Instagram confirmed last month that it was shutting down the app IGTV, because in a way he integrated this platform into the parent application. However, the Meta company has now decided to cut two other separate applications that it distributed under the Instagram banner. These are Boomerang and Hyperlapse.
As he pointed out TechCrunch, the company removed both mentioned applications from Google Play and Apple's App Store without any mention, press release or statement. Introduced back in 2014, the Boomerang app allowed users to create one-second looping videos. In contrast, Hyperlapse, which was introduced a year later, was able to create time-lapse videos, directly from the hand. Thanks to its unique algorithm, it was able to eliminate shocks and the resulting recording was surprisingly high-quality stabilized (the video was clipped here).
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Although these apps were released separately, their key features were later integrated into the Instagram social network. Even so, at least the Boomerang title has recorded more than 300 million downloads since its launch. In contrast, Hyperlapse was never very successful, with only 23 million users downloading it. But this is surely because Boomerang offered a fun and fast concept, whereas in Hyperlapse you had to know what you actually wanted to record in it.
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So this move itself is not a big surprise. Instagram certainly wants as many users as possible to spend time on it, and it doesn't exactly need such fragmentation of attention. It remains the last independent title layout, which is used to create collages from several photos. However, the way it looks, we may have to say goodbye to him as well.
