WideAngle is a free

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and photo aggregating

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lication that initially launched for the

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in March 2013 with an additional launch for the

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in May 2013. An Android version of the app is expected within 2013.

History

WideAngle began development in the summer of 2012. The WideAngle team is currently made up of seven people. The iPhone version of WideAngle launched in May 2013. At the time, over 14 million

Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

and

Instagram Instagram is an American photo sharing, photo and Short-form content, short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with Social media camera filter, filters, be ...

photos were viewed by users in 125 countries. WideAngle reached 100,000 users within 15 weeks after its initial launch in July 2013.

Photo discovery

WideAngle combines photos from Facebook, Instagram, Photo Stream,

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and iPad/iPhone devices. Personal photos from those sources and friends' photos from Instagram and Facebook are shown within the app. Photos can be sorted by date taken, location, source,

camera A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. As a pivotal technology in the fields of photograp ...

type, resolution, event, saved status and an interactive map feature. New albums can be created within the app, and photos can be shared by email, Facebook,

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, Instagram, and other platforms from within the app.

Social media aggregation

WideAngle combines photos from

and

. Users are able to read and add comments as well as like photos. Comments and likes added within WideAngle appear in the original social media platform. WideAngle plans to add more social media and photo sources as well as launch an Android version of their app in the near future.

References

Photo software

External links

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