
Grids for instagram app - quickly answered
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As one of the more creative planning apps on the market we really wanted to love Unum. Unfortunately recent updates have had a detrimental effect on the user experience and due to speed and bugs in the system, the time it took to get started was far longer than with it's competitors.
Navigating the interface of both the mobile and web app wasn't very intuitive and it lacked a lot of features and integrations that are supported by other apps on the market.
Visually it has some good features and enables a lot of creative control over the look and feel of your grid. Unum has filters and tools to edit your images in app, as well as some editable templates for creating Instagram stories. You can create multiple versions of your grid and drag drop to arrange the order of your posts. Another feature we liked was the 'grid shift’ which allows you to toggle the view between your upcoming posts and how the grid will look directly after the next one goes live.
Scheduling seemed like a secondary feature to the visual grid planner and there were no options for auto post. Unum has very basic analytics and you can save drafts and captions such as a recent tags feature for remembering hashtags you use regularly.
Post types: Standard ✓ Stories ✓
Media Integrations: Camera Roll ✓ Pexels ✓ Unsplash ✓ Google Drive (web app only) ✓ Drop Box (web app only) ✓
Things we liked:
- Instagram Story templates were a nice feature
- Some users will like the option to design an offset grid
- Phantom mode for temporarily hiding a post
Whatcould be better:
- Didn't like the big empty grid that came pre-filled with grey squares.
- App was a bit buggy and it took ages to sign up connect to our profile which didn't work at all on the web app
- Speed, so so so slow
- No save to camera roll feature for photos edited in app
Summary
Choosing the right app for you is a personal choice and the different features will appeal to different people. All of these apps have the same basic functionality and promote safe posting via notifications, analytics and support multiple Instagram accounts.
Later - Use it if you want a powerful social media scheduling tool for distributing your content across multiple channels.
Planoly - Use it if you want a professional scheduling tool where you can stay organised with a content calendar and visual planner in one.
Plann - Use it if you want a visual planning tool for Instagram that gives you creative control over the visual look of your feed
Preview - Use it if you want a super simple visual planner on your smartphone that gets the job done.
Unum - Use it if you want something that allows you to be a bit more creative and experimental and you don’t mind a bit of a learning curve
Note: This article was originally published in January, and was updated in May,
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