PicsArt is an app that makes it easy to go beyond the
filter and take your photo editing to the next level. Youcan make amazing images, collages and drawings andWith 350 million+ installs and 85 million monthly users, PicsArtspans the globe and is available in over 30 languages. PicsArt is your new playground. Remix images with us, join the fam and discover a universe of mind-blowing images.
PicsArt was launched on Thursday January 2, 2012 on
Android devices. It was founded by
Hovhannes Avoyan and Artavazd Mehrabyan.
The app was downloaded 35 million times during its first year.
PicsArt for iOS was released in January 2013 for the iPhone.
In May of the same year, it was released for the iPad. The app had nearly 2 million unique daily users and 4 million registered users by January 2013. In November 2013, two years after its launch, PicsArt had reached 90 million installs and had nearly 25 million
monthly active users. In December 2013, PicsArt became available for Windows Phone devices.
In January 2014, PicsArt became available on devices supporting Windows 8. By March, the app reached 100 million installs on Android, 30 million active users, 60,000 images uploaded every day, and had a community of over 11 million users. In June 2014, PicsArt was released for all Windows 8.1 PCs, devices, and tablets When the app celebrated its three-year anniversary, it had 175 million installs, 50 million monthly users, and had 18.5 million users in the social network. In 2015, the company launched an educational program on
machine learning and
data science in
Armenia. Since then, more than 400 students have graduated the program and 50 of them were hired by the company.
In 2016 PicsArt reached 75 million monthly active users.
It continued to introduce new features including a remix galleries, a redesigned camera,
personalization features and other improvements across
iOS,
Android and
Windowsdevices.
In 2017, PicsArt launched Remix chat, a messaging system where users can share images directly or in groups and edit them collectively with friends. The company also launched community-powered stickers that allow users to make their own custom stickers, and discover share other user-created stickers for free. PicsArt also announced that it reached 90 million monthly active users.
Natalia Vodianova, a
supermodel and
philanthropist, joined the
PicsArtteam to inspire the community to remix and create images on important social topics. In October 2017, the company hit the 100M monthly active users milestone and announced the strategy of partnerships with major consumer brands .
share with friends. It’s the one app that lets you be truly creative with its almost limitless features ― and it’s starting a movement to help people “go beyond the filter” and make awesome pictures.
