The New Slingshot App By Facebook

If there’s one app that truly caught everyone’s attention in a very short time, it is Snapchat. As more and more clones of the app come up every day, this one might just stand out among them, mostly because it is linked to Facebook.

Read Also: Facebook Launches Shazam-like Music ID Feature

Slingshot is Facebook’s new app that imitates quite a lot of features from Snapchat as we know it. Free and available for and , the app lets you click pictures and videos of whatever you want and send it on the go.

Click, Doodle And Send

With Slingshot you can take photos, caption them with some fancy text or doodle all over it, and catapult it to your favorite humans. Yes, we understand, that sounds almost identical to Snapchat, but the difference lies in the way you receive these messages.

Send To Unlock The Viewing Option

As soon as you receive your first buzz from your friend on Slingshot, you’ll realize that this app is, in fact, quite different from Snapchat. To view an incoming message in Slingshot, you need to send a message or ‘shot’ back to the person you received one from. This is a sort of conversation-starter and continuer, as opposed to sending countless shots to someone who never sends you any in return.

Raising Barriers

While Slingshot’s methodology could help in maintaining a continuous thread of photo stories, there are also situations when it could be frustrating because you can’t view a shot immediately. Raising these barriers helps in setting Slingshot apart from the rest.

Select All Button

While Snapchat does not have the ‘Select All’ option to send a photo to all your contacts, Slingshot picks up right from here. Slingshot is the complete opposite of one-to-one photo sharing, and even though the app has the option to send individual shots, it is not encouraged.