May 12, 2011

Glittery decorated photo sharing iPhone app, Snapeee /TechCrunch Japan

The first product from CyberAgent Venture's seed accelerating program, Startups2010 just came out. That is Mind Palette's Snapeee, photo sharing app for iPhone. It is already available on iTunes store.

Instagram or picplz becomes popular by allowing users to process photos with filters so that they look like professional, but Japanese young girls must prefer glittery decorated photos which are more familiar to them. Snapeee exactly realizes it. Needless to say, the application allows to share photos with friends including Twitter, Facebook and mixi, which is similar to Instagram. ...

TechCrunch Japan 5/12/2011

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  • Materials for decorations are similar to Purikura, print club sticker, which has long been very popular especially in young girls in Japan. It can be said to be a very well Japanized version of Instagram. It is not sure that the service will be popular in other countries, but it will certainly be successful to some extent in Japan. 

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