FxCamera for Android Announces 20 Million Downloads, iPhone Version on the Way

Earlier this year we wrote about Japan-based Bitcellar and its free Android camera app FxCamera. At that time it had just raised over $5 million from JAFCO Super V3 Investment Limited Partnership, and appeared to have a strong user base claiming over 15 million downloads.

Today the company is announcing that it has surpassed the 20 million downloads mark. Of course, this goes all the way back to when the Android app first started out in 2009. But its growth is nonetheless impressive, as you can see in the chart below. The app was refreshed back in June of this year, leading to bit of a resurgence in popularity. And while it’s not the kind of off-the-charts growth we saw with domestic rival Line Camera, it still looks pretty good.

FxCamera for Android, downloads over time

If you haven’t yet tried FxCamera, the application lets you add a number of effects to your smartphone photographs, including toy camera effects, fisheye and symmetrical effects, and more.

The Japan-based app is actually more popular in the US than it is at home, with its top five countries being the US, Japan, Korea, India, and Thailand, in that order. The US is also its fastest growing country as well.

Bit Cellar also notes that an iPhone app is soon on the way, so stay tuned for that as well.