A great way to grab the attention of your audiences are ‘stories’. Be it Facebook, Instagram, or even LinkedIn, stories have taken over social media by a storm and are a great tool to promote your business. With almost 500 billion people watching them every day it is ‘the' most important thing for your business.
Every brand is talking about taking their social media story to a higher level making them more creative and engaging. Are you one of them? Add animations, vintage effects, nice fonts, videos and photos on the same screen, amazing border, a little creativity can take you a long way in reaching your desired audiences.
Here's a quick look at few easy and cool apps for creating interesting stories:
1. Spark Post: Coming from the makers of Photoshop, this is one of the most popular app to create excellent graphics in minutes. Whether you want to create your graphic from the scratch or need a quick template to work with, it has a wide variety of pre-defined layouts and is super easy to use. Remove backgrounds, add 30-second videos and create stunning stories for your IGTV or Facebook.
2. Inshot:
Want to be more creative with video Stories? Inshot is one of the best apps for creating stunning social media stories! This app offers you a wide range of features for creating a beautiful Instagram story. In this editor, you can control the speed of the video, blur, merge or split the picture, can also convert the video, and have plenty of filters. While the free version of the app works as amazing but you can also upgrade to the premium one and unlock loads more features including removal of the watermark.
3. Canva: Another popular and fastest option for crafting a wide variety of stories designs is ‘Çanva’. With over 60,000, ready to design templates available in the app, it is the most effective app for designing engaging social media stories and graphics. All you have to do is select a layout, pick up the template and start personalizing. It has plenty of tools like crop, blur, rotate, resize, frames, animations and loads more. The major advantage of this app is that it works on mobile as well as desktop to help you plan your stories in advance.
4. Unfold: From clear and clean frames to cute layered polaroids, every brand has a template to be creative with. If you are not used to creating or using templates in photoshop then Unfold is the best option for you. It's so easy to use that you don't have to be a professional designer to get more views on your IG Stories. The best feature of this app is it lets you preview the stories where you can preview your story with ‘Story mode’
5. Photogrid: It is the most simple and easy to use app for creating amazing social media stories. It offers several templates to choose from and has lots of features like filters, stickers, fonts, and photo effects that you can use to create customized images. The best thing about this app is that it provides several beauty features like add or remove makeup, to help you brighten your pictures while creating stories. It also has a selfie camera & can also be used to create memes for Instagram Stories.
These five apps above will help you create your own professional and engaging Instagram Stories content.
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