Instagram delights its more than 4.25 million users with photo-enhancing filters, tilt-shift, cool comments and “likes” features and instant social sharing options.
The once iPhone-only experience has spread to the web, Macs, iPads and even the physical world, thanks to a growing crop of developers. They’re harvesting the massive amount of photos shared by Instagram users each second via the startup’s three-month-old real-time API.
As many of our readers continue to point out, the only hole in Instagram’s ecosystem is the lack of an application for Android users.
Carousel
Carousel is a gorgeo us Instagram Mac app for your desktop.
Carousel, which sells for $4.99 on the Mac App Store, includes the standard photo viewing and commenting features, but it also packs a number of nuances -- double-click photos to enlarge and save them to iPhoto for instance -- that make it a near picture-perfect interpretation of Instagram in desktop form.
We love the four theme options, keyboard shortcuts and the growl notification options, but its the simple and subtle design touches that make it a standout application.
Instagallery
Instagallery [iTunes link] is a $1.99 application for browsing Instagram photos on your iPad or iPhone.
Swipe through popular photos or login to scroll through, "like" and comment on your friends' Instagram photos. Hit the "play" button and the app will start a slideshow and scroll through photos for you.
Instagallery also includes user profiles, different background options, and supports tag and user search. You can even double-tap or...
