Windows Phone and Instagram
Instance
One of the most missed features on Windows Phone, at least in my opinion is the lack of support for Instagram, the worlds most popular photo sharing service.
There’s quite a few viewer apps. Apps that let you view the photo stream, like photos and comment on them, but posting photos to Instagram has been missing. A couple of weeks ago there was reports that those apps that had found a way around this experienced that photos uploaded through them was being deleted by Instagram but it seems like this has been fixed now so for those who use Windows Phone and want to be able to post to Instagram, here’s two options for you.
Instance comes as both a free ad-based version and a paid app ($1,49) and let’s you register account, upload photos, comment, like, follow and find your Facebook friends. a full featured Instagram client. You can download the paid version here, and the free version here.
Metrogram
Another app (combination) that I am using is Metrogram and Instagraph. Metrogram is free (download) but it’s just a “viewer” – you cannot upload directly with Metrogram but that’s where Instagraph comes in. When you press the “post” button in Metrogram it launches Instagraph.
Instagraph (download) is a paid app ($1,99) but a trial version is available with a limit of 30 days and 1 upload per day. It let’s you apply filters and upload Instagram photos. Instagraph does not use the Instagram API and it looks like the photos are uploaded to an Instagraph server and queued for publishing to Instagram. How it’s technically done I’m not sure but the photos are published to Instagram :) Instagraph can also be used as a full featured but I’ve found that Metrogram has a better UI for viewing than Instagraph.
And now I am off to give Instance a try :)
Instagraph
Since these apps are all unofficial there’s never any guarantee that they always will work since it looks like Instagram doesn’t like Windows (Phone) at all – I’ve even heard a rumor that the founder of Instagram as some grudge against Microsoft, but that’s just an unconfirmed rumor… Maybe and hopefully It’ll change now that Facebook owns Instagram. I can only hope.
If you got tips for other Instagram apps that lets you upload photos pleas let me know in the comments. It would be great to have a list of app alternatives available.
And if you need someone to follow you’ll find me as “alexanderviken” :)
