Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. Snapchat’s quirky Bitmoji ...

Emoji provide us with a whole new world of expressiveness when we’re online, but they aren’t exactly personal. Fortunately, Bitmoji allows us to customize our characters to create incredibly realistic ...

Bitmoji has nailed the concept of making adorable, eerily accurate cartoon avatars to text to your friends. Here’s how they did it. The other day, I texted a friend my Bitmoji, a lookalike cartoon ...

Quick: if you had to pick one app that had the-best-year-ever in 2016 what would you pick? Pokémon Go? Super Mario Run? Instagram? How about Bitmoji? That's right, the Snapchat-owned app for making ...

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Snapchat’s most popular yet under-exploited feature is finally getting the spotlight in 2020. Starting in February with a global release, your customizable Bitmoji avatar will become the star of a ...

Snapchat bought Bitstrips, the startup behind Bitmoji, back in March. The acquisition was worth a reported $100 million, but at the time, how the product would be integrated wasn’t clear. Today, ...

Snapchat's new "Bitmoji TV" series is ready for its debut and, yes, it's about as odd as you'd expect. After weeks of dropping bizarre trailers, the company is launching Bitmoji TV, a new cartoon ...