After launching Facebook Lite for emerging markets, Facebook has now launched a skimmed down version of Instagram called Instagram Lite app.
After launching Facebook Lite for emerging markets, Facebook has now launched a skimmed down version of Instagram called Instagram Lite app. Like all the Lite versions, Instagram Lite also aims to cater to Androids with less than 1MB or areas with poor and spotty internet connections.
Instagram Lite has APK less than 1MB in size meaning that user can download it fast even on slow connections. Although there’s no official statement from Facebook on this but it seems that the app is a pilot run in select countries for now.
«The Instagram Lite app is small, allowing you to save space on your phone and download it quickly. Follow your friends and family to see what they’re up to, and discover accounts from all over the world that are sharing things you love,» says the app description on Play Store.
Instagram Lite is launched on the version 1.0.0.0.145 and supports phone running Android 5.0 and up. The app is just 573K which is 1/55th the size of Instagram’s 32MP main app. The Instagram Lite app allows filter and post photos to the feed or Stories, watch Stories and browse the Explore page but the ability to message friends and share videos is yet to come to it.
Instagram Lite is for users using older phones with less storage space or poor internet connections. The stripped version of Instagram would let such users access to Instagram without having to delete photos, apps or wait longer and pay more to download it. Instagram has more than one billion users and the new Lite version aims to add another one billion from emerging markets like India.
Instagram Lite is the third such offering from Facebook, Messenger Lite and Facebook Lite being the first two. Facebook Lite was launched in the year 2015 and the Messenger Lite came in April this year.
Instagram recently also launched IGTV app that allows users to upload videos up to one hour in length, up from the previous one-minute limit.
«We launched IGTV (a button inside the Instagram home screen, as well as a standalone app) at an event featuring many of the Instagram creators who’ll make it great,» the company wrote in a blog post.
IGTV will let all users be a creator and let them upload vertical videos through Instagram’s app or the web.
