Cartoon-making apps have been a big hit with Hongkongers these days. With just a few taps on your smartphone, you can customise thousands of high-larious cartoons to share with friends and family. Here are our favourites:
Bitstrips
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Overview
You’ve probably seen them on your Facebook newsfeed recently, ridiculously funny cartoons that illustrate how you feel or what you’re doing, instead of the usual status update – well they’re Bitstrips! With the Bitstrips app, you get to design your own avatar (similar to an Xbox profile avatar) from head to toe. What’s cool is that your friends’ avatars can be a part of your cartoon, so it’s a great way to show how you feel about loved ones and/or poke fun at friends.
Cool Factor
What we really like about this app is how much detail can be put into the avatar. You get to personalise everything from your hairstyle to jawline and eye colour to fashion style, so it looks crazy realistic. However, because there is so much to pick and choose from, it actually takes quite a fair bit of time to setup your avatar.
Another great thing about the app is its huge database of cartoons, you’ll never fail to find a scenario that suits and the programme is pretty user-friendly.
Price: Free
Language: English
Availability: iPhone, Android
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CY Leung
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Girlfriend who slapped her boyfriend 14 times in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong Television Network’s Ricky Wong
Photos: Apple Daily
MomentCam
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Overview
This cartoon-making app has been really popular in the mainland for quite a while. Lots of celebrities like Fish Leong and Rene Liu are using it and the app has finally made its way to Hong Kong! MomentCam app allows you to make realistic cartoon sketches with a photo of your face.
Cool Factor
What makes this app stand out from the rest is that it allows the user to incorporate a portrait of themselves into the cartoon so it looks much more realistic.
Price: Free
Language: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English
Availability: iPhone, Android
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Fish Leong
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Rene Liu
Photos: Weibo
Cartoon Camera
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Overview
This app has been around for a while and it has quite a fair bit of downloads. The app turns photos into street art-ish images. The app also supports basic photography functions like flash and auto-focus so the image quality is better.
Not-so cool factor
The app is simple and easy-to-use. It’s great for tech dummies to create something cool quickly. However, this is a very basic app, so it’s not great for those looking for variety and interesting functions. Also, it’s only available on Android.
Price: Free
Language: English
Availability: Android
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CY Leung
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Ricky Wong
