Are you a silent scroller or an aspiring content creator? Maybe you’re a gamer looking for fellow fun-lovers. However you use social media, it can be the perfect place to stay up to date with trends, find your community and express your authentic self. Here are some awesome social media apps to try now.

Channel your inner creative with these design and photography apps – they’re go-to tools for ensuring your videos and photos look polished for social media.

Canva is teeming with templates that can be tailored to a variety of social media platforms and are really easy to customise. Tweak the colours, add animations and much more to give your posts a personal touch. Want to refine your reels? Capcut makes light work of adding soundtracks, captions and effects to video content. For photo and video editing with a slice of community, head to VSCO. Explore the app’s custom filters, then share and connect with other users on the Discover tab (the globe icon).

Want to know who’s topping the leaderboard of your favourite game? Maybe you’d like to challenge them! Jump into these terrific titles to play with (or against) fellow gamers, friends and family.

To have fun with people you know in Roblox, add them as a Connection. If you fancy a little friendly competition, jump into Royal Match, where you can create a team and take on Team Battles and Tournaments, or Candy Crush Saga, where you’ll complete match-3 levels to climb the global leaderboard.