In July, Russian supermodel and philanthropist Natalia Vodianova joined Picsart to help increase social engagement and activism within the Picsart photo community. Picsart also announced that it reached 90 million monthly active users. The company also launched a feature to let its user community create and share custom stickers for free. In 2017, Picsart launched Remix Chat, a messaging system where users can share images directly or in groups and edit them collectively with friends. In 2016 Picsart reached 75 million monthly active users. īy April 2015, the company reportedly had seen 250 million downloads for its iOS and Android apps, and had 60 million monthly active users. In January 2014, Picsart became available on devices supporting Windows 8. In late 2013, Picsart photo editor became available for Windows Phone. In November, Picsart had reached 90 million installs and had nearly 25 million monthly active users. In January 2013, Picsart for iOS was released for the iPhone. The first PicsArt app launched in November 2011 on Android devices. Its founders developed the first Picsart application as a stand-alone tool to help people alter a photo image on their phone, and additional capabilities were added over time.

Picsart was founded in November 2011 by Armenian entrepreneur Hovhannes Avoyan, and Armenian programmers Artavazd Mehrabyan and Mikayel Vardanyan.