10 Apps That Make Photographers' Lives Easier
Planning your Instagram grid. Finding the best light, no matter where you are. Organizing your invoices and getting paid on time, every time. Finding your stolen photos on the internet. There’s an app for that.
Between pre- and post-production, business and administrative duties, and communications and marketing tasks, photographers have only so many hours in a week to devote to what matters most: making pictures. According to one oft-cited survey from the UK, wedding photographers report spending just 4% of their time shooting.
In a fast-paced industry, choosing the right tools can make all the difference. We put together this list of twelve apps you can use to budget your time, automate your workflow, communicate with clients, and more–all with the goal of making your life easier. schedule.
Planoly is a one-stop shop for planning your social media feeds, and unlike some schedulers on the market, it allows you visually plan your feed or grid (Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter) before it goes live. If you have a business profile, you can also use Planoly to track profile data and gain more insight into your audience and their needs.
Together Now is a relatively new app designed for remote collaboration between photographers, clients, art directors, producers, and agencies. Created by the commercial photographer Joanna McClure, the app organizes your call sheets, shotlists, and high-res images and allows for post-production and retouching notes to be made in real-time.