Recently the app has had a big impact in Japan, where it appeared 51 million times in the space of five days for ‘New Apps We Love’ on the Apple App Store.
People around the world have used the hashtag #DistressedFX 90,000 times, he found it very fascinating to see his app being used for so many photos. He says the great thing about mobile apps is that they give people accessibility to creative tools, meaning they can bring out their artistic side and immerse themselves in their hobbies which they may not have been able to do otherwise. It’s very popular with a wide range of users, from professional photographers to an older demographic who have rediscovered their creative side. He did the odd twenty minutes here and there and managed to complete it.
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It has taken him three years to update to Swift language which Apple introduced to its development environment, and build a shop so that people can buy extra packages. It shot to #1 in the app store charts in 24 countries and reached the #1 spot for the top photo and video app in 43 countries.īuilding the app has forced him to become very organised as it was quite time-consuming juggling it with having children and his job.
The app which is usually 99p saw one million downloads in 24 hours when they made it free for a day. After it’s launch the app started to get popular so Steve decided to do some updates to tidy it up, it was also picked up by a popular iPhoneography blog.