Author: Pho.to team

The position of the Photo Lab app in Ukraine has skyrocketed (#1 at the very moment) in the last two days on both the App Store and Google Play Store. All thanks to the flag-based combo a lot of Ukrainians and their supporters use to express the sense of unity and aspiration for peace.

As the interest grows, a great number of questions have been hitting our support inbox regarding the origin of the company and app behavior. We’d like to spread the light on most of them.

A note for our English-speaking users: the rest of the text in this post is written in Russian. Just because the users it’s targeted at are very much likely to speak Russian and we’d like to do our best to lessen their concerns and bring a bit more calm in this time of hardship.

Thank you for your understanding 🙏

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(Post updated on March 18, 2022)

You know how passionate and enthusiastic we get when it comes to technologies in photo editing. We have delivered quite a number of AI-driven algorithms, many of which appeared in Photo Lab before they did in any other app. What a magical feeling. ☺️

Continue reading How It Has Been for Photo Lab Up to This Moment

It’s been the second weekend in a row our ToonMe app has hit #1 app overall on App Store in Japan, leaving behind such giants as Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok. Thanks to the increased interest shown by local TV hosts and editors, the app keeps its positions in the land of rising sun for two weeks already. And we hope it’s only the beginning.

Continue reading Taking over Japan. 🇯🇵 The second weekend in a row

You can’t but notice all the adorable creatures that currently dominate social networks. Cutest Disney avatars in 3D/2D, vector looks, Archer inspired portraits, or collages boasting them altogether.

Yep, ToonMe.com skyrocketed overnight, having made us the happiest developers in the world. At the same time, our servers were down, keeping us down to earth and proving that it’s something you can never be ready enough for…

Continue reading Stay TOONed with #1 Photography app in more than 30 countries

It’s not. We swear 🙂

After our Photo Lab app got viral in Bangladesh with its new photo effect (and reached #1 rank there on Android), three of their leading news websites «proved» it to be a part of IBM’s plan to sell data to the US Intelligence Agencies. Sounds ridiculous and it is, but that actually happened.

Shortly after we released new «AI Cartoon» effects, Photo Lab started slowly climbing the ranks in lots of countries. And this particular combo became a hit in lots of Muslim countries. Especially in Bangladesh! After becoming #1 photo editing app there by the end of last week, it moved up to top #1 overall in its Android store as of this Wednesday, beating Facebook and Instagram, the platforms from which the virality derived.

It became so popular that Bangladesh accounted for more than half of our daily processing, our servers even got down for some time. At some point, about half of Dhaka’s «Recent» Instagram posts were dedicated to our effects.

And early today the news broke. Three of Bangladesh’s leading websites (www.kalerkantho.com, www.somoynews.tv, banglanews24.com) posted an article claiming that Photo Lab is actually… CIA project aimed at collecting bank data of its users. Well, we are obviously not. We even don’t have an office in the US.

But just to respond to their points…