Sharing photos is one of those everyday, most common actions on the iPhone that has got easier and easier as the iPhone and the App Store have developed. Apple has made things easier with features like multi-photo select in the Photos app, and many third party apps offer ways to send our pics all over the place in lots of slick ways.
PhotoScatter is one of the better recent entries that I ‘ve seen in this area. It ‘s a simple app (I ‘m a big fan of simple apps) with not a lot of bells and whistles as yet. It does not do a whole host of things, but it ‘s quite good at what it does “ which is make it easy to simultaneously share a picture to several leading photo-sharing sites.
The sites you can currently share to from PhotoScatter are:
- Flickr
- PhotoBucket
- Shutterfly
- Picasa
Some things I like about PhotoScatter include:
It ‘s got a very simple UI, that matches it ‘s single-purpose focus in terms of what it does. When you first launch the app, you ‘ll need to setup whichever of the six services you want to use with it. I tested the three that are useful to me: Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. Once you ‘ve got your setup done, each launch just presents you with 3 simple choices “ to snap a new pic, choose an existing one from your photo library to share, or go back to the setup area to make adjustments / additions.
Once you ‘ve selected a photo and hit Share, you just choose which services to send it to via easy radio buttons (shown in the screencap at the top of this post). Once those are selected, there ‘s an option to add title and / or description text or just Submit straight away.
Once you hit Submit, the app shows you the progress as the pic hits each selected site.
The uploads are reasonably quick “ the whole process is really super simple, and the app is just pleasant to work with because of its simplicity and neat UI.
There are a few things that are not in PhotoScatter, or that I ‘ve not come across anyway. The ability to share multiple pics at once is the most notable.
It also does not seem to include much information along with photos “ on a quick Flickr test, it only showed a single tag (for its own name), no info on the device used to take the pic, or location info etc.
How useful PhotoScatter is for you is going to depend mostly on your own habits for sharing pictures. I tend to want to send a lot of batches of screencaps with apps I ‘m reviewing and so forth, so there are very good apps like Flickit (for batch upload to Flickr only) and CopyShare (for copying items quite quickly from iPhone to Mac) that serve me very well for that purpose.
I don ‘t have that many occasions when I want to share things to multiple photo / sharing services at once “ but I think my usage is a little atypical in that respect.
If you regularly share photos to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, or the other included services, and often want to share the same pic to multiple places “ and you don ‘t need to do this in big batches “ then this really looks a great app to have around.
You can find PhotoScatter in the App Store now, priced at $1.99
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