Nutshell Brings A Twist To Photo Sharing Apps

Everyday, more than a billion photos being shared on mobile social media apps around the world. New apps launch with the promise to add something a little different to the visual communication experience. The challenge for any is building a captive audience, sticky enough to eventually monetize. Instagram does filters, SnapChat does ephemeral messages and Vine does hyper-looped videos. That’s what the cool kids are using. Now Nutshell, a new app has joined the throng of players. The mobile app is a new visual storytelling app that combines photos, video and animation to create short, shareable life snippets. But it’s not just about funky filters or disappearing images. To create a Nutshell, you snap three photos in succession, and then the app will automatically animate a unique video that cleverly records the frames between each shot in slow motion. Now you can add text and overlay moving animation to spice it up. The result is an unconventional video that can be shared by email, text message or on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. After playing with Nutshell myself, the coolest part of the animation is seeing how the images slow down and speed up.