In the world full of social
media obsessed people, many digital app developers have been trying their hands
in rendering fun elements to the social media freaks. As people have an
increased liking towards having fun in everywhere they go and everything they
do, the digital app developers are attempting to give away apps with funny
amusing features that lets users to have fun on the go. One such smart phone app
is Boomerang which belongs to the highly used & reputed app Instagram that
has a really huge user-base.
Boomerang smartphone app, as
the name suggests the app goes with an occurrence where one action repeats
itself front and back. Boomerang, one among the releases of Instagram tends to
be an interesting app that creates short videos with quick reverse-looping
effect that adds to the amusement of the users. The simple-to-use and no
complicated interface Boomerang app requires no account creation nor any
sign-in. Boomerang is a 11 mb smartphone app, consumes no much space of your device
and it is available for Apple iOS 7.0 running on iPod, iPad, iPhone and also
for Android devices.
Getting started requires no
much process but only prompt you to grant the app permission to use your
phone's camera. Once the permission to access camera is enabled, you will get
to see a sefie view on the screen. Also you will find a big shooting button and
a camera switcher button. When the rear-camera mode is activated, you can shoot
something that has been in action/movement. When the front camera mode is
turned on, you can try making funny movements like jumping, twisting, walking
or anything as you wish. While the focused object is moving, you just need to
click the record button once. Thus the camera will shoot 10 sequence images and
convert into a mini-video of 4 second looping video clip repeating forward and
backward rapidly.
Once you have shot a
selfie-boom or Boomerang using your front camera, you will find the screen with
3 sharing options like Instagram, Facebook and any other social media app.
Through the given options, you can select any particular app to share your
boomerang videos. Also it is optional so that you can even not choose to share
your boomerang videos.
Boomerang Videos created by
you will be a perfect alternative for the repeatedly used existing gif imaes.
Also it is a creative platform for the social media freaks to entertain / amuse
their fellow followers in social media. Thus Boomerang is perceived to be a
cool and simple app that loops the moments and makes it appear funny. But the
lacking feature of the app is you can not apply the feature of reverse looping
to any particular parts of videos that does already exist in your phone which
were shot in normal camera mode