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All it takes is a photo.\n \nDownload community animations and paste them to your photos, or just have fun playing with faces.  (It's addicting.)\nThen, when inspiration strikes, create original animations and memes.\n \nExport and share your creations as high definition videos, stills, animated GIFs, and animated Facebook avatars.\n \nYou can download all content for free, import your own images, Mug any image, and export and share an unlimited number of Mugs, entirely ad free.\n\nIf you like Mug Life, you’ll love our Pro Tools.  Pro Tools adds power tools (Creative Mode) for creating and editing Mugs.  In addition, iPhone X users also get the (new!) Performance Mode, unleashing the expressive power of your TrueDepth camera for live performances.  It’s like Animoji from any photo!\n\nPro Tools Unlimited Access Subscription\n•\tYou can optionally subscribe to Pro Tools for unlimited access to all the advanced features of Mug Life.\n•\tSubscriptions are billed monthly or annually, depending on the subscription plan.  Alternately, a one-time purchase option is also available.\n•\tSubscriptions auto-renew, unless cancelled 24-hours in advance prior to the end of the current period.  The subscription fee is charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of purchase.  You can manage your subscription or turn off auto-renewal by going to your Apple account settings after purchase.\n•\tTerms and Conditions: https://www.muglife.com/terms\n•\tPrivacy Policy: https://www.muglife.com/privacy\n\nEmpower your creativity and sense of humor with Mug Life.\nWe can't wait to see what you come up with!\n\nWith Mug Life you can...\n•\tTake a photo using your camera.  High quality photos of faces with neutral expressions work the best.\n•\tImport any photo from your Camera Roll, or use photos from with Facebook for albums, Instagram pictures, Twitter images, etc.  If it’s got a face, you can animate it!\n•\tSearch for fun images to animate, including paintings, pictures, sketches, tattoos, dolls, action figures, drawings, photographs, renders, or illustrations.  But that’s just the beginning!  Any photo with a recognizable face can be great!  For example, statue & sculpture photographs are particularly fun, as are photo frames taken from video & film, animals, costumes, make-up like body paint & more.  You can make animated GIFs and videos from anything as long as it has a face.\n•\tManipulate faces in your photo.  This is where the MAGIC really starts!\n•\tApply ANY community-made Mug animations you like for free.  Like a meme you find?  Use it, but put it on YOUR photos.\n•\tNot just one face at a time!  Got a close-up of a group of friends?  Yup, it works!  But it’s hard to fit a whole baseball team in one photo, so focus on great faces!\n•\tInstantly share your Mugs on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media.  It’s fantastic for making memes on the fly.  GIFs, video, and JPG formats are supported.\n•\tTroll your friends with crazy Mugs putting their face in the spotlight!\n•\tSend texts messages with GIFs or post videos with the fun!\n•\tAnimate your own Mugs from scratch with Creative Mode!  All you need is a photo with a face!\n•\tCreate live performances with 16 great voice filters and do live motion capture in Performance Mode.  It’s like Animoji from any photo!  Make group photos sing in chorus!  Performance Mode requires an iPhone X, but Mug Life still works great on any iPhone or iPad.","facts":{"developer_id":1035444913,"developer_url":"http://www.muglife.com","first_released":"2017-10-23T18:44:37Z","support_url":"https://www.muglife.com/support","privacy_url":"https://www.muglife.com/privacy","website_url":"http://www.muglife.com/","app_version":"2.0.82","release_notes":"Increased maximum performance duration.\nMade heads in multiheaded performances easier to select on all iOS devices\nBug Fixes","rating_current_version":4.48569,"rating_count_current_version":13803,"star_counts":[1022,253,498,1260,10772],"genres":["Photo & Video","Entertainment"],"languages":["EN"],"content_advisories":["Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes","Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence","Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes","Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor","Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References","Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence","Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity"],"device_families":["iphone","ipad","ipod"],"chart":null},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-10-20T07:45:11.791Z","catalog_read_at":"2026-10-18T17:39:11.610Z","reviews_checked_at":"2026-10-17T08:04:13.404Z","summary_written_at":"2026-10-15T22:22:00.403Z","placed_at":"2026-10-15T05:58:53.108Z","scored_at":"2026-10-21T22:08:13.087Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"Animates faces from photos into 3D videos, animated GIFs, stills and Facebook avatars, with community animations to.","what_is":"Mug Life is a Photo & Video app that animates faces from photos, including photos taken with the camera or imported from the Camera Roll. 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