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15 Best Cartoon Yourself Apps (Android & iOS)

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A great cartoon yourself app can turn you into a cartoon with just a couple of steps. As kids, we watched cartoons and were often immersed in the cartoon world, wondering what it would be like to live the life of a cartoon character.

As adults, cartoonification of ourselves may not be the wonder that we always dreamed of as kids. But it is great fun and it is a unique spin on presenting yourself through social media, rather than following the trendy posting of selfies.

These are also great to set up distinguishing profile pictures for those who want to make their profiles stand out from the rest.

Cartoon yourself apps are available on both Android and iOS platforms, allowing users to cartoonize themselves, add special effects, and share these pictures with friends and family.

Here is a quick list of the 15 best cartoon yourself apps to turn yourself into a cartoon character with ease.

Cartoon Yourself

Cartoon Yourself Photo Editor

Download: Cartoon Yourself for Android | iOS (Free)

The Cartoon Yourself app allows you to take pictures or import any of your photos, and convert them into your cartoon version. It also can transform the photos into cartoon sketches, as well as black and white cartoon depictions.

The app is very simple to use. All you do is select the photo, choose one of the three conversion options you want, and push apply.

The photos can be decorated with a variety of stickers if you wish, then saved, and uploaded to any social media site. 

Cartoon Sketch

Cartoon Sketch

Download: Cartoon Sketch for Android | iOS (Free)

There are no extra steps or effort required with Cartoon Sketch. In fact, the app’s key appeal is its directness and simplicity. It foregoes the frills, the bells, and the whistles, and cuts straight to the point.

You choose a photo and with just one tap transform it into its cartoon version. The pictures can be saved and uploaded anywhere you wish.

My Cartoon

My Cartoon Photo Editor

Download: My Cartoon for iOS (Free)

While My Cartoon is an iOS exclusive app, it achieves great results for Apple users by transforming photos into great cartoon renditions of themselves.

You can make several cartoon versions of the same pictures, keep them in the app’s gallery, and even caption them for great comedic effect.

There are multiple cartoon styles with normal, classic, doodle, vibrant, and even old paper cartoon effects. That, paired with tons of enhancement options leave the possibilities of how your cartoon self ends up looking nearly endless.

Those cool effects could give you a fun and easy way to remove red-eyes from your photos while turning them into cartoons.

MojiPop

MojiPop Photo Editor

Download: MojiPop for Android | iOS (Free)

A unique feature of the MojiPop app is that not only does it enable you to cartoonize yourself, but it also gives you the ability to share those creations as stickers and emojis in your everyday conversations via text or social media.

You can save the stickers on your device as part of your emoji library on both the Android and iOS platforms.

My Sketch

My Sketch Photo Editor

Download: My Sketch for iOS (Free)

With the My Sketch app, you can convert any new or pre-existing photos into sketches. Add your own special touch to 20 different sketch types, adjusting for color, contrast, brightness, and framing.

You can then share your gorgeous and realistic sketches with friends through various social media platforms. At present time, the My Sketch app is only available on iOS.

Painnt

Painnt Photo Editor

Download: Painnt for Android | iOS (Free)

Turn your photos into cartoon masterpieces with Painnt, one of the leading apps of its kind, by using over a thousand different effects and filters.

The powerful photo editor allows for vast amounts of control in terms of color saturation, brightness, and transparency.

But Painnt is more than just a cartoonification app. It hosts a community that contributes its own artwork to the library for people to explore and share, allowing you to contact other photo artists with a passion for photography to cartoon conversions.

The app is free, with many features available in the free version. But there are subscription features (which start at $9.99) that will increase the size of the file you can export to your device or to social media and allows for more HD pictures to be retained.

BeFunky

BeFunky Photo Editor

Download: BeFunky for Android | iOS (Free)

This iOS-exclusive photo enhancement app is easy to use and can do a lot to alter your photos, including the conversion to a cartoon version.

You can change the photo’s appearance to look like it was taken with a toy camera, in vintage style, or through a pinhole.

Apart from the ordinary functions, you can use a vast array of editing tools to give the photos all sorts of cool effects.

You can also share your altered or cartooned version of photos from your gallery on social media.

