Musical.ly is already a living legend in the video sharing entertainment space. Released in 2014, this app enables a user to create a 15-seconds video, choose a soundtrack to fit in, use different speed options like slow, fast, time-lapse, epic and also add effects with pre-set filters. This video social media app has now turned into a phenomenon for US Teenagers and with the participation of celebrities and "musers," it has reached a whole new level.
If you're looking for its alternatives, these four apps will not disappoint you:
Flipagram – Often compared with Instagram, Flipagram allows a person to make "Flips" that is a mashup of videos, photos, text and 30-second snippets (planning to expand to 60 seconds) of hit songs to choose from its elaborate catalog of 10mn tunes. Other features of it include creating amazing videos from simple images, enabling photo video collage, presenting best slide show while collaborating with excellent choice able music overall acting as an easy platform to save memories. A user can also share these beautifully made flips on other social media sites. Farhad Mohit, the founder, had sleepover journey in its building process and is now reaping benefits with half a billion user base and six times more followers as Instagram.
Viddy– Viddy in the most lucid way allows people to capture, edit and share beautiful 30-second social videos, images, and collages. Slow motion video making, video editing are its unique feature, and at the same time, it is a great place to meet new interesting people. After selling at 15$Mn in contrast to its initial value of 370$Mn, Viddy lost its battle to Instagram in 2014. The comparison of Viddy with Instagram began for the video feature and it later partnered with Facebook for space and exposure. But, Facebook's technical advancement did limit app space on their site giving Viddy a major blow finally resulting in selling out. Somehow, it's fans that also included major celebrities couldn't let it go and therefore it still is a part of the video entertainment space today.
VideoStar – If you're an aspiring music videostar, this app is just the thing for you. VideoStar enables a user to make an original music video on any song, lip sync/dance, add various effects found on board and with a click of a button share it with the world. Among sharing platforms YouTube tops the list followed by Facebook and Twitter. There are many ways to download music and convert it too, similar to mp3skull. Whether it is your kid's birthday party or a random sleep over with friends, your performance will be captured for life in your IOS device with VideoStar.
Mindie–Mindie and Instagram are often talked about on similar quality of giving life to annoying things. While Instagram does it with images through filters, Mindie does it with music for personalized videos. This app does the hand holding while making you pick a song of your choice, merge it with a shot video and produce a compelling music video in seconds and of a much higher quality than that of Facebook or Instagram. Out of 11Mn registered users, 7Mn are active, and this number was enough for Shot to acquire Mindie recently. With the acquisition, some new features are greatly expected out of this already fantastic app.
There is no dearth of apps for both IOS and Android devices today. It's totally up to you to choose the one that fits your taste, sensibility and requirement. Well, my belief is why choose one when we can have it all.