Author: Anastasia Makeeva

It’s been many times that Photo Lab has gone crazy viral in different countries. And it’s interesting to note that each country set up its own trends and ways of using the app. This time the Photo Lab fever has taken over Africa! 🌍

It was late in August that Photo Lab started going viral in Benin 🇧🇯 and Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩. The app soared into No. 1 Overall position on the App Store leaving behind TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook. In early September the legendary app became #1 Overall in many more African countries including Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Algeria 🇩🇿, Rwanda 🇷🇼 and Zambia 🇿🇲.

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What would it be like to look in the mirror, but… in a cartoon world? No matter how fantastic it may sound, AI makes this fantasy a reality!

If you are looking for something fancier and whimsier than just mainstream photo filters, you’ll love the Toon Mirror tab inside the ToonMe app.

The tab offers a selection of several toony styles. Сhoose one and get ready for teleportation into the AI fantasy world! Please don’t expect the result to look like an exact copy of your personality. Instead, you’ll get an AI’s vision of how you сould possibly look if you were in a cartoon movie. Your hair and eyes can change color, your face features can become super dolly-ish. AI can even change your clothes or make you look like an antique statue. But this is what makes the game even more interesting!

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Active lifestyle full of sport and exercise is all the trend now. And it’s funny how it affected trends inside the Photo Lab and ToonMe apps. We are talking about the ‘Hot Body’ trend, which was totally inspired by our users!

So, let’s get back to how it all started. Back in May we launched the Barbify feature in ToonMe and Photo Lab. The tab contained AI-driven toony filters that made people look immaculately cute and doll-like. However, some people started using the filters in their own way 😆

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Remember we made a post about #NewProfilePic’s nomination for Google Play Best of 2022 Users’ Choice Award? OK folks, as 2022 draws to a close, we’ve got more great news! Google announced the winners, and… we did it! 🙌🎊 The #NewProfilePic app won the Best of 2022 Users’ Choice Award in Germany 🇩🇪 and France 🇫🇷! 

We are really happy and proud to have received this prestigious award! This achievement would not have been possible without the votes of our German and French users, as well as without endless inspiration from users all over the world! 🌍

Love you to the moon and back, and see you in 2023! 🤗🧡🚀

Finally, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! ☃️❄️ We want to wish a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our users and followers, wherever you may be…🎄🎅 May this Christmas and the upcoming year bring love, understanding and peace to everyone who needs it! 🙏🕊️

Looking back into 2022, we realize that this year has been tough, confusing and challenging for many people all over the world. Still, our multi-national team stayed strong and united as never before, doing our best to serve our mission – to deliver the best photo editing experience to mobile users all over the world!

The #NewProfilePic app, offering fancy styles for profile pics, was definitely the star turn of the year! We released it in April, and in May it rocketed to #1 in the English-speaking world. The app hit #1 Overall in the UK and the US, with other countries quickly joining the trend!

Our two flagship apps, Photo Lab and ToonMe, also rocked it in 2022! They went viral and hit #1 Overall on both the App Store and Google Play in many countries, including the US, China and Japan.

Summing it up, Photo Lab, ToonMe, and NewProfilePic apps have had over 200M downloads combined over the last 2 years! This number is so huge that it seems almost impossible to believe! Yet, we did it, thanks to inspiration from our users and dedication of each member of our team. 🤗🎉

And once again, from all our big Photo Lab family, we want to wish you love, joy and peace… today, tomorrow and always!

Ever since we released the #NewProfilePic app earlier this year, we’ve had lots of reasons to be proud. The app skyrocketed in both Google Play and App Store, and won the hearts of users all over the world . 🤗🌎

But now, we are excited like never before, as #NewProfilePic has been nominated for #GooglePlayBestOf 2022 Users’ Choice Award in the US, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and France! 🎉🎉🎉

If you love #NewProfilePic, take a minute to vote for us on Google Play. Please note that only users from the countries listed above will be able to vote for #NewProfilePic.

“Best of” is Google Play’s biggest annual editorial moment, celebrating the year’s greatest new apps, and “Users’ Choice” is one of the most prestigious categories, where fans are invited to choose the winner.

You are also welcome to spread the good word about the app’s nomination.

WOW! 🎉 Our two most popular apps, Photo Lab and ToonMe, have been going viral in many countries for a second week in a row now! 

The buzz started with ToonMe becoming #1 app Overall on both the App Store and Google Play in Romania 🇷🇴. Photo Lab, in its turn, hit #1 Overall in both stores in Dominican Republic a week later. 🇩🇴 Soon afterwards, North and South America stepped in and joined the fun!🌎

Continue reading Follow Your Art… All over the World!

(rankings info updated on November 29, 2021)

True art is something that can reach people’s hearts all over the world! 🌍🎨 We are happy to see that one of the Photo Lab filters (sophisticatedly called ‘Even Better Than The Real’) has gained popularity in a number of African countries almost overnight! 🙌🏿🙌🏻  

• 🇲🇱Mali, 🇳🇪Niger, 🇬🇦Gabon, 🇧🇫Burkina Faso, 🇧🇯Benin, 🇳🇪Senegal, 🇲🇷Mauritania are the first on the list – Photo Lab has reached #1 overall on both iOS and Android in all these countries.  
• In 🇱🇷Liberia and 🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau, 🇬🇲Gambia we are #1 on the App Store.
• 🇳🇬Nigeria and 🇬🇭Ghana have joined them on Google Play.
• Other countries where Photo Lab is hitting Top 10 include 🇨🇩Congo, 🇨🇮Cote d’Ivoire, and more.

This amazing style combines an AI-driven cartoon portrait and artistic watercolor background, so it is definitely worth a try with your selfies, too! 😎