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January 8, 2014
I hate this. A small company develops good software, gets bought out by a giant tech company, and the software is taken off the market. A case in point is the KitCam app for the iPhone made by GhostBird Software. It is an iPhone camera app that augments apple’s built-in camera. It is reviewed here by S2art. It was a top-of-the-line Camera replacement app with a myriad of functions that only a few other apps could match.
Ghostbird has been acquired by Yahoo in mid-2013 and the app--along with Ghostbird's Photoforge2 has been taken off the App Store! So I cannot buy it. PhotoForge (and later PhotoForge2) were among the best image editors for iPhone and iPad, period.
KitCam was an excellent, powerful, and popular camera replacement app with an excellent set of tools, filters and a powerful built-in image editing module. It was a great app that combined the best features of ProCamera, Camera+, Hipstamatic, Instagram, PhotoForge and a number of others. -
Yahoo wants the GhostBird resources to focus on Flickr. I doubt that we will see a new Flickr app with all of those app’s capabilities since Yahoo! is looking to widen its base with casual users. So we’re likely to see some of the cool stuff from KitCam and PhotoForge, but not all of it in future iterations of Flickr--- not the good features for iPhoneographers.
I'm left with the standard iPhone Camera. Do I turn to Pro Camera 7?
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