Wiping out your pictures may seem like something that you want to do after a drunken night out, however, it’s the aim of the game in the Picmate app that turns your photo library into a blurry game. And it’s actually really fun.
Download the free app and set up an account, giving yourself a badass or funny nickname (search for us as FanAppic – totally badass, right?) and then let the fun begin! Pick a random image from the + symbol in the top right hand corner of the screen and you’ll get a written clue as to what’s in the picture and then 24 seconds to wipe your thumb across the blurry screen to reveal a picture that another user has uploaded.
If you can figure out what the picture is before the timer counts down, you win points: the less you wipe, the higher your score will be. Some of the pictures are really funny and some are pretty obscure – luckily, you have a grid of select letters to choose from as opposed to the whole alphabet, which narrows things down a little.
A cool function of the app is the fact that you can ‘friend’ other users and then send them direct messages with picture challenges. These users can be your own personal friends or anyone from around the world; build up a rapport with a chap in Argentina by sending football action shots or flirt with a South African chick who uploads cutesy snaps of her poodle.
Due to the global nature of its user-base, you can get some really interesting pictures cropping up; it may make it harder to guess as the images will be out of your comfort zone but it makes for a more diverse blend of content. Additionally, you get to keep the photos in all of their un-blurry glory whether you guess them or not.
Picmate is a really novel concept and I can see it going far; it does rely on more and more users signing up each day, so give it a go and let your new favourite app wipe out all of your old photos…just not the ones from the drunken night out.
