Guide for Boomerang Instagram

Instagram doesn’t want its feed getting stale, but doesn’t want to bloat its app with extra features either. So today it’s launching Boomerang on iOS and Android. It’s a dead-simple app where you shoot a one-second burst of five photos that are turned into a silent video that plays forwards and then reverses over and over in a loop. Boomerangs are automatically saved to your camera roll, but can easily be shared on Facebook, Instagram, or elsewhere since the app doesn’t have its own feed. The app doesn’t require and Instagram account and you don’t even have to log in.

At it's core, Boomerang is a video app that lets you tell visual stories in a way that's slightly different from a regular video or still photo. Boomerangs look like something in between GIFs and stop motion videos, stitched together with a short burst of photos and combined into one, fluid image. You can shoot it in portrait or landscape mode and Boomerang will immediately save the burst onto your phone in the form of a short video, which can then be imported to and displayed on Instagram. It's different from an actual video, because the Boomerang video will loop to make it seem your subject or camera are in constant motion, which can be really fun if you're capturing someone or something moving in an interesting way (like a person doing cartwheels or handstands, or a sunset passing you as you drive in a fast car).

Instagram does not want its feed getting stale, but does not want to bloat its app with extra features either. So today it's launching Boomerang on iOS and Android. It's a dead-simple app where you shoot a one-second burst of five photos that are turned into a silent video that plays forwards and then reverses over and over in a loop. Boomerangs are automatically saved to your camera roll, but can easily be shared on Facebook, Instagram, or elsewhere since the app does not have its own feed. The app does not require and Instagram account and you do not even have to log in.

At it's core, Boomerang is a video app that lets you tell visual stories in a way that's slightly different from a regular video or still photo. Boomerangs look like something in between GIFs and stop motion videos, stitched together with a short burst of photos and combined into one, fluid image. You can shoot it in portrait or landscape mode and Boomerang will immediately save the burst onto your phone in the form of a short video, which can then be imported to and displayed on Instagram. It's different from an actual video, because the Boomerang video will loop to make it seem your subject or camera are in constant motion, which can be really fun if you're capturing someone or something moving in an interesting way (like a person doing cartwheels. or handstands, or a sunset passing you as you drive in a fast car).