Sequence, an iOS picture app that helps you structure your photographs in inventive methods for posting on social media, is now shaping as much as turn out to be the must-have companion app for customers posting their photographs to Instagram Threads. On Threads, customers quickly realized that you can view pictures full display screen and, with the best formatting, you can share full-screen seamless panoramas of your photographs as effectively.
That’s already led some customers to experiment with the brand new format, as artist Pete Halvorsen did, by experimenting with completely different facet ratios after which splitting up photographs so customers may click on on them in full-screen mode and swipe via.
Picture Credit: Pete Halvorsen on Threads (opens in a brand new window)
This, in flip, prompted Sequence developer Ryan Carver so as to add new instruments — particularly a instrument known as TH+ — to cater to the wants of Threads customers to make this course of simpler.
Carver has a background in pictures and design, having beforehand led product growth at photo-sharing app VSCO and having co-founded Typekit, which bought to Adobe, now Adobe Fonts. However for the previous 4 years, he’s been working as an unbiased iOS developer, targeted totally on Sequence.
The unique inspiration for the app truly got here from his personal pictures, curating and designing a gallery present in 2019, Carver instructed TechCrunch.
Picture Credit: Sequence
“Out of that have, I needed two issues: One, higher instruments to discover visible relationships between pictures, and two, to make it simpler to share a number of pictures collectively,” he mentioned. “The Instagram Carousel turned the canvas for this, it’s such a fantastic format for sharing a number of pictures in distinctive layouts,” he famous.
He initially created Sequence as a instrument that would design for the Instagram carousel and different social media, together with TikTok. The app affords a wide range of instruments to combine photographs and movies collectively, in addition to different options like easy-to-use margin and edge controls, the flexibility to make use of layered photographs or movies to create backgrounds, versatile layouts to inform tales utilizing Diptychs and Triptychs, plus the choice to publish carousels and extra.
Picture Credit: Sequence
Carver says the easiest way to make use of Sequence is so as to add a number of photographs after which discover the completely different layouts it affords to inform your visible story — like picture pairings, stacks, grids, and carousels.
However after seeing how Threads supported full-screen panoramas, Carver added a brand new TH+ Body Ratio to Sequence inside days of Threads launching to the general public, he says. The characteristic has since been found and utilized by Meta workers, together with CTO Andrew Boztank (@boztank), who posted a formidable Everest Pano that attracted over 7,000 likes and 180 replies.
Many customers on Threads have since begun attempting out the pano possibility by taking one picture after which spreading it out throughout a number of panels for customers to swipe via. Some additionally put the complete picture on the finish of their carousel.
To realize entry to the TH+ Body Ratio, Sequence customers must improve to the Professional subscription, nonetheless.
This $15 per 12 months bundle comes with a bevy of different superior instruments as effectively, like the flexibility to import and structure greater than two photographs or movies at a time; the flexibility to separate content material over greater than three panels for Instagram’s Carousel or Threads; high-resolution export; the flexibility to export video as much as 60 seconds lengthy; the flexibility to preview Instagram Posts or Tales earlier than exporting; customized templates so it can save you and apply your favourite seems; energy instruments for advanced layouts; and customized app icons.
Picture Credit: Sequence app screenshot
Since launching model 1.0 in December 2019, Sequence has attracted round 5,000 month-to-month energetic customers, and roughly half are paying subscribers. The app was up to date to ver. 2.0 in December 2022 with assist for video and extra structure choices, then extra not too long ago added the TH+ Body Ratio with a July launch geared toward Threads customers.
The app has since caught the eye of Instagram head Adam Mosseri, who responded to a request from Sequence on Threads asking if there was a dev-relations particular person for Threads the app maker may communicate to.
“Engaged on tighter integration like quicker workflow, higher preview, extra structure choices,” Sequence’ publish teased.
The app is a free obtain with in-app purchases on the App Retailer and helps each iPhone and iPad.