With an $8 in-app upgrade, Instagram users can view feeds on the Mac in one of four different ways. (A Windows version is also available.) ThinkTime Creations That’s a $3 increase from the prior version, but it’s a free update for existing customers, and still a bargain for the convenience of posting photos on the Mac alone. It’s worth nothing Grids comes in two flavors: A free version requiring an in-app upgrade for multiple accounts, uploads, direct messaging, and Stories and another that costs $8 up-front with these features already enabled. However, you can easily repost items from another user’s feed onto your own, and saving images to disk remains an option.
There’s no one-click way to share Instagram posts via email, other apps, or other social networks without copying and pasting a URL. Non-square photo upload? No problem, Grids 4.0 can automatically add the necessary white space to make it Instagram-friendly.Īnother feature still missing is macOS sharing extension support.
Although Instagram remains stuck with traditional square photos, Grids will offer to add white space to non-square images before they’re uploaded, a handy feature I took advantage of quite frequently. Grids 4.0 for Instagram not only carries forward all the conveniences of the previous version (stuff like multiple layouts, keyboard shortcuts, and push notifications) but is also now capable of posting images or videos with optional tags and location data.
Grids 4.0 can finally post photos and videos to Instagram, even if they aren’t in the service’s traditional square format.
With support for multiple accounts, developer ThinkTime Creations had an early leg up on the mobile app at the time, but the inability to upload new content meant this third-party software was strictly a view-only experience. Grids, one of those rare native solutions for viewing Instagram posts on the desktop without a web browser. A year ago, I reviewed the third version of a Mac application called
0 kommentar(er)
