Facebook launches free 'Instagram rival' camera app for iPhone users

Washington, May 26 (ANI): Social networking giant Facebook has launched a camera app for the iPhone that offers similar functionality to Instagram.

The move came only six weeks after Facebook purchased the photo-sharing social network for one billion dollars.

The app, named Camera, is available on the iPhone for free and has been created in order to enhance the Facebook photos mobile experience, The Telegraph reports.

Camera allows users to share multiple photos all at once, add captions, tag friends and layer on different filters to change the look of the photos, in a similar fashion to Instagram.

According to the paper, Facebook is believed to have been working on an 'Instagram rival' for some time and 'Camera' is the result of that work.' (ANI)