two random images will be chosen from their library to “remix their memories.” It's a way of getting artistic with your images without having to do too much.

VSCO Cam

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Price: Free

If you don't already have VSCO Cam on your phone, you've probably heard of it, and you've probably even seen it in action. VSCO is one of the most popular photo editing apps around, boasting the ability to adjust the saturation, brightness, white balance, and more on any photo. However, the most popular feature is the wide range of preset filters that can take your photos from amateur to Demarchelier...well, not quite but close.

Whitagram

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Price: Free

One day, everyone realized how much of an annoyance it is that you can't fit an entire picture on Instagram (or at least really cool vertical ones and panoramas), then Whitagram was born. With this app, you gain the ability to fit any picture, tall or wide, onto Instagram. Paired with the perfect picture, it can take your feed to the next level and give it a “cool,” curated aesthetic.

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