Instagram Stories: Now even more like Snapchat, but with better video recording

Instagram just dropped another major update to Stories and, once again, some of the new features may look a little familiar.

The app added a stickers feature that looks a lot like Snapchat's geofilters, as well as the (decidedly un-Snapchat-like) ability to record video hands-free.

For now, there are two main types of stickers: a handful of holiday-themed illustrations (presumably, Snapchat will periodically update its selection throughout the year) and "contextual stickers" that look a lot like Snapchat's filters.

The contextual stickers allow you to add illustrated overlays that showing the current time, temperature or your location. While Snapchat has its own variant of all of these, Instagram's location stickers are not as creative as Snapchat's geofilters (though they look very similar at first glance).  Read more...