Clip2Comic & Caricature Make‪r‬

Clip2Comic & Caricature Make‪r‬

Download: Clip2Comic & Caricature Maker for iOS (Free)

Clip2Comic & Caricature Maker is a free photo editing app that converts images and videos into cartoons. As of now, the app is only available on Apple devices.

The app offers extensive tools that you can use to improve the quality of your picture. Whether you use your finger or the Apple Pencil, you can transform your cartoon self into a piece of art.

The deformation tool is a great way to make your caricatures and cartoons more unique and fun. All your pictures will turn out nicely.

The free version has limited features and there’s a watermark in the bottom right corner of your saved images. If you want to use the app for professional products, you may consider buying the premium version.

Pixlr

Pixlr Photo Editor

Download: Pixlr for Android | iOS (Free)

If you are looking for a way to combine multiple cartoon effects, Pixlr may be a good choice for you. Its amazing yet simple editing software makes it easy and fun to edit your photos. You’ll find it easier to use than other editing software.

The app goes further than just making a cartoon from your pictures. You can experiment with the different filters to create illustrated portraits or decorate the photos with any number of styles or stickers.

MomentCam

MomentCam Photo Editor

Download: MomentCam for Android | iOS (Free)

MomentCam allows you to make adorable and outright hilarious emoticons, personalizing them to any situation that might call for them.

Besides emoji and sticker creations, your designs can allow you to earn a variety of prizes offered through the app. Best of all, you can connect with other users, sharing your creative creations.

Photo Sketch

Photo Sketch

Download: Photo Sketch for Android | iOS (Free)

As the name implies, Photo Sketch is a great selection for people who want to convert their photos into simple pencil or cartoon sketches. You can also edit the images with the many available effects to make them look superb.

The app allows the remodeled photos to be saved, as well as emailed and shared via social media. You can even compile original collages using the various photos you designed.

Prisma Photo Editor

Prisma Photo Editor

Download: Prisma Photo Editor for Android | iOS (Free)

Prisma Photo Editor is a free and simple to utilize, professional app that allows both Android and iOS users to convert their photos to cartoon versions.

It features a ton of tools for advanced photo editing capabilities, as well as a vast collection of amusing stickers that can be added to the project.

This app might be for fun and games, but it can also serve as a handy tool for a professional photographer.

Avatoon

Avatoon Photo Editor

Download: Avatoon for Android | iOS (Free)

Convert yourself into your cartoon doppelganger with the Avatoon app, another fun choice for an image cartoonification tool.

Create avatars for yourself and your friends, edit various facial features, and share your photos for a good laugh for everyone around.

Cartoon Photo Editor

Cartoon Photo Editor

Download: Cartoon Photo Editor for Android | iOS (Free)

With impressive results, Cartoon Photo Editor is a fine choice for altering apps. All of the app’s many effects can be previewed before saving the image in real-time.

This allows for traditional rear cam pictures and selfies to be converted into colorful or black & white sketch cartoonifications.

The features include autofocus to make sure that the picture achieves its best possible state, as well as thermal vision effects and crosshatch.

There are also many other filters to choose from. The app is free, but they have to pay the bills too, so its revenue is supported with ads.

FlipaClip

FlipaClip Photo Editor

Download: FlipaClip for Android | iOS (Free)

Remember the little flipbooks of moving stick figures you loved as a kid? Well, FlipaClip offers you a chance to do just that with your photos.

Going beyond just a straight cartooning app, FlipaClip actually helps you use the cartoon images taken in sequential bursts into a flipbook.

You can scroll through them to see the same effect as you would with a paper version. You can also check out other artists’ contributions to the app, and give your opinion on them.

Final Thoughts on the Best Cartoon Yourself Apps

It can be challenging to choose the best app to cartoon yourself since there are tons of options available.

Whether you care about the image quality, platform availability, the number of cartoon effects, or the export features, there should be something for you in this list.

Let us know which one is your favorite cartoon yourself app in the comment section below. And don’t forget to share this guide.

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Herby has a healthy obsession with all things technology, especially smartphones. He loves to rip things apart to see how they work. He is responsible for the editorial direction, strategy, and growth of Gotechtor.

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