After 13 lengthy years, Snapchat lastly has a local iPad model

Snapchat is on the iPad, though solely in portrait

If, as an alternative, your first expertise of Snapchat was proper now with its brand-new, long-awaited, much-anticipated iPad app, then you definately’ve simply had its full glory in someplace between 11 inches and 13 inches. It is precisely the identical immediate social media Snapchat it ever was on iPhones, and that is fairly presumably the way it must be.

For a Snapchat fan, the brand new iPad app is an nearly no-compromise, correctly scaled up model of the iPhone app. It gives all of the rapid sharing of movies and pictures, of distorting your face or protecting it in hilarious make-up.

Should you’re not a Snapchat fan, ditto.

The signup and login screens are nonetheless expanded iPhone ones and look very naked. Then while you’re utilizing it, you haven’t any possibility however to carry your iPad in portrait mode — there isn’t a panorama Snapchat in any respect.

It is in any other case seemingly similar to the iPhone expertise, besides that it has been properly revised for its new machine. The app makes use of its new display screen dimension properly and, as soon as logged in, there may be not one of the traditional apparent scaling up or spacing out of photographs.

And there is additionally no escaping that inside seconds you might be contacted by a stranger wanting to speak.

Snapchat got here to the iPhone in 2011. However it got here some 15 months after the iPad was launched, so there was absolutely already a market, and there was absolutely sufficient time to make a local iPad version.

Which the corporate finally did, some 13 years later. Higher late than by no means, we suppose.

However then it is right here now and that is not one thing you possibly can say about Instagram, whose developer nonetheless says the iPad market is not sufficiently big to trouble about.

Plus Snapchat has achieved its transfer to iPad very properly. Should you like that kind of factor.