Blackberry Photo App PicMix Reaches 1 Million Users, Says That’s Faster Than Instagram

We all know that Instagram was bought by Facebook just recently. The photo app craze has reached not only iOS and Android, but apparently Blackberry too. One of the apps trying to catch that crowd, PicMix has reached 1 million users within the last two months, which the founder says puts it on a pace faster than Instagram in its early days.

PicMix, which stands for ‘pictures’ and ‘mixing,’ is all about pictures and photos. You can mix pictures and photos with filters, frames, stamps and ornaments (coming soon) then share it to social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter and BBM. People love to take photos and share it with others, being commented, and liked, especially Indonesian.

We asked the founder about the difference between PicMix and other photography apps:

PicMix comes with some interesting features. For example there is a Mobile Photo contest, advanced frames, premium frames, stamps, and decors. We also keep enhancing our photo filters. In our next releases, we are adding more analog photography filter and films. All of these features for sure will keep our community excited and engaged. So far, we have successfully maintained the ‘stickiness’ factor in this community. We just provide the basic frames, filters and tools, but if you take a look at those photos uploaded to PicMix, you will amazed that our users are so creative in combining frames and filters to become a beautiful work of art! As a creator for PicMix, every single day, we feel awe at the creativity coming from our users.

In short, it is [similar to] Instagram but with a more personal touch to cater most users needs and most of all, the user uses PicMix to express their creativity with the tools.

So far they have over 7.5 million photos uploaded by more than 1 million members with 32,000 new members signing up every day. 40 percent of the members are coming from Indonesia, with Venezuela in the runner-up position with 10 percent. South Africa is next with nine percent.

In the future, its 2.5 version, which hasn’t been released, will have new features such as branded frames (Spongebob, Dora the Explorer, and Avatar to name a few). At the same time they will expand from the Blackberry platform to iOS, Android, J2ME, Symbian, and Windows Phone to complete the full circle. They will have to fight it out with BibbyCam as the Instagram for Blackberry. But personally I’ve been playing around and posting some pictures with PicMix for now!