New iPhone Photo App: WordFoto - Pictures Worth a Thousand Words

App Store Description: You’ve probably heard the tired cliche about a picture being worth a thousand words. We’ve taken this phrase quite literally and created WordFoto, an app that turns photos and words into amazing typographic works of art.

Feature Highlights:

• Fast and fully automated word filling algorithm.
• Manual word filling fine tune parameters.
• Inspect detail in zoomable preview.
• Eight unique preset styles.
• User defined custom styles with lots of parameters.
• Import images from photo album or camera.
• Crop editor.
• Manage and create your own word sets.
• Resulting word images are full resolution.
• Save, email or share on Facebook.
• Save original and cropped original.

App Store Link: WordFoto; Price: £1.19/$1.99/€1.59

Editors comments: This is a new, simple, easy to use, quirky app from developer bitCycle [the developers behind "Lenses" - remember that app?] that lets you add/layer custom or predefined words over the top of your iPhone photos [Please note: this effect will not suit all photos, and so may be limited in use].

Above: My own WordFoto shadow.

Despite this apps simplicity, it also has its own built in cropping tool and pre-defined colour effects, as well as the ability to create your own, and to top it all, it support full-res saves.

Although this app does not fit in to the bargain basement category, costing £1.19/$1.99/€1.59, if you like quirky apps like Percolator, then you'll almost certainly like WordFoto.

Comments

[Jem]

I really like this app - I see potential for development, and thus far its been very stable :)

[Mr Timney]

This is a fantastic app to enhance your iPhoneography edits even further. From subtle to eye popping results. I found this a fantastic app to mix & blend with other apps to create some excellent results. Adding this into the mix of your original image or a photo edit, in combination with for example ColorSplash, Spica, ToonPaint, PictureShow, Halftone, Percolator (Percolator 2.0 coming soon with awesome new additions), Phoster, ScratchCam, BlurFX, Camera+, Plastic Bullet, Bad-Camera, CinemaFX, Pic Grunger, FILM LAB, HiCon Pro (Color/B&W) will all give you some awesome eye catching results if you apply in combination with WordFoto app. Custom effects mode is a great way to tweak your edit & even overlay over the original as a background, rather than superimpose overtop. Endless tweaking in custom effects mode can give some wicked results!

Highly recommended in my opinion.

[Morplett]

I have to say, this app looks fantastic, however I'm still a bit gunshy with bitCycle given their odious track record for Lenses. I'm still waiting for that highly touted upgrade that never saw the light of day. I'm hoping Wordfoto doesn't become deadware.
I'm willing to give them a second chance given how stellar this app looks but may wait to see how things go.

[Jens (bitCycle)]

Hi all! We understand that you have your doubts about us (bitCycle). That's totally justified and we've had our doubts too. We're just two swedish guys doing everything on our own, from graphics and coding to "copy writing" and "marketing". We've been trying hard for over two years now to realize the dream of making a living out of iPhone app development, without success.

Trying to succeed as an indie app developer involves a huge risk taking, you invest a lot of time and money and each dollar someone decide to spend on an app from an indie dev is part of that risk, the app may end up as deadware for a number of reasons, eg bad marketing, bad app, technical problems, or in short: the app and/or concept was not popular or doable enough to motivate further development. This is a consequence of App Store mechanics, and the only way to avoid it is to buy apps only from big companies.

Right now, WordFoto is on the TOP 25 Photo in over 20 countries, including US and UK. This is something completely new to us and we're really excited! Maybe the four months spent on getting the space finding / word filling algorithm fast and good enough for a first release was worth it! :)

It's so inspiring to see all the stuff you guys are making using WordFoto, especially in combination with all the other photo apps, a lot of it is so much better than what we've managed to come up with ourselves:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=wordfoto&f=hp
http://www.iphoneart.com/groups/146
http://www.iphoneart.com/groups/147

Thank you for your support! Now we will stop whining and continue working on the update! Some of you have heard that one before, haven't you! ; )

[Len]

@Jens

This app is really cool. Other apps such as Percolator seem to be catching on more as artistic or casual, fun photography spreads (Instagram, 500pix, etc).

I'm using it with students studying language, so it can have even educational uses!

Good luck to you both.

Cheers.

[Ombux]

you should make an android app for word photo, rgds