Spreads allows you to share full display panoramic images to Instagram Threads

After the picture format app Collection turned essential companion for Instagram Threads, its developer Ryan Carver has now determined to spin off a simplified model known as Spreads, designed particularly for Threads customers who need to publish their full-screen panoramic images to the brand new social community.

Carver was initially impressed so as to add new options to his Collection app after seeing the probabilities Threads launched for sharing full-screen, panoramic images to Instagram’s Twitter/X competitor. As photographers started to experiment with completely different facet ratios after which splitting up their images on Threads, Carver realized there was the potential for catering to their demand for picture instruments. He shortly added a instrument known as TH+ to fulfill the wants for Threads customers and the app’s adoption took off, even catching the eye of Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth (@boztank).

However the TH+ instrument was part of Collection, an app with a lot broader capabilities, together with designing layouts for the Instagram carousel and different social media, like TikTok. It additionally lets customers combine images and movies collectively, along with providing easy-to-use margin and edge controls, the power to make use of layered images or movies to create backgrounds, versatile layouts to inform tales utilizing Diptychs and Triptychs, and the choice to publish carousels, amongst different issues.

The brand new Spreads app, nonetheless, solely focuses on the options geared toward Threads customers. Carver calls it a “mini app” that’s “easier than Collection.

“I created Spreads to be the simplest strategy to create panos for Threads. Collection continues to be one of the best app for every kind of format[s] but it surely’s overkill for many individuals,” Carver wrote on Threads. “As an alternative of complicating Collection with extra choices, I made a decision to create one thing that works for lots extra individuals in each options and value. Should you’re already utilizing Collection, nice! It’ll proceed to evolve to do the whole lot Spreads can do.”

With Spreads, customers can create full-screen, seamless panos of two to 10 panels with only a few faucets, he defined. And, not like subscription-based Collection, Spreads is on the market as a one-time buy of $2.99 on the App Retailer.