Five apps to create emojis with your face on Android

Emojis are great on their own, but even better if they look a bit like you. This is why the applications that allow you to create personalized emojis based on your face, both automatically and manually.

Here we have selected five apps to create emojis on Android for free and without too many complications. In most cases, you just need to take a photo for the avatar to be generated, while in others, you have to create your digital lookalike by choosing the components that are most like you.

Bitmoji

Few apps have as much experience with digital avatars as Bitmoji, a company founded in 2007 and acquired by the owners of Snapchat in 2016. As such, integrates particularly well with Snapchat, although you can also share your creations in other apps like WhatsApp, LINE, Messenger or Telegram.

To create a custom avatar you just need to take a selfie and the app will automatically generate your digital copy. If you are not very convinced with the result, you can change the skin tones, eyes, hairstyles and other elements.

Gboard

Gboard is a keyboard app, but this is where Google’s emoji / sticker / thumbnail generator ended up after Allo passed away. The truth is, the function is a bit hidden, buried on the sticker list available.

The operation is the same as in Bitmoji: you take a picture and the app does the rest, although later you can edit the colors, tones and different elements. Today, three sticker packages are generated based on your face: Emoji thumbnails, Cute miniatures and Naughty miniatures.

Zepetto

If we were to define Zepeto in one sentence, the easiest way would be to say that it’s like Bitmoji but in 3D. As in the previous two, you take a photo with the front camera and the app generates your digital copy.

This, yes, dressing your digital car will cost you dearly almost as much as dressing yourself, since most items and costumes require payment of coins and diamonds. For the rest, after creating your character, you can choose one of the poses – also animated – and share them with other applications.

FaceQ

If you’re looking for something more cartoonish, another option available to you is FaceQ. In this case, you cannot use the camera to advance the work, but instead you will have to create your avatar manually, choosing each part of the body until you are satisfied with the result.

FaceQ is not as complex as the previous apps, but after creating your avatar you can choose between different ready-to-wear expressions and outfits. At any time, you can save the image to your mobile or share it with other apps.

Memoji

Finally, we have an app that gives a different meaning to creating emojis with your face. Yes, technically it does, but literally. The app gives you a handful of ways and you can put your face on them.

After creating one of these shapes, you can customize them add eyes and mouths with different expressions, glasses, masks, hats and other items. The result is in most cases disastrous, but everything turns out.