You have a great picture which needs to be on Instagram, but it's rectangular, and you can't just crop it because you'd cut off some of the best parts. We've all been there. Do you ruin it by cropping off the sides or ruin it by adding a colored border? Finally, you have a better option: Squared Pics.

Squared Pics relies upon advanced algorithms normally used in artificial intelligence, robotics, and commercial computer vision systems to analyze your images and find parts which would likely not be missed. It then carefully cuts out those pieces leaving you with a square photo containing just the most interesting portions.

The freeze and melt tools come in handy when the algorithm can't quite remove the areas you want removed. To save special parts of a photo select the freeze tool and paint those areas. Or, to remove some troublesome spots (you know, like your ex), select the melt tool and paint over areas which should be removed.

Squared Pics also works as a photo editing extension, so it can be launched from within the standard iOS Photos app.

Here are some tips to get the best results:

• Squared Pics will not work well if the whole picture is interesting; for example, if your picture is a person's portrait or simply has someone standing in the middle
• It works best with interesting stuff near the edges and boring stuff in the middle
• If the boring parts are on the edges, you might just want to crop the image
• Natural scenes tend to work better than scenes with man-made stuff
• Faces are protected, as much as possible, but bodies are not
• Diagonal lines are likely to become jagged and disconnected
• Screenshots with spaced out text lines square well
• Panoramas do not like being shrunk into squares
• When freezing and melting, notice which way the image will be shrunk. If the image is wide, then the app will want to remove top-to-bottom parts of the image, so freezing left-to-right areas will probably not help the final image look right.
• Give the app to kids and let them break all of these tips, they will have more fun than you would think is possible