- Compiled by Nick Potechin
- Snapcamera - (snapcamera.snapshat.com) Can apply snapchat filters when using normal cameras or skype instead of just Snapchat.
- Scrl - (scrlapp.com) Helps improve landscape photography of Instagram where you can adjust the specific margins of each photo, create very specific collages and can send it out as an image that can still be swiped through all the pictures or as a video that automatically scrolls through photos or as an Instagram story.
- Scrolla - (scrola.app) Input a URL into app, then select what platform (phone, computer, tablet) that it’s meant to be viewed on, as well as your scroll speed (either slow, medium, or fast) and it will make a video showcasing the page that scrolls through the webpage automatically at the selected speed so that you can showcase your website. Can use a video editing tool to input a narration over the video.
- Teleprompt.me - Only works on Chrome browser. Used for video creators and podcast producers. Install it and give it access to your microphone. Put your script for the video/podcast into the app and it will bring it up on the screen and will check off each word as you speak. It will automatically progress through the script as you speak if it has access to your microphone
- Infogram - (infogram.com) Used to edit, organize and create infographics. Provides many different templates, types of infographics, and displays, and even backgrounds. Can plug in data and input a design style to create custom infographics. Used to make clean and custom infographics. Browser based application.
- Air Story - (airstory.co) Used to grab images, text, and your own personal annotations during your research phase, and then places them into a storage folder where content from it can then be dragged and dropped into Google Docs, Emails, Word, etc. Is a browser addon for Chrome and FireFox. Just highlight a section of text or image, right click, and select ‘add to Air Story’. Records URL of source and the date it was grabbed Price: Free
- Sticker Mule - (stickermule.com) Take or select a picture and upload it to the app. Select a face in the picture or logo. App is used to make stickers, magnets, decals, button, etc. of the face selected in the picture. Costs a little over a dollar per item. Doesn’t have to just be faces, can be logos or others things.
- Remove.bg - Web based tool that removes background of any image. Can enter a URL or just upload an image. Almost instantaneous. Background is removed from the picture while the focus of the picture is kept. Can then download the picture and then edit the background. Perfect almost every time. Uses AI to recognize people in picture and then cuts them out of the photo. Can change backgrounds on pictures to make it flow better with your website or theme. Need to use a different tool to make a background. Works perfectly on phone and computer
- Lumafx - (luma-touch.com) (IOS only) Video editing app that can crop, edit, change size/shape of image in video, color correct, etc. Can apply filters and presets to video to customize it. Has features of most generic editing software as well as unique features. Need to import files to app. Allows you to place better emphasis on focus of video and makes the video pop out more in general. More powerful than most other editing software.
- Photo Utils - (photoutils.com) Browser based tool that allows you to manipulate images in many of the same ways as photoshop. Easier to use than most other photo editors as well having specific templates meant to specialize an image for social media. Doesn’t have all the same features as photoshop, but is a lot easier to use and more user friendly. More straightforward than most editing software.
- Stories Creator - (buffer.com/stories-creator) Browser based application used to create stories for social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. Very simple. Can upload images, logos, whatever, and then set backgrounds, or use a template to design as well as inserting text. Not used for videos, only for still images. Very simple and straightforward to use, and can directly download it or export it. Only available on desktop.
- Juicer - (juicer.io) Brings together social media posts all into one place so they can be showed off on websites or screens to display. Can search by hashtags or key terms for posts on most every social media platforms and allows you to search through the results and filter results for quality content you need for your website or advertisement. Can choose how ech video, image, or post appears.
- Leo AR Camera - (leoapp.com) App for IOS and Android, as well as browser that allows you to create Augmented Reality movies. Can place objects into the movie that aren’t there in real life that are interactable and can be touched and moved. Can search through different categories of items and find what you want and then you place it where you want it and it maintains size, locations, and position. You hit record and it creates a video with all the augmented reality prop. Items stay in location and proportion in relation to distance to each other and distance from each other and can be animated (items get smaller and larger to measure distance from your phone). These augmented reality items show normal physics and act as if they are real. Very easy to use.
- - (phlntn.com/emojibuilder) Web based service that lets you build your own emojis in the same style of most emojis with many different options for customization and personalization.
- Planable- (planable.io) Allows marketers to give feedback and plan out potential social media posts before release. Can use to mock up social media posts and see how they would appear on each social media platform. Can also send the mock up to others who can critique it. Can share it with people who can approve it, make comments on it, and edit it.
- Kapwing - (kapwing.com) Web based browser tool that helps to make Instagram stories using advanced templates. It organizes everything and allows you to create each story with a similar style. Very seamless, and allows you to create a sort of photo album that is very stylistic. Can use for pictures, captions, videos, etc. After creating, can export to phone or Instagram. Free version puts a small watermark on the image. Have to go all the way down to the bottom under video tools to Instagram Story Templates
- IGDM - (igdm.me) App that helps you get away from all the scrolling on the mobile version of Instagram. Allows you to login to Instagram and access DMs on a desktop version instead of mobile that helps keep you from getting distracted by everything.
- Nceptions App - (nceptionapp.com) IOS or desktop App that allows you to create photos and videos that are abstract with a very kaleidoscopic, warped, design that is folded in on itself and mirrored. Think of Doctor Strange where the people were moving all the buildings. Can either take or import videos to the app to create images and then choose a filter to create the effects.
- Get Dialogue - (getdialogue.am) Like a public conference call. You go live and people can listen to you talk on the live audio. People can leave comments and you can allow people to join the conference. There is no video element to it. Audio can be downloaded after the chat ends. The conference can be public or private. You can set a link that people need to listen in.
- Clipping Magic - (clippingmagic.com) Browser based app that allows you to crop out the background of an image to isolate an image. Drag and drop in the image to the place and designate what you want to remain in the photo, and also allows you to edit the photo. Don’t have to be incredibly accurate with what you select to remain in the image. Better than any other tool out there and is super intuitive.
- Vimeo Stock Video - (vimeo.com/stock) Stock videos through Vimeo taken by world class film artists that are available to those who use the Vimeo editing program. Current Vimeo members get a discount on stock videos.
November 2nd, 2018