It’s no secret that the iPad is great at displaying pictures. I mean, it looks like a digital frame, right? And Apple even put a slideshow button right in the device lockscreen. For this reason photography applications are flourishing in the App Store, especially Flickr ones. Think about FlickStackr, Portfolio To Go, or the upcoming Rouse app by Robocat. Not to mention Flipboard’s feature to consume pictures from Boston.com and the like.
A few days ago I downloaded a new app called Wide Angle which allows you to view beautiful photos from The Big Picture and CBC Photo Galleries on your iPad.
The app does one thing, but does it well: it takes two sources and downloads the photos they post. It also downloads description and captions, so you can understand what a picture is all about.
Wide Angle is simple, and I guess it’s ok: what else would you like to do with photos besides checking them out? Sadly, you can’t download them, and I think it’s because of copyright infrigement issues. Or maybe the feature will just be implemented in a future update. You can share “stories” via email and Facebook, Twitter sharing would be welcome as well.
Sources are listed in the sidebar, photo titles in a mid-panel. A thumbnail of the picture and a brief description are located in the rightmost panel, and with one single tap you can access the full-size version with captions. You can turn captions off, which is g0od. And that’s it for Wide Angle.
Available at $3.99 in the App Store, Wide Angle is a beautiful app that showcases beautiful photos from the best online sources. I would like to see more sources added by default in the future versions (and Flickr integration, too) but the app is already one of the best of its kind currently available for the iPad.
Go download it.
