GoPro replaces namesake app with Quik app

GaryPageau
GoPro refreshed its mobile app and gave it a new name

GoPro launched a total refresh of its mobile app and renamed it Quik. Existing GoPro app users will see their app update upon install. For GoPro camera users, Quik features all of the capabilities of the previous GoPro app, plus new features. Existing users’ photos and videos will transfer from the old GoPro app to the new Quik app upon install and any cloud-based footage will remain accessible.

The Quik app aims to solve the problem of users finding their favorite photos or videos. Users share favorites to the Quik app where it will be added to a private “Mural” feed within the app. Multiple images and videos from similar events will be grouped together and highlight videos can automatically be generated.

“Quik makes it simple and fun to finally make sense of the vast number of photos and videos we all have on our phones,” said GoPro founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman. “You don’t even have to open the Quik app to organize your images, simply share your favorite shots directly to Quik from your camera roll, text threads, or wherever your best shots may be.”

Quik features and benefits include:

  • Unlimited Importing of Your Favorite Photos and Videos: Import photos and videos from any phone or camera, including GoPros and DSLRs.
  • Unlimited Cloud Backup (Available Later This Year): Every photo and video you post to your Quik mural feed will be backed up at its original quality
  • Automatic Video Creation: Create impressive music-synced videos
  • New GoPro Original Music: Choose from a growing list of royalty-free tracks curated in-house at GoPro or add your own music to your videos
  • Editing Tools: Adjust exposure, contrast, color, vibrancy; get creative with intuitive single and multi-clip video editing; add text, stickers, and more
  • New Video Speed Tool: Speed ramp your videos faster or slower and add super slo-mo and freeze frame segments at multiple points within a single video clip
  • GoPro-Exclusive Filters: Use dozens of filters, including many optimized for the natural environment “looks,” including snow, desert, water, and more
  • Premium Themes: Choose from a growing list of sophisticated video edit themes, making it easy to give your videos a particular style or energy
  • Frame Grabbing: Extract photo still images from videos
  • Easy Social Sharing: Post directly to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and more, or share via text or email

Quik is free to download and use on a trial basis. Customers who want to unlock the app’s full capabilities can subscribe for $1.99/month or $9.99/year. This will include unlimited cloud backup of imported photos and videos at their original quality when the backup feature is released later this year.