ShakeIt Photo advertises itself as a Polaroid-like application for your iPhone.  According to Nick Campbell, the developer of the app, it works just like a real instant camera – you can watch the photo develop instantly and make the pictures develop faster by shaking your phone.

I downloaded this app almost a week ago, and I’ve been happy with it.  While it’s not as good as Hipstamatic, ShakeIt Photo app has a unique set of features that may make it worth your money.

Advantages

• For just 99 cents (or $1.29 if you’re from Canada), you get a decent photo app that lets you take cool pictures. This app is crazy affordable!
• Unlike Hipstamatic, this app lets you edit pictures you’ve taken with your iPhone (or with other iPhone apps) and apply the features.
• You can upload the pictures directly to Facebook or to a photo blog.  (I’ve noticed that you can’t upload Hipstamatic pictures directly from your phone to Facebook, probably because of the size of the image.)
• The app has user-friendly interface.

ShakeIt Photo allows you to edit pics. This pic, with my cute nephew Gabby, was originally taken by a digital camera and was uploaded to my iPhone.

Read on read about the disadvantages…

Disadvantages

• Not a lot of features. If you want to take black and white pictures, for instance, I don’t think it’s possible with the app.
• The app is not really a Polaroid app. The edges at the bottom are not wide enough for the pic to truly look like it was taken with Polaroid. Also, the edges are not white enough.

Was this photo taken with a Polaroid? Obviously not. Ha!

There are just minor setbacks, though. The app is fun to use and pretty affordable.

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