Vinkle

About

Vinkle is a mobile video editing app that automatically creates image slideshows based on a number of available presets, accompanied by a choice of popular songs. The app gained attention of meme editing community on Twitter and Instagram in April 2020, with a number of popular editors posting meme edits created in the app.

History

On May 20th, 2019, Chinese company BIG HEAD BROTHERS released mobile video editing app Vinkle for iOS^[1] and Android.^[2]

Features

The app features a number of slideshow presets set to a number of popular songs, such as "Blueberry Faygo" by Lil Mosey, "Rodeo" by Lil Nas X and "The Box" by Roddy Rich. The presets feature various transitions and visual effects, allowing to create music videos from collections of images (examples shown below).

Highlights

In mid-April 2002, the app garnered significant attention from popular video editors on Twitter and Instagram. For example, on April 18th, 2020, DitzyFlama tweeted^[3] a Big Chungus meme created in the app (shown below), with the tweet receiving over 180 retweets and 800 likes.

On April 19th, 2020, Cyranek posted^[4] a Mr. Orange edit created in the app, gaining over 140 retweets and 1,300 likes (shown below).

In the following days, more popular meme accoutns on Twitter^[5][6] and Instagram posted meme edits based on the app.

Traffic

As of April 21st, 2020, Vinkle had over 10 million downloads o Android with over 314,000 reviews. In App Store, the app had over 112,900 ratings,

Search Interest

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