Instagram has created an app that stabilizes video images and is therefore suitable for creating timelapses and tracking shots. At the moment there is only an iOS version; the android api is not yet compatible.
The app, Hyperlapse, uses data from a user’s iPhone gyroscope to stabilize the images, the app’s developer explains to Wired. That should make it possible to take shots that until now could not be captured well by a smartphone camera, because the image was much too jerky.
Unlike Instagram’s app itself, Hyperlapse only has one filter, and that’s speed. Images can be accelerated up to twelve times. Then the video can be shared via Facebook or Instagram. It is the second time that Instagram has released another app: the company previously came up with Snapchat competitor Bolt.
The app is now available for download in the App Store. An Android app is also in the works, but it won’t be released until Android’s camera API is changed. Presumably, the app is currently unable to access data from the gyroscope.