10 of the best photo sharing apps for iOS and Android

unnamed-71. Instagram

This app should need no introduction – with 200 million active users per month and 60 million photos shared every day, it’s pretty safe to call Instagram the world’s current photo sharing app of choice.

Building on analogue camera lovers Lomography’s “shoot from the hip” ethos, you take photos with your phone, add a filter, brighten and sharpen as needed and publish to your own Instagram feed. The 15 second video function allows a little more context, and you can connect up your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare and Flickr accounts to share your images far and wide. You can even send private photo and video messages to friends.

Read about the latest Instagram update here and check out 8 ways to bring your Instagram photos in to your home.

Available from iTunes and Google Play for free.

2. Flickr

Available from iTunes and Google Play for free.

Flickr is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, having built a massive community of photography nuts from the amateur to the professional. As useful for those needing images as for those seeking somewhere to share them, photos are organised in to albums and can be tagged for easy retrieval, licensed for use by others (or not) and shared with the 87 million strong community. Free accounts come with 1 terabyte of storage (that’s 1000GB!) and are accessible across all your devices, so reorganising your images is a cinch.

The mobile app acts very similarly to Instagram – take a photo, choose from a range of filters then upload – with the added functionality of adding tags and being able to create a photo album or upload in to an existing one. There aren’t any extra editing functions, so it might be worth getting your image ready outside of the Flickr app then importing it ready to upload. You can choose to auto sync any photos you take on your phone – agree to this with caution! – and all your standard account features are accessible here too.

As for video, back in 2008 Flickr were the first image sharing site to allow short video clips to be uploaded, and this is now possible directly from the app.

3. Tumblr

Available from iTunes and Google Play for free.

4. Facebook

Available from iTunes and Google Play for free.

iOS – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8

Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana

5. Path

Path aims to cut through the screeching noise of Facebook to be an altogether calmer, more reflective social media space. A “private social network”, it’s well suited to sharing photos and thoughts with close friends and family only.

Is Facebook getting a bit too noisy for you?

Path is a private social network, a useful tool for avoiding Facebook TMI overload.

Available from iTunes and Google Play for free.

6. Twitter

Available from iTunes and Google Play for free.

7. Muzy

Available from iTunes and Google Play for free.

8. Dropbox

Available from iTunes and Google Play for free.

9. Shutterfly

Available from iTunes for free. No Android version available.

10. Snapfish

Available from iTunes and Google Play for free.