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"Instagram, the poster child of the mobile photo-sharing craze, now has more than 5 million users. \nThe eight month-old iPhone app added 100,000 new users this past weekend and is now seeing nearly 860,000 photos posted to its service each day, co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom shared with TechCrunch.\nCollectively, Instagram users have already posted more than 95 million photos, which means the startup should cross the 100 million photo mark before the end of the week.\nPart of Instagram's early success can be attributed to a still nascent but very popular API that's now being accessed by more than 2,500 applications. Webstagram and Flipboard are among the most popular, said Systrom.\nWe've been tracking Instagram's insta-comeuppance. You may recall that the app hit 100,000 users in week one, 1 million users in ten weeks and just recently surpassed 4.25 million users in late May. \nLately, we've been intrigued by top notch third-party Instagram applications (as seen below), inspired by the fashion photographers flocking to the application and excited by the potential opportunities for early adopter bands.\n13 Instagram Apps for More Photo Fun\n\n\nInstagram Apps\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarousel\n\nCarousel is a gorgeous Instagram Mac app for your desktop.\nCarousel, which sells for $4.99 on the Mac App Store, includes the standard photo viewing and commenting features, but it also packs a number of nuances -- double-click photos to enlarge and save them to iPhoto for instance -- that make it a near picture-perfect interpretation of Instagram in desktop form.\nWe love the four theme options, keyboard shortcuts and the growl notification options, but it's the simple and subtle design touches that make it a standout application.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInstagallery\n\nInstagallery [iTunes link] is a $1.99 application for browsing Instagram photos on your iPad or iPhone.\nSwipe through popular photos or login to scroll through, \"like\" and comment on your friends' Instagram photos. Hit the \"play\" button and the app will start a slideshow and scroll through photos for you.\nInstagallery also includes user profiles, different background options, and supports tag and user search. You can even double-tap or pinch to zoom photos to enlarge them.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScreenstagram\n\nScreenstagram is an Instagram-powered screen saver for Mac. Download the app and you'll be able to view your friends' photos as your always-updating desktop screen saver.\n\"We wanted to do something that took advantage of the eye candy, something beyond a web-based photo browser \u2013 something to really showcase our friends\u2019 grainy, bar room photography,\" app creator Doug Pfeffer says. \"A way we could sit with the photos and soak them in longer than usually allowed by the ephemeral, wham-bam-thank-you-ma\u2019am approach taken by the feed in the Instagram iPhone app.\"\nAfter download, simply select Screenstagram as your screen saver in the Desktop &amp; Screen Saver settings panel. Input your user name and password, and optionally select to show user names  or include popular images. Then, sit back and watch as Instagram photos are swapped in and out as tiles on your screen.\nNo Instagram account? No worries. You can still use Screenstagram to view popular photos.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGramframe\n\nLike Screenstagram, GramFrame is an Instagram screen saver, but this one is for your iPad.\nThe $1.99 iPad application [iTunes link] is as simple as they come. You can log in to Instagram and choose to watch popular photos, friends' photos or your own photos cascade on to your iPad.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMorningPics\n\nInstagram early adopters have been posting photos for more than seven months and have likely developed a massive photo archive. MorningPics offers a simple way to relive those memories.\nMorningPics delivers one randomly selected previously taken Instagram photo via email each morning. The email includes comments and \"likes.\" Depending on what you post to Instagram, your daily morning trip down Instagram memory lane could be quite emotional or inspiring.\nSign up here for early access to the private beta.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExtragram\n\nExtragram is a third-party web app for Instagram you can use to view, search, \"like\" and comment on Instagram photos.\nThe elegant interface displays photos in three different styles: Grid, Filmstrip (pictured) or Map view. We like it for its subtleties and finesse. We also enjoy the \"Discover\" tab for finding trending tags and profiles on Instagram. Plus, the app developers frequently release new features so it continues to get better with time.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGramfeed\n\nGramfeed, like Extragram, is a web client for Instagram.\nGramfeed is a little less flashy than Extragram, but the interface does offer two different photo views and an enjoyable way to view your Instagram timeline, add comments and \"likes\" to friends' photos, search and browse popular photos.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInkstagram\n\nInkstagram is also a web app for browsing Instagram photos. You can view photos in small, medium or full sizes while browsing your feed, popular photos or your own photos.\nWe especially appreciate the \"My Likes\" view which showcases all of the photos that you've liked on Instagram.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInstaprint\n\nInstaprint is a printer for Instagram photos.\nEach Instaprint box, intended to be an Instagram photo booth for parties, is set with a location or tag so that any Instagram photo appropriately tagged will be automatically printed  in an ink-less Polaroid-like fashion.\nThe Instagram prints even include comments. For the Instagram geek, it really doesn't get much cooler than this.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeepsy Instant Album\n\nScrapbooking startup Keepsy's Instant Album is a print photo book for your Instagram photos.\nThe online app connects to your Instagram account, pre-selects your best filtered photos and auto-generates an instant album of roughly 35 photos that you can purchase and place on your coffee table. If you'd rather customize and design your album, have at it; Instant Album lets you edit page layouts, drag-and-drop photos onto the same page, tweak backgrounds, customize text and so forth.\nThe 11-by-8.5 inch hardback albums start at $29.95.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDestroyed\n\nMusician Moby used Instagram to add photo flare to his Destroyed album release. The artist launched&gt; a microsite tying together Soundcloud and Instagram to create an album/photo book experience with interactive appeal.\nUsers can listen to the new album while clicking on map points to view Instagram photos taken from Moby's tour.\nWe think it's a marvelous and highly creative use of Instagram's API and hope it will inspire more artists to explore photo-sharing and music mashups.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMomento\n\nMomento, the $2.99 personal social media diary application for iPhone users, was one of the first applications to add Instagram integration.\nThe app is a winner in our book because it lets you automatically import your Instagram photos for inclusion in your daily diary entries. Now your Instagram moments don't have to be so fleeting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlipboard\n\nWhen social magazine Flipboard added Instagram integration in March, application users were presented with an elegant way to leanback, flip through and enjoy their friends' filtered and tilt-shifted photos.\nThe rich integration displays brighter, bolder photos, and lets you comment and \"like\" friends' photos from within Flipboard.\nInstagram inside Flipboard is a fresh take on leisurely weekday or weekend reading.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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