Instagram – free (iPhone, iPad). Instagram is a free photo-sharing app that allows users to instantly apply different filters and frames to photos they’ve just taken, and share them through Instagram or through a variety of other social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Flickr and Posterous. The app works on all iOS devices and lets you take square-shaped photos, just like retro cameras used to do. A second version of the app was released in September 2011, and it became an even more incredible success on the App Store, winning the iPhone App of the Year award as a result.
How Instagram Lite differs from regular Instagram
Instagram Lite differs from regular Instagram in more ways than just the icon.
First, Instagram Lite weighs only 2MB compared to 30MB for regular Instagram. The service specifically hired a team of developers from Tel Aviv who managed to reduce the space the app takes up on your device while retaining most of the features.
Secondly, Instagram Lite has been sharpened to work with low-speed Internet connections. Most likely, this was achieved at the expense of lower resource consumption, because Instagram Lite is deprived of some features. For example, it does not support the night theme and not AR masks.
However, in the foreseeable future, the developers promise to add the missing features. In any case, the night theme in Instagram Lite will definitely appear. According to Instagram representatives, it will be at least “a black background with gray text for those users who prefer muted tones”.
But nothing is known about AR masks. Apparently, this element is quite resource-intensive and not only consumes more traffic, but also requires more processing power from the device on which it runs. And since Instagram Lite is primarily focused on weak devices and on countries where Internet speeds are quite low, most likely, it is not worth waiting for masks to appear in the light version.
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