Struggling to make your Instagram stories look as professional as your brand? You’re not alone.

70.7% of US businesses have an Instagram account, and over a million of them use the Instagram Stories feature. With all the noise on social media it’s important that your Instagram stories stand out. Luckily there are apps to help you do it. With beautifully designed templates and fun features these Instagram story apps are sure to captivate your audience.

1. Unfold

Unfold provides perfectly curated, minimalistic templates and layouts to help your business boost your aesthetic appeal. By incorporating both pictures and videos you can grab your user’s attention with the clean look of white space, allowing for easily digestible information. This Instagram story app is very straightforward and easy to use. Download Unfold here. 

2. Design Lab

Design Lab has templates in all different styles. Unlike other apps, Design Lab comes with Unsplash, a high-quality royalty-free stock photo bank. The app also comes with various tutorials showing you how to integrate templates. Download Design Lab here. 

3. Inshot

Inshot lets you edit photos, videos and create collages. While editing your videos for Instagram Stories, you can add filters and visual effects such as  tv glitching, colour effects, etc. You can also crop your videos to fit Instagram Stories, alter the speed of the video, add music and text. You can also change the backgrounds to anything from an ombre to a blurred photo. Download Inshot here. 

4. Hype Type

Do you have important information to deliver that might be boring to the average reader? A great way to hold a user’s attention is to animate the text. Hype Type is an app that allows you to upload a photo and choose from a selection of animations for your text to appear with on top of the video. Depending on the chosen animation, you can also alter the colour and font. The app is free to use but does come with premium paid features. Download Hype Type here. 

5. Snow

Filters, filters and more filters. Snow is an app that is based out of Korea that offers a multitude of filters. From old school camera filters to augmented reality animations. By taking videos and photos using this app, you are able to apply different filters directly while shooting. Simply download the picture/video and uploaded it to your story for all your followers to see. Download Snow here. 

Connect with Soar Media Group in Instagram to see these Instagram Story apps in action!