Cheer up with funny faces and comic strips
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An image of the Mouthoff app. INYT
Need a good laugh? In 2015, you don’t need to look any further than the numerous funny or silly apps available for your smartphone.
One classic silly app is MouthOff. It does one simple and amusing thing: It animates a cartoon mouth on your phone’s screen when you speak into your handset’s microphone. When you speak, your plain, boring lips and chin are replaced with the chattering jaw of a skeleton or the wobbling curved grin of a cartoon cat. And that’s it.
Is it sophisticated? No. Is it funny? Totally, if you’re in the right mood. It is free for iOS (and just $1 or Rs 63 on Android). Put it on your phone and you’ll always have it on hand to brighten a dull moment.
For similarly lowbrow laughs, check out BoothStache, free on iOS and Android. It superimposes different-style moustaches onto a photo of your face. The app tries to detect where your eyes, mouth and chin are, and you can adjust these locations with a few taps. The enhancement is then automatic. BoothStache is five minutes of fun if you have ever fancied seeing what you look like when you do a Charlie Chaplin impression.
Funny Movie Maker - Replace Your Face definitely has a mouthful of a name. But the program also has what it takes to make you laugh. It takes part of your face, like your lips, and superimposes that part on a photo of, say, a strawberry with eyes.
You can edit the shape and size of the video effect, and you can use a photo of your choice instead of the built-in backgrounds. This makes it perfect for making your cat talk, on video. There are a number of additional face packs available for $1 (Rs 63) each.
Cheezburger taps into classic Internet gags, like video clips of cats doing strange things, and Failblog, photos and videos that will make you giggle with schadenfreude at other people’s stories of failures.
The app acts a bit like a social network. You can mark favourite items and follow particular users’ accounts, and you can, of course, create and upload your own funny efforts. There is a ton of content here, and the app does a good job of collecting it in one place.
If you have a cat or kitten nearby, then a totally different kind of smartphone laugh is available thanks to the Human to Cat Translator, free on iOS and Android. The app contains a bunch of prerecorded cat meows that are played when you tap on the screen. Each one is meant to prompt a different reaction from your real-life kitty. You can even record a sentence or two of your voice and the app will “translate” it into a string of cat sounds.
Lastly, check out the official Cyanide and Happiness app, a personal favourite of mine, which is $1 (Rs 63) for iOS and Android. It is a way to view the comic strips and animated shorts made by the C&H team, and I promise you’ll giggle.
One classic silly app is MouthOff. It does one simple and amusing thing: It animates a cartoon mouth on your phone’s screen when you speak into your handset’s microphone. When you speak, your plain, boring lips and chin are replaced with the chattering jaw of a skeleton or the wobbling curved grin of a cartoon cat. And that’s it.
Is it sophisticated? No. Is it funny? Totally, if you’re in the right mood. It is free for iOS (and just $1 or Rs 63 on Android). Put it on your phone and you’ll always have it on hand to brighten a dull moment.
For similarly lowbrow laughs, check out BoothStache, free on iOS and Android. It superimposes different-style moustaches onto a photo of your face. The app tries to detect where your eyes, mouth and chin are, and you can adjust these locations with a few taps. The enhancement is then automatic. BoothStache is five minutes of fun if you have ever fancied seeing what you look like when you do a Charlie Chaplin impression.
Funny Movie Maker - Replace Your Face definitely has a mouthful of a name. But the program also has what it takes to make you laugh. It takes part of your face, like your lips, and superimposes that part on a photo of, say, a strawberry with eyes.
You can edit the shape and size of the video effect, and you can use a photo of your choice instead of the built-in backgrounds. This makes it perfect for making your cat talk, on video. There are a number of additional face packs available for $1 (Rs 63) each.
Cheezburger taps into classic Internet gags, like video clips of cats doing strange things, and Failblog, photos and videos that will make you giggle with schadenfreude at other people’s stories of failures.
The app acts a bit like a social network. You can mark favourite items and follow particular users’ accounts, and you can, of course, create and upload your own funny efforts. There is a ton of content here, and the app does a good job of collecting it in one place.
If you have a cat or kitten nearby, then a totally different kind of smartphone laugh is available thanks to the Human to Cat Translator, free on iOS and Android. The app contains a bunch of prerecorded cat meows that are played when you tap on the screen. Each one is meant to prompt a different reaction from your real-life kitty. You can even record a sentence or two of your voice and the app will “translate” it into a string of cat sounds.
Lastly, check out the official Cyanide and Happiness app, a personal favourite of mine, which is $1 (Rs 63) for iOS and Android. It is a way to view the comic strips and animated shorts made by the C&H team, and I promise you’ll giggle.