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Editor's note: This article is part of KSL's App of the Week, which features a different app with Utah ties each Thursday. Send tips for future articles to ddewey@ksl.com. SALT LAKE CITY — Sharing big, high-resolution videos from your phone with family and friends can sometimes end up as a blurry, pixelated video for them. A new app from a Salt Lake company is hoping to change that.
"What we're going for is very low friction. It's as easy as taking the video, going into the app, entering an email of who you want to send it to and it's done," said Grant Calder, founder of Wispeo. "No accounts, no worrying about format types, just really, really easy."
Wispeo can send a video up to three gigabytes or up to 50 high-resolution pictures at a time. You can also share other files like word documents, PDFs and PowerPoint presentations using the Web version.
"If I can make it easy enough for my mom to take her iPhone and send me a five-minute video, I'll know I've succeeded," said Calder.
Calder got the idea when his wife took their kids on a ski trip and sent him a video of the kids going down the hill.
"All it was sort of a white background with some really pixelated trees and a couple of little blobs coming down the hill," said Calder. "I thought to myself, 'This is just silly.'"
Now that more smartphones are shooting in 4K video quality, the need to send videos with their full resolution intact will be greater than ever, said Calder.
In the future, Calder plans to implement new features that would allow users to share original content with each other in either private or public networks.
Wispeo is available for free online, on the Apple App store, and for Android.