What’s the most fun element while texting?
I guess we all thought the same. It’s those cute, little EMOJIs that say it all without words.
Texting has become much more interactive and exciting as emojis do much of the talking for us. A‘lol expression,’ ‘a beer cheers,’ ‘love struck,’ ‘taking a flight,’ ‘goodbye,’ ‘an animal, ‘a sunset’ and for every other facial expression, feeling, emotion, place, meme, fruit, sports, symbol you have an emoji on your favorite messenger, dating, chatting app.
There are some great apps dedicated to adding that extra oomph to your text messages with supremely expressive emojis that exactly feel like it’s you who expressing your feeling, delivering exceptional keyboards for all types of discussions- be it personal, business or casual.
Some of the renowned names in this segment are KeyMoji, SwiftKey Keyboard + Emoji, Emoji Free, Imoji, Emojiyo, Emoji Keyboard by Line, Emoji Type, Kika and many more. If you haven’t heard of these names, you must at least know that there are third-party emoji keyboard applications that are mustering immense creativity to make texting on your favorite messenger/dating apps including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype and others supremely delightful and engaging.
As per the 2016 emoji report, 2.3 trillion messages that incorporated emoji were sent last year globally. A psychological report inferred that humans are passionate about emojis. No more tagged to captivate millennials, emojis are doing a great job in impressing the baby boomers. These little pictures that make texting so much fun draw inspiration from cartoon characters, international signs, human’s moods, movies, places, animals, nature, planets and everything they come across. Some of these apps make custom emojis belonging to a specific region, language and community.
Types of emoji keyboard apps
- Celebmoji – this app has stickers and emojis with cartooned pictures of celebrities.
- Brand emojis – this type of apps can provide sets of stickers that illustrate, for example, food (sandwiches, pizza or coffee).
- Greeting emojis – it has stickers for special occasions or holidays, like Christmas or Thanksgiving day.
- Keymoji – Best keyboard app with emoji and Cclebrities sticker.
What’s so great about KeyMoji?
KeyMoji provides the perfect autocomplete dictionary keyboard of your favorite emojis. The app’s advanced functionality translates your text into emoji and provides the best suggestions. Everything you type on your smartphone keyboard converts into a miniature cartoon image. For example, a ‘coffee break’ becomes a coffee mug, ‘gym time’ translates into a ‘flexing arm’ and ‘clock.’
Though crafting a company only around emojis may sound a bit funny, but FYI, this app has been recognized as a supplementing the biggest messaging apps like Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook.
It uses a crowdsourced database of emoji combinations that can be substituted for the words in your text messages, emails and other types of communications.
If you’re not an emoji-savvy person and do not really understand what each emoji stands for, KeyeMoji is a perfect choice.
So, what would it be to create your own emoji Keyboard app like KeyMoji? Nothing less than amazing. Really!
How to proceed with your emoji app?
Samsung’s new app uses emojis to help people with language disorders communicate with each other.
App experts at Samsung remarked that replacing each text with an appropriate emoji is fun and helpful with the launch of their new app, Wemogee. Exceeding customer’s imagination and expectations, the world’s largest smartphone retailer acclaimed ‘emotions as a universal language’ and with Wemogee, they’ve come up with an aim to bring all users together again- even the ones suffering from language disorders as they really don’t understand what to speak and write.
So, for every text from a simple ‘hi’ to ‘I need my meds’can be said with the best pre-set list of emojis clubbed together to make a meaningful sentence as present on this app.
While these smartphone giants like Apple, Samsung are ushering in every subject surrounding our daily lives, to create your own emoji app like KeyMoji and Samsung’s Wemogee, you, as the owner, can’t move ahead without a groundbreaking thought. Apple has touched it for the male and female genders, Imoji has presented an amazing level of personalization that you can choose yours and your friend’s face images to create your personal faces.
- So, first thing this app development calls for is out-of-the-box ideas. Your creativity may start from category-wise emojis to moving images to gifs to movie dialogues to star faces, just like you see in Skype messenger. They are taking emojis to the next level where you can really enjoy and reply in the voice of actors and the dialogues they delivered in various films.
- Equally important is to know your audience, their interests, likes and preferences. Like Samsung acutely targeted it to the group of the society who are suffering from language disorders and developed an assistive emoji app. That’s what we call hitting the bull’s eye. Unless you select the right audience, your product won’t reach to the right people.
- Paid/Freemium emoji apps can be hugely profitable just like MuvaMojiapp made $2. Million on the release day itself, and Amber Rose reportedly made $4 million on her new MuvaMoji emoji app in April 2016. The app includes hundreds of high-definition designs that allow users to customize sizes and skin colors. It also made it easier for iPhone users by employing the direct keyboard integration. Boasting over 900 emojis personally curated by the model, the app costs $1.99 in the Apple store.
- Many of the apps have ensured a high number of downloads by applying App Store Optimization(ASO) techniques for their apps. One great example here is Stick Texting. The app secured its place by using metadata to a T, hitting on dozens of long-tail keyword searches. The full title of the app is Stick Testing- The Emoji Emoctions Killer (EmoctionEmojis).
How to make money with emoji keyboard app
- Download fee – the user gets access to all emojis by paying a fee. Paid apps like Emoji
- In-app ads – this offers ads within an app and pays you if users interact with those ads. For example, Facemoji applies such an approach.
- Branded content – this offers revenue generation by making sticker packs & branded emojis.
- In-app purchases – this way offers individual pricing of premium content and emoji packs. This is the big source of revenue in free apps like Emoji Keyboard.
An emoji keyboard app can also benefit eCommerce and online food apps as they attract more customers and let them stay for long on your app. Users can share pictures of trying new clothes in the apparel store and get the comments not just through text but in the form of quirky emoctions.
Want to create an emoji keyboard app?
All things considered, now that you’ve got enough reasons to plan an emoji app, don’t wait before your competitor nails it on the app stores. Get off your couch and start bundling. It can be really easy to make your own emoji keyboard app. Konstant Infosolutions will offer premier services and solutions, with the next level of creativity.
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