Instagram has proven itself to be a force amongst social media platforms in driving traffic, engagement and customer retention.
With a significant emphasis being on images and videos, marketers have been able to get their products in front of buyers in compelling ways.
One way to create engaging, click-worthy content is to use Stories on Instagram. We know it’s essential to have the tools to really make your story stand out amongst your competition.
Here are the top seven apps to make your stories really stand out from the crowd and receive that WOW factor we all want.
Canva gives you a considerable amount of templates so that you can create the perfect college to post. Not only that, but this app is also great for editing too. You can also blur, crop, and adjusting brightness. The app also has fantastic features like adding arrows, text, lines and different kinds of shapes. Available on both iOS and AndroidThe cost is free although some graphics have a minimal fee for use.
With Adobe Spark, you can get super cool animated effects to add to your photos. You can change your photo into a short video. The animated effects can easily attract a buyers eye.
Adobe Spark uses motion graphics, audio recordings, music, text, and photos to create fantastic one-of-a-kind videos.
This app, as its name mentions, is made by Adobe which means you can expect great, high-quality content when using this app.
Adobe Spark is available on iOS, Android, and even your desktop so you can edit your photos from wherever you are!
With this iOS app, you can edit your portrait, landscape, and square video clips.
A unique feature to Filmmaker Pro is that you can add your custom fonts to your video. Available in both iOS and Android
Hype Type is a great app that you can use for adding animated text right over your videos. Unfortunately, you can’t change the fonts or play around with the colors, but this is still an excellent app for adding simple text to your videos.
Hype Type is only available for iOS as of now.
InShot, a fantastic app for editing photos and videos. With this app, you can easily make unique collages with your photos using the templates given.
You can also change the speeds of your videos and even make backgrounds for your pictures.
This app is useful because of the multiple features it has for editing videos like trimming from not only the beginning and end but also the middle of the videos. You can also merge videos for further editing.
Available on both iOS and Android.
Font Candy is a cute and unique app that you can use to add text, lines, and pictures to enhance your photos.
The fonts and the designs on this app are trendy, and they’ll most definitely make you stand out from everybody else.
You can add filters and colors to your photos, quotes, and even have multiple pictures all on one to make the perfect image.
There’s also custom artwork already on the app that you can use to enhance the way your image looks, and not only that but this app makes it easy to create designs for your t-shirts and other products as well.
Available in iOS
Videoshop, an iOS and Android app that you can use to make your videos. You can adjust the size of your first clip to set the right size for the rest of the clips you choose to upload - which makes adding a bunch of clips together super easy.
Videos can only be 15 seconds long, but that’s more than enough time when it comes to an Instagram story. With this app, you can quickly put together different videos you have of your product and make the perfect advertisement.
Instagram Stories can drive quite a bit of traffic to your campaigns. The key is being able to catch your buyers eye and stand out from the crowd.Try using one of the apps above to create your perfect Instagram story!
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