PicsArt is a popular all-in-one image editing app and creative community that makes it easy to take your photos to the next level. With thousands of powerful editing features, you can remix amazing pictures, collages and drawings and photos with friends.
Millions of people use Pixart as it packs a selection of premium tools such as photo blending, artistic filters, AI-powered photo effects, Photoshop-style layering and drawing tools, cropping, text overlays and more. Discover thousands of free sticker packs, fonts, collage templates, backgrounds, and brushes. Find the images you like and learn how to make them with daily photo editing challenges and tutorials. Remix millions of free-to-edit images with a global community of over 100 million monthly active users, and chat, share and edit photos with your friends using Remix Chat!
PicsArt Animated GIF & Video Animator
PicsArt's Animated GIF & Video Animator app provides a powerful but simple way to create stunning animations. From your snapshots to your sketches, you can bring them all to life with moving stickers and doodles, image overlays, sound effects and more.
The app has everything you need to make frame-by-frame cartoon clips and animated GIFs and photos, with no need for advanced drawing skills. For the more experienced, the animator has all the functionality that pros use from duplicate frames, layers fully fitted drawing tools, and more. Be prepared to download and ask, "How did you do?"
PicsArt Color Paint
PixArt Color Paint is a free digital illustrator app with a complete drawing suite and tons of advanced tools to create illustrations quickly and easily. PixArt offers a color mixer with Color Paint Layers, Text Tool, Custom Color Combination, Pattern and Color Fill, Customizable Paintbrushes and more, so you can doodle on your group photos, paint breathtaking fantasy worlds, or take a minute to paint some therapeutic treatment. From simple doodles and sketches to fully polished and professional illustrations, Pixart Color Paint is the digital drawing app you'll ever need.
PicsArt Video Maker & Movie Editor
PicsArt Video Maker & Movie Editor is a video editing app that uses AI technology to transform mobile videos into moving artifacts. PicsArt Video Maker & Movie Editor You use processing and artificial intelligence to analyze a video and rewrite it in a new artistic style even if you're offline. Styles can range in color scheme and effect, from Sketch, Winter Blues, Flare to Pretty in Pink. Choose from a variety of blending modes and action effects that add HD special movie effects. You can even add a soundtrack! Share on YouTube, Instagram, and other favorite social networks.
Pics Art Gif & Sticker Maker
PicsArt Gif & Sticker Maker is a comprehensive GIF Generator that provides everything you need to make amazing animated GIFs.
PicsArt Gif & Sticker Maker makes it easy to create GIFs from scratch by capturing images and videos with an in-camera camera or by combining images, videos, and GIFs with one another. With animated masks and stickers, a library of different filters and effects, and the ability to add text and titles in different fonts, it offers endless possibilities in creating and customizing GIFs. Export your GIFs directly to your PicsArt gallery so that it can be found by a community of millions of creatives around the world and share it directly with your other favorite social networks
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ABOUT PICSART
Picsart is a San Francisco, California and Yerevan, Armenia-based technology company that develops the Picsart suite of online photo and video editing applications, with a social creative community. The platform allows users to take and edit pictures and videos, draw with layers, and share the images on Picsart's and other social networks. It is one of the world's most popular apps, with reportedly more than 1 billion downloads across 180 countries.[1]
HISTORY
Picsart was founded in November 2011 by Armenian entrepreneur Hovhannes Avoyan, and Armenian programmers Artavazd Mehrabyan and Mikayel Vardanyan.[3] Its founders developed the first Picsart application as a stand-alone tool to help people alter a photo image on their phone, and additional capabilities were added over time.[4] The first PicsArt app launched in November 2011 on Android devices.[5]
In January 2013, Picsart for iOS was released for the iPhone.[5] In May, it was released for the iPad.[6] In November, Picsart had reached 90 million installs and had nearly 25 million monthly active users.[7] In late 2013, Picsart photo editor became available for Windows Phone.[8]
In January 2014, Picsart became available on devices supporting Windows 8.[9]
By April 2015, the company reportedly had seen 250 million downloads for its iOS and Android apps, and had 60 million monthly active users.[10]
In 2016 Picsart reached 75 million monthly active users.[11]
In 2017, Picsart launched Remix Chat, a messaging system where users can share images directly or in groups and edit them collectively with friends.[12] The company also launched a feature to let its user community create and share custom stickers for free. Picsart also announced that it reached 90 million monthly active users.[13] In July, Russian supermodel and philanthropist Natalia Vodianova joined Picsart to help increase social engagement and activism within the Picsart photo community.[14] In October, the company reached 100 million monthly active users and began announcing partnerships with major consumer brands and celebrities.[15]
In March 2019, Picsart reached 130 million monthly active users.[16] Also in 2019, the company was ranked by app analytics company Sensor Tower as the #4 top grossing social photo and video editing app, after Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.[17]
In January 2020, the company launched an artificial intelligence lab in conjunction with the American University of Armenia.[18] The facility employed faculty and students to conduct research in machine learning and computer vision. In July, Picsart acquired motion-based video effects company D'efekt, its first acquisition.[19] Also in July, the company reported over 1 billion app downloads to date.[20]
On August 26, 2021, Picsart CEO Avoyan announced that the company had raised $130 million in Series C funding from Softbank, Sequoia, G Squared, Tribe Capital, Graph Ventures and Siguler Guff & Company with a company valuation nearing $1.5 billion, making it the first tech unicorn born in Armenia.[1]
Product
Picsart develops four mobile apps, and a set of web browser tools for editing videos and photos. The app and website tools support social networking activities.
The four apps include:
Picsart Photo & Video Editor - a photo and video editing app with tools to add filters and various effects, with social network integration. The app is free to use and offers in-app purchases of stickers and other graphic elements.[21] Picsart Animator - an animation app allowing the creation of cartoon videos, GIFS and other animation.[22] Picsart Color - a drawing and painting app[23] Picsart GIF & Sticker Maker - an animated GIF and sticker generator[13] The apps are available on iOS, Android, and Windows mobile devices.[24]
Picsart's web browser tools for PCs have the same features as the Picsart Photo & Video app, but are designed for web browsers on PCs running Windows 8.1 or higher.[25]
Built-in social networking features with the apps and website tools allow users to comment, favorite, and follow others using the tools.[21]