Bitmoji - Your Personal Emoji for iOS

Bitmoji enables you to emojify yourself and in so doing express a variety of sentiments through emoji in a more personalized way.

Pros

No Snapchat required: Bitmoji used to be a Snapchat-only feature. Now, with the standalone Bitmoji app, you can send bitmoji directly from any messaging app. After setting up your account and granting the app access to your keyboard, just tap the globe button on your keyboard and toggle to Bitmoji to begin using.

Cool customizations: With Bitmoji, you can personalize your emoji to look a lot like you. First, choose a gender for your avatar and then in the Avatar Builder, customize your avatar in Bitmoji Style or Bitstrips Style. The Bitstrips Style is more natural looking than the Bitmoji Style. Then you can modify everything from face shape, skin tone, and hair color to the shape of specific facial features, such as eyes, nose, and mouth and even clothing and accessories. Then save your avatar.

Tons of bitmoji: Bitmoji offers an extensive library of emoji to choose from, featuring your avatar, and expressing myriad sentiments, such as "Hello," "I Love You," "Happy Birthday," "For Real," and "I'm Sad."

Multiple ways to search for bitmoji: Tap the Search Bitmoji field above the default Favorites to search for bitmoji by keywords. Or tap the shortcut buttons up top or the category buttons on the bottom rail to help narrow down bitmoji for your desired mood or occasion.

Cons

Friendmoji is still a Snapchat-only feature: You can only unlock friendmoji -- which are two-person bitmojis representing you and your friends -- if you are using Bitmoji in Snapchat.

Bottom Line

Bitmoji is a fun, easy-to-search, and highly personalized emoji keyboard that you should key into immediately.