Selfies have become a trend in today’s technological world. Most of the people are very much interested in taking selfies with their beloved buddies and family members. Smartphone usage is been enhancing rapidly among the people in the current contemporary generation. Eventually, the rage for taking selfies has been increasing among the youth who are accustomed to the trendy life.
It has become very common among the current young generation that whenever they are free, they start taking selfies. You might be loving to take a selfie with your beloved companion, but they may not be available at that particular point of time. Is it possible to take a selfie right then? It may not be possible earlier. Now, it is possible to take a selfie with your favorite ones at any time regardless of location and no matter how long they are from you.
Well, a new app has been launched for the selfie-adorers that allow you to take joint selfies regardless of location barriers and distance. Your friends no longer have to be with you to take joint selfies. A new app namely, “Picpal” is developed by a Texas-based company MyndBee, which is co-founded by an Indian-American Mahesh Rajagopalan. Picpal App has been officially launched today on iOS and Android devices. It is now possible to take joint selfies with Picpal app by bringing together all your friends at the same time so as to create a selfie collage no matter where you are present in the world.
How to take Joint Selfies using Picpal App
- By using Picpal app, you can invite up to three friends to take joint selfies along with you. The person whom you have invited will have 15 minutes of time to respond to your Picpal request and send across their selfies to you.
- If your friend responds to your request and have taken selfies along with you within a given time frame, then all the selfies will be compiled into a single collage by this app. All the compiled selfies will appear in your Picpal gallery.
- You can then share the joint selfie collage either within the Picpal app or on Instagram, WhatsApp or other social networking sites like Facebook.
- You can even retake or edit them using the in-built tools present within the Picpal app. Text can be added over the joint selfies.
- You can invite your friends via Facebook or by sending a text message so that your friends will respond to your Picpal request.
- In case, if your friends don’t respond to your Picpal request within a given time frame, then the collage will get expired.
- You can download and install Picpal app on your Android and iOS devices via Google Play Store and iTunes respectively.
- Once these friends also download Picpal, the original user can invite them to one or more collage projects. The initial user takes a selfie and the invited contacts have one day to respond with their own.
Mahesh Rajagopalan, Co-Founder of MyndBee said:
“Social networking has revolutionised the way we document our lives. Picpal expands the horizon of these social documentation possibilities. With Picpal, we’ve created an authentic experience, connecting friends and families more intimately in real-time, no matter where they are.”
He also added, “Picpal takes the user away from passive interactions such as sharing, liking and commenting and makes a more engaging experience.”
Once you and your friends are done with taking selfies, you can make a joint collage which can be then shared in the Picpal app with all the friends who can like and comment on it. Later you can upload it to either Facebook or Instagram.
Picpal is the first app that combines social media, real-time collages and selfies into a single app. This app is the unique app that takes social sharing into the realm of social content creation. It brings selfies that may appear ineffective at first to become artistic photos and collages so that you can enjoy looking at them in the future as real-time photos. However, this app totally depends on your friends response within an allotted time frame after sending a Picpal request or else the collage expires. Picpal app is currently available for free on iOS and Android devices.