PicFeed launches on Windows Phone, lets you create custom feeds for Instagram

PicFeed for Windows Phone

Information technology's been ii weeks since Nokia Globe 2022 took place in Abu Dhabi. The event was highly successful for the Windows Telephone platform. Nokia announced three new devices (2 for Windows Phone 8 and one for Windows RT 8.1), new accessories for those devices, and a scattering of new software. Of course Instagram for Windows Phone was finally announced on stage, but nosotros too got other cool apps similar Nokia StoryTeller, InNote, Vine, and more. PicFeed was also appear back so and is now bachelor for download in the Windows Phone Shop. Allow'south check it out.

So what is PicFeed? It'due south an app from a development studio called Appiphany. App epiphany, go information technology? They take two of pop apps on iOS – InstaFeed and PicTag. PicFeed is basically InstaFeed for Windows Phone, why drop Insta and add Pic to the app name? Probably because Instagram has been slap-up down on apps with the proper noun "Insta" in them, peculiarly when they tap into Instagram data. So what exactly does InstaFeed, and now PicFeed, do? They provide a fashion for users to create custom Instagram feeds without affecting their following account. Information technology's really a clever thought and works around some limitations with the official Instagram accounts on Android and iOS. Here's a nice bulletin point of features you become with PicFeed:

Create Feeds based on Users or Hashtags
Filter by Photograph/Video
Comment on and like Instagram photos from within the app
Share custom feeds via electronic mail, text, Twitter, or Facebook

PicFeed Screenshots

Sounds pretty crawly? You're basically getting similar functionality to how lists on Twitter piece of work. Later downloading PicFeed yous'll just demand to sign in with your Instagram account of selection. From in that location you lot'll see some feeds already for you inside the app. Manifestly you lot'll see one for who you already follow, simply you'll also encounter some of your contempo likes in addition to some lists suggested past the app itself.

Only the magic actually comes when you create your own custom feeds using PicFeed. We initially had some errors getting this to work, but afterwards backing out of the app a few times it was working without a hitch on our Lumia 1020. Just tap the "+" button in the app bar to get started on creating that custom feed. You'll first exist naming it and so y'all tin can add either users or hashtags to that feed.

Why would yous practice this versus simply following them? Well y'all might non want people to know you're following a certain account or maybe yous want to monitor a specific set up of hashtags. There are a wide number of scenarios of how this app tin come in handy and we're glad to see it on Windows Phone.

The app is pretty good for version ane.0, but a few things can be improved (spell check please). At that place'southward also lockscreen support, so you can fix a particular feed to bear witness images on information technology. Pretty nifty.

Every bit far as we tin tell, the app is free for Windows Phone 8 users and isn't express to just Lumia handsets. You lot'll want to caput to the Windows Telephone Store to get information technology or utilise the QR code below.

Cheers for the tip JD!

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