Unfold is an app designed to supercharge your Instagram Stories and add even more character to them. It’s an interesting app that helps you add even more design flair to your Stories by using some of its pre-formatted templates to help up your Stories game.
The power of Unfold is in its simplicity. Provides plenty of templates for your Stories that can make them stand out. Add your images or video to that template and upload your Story as usual. You still use the same creation tools that you have on Instagram, but then you also have other tools to use.
Even if you haven’t recognized them, you’ll have seen many Unfold templates on Instagram as they are used everywhere. From companies and brands with their carefully curated Stories to people who want to up their game, they are literally everywhere on Instagram because they are so good.
Using deploy
Deploy is available for Android and iPhone and it’s free but contains in-app purchases. Those purchases are sets of templates that you can use in your Stories. There are many included for free, but some of the best ones are premium and cost between $0.99 and $1.99 each.
- Download and install Unfold from your local app store.
- Open the app and select ‘+’ to start a new Story.
- Name your story on the first screen and select Create.
- Select the ‘+’ on the next page to add a page to your story.
- Select a deployment template at the bottom of the screen.
- Insert an image in the center of the new template.
- Tap the pencil icon to insert text or double-tap the placeholder text already there to modify it.
- Select the download icon at the top right to save your story.
- Open Instagram, create a Story and select your Unfold creation.
- Edit further or publish.
This is how to create a basic story using the default settings. As you’d expect, you have a variety of editing options from the creation page to make your Story your own.
I like that it doesn’t want all your Instagram logins or access to everything on your phone. The feature of saving the Story and allowing you to open it on Instagram and post it yourself is a great feature and something that will encourage people to use it more.
While I glossed over some of the editing options above, you have a lot to do when creating a story in Unfold.
- Select images from the library in Step 6 by selecting Gallery at the bottom or take a photo.
- Add additional pages to your Story by selecting the ‘+’ icon at the bottom of the page.
- Change the font and size from the text window on the Edit Text tab.
- Add text effects like inverted colors, bold, italics, etc. from the same Edit Text tab.
- Select the pencil icon at the bottom right of the main screen to access the template colors. Select the raindrop icon to see the color.
- Select the pencil and the T icon to change the text options. You can add more text or access the Edit Text options and modify it as needed.
- Reorder multiple pages by selecting the star icon and the back icon that appears in the middle of the left side.
Dropdown Templates
There are 25-30 free templates and maybe 100+ paid templates for Unfold. When you create your story and select a template, you’ll see a slider at the bottom of the page. This is where you choose your template. They will all be selectable, but if you select one that you have not purchased, you will see a notification telling you that it is not your property. The app then gives you a price and the option to purchase.
When you purchase the template, it will be available immediately as long as you have a payment method installed on your phone and Unfold can access it. As mentioned, prices range from $0.99 to $1.99 per set of templates and you will receive between 5 and 10 templates per set.
For once, the free templates available in an app are pretty good. Each of them is worth using and comes with a variety of design and color options. The premium ones step up a notch in terms of quality, but the free ones are enough to keep you busy while you evaluate whether to continue using the app and investing in it. Since big brands use Unfold quite regularly, many inpidual users are doing the same.
Unfold is a great app that adds another interesting layer to Instagram Stories. There will come a time when we will have seen all the templates and all the colors but until then, this app is worth using.
