I thought it must be something like that on your end. 😉🙂
And yeah, when it comes to Instagram vibe there is nothing much to do. It exists or not.

But when it comes to mobile version there are even more developed apps like eSteem or busy.org app called bSteem - both built having mobile users on the mind and in the first place and both with quite big communities, while any of them wouldn't charge the members for the pure usage.

In other words, I can understand if apps like dTube, dLive and similar charge something for their usage, if nothing else because they really have some costs for the storage of all those video files.

While on the other hand, Steepshot is using Steemit resources (steemitimages.com) for media files storage (only images at the moment) for their app. Therefore, I'm asking myself what's the story behind if not just pure greed for endless profit at the expense of their users/members.

From my point of view, and if the developers of the app wanted to be paid for their work of creating it, it would be way fairer if they openly charge the app usage itself.
I mean, there are many excellent apps out there (both on Google Play and App store) which are not free, and if we really want them we would pay for them. Same applies here. (But, maybe the right question is: Are they that good to openly ask for the payment? As like this, it's just the sneak under the radar.)

And last, but certainly not the least, a possible vulnerability of users accounts as they don't use SteemConnect for logging in.