Apps are all about making your life easier—but if you’re not using the right apps, you might actually be making it more complicated. Luckily, we’re here to tell you which apps you need to streamline your life. Here are three apps that you need as soon as possible:
Snapseed
Your phone might come with a pretty generic photo editor already, but if you want to kick your photo editing up a notch, Snapseed is the app you need. While you can upload your pictures to your computer and use photo editing software, this app is the best way to make tweaks to those photos, before uploading them to your social media accounts. This means that instead of taking pictures with your smartphone’s powerful camera and then taking the extra time to put them on your computer and then upload them, you can take your picture, do all the editing your need with Snapseed, and then upload them directly to your profiles. This makes getting great looking pictures on your profile fast, simple, and easy.
The beauty of this app over other photo-editing apps is that it also serves as a photo management tool. Not only can you sort your pictures into different albums, it also has a visual search function that is, in a word, impressive.
Quik
This app was developed by GoPro, so you know it’s good—and you don’t even have to have a GoPro in order to use it. Quik is a video editing app that makes it easy to make changes to videos you take on your smartphone or other smart-enabled mobile device. This app was developed to keep up with the newest generation of smartphones, some of which can shoot video in 4K and HD. You might not ever need to buy a big, fancy camera again when you have smartphones like these on the market.
Quik makes it easy to make your videos look like they have been professionally edited, even if you have no editing experience. All you have to do is choose the video or videos you want to edit, pick music or sounds you want to add, and then the app with edit the videos together, even syncing it to the rhythm of the music you’ve chosen. It uses a specialized algorithm to figure out the best timing for the cuts and has a library of transitions, filters, and effects you can use to make your videos stand out.
Feedly
If you have mourned the death of Google Reader or are simply just looking for a better RSS reader than the one you are currently using, Feedly is the solution. It isn’t just a carbon copy of Google Reader—it takes what was built there and improves on it. This app is ideal for anyone that wants to be able to get all of their news in one place, which is essential if you are trying to stay on top of your industry’s news.
And because Feedly has its own ecosystem where developers can build clients, even if you don’t love how Feedly looks, you can simply use it as a platform to feed into any other client you prefer. It’s easy to use and will keep you updated, whether you read just a few outlets or whether you want to gather news for dozens of different outlets.
Apps are all about making your life easier—but if you’re not using the right apps, you might actually be making it more complicated. Luckily, we’re here to tell you which apps you need to streamline your life. Here are three apps that you need as soon as possible:
Snapseed
Your phone might come with a pretty generic photo editor already, but if you want to kick your photo editing up a notch, Snapseed is the app you need. While you can upload your pictures to your computer and use photo editing software, this app is the best way to make tweaks to those photos, before uploading them to your social media accounts. This means that instead of taking pictures with your smartphone’s powerful camera and then taking the extra time to put them on your computer and then upload them, you can take your picture, do all the editing your need with Snapseed, and then upload them directly to your profiles. This makes getting great looking pictures on your profile fast, simple, and easy.
The beauty of this app over other photo-editing apps is that it also serves as a photo management tool. Not only can you sort your pictures into different albums, it also has a visual search function that is, in a word, impressive.
Quik
This app was developed by GoPro, so you know it’s good—and you don’t even have to have a GoPro in order to use it. Quik is a video editing app that makes it easy to make changes to videos you take on your smartphone or other smart-enabled mobile device. This app was developed to keep up with the newest generation of smartphones, some of which can shoot video in 4K and HD. You might not ever need to buy a big, fancy camera again when you have smartphones like these on the market.
Quik makes it easy to make your videos look like they have been professionally edited, even if you have no editing experience. All you have to do is choose the video or videos you want to edit, pick music or sounds you want to add, and then the app with edit the videos together, even syncing it to the rhythm of the music you’ve chosen. It uses a specialized algorithm to figure out the best timing for the cuts and has a library of transitions, filters, and effects you can use to make your videos stand out.
Feedly
If you have mourned the death of Google Reader or are simply just looking for a better RSS reader than the one you are currently using, Feedly is the solution. It isn’t just a carbon copy of Google Reader—it takes what was built there and improves on it. This app is ideal for anyone that wants to be able to get all of their news in one place, which is essential if you are trying to stay on top of your industry’s news.
And because Feedly has its own ecosystem where developers can build clients, even if you don’t love how Feedly looks, you can simply use it as a platform to feed into any other client you prefer. It’s easy to use and will keep you updated, whether you read just a few outlets or whether you want to gather news for dozens of different outlets.
Published on September 27, 2016
About the Author: Olivia Haymond
