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 ...

Snap on Tuesday added a new feature to Bitmoji called "Bitmoji Deluxe." Bitmoji are customizable avatars that you can add to your Snaps or use outside of the app — you can add them to messages or use ...

Snapchat is doubling down on its biggest differentiator by turning its personalized avatar Bitmoji into a revenue stream and a new source of content. Snapchat is launching a Bitmoji merchandise store ...

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 ...

Besides emoticons, Animoji on the iPhone X and GIFs, using Bitmoji strips is another fun way to communicate with others. Bitmoji are animated images created by users that resemble their appearance.

You've probably seen a Bitmoji floating around on Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram. You might even have the Bitmoji app. But what are these adorable full-sized avatars for, anyway? As it turns out, a ...

Bitmoji, the personalized cartoon versions of you, were officially added to Snapchat in July 2016, a few months after Snap acquired Bitmoji maker Bitstrips. Starting today, Snapchat will let users add ...

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 ...