Molome : The Qt Instagram for Symbian arrives
Without much fanfare or any publicity, this Instagram ( the cool iOS app that adds effects and filters to a photo on the fly and shares it on social networks ) look-alike for Symbian devices has been launched in the Ovi Store. It’s a free application and it’s called Molome.
Like stop motion videos ? I surely do, take a look at this N8 stop motion video that takes you on a tour of this app :
If you aren’t familiar with Instagram, let me explain this app for you. You take a snap, add some effects , share it with your friends on facebook or twitter ( Only these both are currently supported on Molome ). Simple, right ? Also added features are the timeline ( a la twitter ) which allows us to view the pictures taken by our friends , also allows us to love it and comment on it. Apart from the timeline, there is also a “popular” section which has the most loved pics arranged in descending order of hearts. Let’s have a look at the app shall we ?
Timeline
This timeline shows the pictures of people you follow and obviously arranged with respect to time 
As you can see above , each of the thumbnails have the heart symbol ( For loves ) and the blue bubble symbolizing comments. If you click a thumbnail it will allow you fav it or comment on it, while displaying a larger pic of the same. And it looks like :
Now, a glimpse of the “Popular” section :
The share button in the middle takes you to the camera which has options to turn flash on/off, also switch from Auto mode to macro mode. You can either use the cam button or the onscreen button to take pictures . Immediately after taking your picture, the App takes us here :
This is where all the magic happens, each thumbnail below represents an effect that you can add to your pic. There are enough effects that will entertain you and spice up your pic. There are selective coloring options too , for example :
My other favorite options include old film, old paper, vignette and tilt shift, they make your dull pic look awesome . So, the next step is sharing !
First timers need to login to twitter or FB. I had login to twitter so i got the switch tab. When you hit the share button, it adds the pic to your molome feed as well as share it on twitter. The molome feed is always in sync with the molo.me website or vice versa . So, the photo is stored in your local storage, uploaded to the molo.me website and shared on twitter/fb . Neat ?
The notifications are just a placeholder, for now.
For a new app, pretty decent i would say. And finally here’s the profiles tab.
Pretty decent for a new app,right ?
However, there are a few limitations, or we can call it ” the first version incompleteness ” they include :
- Resolution of the photos capped at 600X600 ( Good enough ? for instant sharing, yes, but we need more quality right ? )
- Images currently getting saved in C:/Images/Molome ( Hopefully this should be fixed soon, since the resolution is so puny, the size occupied in C: is very negligible )
- Cannot edit or share pictures from your phone photo gallery ( an important feature : option to downscale and edit pictures from your gallery )
- No option to follow twitter friends automatically ( Desperately need this, facebook included ) However we can manually follow people , no problem in that.
So, these are some of the gripes i found with Molome. Some of my friends reported that twitter login may fail, but don’t worry, just restart the app and you are logged in ! Hope it is fixed in the next version.
My first experience with this app was amazing, how was yours ? If you have not downloaded this yet : DOWNLOAD FROM OVI STORE It’s free !
Fun facts : This is developed in Qt and supports S60v5 devices too ! The developer is none other than Sittiphol Phanvilai who had done crazy stuff using the N95 like for ex, making a multi touch screen using the camera ( Kinect in 2007 anyone ? )
So, all you impressed folks, what are you waiting for ? start sharing !
Tip : Follow them on twitter ( @molo_me ) for support.
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After playing around with this app I can’t help but agree that Qt is so powerful and is the right direction for Symbian. The UI is so quick, so smooth, so beautiful and intuitive teven on my painfully slow 434mhz running s60v5 powered C6-00. It is by far the best free camera app to date.
It makes me even sadder with the truth that Symbian will be ditched for WP7.
It’s neat that this is out for Nokia phones and that it’s so well implemented, but I’ll say the same thing about it that I say to my girlfriend about Instagram.
It does an amazing job of ruining your pictures.
She loves it and it’s all she uses but I just cannot imagine why someone would want to take a photo and purposely make it look like it had spent a decade withering under the sun. That’s not quirky or fun. It’s just dumb.
That’s why you have the normal filter which doesn’t change the image.
Everybody have choices
Indeed, but I love the tilt-shift and auto correct feature! The original colour of those photo taken under my C6-00 sometimes too dull and doesn’t looks appealing nor accurate so a little touch up will make it better.
Still I don’t get the point why are those girls in my Facebook love to LOMO-ize their photo.
Doesn’t seem to support landscape mode while entering text. You have to use the T9 keyboard in portait mode which can get a bit tiring….
Its a nice way to take over saturated iPhone-ish pictures on a N8 for those how actually like iPhone pictures over N8′s…
Its a fun app though. I’ll use it from time to time.
Thanks for the preview. Indeed this app looks like a decent alternative to Instragram for Symbian users.
Just a detail, you mention the low resolution of saved pictures but this is the same thing with instagram (500×500) because this is what makes it so easy and fast to apply filters.
Thanks for that info
Now i get it !
Flickr support would be nice
i don’t think they will add flickr (unless its a cross post) as they are trying to build their own network on molo.me
though at the moment its impossible to change your icon, or follow people etc.
can i ask, this theme is for certain phone or can i get it somewhere?
or should i install molome first to get this theme on my nokia 5800 XP?
is it better then pixlepipe
But worse than blipfoto, except effects.
Try BlipFoto, it’s absolutely smooth and fast.
I’m loving it btw
http://molo.me/macintosh
Dos molome work in nokia 5800?
i installed this app last night and i’m loving it so far. i just have a question though — is it possible to upload previously stored pictures(like in instagram where you can upload previously shot pictures)? if there is such function, i can’t seem to find it. usually i like to take several pictures before uploading it (to kind of choose the best one) but after i’ve taken a picture with molome and “discarded” it, even if it goes to my photos folder, i no longer have the option of possibly uploading that picture via molome. can someone help? =) thank you! =)
a new version is up and that will sorlve your problem. you can now upload old pics from gallery. a lot was included on the changelog
I want so much a Molome for nokia E5 *¬* ♥
ohh, yeah, me too!! so much!! is it still not available for nokia e5, do you know??
Hi everyone, i’ve just download the molo.me to my phone, and it failed when installing the first step… what can i do??? my phone is a C5-03…
can anyone help me, please!? thanks
Is Molome ever going to be compatible with Nokia e5 ?
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it doesn’t work in my nokia 5230… plz help… just give me step by step instruction… i want molome in my symbian… i love molome… :’(
I have Nokia C7-00, but can’t find the Molome-app in my ovi store. Is this app not compatible with C7?