Artful Flickr is an iPhone Flickr Browsing app that started life as a proof-of-concept for the Artful platform we were building at Elastik Mobile.

We liked it so much that we decided to put it up on the App Store as our first app and were blown away by its popularity. We had a huge number of downloads as soon as it went live and the numbers continued to rise. We have had well over 10,000 downloads to date and our analytics show that people spend an average 7 minutes using the app each time they go in which is phenomenal.

Unlike most Flickr apps that start by asking you what you want to look for, we start the app by showing you a single app picked at random from Flickr’s Interesting pool. Photos get into this pool by being rated highly, being added as a favourite by a large number of Flickr users and by the number of comments, etc. We then let people explore that photo (or pick another from a small number of other Interesting photos) and then follow their nose through that photographer’s other photos and favourite photos.

It remains the most successful app we built at Elastik Mobile.

Due to the closing of the Elastik Mobile App Store account, this app is currently not available although it is in the review process so should be live again soon.