Giveaway: Put Ken Burns in your pocket, with Slideshow Builder

Remember Slideshow Builder [App Store Link] from BitWink? Well, this excellent slideshow app that we first featured over 3 years ago has been going through some changes. Now at version 2.1, Slideshow Builder supports both iPhone and iPad, and offers iCloud support, to optionally sync your slideshows across these devices, and the iPhoneography blog has 11x promo codes to give away. If you would like the chance of winning one of these codes, then re-Tweet/Like this post, and leave your request in the comments section below, and over the next few days I will randomly select 11 lucky winners.

Slideshow Builder is described as "the fastest, easiest way to create and share beautiful slideshows on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch", letting you "showcase your photography". Static images are brought to life with caption overlays, animated Ken Burns (pan & zoom) effects, slide transitions and background music. Built-in face detection makes the most of the small screen whilst passcode protection keeps your slideshows safe & secure.

Slideshow Builder uses iCloud to optionally sync your slideshows across your iOS devices. When you're ready to share your slideshow with friends and family, simply tap to share, and get back a link to it in iCloud to send to them.

Slideshow Builder lets you:

• Build slideshows with photos from your photo albums, photo stream or camera roll using our super-fast photo-picker
• Choose to keep photos in the library rather than make copies
• Optionally sync slideshows across devices using iCloud
• Share slideshows via email using iCloud-hosted snapshots
• Add music to slideshows from the iPod library
• Create multi-track playlists and fit the slideshow duration to the music.
• Protect your slideshows with a secure passcode.
• Choose from a selection of 11 gorgeous slide transition effects.
• Set the animated Ken Burns effect to Off, Low, Medium, High or even Custom.
• Choose from 3 faces animations settings: In-Shot, Jump or Off.
• Configure your slideshows to gradually ease the Ken Burns effect in and out.
• Quickly jump to any slide during a slideshow with our pop-up slide chooser.
• Choose to shuffle the order of the slides in your slideshow.
• Select auto-repeat to have a slideshow loop indefinitely.

Comments

[rangster]

Thanks Mr. Evans. Would love a chance to try it out.

[Federico Sardi]

I would like to win one of the promo codes for Slideshow builder. I'm always creating slideshows of my family trips to show to my grandma, and some others for my "serious" iPhoneography to share with friends on Facebook. I think having this app will take my slideshows to another level.

Thanks!

[BlueMoon]

I would like a promo code !! Please send to me..

[OBN]

Please please.pleasasssssse :)

[Phil Corlis]

It would be great to show my students this app!

[David]

Retweeted. Hopefully i will win :-))
(ipod_david)

[Mrs.GLing]

Would love this app!!!

[Tomba]

SPYWARE
Be careful. The old version of the app had some spyware included.
@Glyn: do you have informations whether its spyware free now?

[mrsnoodleboy]

Liked and tweeted! This looks perfect for showing my little boy's photos to friends and family! Would really love to have it...

[Stephan]

I'd love to try this. Thanks for the promotion.

[Editor]

Hi Tomba. I was not aware this app had contained any spyware code. Please provide more details, as this app is from a UK (well Scottish) developer, who I've had no reason to distrust.

[Vishal]

Very nice application ... would love to get this ... Thanks for the chance

[Juan Ortega]

I'd love winning a copy! :D

[Matt Farrugia]

Hi Tomba/Glyn,

I'm the developer of Slideshow Builder. Version 2.1 collects 2 types of information:

1. If the app crashes you can send an anonymous crash report that will help us track down the issue
2. If the app detects an unexpected critical run-time error (e.g. failure to update the database properly) we send an anonymous exception log to again help us track down issues.

The crash reporting is handled by an installation of QuincyKit http://quincykit.net/ and the exception logging uses Flurry: http://flurry.com. Both QuincyKit and Flurry provided non-UDID versions of their libraries: See http://www.hockeyapp.net/blog/2012/3/26/hockeyapp-and-the-udid.html and http://support.flurry.com/index.php?title=Flurry_SDKs_for_iOS for details. Furthermore, Flurry provide a platform-wide opt-out for users here: http://www.flurry.com/resources/privacy.html

Finally, and most importantly, if you don't want Slideshow Builder to ever send your crash reports or exception logs simply go to Settings.app > Slideshow and turn off the option for Diagnostic & Usage. This works in the same was as Apple's setting for this and if it is off, no anonymised data will be sent off your device.

I hope that puts your mind at rest. It's a difficult balance to strike to provide a complex app and support unexpected situations. This is especially true of the new iCloud APIs and we couldn't in good conscience provide a major update like this without trying to detect poor user experience and crashes. Providing crash feedback through the App Store review mechanism does not unfortunately give us much chance to actually fix the issues.

Hope this helps.

Matt

[Allan Mullan]

Me too Glyn :D

[David Graham]

A copy would be great as I never win anything.

[Dino Alves]

I would LOVE to win :)

[Danny]

Thanks for a chance for a promo code!

[Dennis McCarthy]

I really hope that there is a Slideshow Builder promo code in my future !

[Steven Thomas]

One munch, crunchy promo code, please.