iCaptions – Review

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Version #: 1.0 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)

Date Released: 2009-08-26

Developer: iCaptions

Price: 1.99

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Once again, someone else steals my good idea.  I’d be less offended if I thought it was a good implementation, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

iCaptions is a very simple program with a very simple concept.  Take photos from either your iPhone camera or your Photo Library and put a word balloon with text on it.  The interface is very tidy, possessing five simple buttons along the bottom.  The first allows you to capture a photo from your camera.  The second takes a photo from the Library.  The third allows you to e-mail a captioned photo.  The fourth lets you save the captioned photo back to the Library.  The fifth is for starting a new project.  There is also a small "i" caption above the toolbar which shows directions on how to create word balloons on a photo.

Balloon creation is rather awkward.  You don’t know how large the pointer or balloon will be or where the program will place the text within (in a few cases, the text reached outside of the balloon).

Even though the app does what it says, there is a laundry list of what you can’t do in the app.  You can’t control the font, size or color of the text.  You can’t control the color of the balloon and have only limited control of the shape (it goes square if it touches an edge of the screen).

In short, the app is a good idea but it needs work particularly if it’s competing with apps that perform a similar function such as Photogene.

Pros: Good concept.  Simple to understand.

Cons: Awkward to use.  Limited options.