Vine for Windows Phone is now available for download

By Rich Edmonds
last updated

Updated 11:30 AM ET: The Official Vine app is now live in the Store. Link below.

Vine has today announced on the official blog that their Windows Phone app will be released today. Fans of the service have been left with little choice but rely on third-party solutions (6sec and Viner to name a few) while Vine looked at developing an official app for Microsoft's mobile platform. We covered an unveiling of the official Vine app at Nokia World 2013, but soon you'll be able to download the app and create some awesome short clips.

If you're not familiar with the service, Vine enables you to create looping videos with sound - think of them much like animated GIF images. The team will be releasing a product, which is in line with what's already available on iOS and Android. However, they have confirmed specific Windows Phone features such as the ability to pin favourite Vine accounts to the Start screen and we bet there'll be integration with the camera.

Download the official Vine app for Windows Phone here in the Store. 10 MB, Free. Windows Phone 8 only.

Source: Vine

Rich Edmonds
Rich Edmonds
Senior Editor, PC Build

Rich Edmonds is Senior Editor of PC hardware at Windows Central, covering everything related to PC components and NAS. He's been involved in technology for more than a decade and knows a thing or two about the magic inside a PC chassis. You can follow him over on Twitter at @RichEdmonds.

279 Comments
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    But fine that it's here finally!
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  • This is how I feel about 6tag / Instagram.  It's good for companies to support WP, but honestly, with such great third-party apps, I'm not chomping at the bit like I use to. 
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  • Tinder and Pinterest are the only non-Google apps that I think WP is lacking (Waze is Google now btw)
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  • It's almost ready to release for 9 months... it's like a baby
  • The bad news is that waze has a step father.......google so it could delay the birth    Taht sob  lol
  • If you realy think there needs to be a "gap filled" for missing google apps, you must be smoking sherm.
  • Yeah, cuz 99% of WP users are fanboys that hate the evil Google and doesn't relly on Waze, or Hangouts or Gmaps, or Goggle Docs, or a dedicated Gmail app, or G+, or Google Earth, GTalk, or Analytics, or Google Translator............ Why someone would move from other platforms to find no Google apps when you can have an Android/Iphone and rock with Skydrive, Hotmail, Skype, Office... Where Facebook and WhatsApp (ok, this ones you can't say nobody uses) actualy works, and have that many thousand apps that don't work here or relly on a few good third party developers to FILL THE HUGE GAP Yeah, I must be drugged
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  • Waze is already coming. The Google has announced that they are cutting off 3rd party apps in early 2014
  • I would love to see a Rudy's Youtube version :)
  • I would love to see a Rudy's Youtube version :)
  • Waze said they are close to going live.
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  • Actually, yes it is.
  • It really is.
  • It isn't. In fact it reinforces how long we wait for such things.
  • I have been using 6 sec and its an amazing substitute for Vine. I'll still use it even after this one drops but I'll check this one out as well.
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  • For Windows 8.1 ???
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  • Instagram is coming by the end of the month supposedly.  Mint is supposed to have a release by the end of the year, so hopefully that is still the case.
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  • Which I signed up for and have yet to hear anything back... 
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  • + PvZ 2
  • PvZ 2, Temple Run 2, Candy Crush
  • Candy Crush with achievments would fly like hotcakes with wings and muscles (unlikely though)  
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  • Hope it runs on the HTC 8S.
  • Vine. Check.
  • Now for the Snapchat :)
  • Will probably still stick with 6sec, thank you very much.
  • Awesome. Luv Vine....
  • Woo! There are some vine specific features that haven't made it to 6sec so I am excited to see them
    . That being said, 6sec is amazing so I am ready to see if vine can have the same fluidity.
  • Snapchat, instagram, bbm and that's about it :)
  • Gonna stick with rudy, but I'll give this a try
  • When the application is visible? پس کی برنامه قابل مشاهده میشه؟
  • I bought 6Sec a while ago.. but right now they show me some ad's! tha's it not right... so i will use vine official app instead
  • It won't let me download it
  • It's just not live yet.