Pikura

In social networks there is nothing written. And it is that despite there being a good variety of genres, each one has its own style and purpose. A good example is Pikura A social network of photography that has little or nothing to do with Instagram, even if it is called that. And in this case, style, beauty and proportion give way to the user's ability to focus on photographic objectives or challenges to achieve.

It is a social network, although it also serves as a showcase to see the images and challenges posed by the users themselves the application, even without registering with the service. Of course, to get the most out of it you need to create a user account adding a name , an address of email and a password With this you already have full powers to move and participate in Pikura A simple tool with just two screens and a nice design that, while not completely surprising, is fully functional.

Pikura only has two metro-style screens. One to see the information of user profile, where you can find out the photographs contributed and the prizes won , and another screen to know the tests and participate in themYou just have to move vertically to see in images the different challenges posed by users. All of them have a title that represents the objective of each competition. A good way to guide yourself and access the challenge you like the most or in which you want to participate.

Within each challenge it is possible to consult the different images that other users of Pikura have added to the competition. And we must not forget that there will always be a winner for each challenge, this being the one whose photo gets the most votes within each challenge. All this while always being able to vote and comment each of the snapshots. But, if you want to participate, just press the camera icon at the bottom and add your own photo.After selecting it from the gallery or taking it at the same moment with the camera, it is possible to edit it with various filtersto give it a different touch and thus be able to earn more points. After that, it is published so that other users can see it and vote on it

But what if you want to create your own challenge? Simply access the challenges screen, press the button + at the bottom and type a title. It is automatically published on the challenges screen so that other users can participate and add their images. In addition, if you want to participate in a specific challenge, it is not necessary to search for it one by one. There is a button to apply a filter and find the most popular challenges, the mostrecent and other categories.

In short, a concept of different social network that, precisely for this reason and for the quality of the application, has been awarded with First place in the Nokia Create contestIt is available to all terminal users with operating system Windows Phone and also for Android In addition , it's completely Free It can be downloaded from Windows Phone Store and Google Play