Flickr has updated its mobile apps for iOS and Android, sporting a neat makeover and several photo enhancement features designed to improve the experience.
With the latest additions, Flickr 3.0 for iOS and Android now finally offers more advanced photo enhancement features that other apps such as Instagram, Adobe Photoshop Express, Vine, and others have been offering for quite some time. While previous versions of the Flickr mobile app virtually mirrored the look and feel of the Web component, the new version of the app now looks more like a standalone product.
The Flickr app is no longer confusing, crowded and messy, as it now offers a clean viewing experience that looks much better. The makeover brings a photo treatment found in most photo-centric apps currently available on the market, organizing photos into columns and rows for easier access. Flickr aims to fulfill all your mobile photo needs, and it even offers 1TB of cloud storage to store all of your favorite images.
Users can either access the photo roll directly from the app or use their smartphone's camera and enjoy what Flickr has to offer, including photo editing and filters.
A new ability, meanwhile, will now allow users to capture 30-second HD video clips with live filters in an Instagram-like fashion, again bringing the Flickr app more on par with other photo apps out there. Moreover, the new Auto Sync feature will automatically back up all of your photos without requiring any input. Your original photos will be automatically uploaded to Flickr, allowing you to access them from the Web or from another device. Users also have the option to turn off the Auto Sync feature if they so prefer. At the same time, Flickr also touts improvements to its search and organization tools.
"Even if you have thousands of photos, our intelligent search engine will help you find what you're looking for fast," Flickr VP Bernardo Hernandez explains in a company blog post. "Flickr's understanding of your photo's date and time (ex: 'January 2014'), place (ex: 'San Francisco'), and even scenes and objects (ex: 'car,' 'sunset,' 'beach,' 'portrait') helps organize your images so you don't have to."
In addition, the Flickr app now also boasts tighter integration with other social media networks such as Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter. Overall, the app now looks better, works better and is much smoother to navigate, and the Instagram-like video feature will likely be very popular among users.
The updated Flickr apps for iOS and Android are now available for free from the App Store and the Google Play store, respectively. Find Flickr for iOS here and Flickr for Android at this link. Watch the video below to learn more about Flickr 3.0.
