I have to admit – I have been a bit of a sucker for anything that uses CoverFlow. The various iPhone apps that have come out recently using it have all caught my eye, and I’ve tried all of them out – and got quickly bored with the novelty of it on most of them.
imFlow is the latest entry in this area – offering to bring cover flow to images on the iPhone. This could be a good thing, though the current method of flicking through images in photo albums seems pretty OK to me.
For now, imFlow is pretty limited. It seems to only work with images in the iPhone’s Camera Roll – with no option to choose to switch to photo albums; and it only works in landscape view. Several recent apps have the landscape only limitation, and I find it a drawback. I much prefer Photo Dial’s portrait viewing mode for its CoverFlow option.
imFlow is available in Installer now. What do you all think? How many more CoverFlow apps do we need, and is this one, for use with images, an essential one?
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Annoying name… im = instant messaging. Everytime I see the name I think coverflow for Instant Messages. I really hope with the SDK people stop picking retarded dammed names for the applications they create.
ImageFlow, PictureFlip … anything would have been better.
DEVELOPERS – PICK SOME BETTER FUNKING NAMES.
@Brandon: IM = Instant Messaging, depends who you ask. There are 74 definitions for IM in the acronym finder database. And, imFlow isn’t that bad of a name, in my opinion. I got the imFlow (imageFlow) association from the start. Bad names for other popular mobile image viewers: Resco or ACDSEE.
Although I wanted to like this application, I couldn’t get it to work. It only loads two photos from my library and it only loads the reflection, not the actual photo. Odd.
Flunky Carter – ha – ACDSEE is horrendous, makes imFlow seem like Shakespeare
@Flunky
And I agree I guess it isn’t all that bad … but if imageFlow is what the application does – why not name it imageFlow? Why does everything in iPhone/ iPdo Touch land have to have some clunky name that doesn’t actually show what the program does?
I guess my biggest issue isn’t necessarily with this application but many of the applications in general that can be found floating around on Installer… there’s got to be around 60 iSomething applications on there.
is there one that uses the tilt function to scan through the photos
Sorry – not one that I'm aware of.
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