Instagram Stories Now More Popular Than Snapchat

Spotter out, Snapchat. Instagram on Thursday appear that more than than 200 million people now apply its Stories feature every mean solar day.

That's pretty impressive, considering Instagram launched the Snapchat ripoff just viii months ago, but you might exist wondering why the Facebook-owned social network would call out the seemingly random number. Hither's why: rival Snapchat in its February IPO filing revealed that "on average, 158 meg people employ Snapchat daily."

And then basically, Instagram is depression key bragging that its Stories feature is at present more popular than Snapchat. To exist off-white, Snapchat'due south numbers were from two months ago, so it'southward highly possible that the app's daily active user count went up since then. Either way, it's safe to say that Instagram Stories is giving Snapchat some serious competition.

Meanwhile, Instagram also today introduced some new tools, including the power to turn a selfie into a sticker.

"When you take a photo or video and tap the smiley face up, you'll run across a new sticker with a camera icon that lets yous capture a mini-selfie," Instagram explained in its weblog post. You can then pin your selfie sticker to a specific spot in a video. To do that, but tap and concur the sticker, place it where you like, and ostend past borer "Pin."

Instagram also introduced "geostickers" for those in Chicago, London, Madrid, and Tokyo. These are basically the same affair as Snapchat's geofilters: cute graphic stickers that are only available in certain locations.

It should likewise now be easier to access your favorite Instagram stickers. Just tap the smiley face and swipe right to see all the stickers yous've recently used. Finally, when y'all're recording a video using "Easily-Gratis" mode, you'll now see a timer that counts downwards to when the video begins.

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's skilful on fitness and smart home products. Instruction yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, forcefulness training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, but to name a few.