Here are the best app launches and updates you may have missed in April
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It was a big month for photo apps.
Snapchat added 3D lenses to its rear-facing camera, Memoji launched to help turn your selfies into emojis, and FaceApp, which can age a photo of you or swap your gender, launched on Android.
Plus, Google made changes to two of its most-used services.
Here are some of the coolest new app launches and updates you may have missed this month.
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Memoji turns your selfies into emojis.
A new app from selfie editor Facetune takes photos of your face and gives them emoji expressions — laughing, crying, blowing kisses, getting sick, etc. They can be still images or turned into GIFs and videos, often with surprising (and frightening) results.
Called Memoji, this iPhone app can be used on your own face by snapping a quick selfie or can take imported images of someone else and contort them into emojis.
Read more about how to use Memoji here.
Uber made it easier to find your passenger rating.
Uber will now show your passenger rating in the app, meaning you don’t need to email Uber support or wait to find out how Uber drivers rated you.
Find out the new way to see your rating here.
Google Photos added a feature that stabilizes shaky video.
Unless you always have a tripod with you, it’s hard to count on videos you take being 100% shake-free. But for Google Photos users, there’s some good news: the app is adding a video stabilization feature.
According to Android Police, the feature is rolling out with version 2.13 and will start with Android devices. It doesn’t appear to have arrived for iOS quite yet, but iPhone users should have it soon.
You can now save and organize photos on Instagram.
Instagram added a feature this month similar to what Pinterest already does: the ability to save images you like and organize them in folders, called collections. The option to save posts has been around since last December, but the ability to organize them is new. Find out more about how to use the feature here.
Snapchat added lenses for more than just selfies.
Snapchat’s famous filters have moved beyond the selfie camera. Called world lenses, the 3D filters can be applied to photos and videos of the world around you. The update has already rolled out for Snapchat users and Snap says the filters will change each day.
Slack added the ability to set a status.
Work chat app Slack added a new feature that lets users to set a status message. Whether you’re headed to an appointment, traveling, working from home, or you just want to let everyone know you’re drinking coffee, Slack lets you pick an emoji to signify it. The emoji will show up next to your username in conversations and in your direct message lists.
Learn more about the new feature here.
Cabana lets you video chat with several friends at once.
Cabana is a new app from Tumblr that lets you watch videos or hangout with several friends at once. Similar to Houseparty, a group video chat app created by the team from Meerkat, the app lets you join goups of friends chatting or create chat rooms of your own.
FaceApp, the app that can age your face or swap your gender, came to Android.
FaceApp is a selfie app that can alter faces using neural-network technology. The app is capable of adding two different kinds of smiles to your photo, aging you or making you look younger, and swapping your gender. The app has been available on iOS since January, but it came to Android in April.
Learn more about how to use FaceApp here.
Google added fact checking to its search results.
Google is rolling out globally a feature in its search and news results that will assess the authenticity of information shown. The search giant isn’t doing this fact-checking itself: Instead, it’s relying on respected independent fact-checking organisations like PolitiFact and Snopes to provide the info.
Learn more about how it works here.
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