Next, the app asks you to grant access to your photos, camera, location, and contacts. As with most apps, you can create an account using your Facebook or Google credentials or with an email address or phone number.Īfter creating an account, you're immediately pushed towards signing up for a paid subscription ($19.99 per year), which gets you 200 filters, as opposed to the free app's paltry 10 filters. Of course, you'll need an account to post your photos, but I much prefer being able to get to the meat of the app before having to go through the barrier of creating an account. To use the app at all, you now have to create or sign into an account-in the past, you could use the app for photo editing without this step. At installation, you need to accept prompts allowing the app to send push notifications and to see your location. I tested on an iPhone X and a Samsung Galaxy Note 8. VSCO is available as a free app (with in-app filter purchases) for iPhone and some Android devices. It now puts that expertise to use in this appealing app. As mentioned, the company behind the app has a history with professional photo filter software, most notably Film, which reproduces the looks of analog film photos.

It also offers great looking web galleries for your images, but VSCO lacks anywhere near Flickr or Instagram's social interaction features. VSCO's minimal, intuitive interface belies powerful photo-shooting and photo-editing tools. It's a bit more artsy than the dominant photo-sharing app, Instagram, and has long avoided some of that app's peer pressure by not showing Like totals-a strategy that Instagram only recently started testing. Before this development, VSCO made high-quality Photoshop filter plug-ins for pro photographers, but the company has abandoned those products in favor of this social app.

VSCO, a mobile app that lets you edit and apply filters to your photos and share them to its own and other social networks, has been picking up steam ever since the VSCO Girl phenomenon began.

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