Co-founder Of Indian Social Network Koo Releases A New Photo Sharing App

In nan past fewer years, photo-sharing apps person capitalized connected nan thought that Instagram has go excessively curated, creating spaces for users to stock unfiltered photos from their camera rolls. Locket tapped into lockscreen-based sharing, Retro took a photograph journaling route, and Yope is building Instagram for backstage groups.

Now, Mayank Bidawatka, co-founder of Indian societal web Koo, which was unopen down past twelvemonth aft collapsed buyout talks, is releasing a caller photo-sharing app called PicSee. The app, released Thursday, some connected iOS and Android, intends to automatically observe and stock photos of friends that are successful your camera rotation without you having to usage immoderate messaging strategy for illustration WhatsApp aliases Instagram.

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Bidawatka said that your friends astir apt person hundreds of photos of you that you don’t have. Either they forgot to nonstop you those photos, aliases they themselves person forgotten astir those photos. PicSee cans faces successful your camera assemblage and picks retired photos of your friends.

“I’ve been reasoning astir nan problem of individual photograph sharing for years now,” Bidawatka told TechCrunch complete a call. “Last year, aft we announced shutdown of Koo, I had clip to rethink this problem and activity connected it again.”

If your friends are connected PicSee, you tin nonstop them a sharing request. Once they accept, they’ll person your first batch of photos of them. After that, nan app will observe caller photos of them successful your camera rotation and punctual you to nonstop those, too.

If you don’t nonstop them instantly, nan app will automatically nonstop those photos to them aft 24 hours. Before that, you tin reappraisal nan photos that you are sending and take not to nonstop some. The photos are stored locally connected your instrumentality successful PicSee’s storage. You tin take to download them to your instrumentality storage. Users tin besides callback photos aft they person sent them, which removes nan images from PicSee connected nan receiver’s end.

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The institution says it has implemented a bunch of privateness controls. The app does each nan processing of identifying faces connected nan device. The institution said that while sending photos, it establishes an encrypted connection. The photos are stored connected your device, and nan institution doesn’t shop thing successful nan cloud. Bidawatka said nan app besides has a select connected NSFW pictures and blocks screenshots.

PicSee’s biggest situation whitethorn beryllium its selectivity. While it makes consciousness to person an always-on photograph relationship pinch adjacent friends, family, aliases partners, astir group wouldn’t want that level of automatic sharing pinch everyone they know. That creates a hurdle. Users already nonstop photos to these adjacent contacts done WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram, and Snapchat, truthful PicSee will request to person them to alteration their default behaviour for a comparatively mini circle of relationships.

Image Credits: PicSee

Further, while nan app detects photos of your friends connected your phone, it doesn’t lick nan problem of erstwhile personification asks you for a photograph you took astatine an arena you went to together, specified arsenic a concert, a wedding, aliases a party.

The institution said it wants to reside these societal engagement features. The app already has a chat feature, which allows group who are successful a image to time off comments nether it.

The institution said it is besides moving connected allowing users to create and negociate albums, propose albums, region duplicates, and merge pinch Google Photos/iCloud. The institution besides wants to usage its look discovery tech for videos connected your camera roll.

Billion Hearts, nan institution down nan PicSee app, raised $4 cardinal successful backing past year, led by Blume Ventures pinch information from General Catalyst and Athera Ventures.