App review: Storehouse – a social network of sorts, an interesting and beautiful one

There are plenty of apps available that allow you to capture a few seconds of your life to share with the world, whether it's still images, video or a few lines of text in a status update. But what if you want to tell an entire story? Store House is set up to do just that. The app combines all the elements you need to craft a visual story and puts them into one easy to use interface.There are limits: 50 photos and videos is the maximum you can put into a single story - more than enough. Videos need to be less than 30 seconds too - again, a reasonable limit. You can grab images from your phone, Instagram, your Dropbox account or Flickr, or you can create them on the fly, using your phone's camera.

Then you crop and edit, arrange, add a bit of text and share on Storehouse. You could lose yourself for hours browsing the content without ever contributing yourself. The projects vary from travel themed stories – one showed a day in Kyoto, another looked at the Day of the Dead in Mexico – to how to make the perfect omelette. And them there are the predictable selfie stories. You can choose who interests you and follow their stories, so it’s yet another social network of sorts. But it’s an altogether more interesting, more beautiful one.

[ storehouse.com ]