Last updated on December 5, 2017 | 7180 Views

Slingshot offers everyone to participate with creativity and share the experience of turning the small moments into awesome memories with photo or video shoots.

Slingshot states :

a visual status update of folks or friends.

just a quick selfie.

sharing your everyday moment with lots of people at once.

Like Snapchat, one can scribble or write on images before sharing them or can add some text and color to the picture or video, then post it to a group of friends.

But in order for another person to view the message, they will need to send their own message first. The Messages and photos will remain on screen as long as you like, but will disappear forever the moment you navigate away from the screen. The only time you can see all your contacts at once is after shooting a photo or video.

Aim: Engaging People

“You are not just a spectator!” – Participate creatively and actively.

The crux of app is your friends won’t be able to see your shot until they acknowledge that, they would sling something in return to the picture or video. One will have to reply with a reaction—or simply swipe your shot away.

Features:

Unlike Snapchat’s text, which always remains the same size, Slingshot’s text will get bigger when you drag it down from the top of the screen. The text is limited to 140 characters, but can be repositioned on the image.

The drawing tool is also more advanced than Snapchat’s — one can set both the color and the size of the brush. From the color bar drag the selected color and dragging left or right will change the brush size, moving the tool onto right makes the brush decrease in size and moving onto left makes it increase in size.

Notification:

One will be notified for a new message, stating how many locked messages are waiting. If you swipe down, you can see the message sender’s name displayed at the top, along with a small pixelated thumbnail of the image that gives you a hint of what the image is without actually revealing anything.

Messages sent only to one recipient will say “just for you” along with the sender’s name, while those sent to multiple recipients will only show the sender’s name.

Usage :

Using Slingshot will make the users feel connected all time with their loved ones. It is available on iPhone (iOS7) and Android (Jelly Bean and KitKat).

This or That?

Slingshot’s overall design feels much more gleaming and swanky than Snapchat’s. Unlike Snapchat which is slow and often dribbles while loading and sending messages, Slingshot is fast and responsive.

We cannot say its a broadcasting tool. Well, it’s similar to Instagram in that you can share a photo easily with all your friends (you can “send to all”) but with slingshot the option of sling-back is not really fascinating. If you’re interested in sharing with as many people as possible, Instagram and Facebook are better methods.

Secondly only the people who care about you will sling something back in a timely matter. Those who don’t care will wait for something worthwhile to broadcast before slinging back. So, nutshell you’ll get a mix of the timely and intimate plus the late and worthwhile.