Alive - Another Video of Instagram

I quite like photography and video app, that’s why I like to browse on App Store to see any interesting everyday. Today, I found Alive. My first impression is “Wow, another Instagram”, but after using a few minutes, I found it still has much more features which I would like to share with you. Get the Alive on iTunes here.

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Launch the app and a new feeds with Featured, and My Feeds appear, usual like any social network app out there.

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Perform some searches, and it works as expected.

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However, I do not like the loading animation here, it is hard to see and I just thought the app was frozen.

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View some body profile, found no interesting here. UI parts are somehow messy.

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Comment section makes me think about what did Instagram do?

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Alive has separate Sharing screen, I prefer a context menu like a popup instead a whole new screen for just sharing.

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Watch a video. Actually, video is not really focused here with too much white elements.

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What about My Profiles? I see a really, really another Instagram here.

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Settings section allows you to choose save high or low or orginal quality and auto-playing settings.

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I decide to create a video for myself. And now the fun part, I must not use the phone in portrait mode.

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Fine, landscape is allowed now.

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Start recording. UI seems like an Xperia smartphone.

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It also displays a nice tutorial about available gestures inside recording.

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Awww, I can add a visual effect object here.

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Choose music from pre-come, or from my own library which is good as well.

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I decide to remove last VFX object and add another, it is quite easy but hard to create an awesome one.

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Alive supports Text layer too, and vector shapes as well.

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Using this slide-like UI, I can make our text moving on or fade in/out easily.

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Video filters are also available to play with.

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Publish my video. It’s showtime!