Moments
Even Facebook knows you don’t want to share all your photos with all your friends, which is why it’s been pushing Moments since last year. The app’s interface and features (such as facial recognition) benefit from Facebook’s engineering know-how, and it’s a slick experience throughout, letting you quickly pick out the people you want to share with.
There are some neat smart labeling options involved here too to help you pick out people and places. Of course the trade-off is you’re locking yourself even deeper into the Facebook ecosystem (the app links with Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger), along with all that entails, and you need to get your friends and family to install it too.
SLIDE #4KatchUp
KatchUp has a bit of a broader remit than some of the other apps we’ve featured here—it includes photo printing for example—but at its core it’s focussed on shared albums that you and your invited friends can contribute to. Part of its appeal lies in its simplicity, which means you can quickly get started creating albums themed around anything you like.
The app’s based around an intuitive timeline profile view and you can store your photos at their original resolutions for free in the cloud, as well as get at your pictures on the web. There’s no video support at the moment, though, and the service is also relatively new, so you might want to wait for it to get more established before relying on it exclusively.
Free for iOS
