Instagram has removed its standalone Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps from Apple’s App Store and Google Play, as reported by TechCrunch. The removal comes shortly after Instagram’s February 28th announcement that it would stop supporting the IGTV app, and the changes indicate that Instagram is opting to consolidate some of its separate offerings to focus on the main Instagram app.
“We’ve removed support for the standalone Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps to better focus our efforts on the main app,” Instagram spokesperson Christine Pai said in a statement to The Verge. “Boomerang is still supported in-app in Stories, and Layout remains a standalone app in the Store. We’ll continue working on new ways for people to be creative and have fun on Instagram.”
According to Apptopia data shared with TechCrunch, both apps’ last day in the stores was March 1st.
The Boomerang app, which was first released in 2015, created short, looping videos by taking a burst of photos that you could post on Instagram or Facebook. Although the standalone Boomerang app is gone, as Instagram noted in its statement, the feature lives on in Instagram Stories, where it was added in 2016. Hyperlapse, revealed in 2014, lets you make professional-looking time-lapse videos, but it’s unclear if that feature will show up somewhere else within Instagram.
Instagram has also baked the functionality of its Layout app into Instagram Stories.
Update March 7th, 4:58PM ET: Added revised statement from Instagram.
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