Photograph format app Sequence makes it simpler to put up your panos to Threads

Sequence, an iOS picture app that helps you format your photographs in inventive methods for posting on social media, is now shaping as much as develop into the must-have companion app for customers posting their photographs to Instagram Threads. On Threads, customers quickly realized that you may view photographs full display and, with the correct formatting, you may share full-screen seamless panoramas of your photographs as nicely.

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 might click on on them in full-screen mode and swipe by.

This, in flip, prompted Sequence developer Ryan Carver so as to add new instruments — particularly a device referred to as TH+ — to cater to the wants of Threads customers to make this course of simpler.

Carver has a background in images 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, centered totally on Sequence.

The unique inspiration for the app truly got here from his personal images, curating and designing a gallery present in 2019, Carver instructed TechCrunch.

“Out of that have, I wished two issues: One, higher instruments to discover visible relationships between photographs, and two, to make it simpler to share a number of photographs collectively,” he stated. “The Instagram Carousel turned the canvas for this, it’s such a fantastic format for sharing a number of photographs in distinctive layouts,” he famous.

He initially created Sequence as a device that might design for the Instagram carousel and different social media, together with TikTok. The app presents quite a lot 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 put up carousels and extra.

Carver says one of the best ways to make use of Sequence is so as to add a number of photographs after which discover the completely different layouts it presents 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 function 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 choice by taking one picture after which spreading it out throughout a number of panels for customers to swipe by. Some additionally put the total picture on the finish of their carousel.

To realize entry to the TH+ Body Ratio, Sequence customers should improve to the Professional subscription, nonetheless.

This $15 per yr package deal comes with a bevy of different superior instruments as nicely, like the flexibility to import and format 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 appears to be like; energy instruments for advanced layouts; and customized app icons.

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 help for video and extra format 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 might communicate to.

“Engaged on tighter integration like quicker workflow, higher preview, extra format choices,” Sequence’ put up teased.

The app is a free obtain with in-app purchases on the App Retailer and helps each iPhone and iPad.