Must-have Apps to improve your Insta Story Game

We love using Instagram stories to curate a daily gallery of our favourite moments. With just a few taps these creative apps ensure an aesthetically pleasing ‘gram every time.

Long gone are Snapchat stories - personal snippets, filtered with animated lenses and shared with a selective few. Instagram stories have become the most desirable way to boast the highlights of your life, keep up to date with your friends’ weekend antics and peruse influencers seemingly idyllic lives through a satisfying stream of snapshots.

We are sharing some of our top picks of a-la-mode apps that will take your Instagram story from an 8 to a solid 10.

Unfold

If anything is going to level up your ‘Gram story game, this is the app. Unfold is home to some of the most flashy techniques that you can apply to your photos. From cursive fonts that beautifully narrate your caption to polaroid style framing, ideal for achieving a vintage effect on your story.

The app is user-friendly, functional and simple, providing you with dozens of templates to work with. Unfold lets you preview your story with ‘Story Mode’ so you can check how the image will appear before hitting ‘post’.

We love the fact that it only takes 30 seconds from start to finish using the app, so you can post feeling rest-assured that the snap of your brunch at Teddy’s is picture perfect and you can carry on sippin’ that mimosa. Over

Over is our top pick for an underrated editing app. The homepage functions as a ‘discover’ page - providing tips and tricks to master the art of collage style Instagram stories.

Over gives you total creative freedom for your collage with no restrictions that templates often dictate.

You can paste as many photos as you desire and can customise the colour of your background to perfectly match the theme of the image. We particularly like using the graphics feature, which enables you to add textures and frames to the image as the ultimate final touch. VSCO

VSCO is well known in the photo editing world as a treasure trove of techniques at the tip of your fingers, literally. It can be an overwhelming app to navigate, with too many filters to count - we didn't know there was such a thing?

Once you get the hang of the app, though, you can use it to transform images from grainy or overcast to enhanced and polished. You can favourite filter presets to maintain a theme in your story feed, the ability to personalise the functions of this app is something we fully appreciate. InShot

InShot is our go-to app to edit video, photos and collages. Have you ever seen the blurred background effect on an Instagram story and wondered how on earth people create it? Here’s your answer. InShot has all of the simple features of an editing app, from filters adjustments, stickers and text.

Like Unfold, this app allows you to post straight to Instagram to avoid the quality decrease that occurs when you save the same image multiple times.

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