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Troovi: Share Your Photos With Just Four Clicks

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We have seen our honest share of photo sharing tools lately, but Troovi sets itself apart from the competition by offering an anonymous, quick, and simple to use photo sharing benefit in an exceptionally well calculated package. Thanks to its integration with a wide range of other social media services, you can use Troovi to promptly post links to your pictures to Twitter, Facebook, or FriendFeed. Because you can upload your photos anonymously, it only takes four mouse clicks to start an album and add your first picture.

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Features and Pricing

To get ongoing, just head to Troovi, choose the pictures you want to place into your album, and click on ‘upload.’ The moment you go to the site, Troovi makes a new URL for your album, so you just have to copy and paste that address to share your album, or use the the bookmark feature to send the album to a large selection of social media and bookmarking services. Amongst others, Troovi supports posting to FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, tasty, Digg, and Mister Wong.

The free version of Troovi allows you to upload up to 100 pictures per album and your albums expire after 30 days of inactivity.

To monetize the benefit, Troovi has chosen an fascinating freemium model. everywhere you can buy ‘premium collections’ for $1.49 per album (with significant discounts when you buy packs of 5, 10, or 25 albums). Premium collections can hold an unlimited amount of photos and won’t feature any advertising, though they will expire after 90 days of inactivity.

The accent here is clearly on the actual exchange of photos and not on making a permanent backup of your photo collection.

Share and Download

While Troovi’s core features are straightforward and extremely simple to use, it also has a nice set of additional features like RSS feeds and treatment data for every album (views, visits, downloads).

In addendum, Troovi allows you to download the full sized version of any shared picture. Complete albums can be downloaded as compressed .zip files.

All of these features are available to both anonymous users and registered users. Registered users, but, also also get additional features to manage their collections.

Verdict

In terms of features and ease of use, the Piratebay’s BayImg and ImageShack look like Troovi’s closest competitors, but both don’t come close to Troovi’s functionality.

Just like PhotoPeach, which we featured last week, Troovi focuses on doing one thing, and it does it exceptionally well. It only takes four mouse clicks to set up an album and upload your first picture, something that few other services can rival.

Want a Premium Account?

Robert Freudenreich, Troovi’s founder and developer, gave us ten premium financial statement for our readers. Just send an email to troovi AT frederic.otherinbox.com and we will send you one.

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