Infographics have become a popular way to convey a lot of information in a concise form. Rich with data, they leverage graphics to provide context to the numbers. Now a clever Swedish company called Dear Future Astronaut has released a $0.99 iPhone app that will analyze your photos and produce a beautiful infographic analysis.
I recently purged about 1,000 photos from my iPhone, but Photo Stats didn’t mind. It still created the following, beautiful infographic that analyzed the 266 photos still on my iPhone.
Photo Stats will show you where, when and how you took your photos, with location, time of day, your “most productive” days and various photo properties like portrait vs. landscape, ISO setting and photo app used.
The $0.99 price is reasonable, although they say it’s a promotion only good for the first week. After that, it goes up to a whopping $1.99 (still a deal, in my book). Go get Photo Stats, and share a link to your Photo Stats in the comments below.
Wow! That’s really cool! I wonder if they’ve got any plans to build a non-phone app that might be able to get the data off iPhoto?
I think this is going to be the decade of the infographic. It seems like Mashable has a new infographic nearly every day, and many of the most “shared” stories seem like they’re infographics as well.
Wonder how many other infographic-makers will be emerging if this one proves popular enough. I’d love an infographic view of my apps and usage.
Thanks for sharing, Jeff.
Totally agree, Dave. I’d love to see a version that worked with my iPhoto library, or even my Flickr photo stream. And photos are just the beginning. This field is ripe for the picking…
New version is available – Photo Stats 2.0