Facebook has created a new, free camera app that lets users share multiple photos all at once instead of having to post one at a time.
It also offers a photo-only feed of all Friend’s Facebook posts and has the capacity to apply retro-style filters to photographs, just as Instagram.
This is coming just weeks after its $1BN purchase of photo-sharing site Instagram.
‘Today, we’re introducing Camera, a new mobile app that makes using Facebook photos faster and easier,’ says Facebook has it made the announcement on the social media platform,
“When you launch the app, you’ll see a feed of just great photos from the people you care about. Now you can quickly share multiple photos all at once instead of having to post one at a time. Just select the shots you want to share by tapping the check-mark on each photo and then hit post.”
The app’s filters are slightly more limited than the ones offered by Instagram and other rivals.
The app is free, and joins a series of ‘separate’ mobile apps offered by Facebook on iPhone and Android recently, such as Messenger, but the network giant swiftly ‘pulled’ the apps.
Camera, though, seems likely to be longer-lived – as the company is clearly serious about photo-sharing.