Phota Labs launches free iOS AI photo editing app
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Phota Labs has launched an iOS app that uses AI to turn everyday snapshots into images with a professional photography feel while preserving people's true appearance. The app is based on proprietary identity personalization technology, maintaining consistent identity across transformations such as converting wide-angle group photos into portraits and selfies into standard-lens shots, and offers style options ranging from subtle adjustments to fisheye and angle changes. The app is currently free to build an initial user base, after which it will explore a paid subscription model; the company plans to launch an Android version in the future. Phota Labs completed a $5.6 million seed round led by a16z last year.
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Phota Labs launched a new iOS app that uses a personal AI photo assistant to transform everyday snapshots into professional-looking images while preserving the subject's authentic appearance. Founded by Cecilia Zhang and Zach Xia, who met at Adobe, the a16z-backed startup raised a $5.6 million seed round last year and is launching as a free app before exploring a freemium model, with an Android app planned. The app offers different photography styles, from subtle edits to dramatic transformations like fisheye lenses and alternative angles, and adds invisible watermarks to edited images shared on social platforms.
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