The Lensa AI app — everything you need to know

If you look at the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, image editing apps are a dime a dozen. New ones that hit the marketplace always claim to be better than the others,

with features that often cause you to yawn out loud. But right now, we are going through a stage where artificial intelligence is running the show. Whether it’s writing your

essays, souping up your smartphone camera, or controlling Terminator robots through Skynet, AI seems to be the flavor of the year. The newest one is called Lensa AI, which is

already causing some controversy. Let’s cut through the marketing speak and see if Lensa is worth using and paying for. What is Lensa AI?Lensa AI is an app for Android and iPhone

which claims to improve your images in a variety of ways. This includes things like removing objects from the picture, touching up blemishes, blurring the background, and running

your image through a variety of filters. So far, they’re just offering pretty much what other image editing apps offer, except they obviously claim to do things a lot better.One

interesting feature, though, is something called Beat Sync. After uploading a video and choosing a song from their database, Lensa AI will use its algorithm to sync the music to

your video. So if you’re moving fast, twisting and turning, etc, the music beats will sync with your movements. It’s not known, though, if the music is royalty-free, so it may

be risky to upload these videos to places like YouTube, where you may get hit by a copyright violation strike. Privately sharing with friends and family would be fine, though, and

quite fun. Why is Lensa AI gaining in popularity?Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityLensa AI has soared in popularity due to its Magic Avatars feature, which is being used by

celebrities all over social media. Everywhere you look, you see another Magic Avatar. Everybody loves a celebrity endorsement, so it’s then mostly a case of everybody jumping on

the bandwagon. Whoopi Goldberg, on The View, claims that users are making glamorous avatar pictures of themselves in Magic Avatars and then going to their plastic surgeon asking to

be made just like the picture. To give credit where credit is due, Lensa AI does do a lot of things really well. Their Magic Avatars feature may need a lot of work done to it to

improve its depiction of women, but other image editing features are done quite well. Some people may be put off by the recurring subscription price, though. A one-off fee would be

a lot nicer. What are Magic Avatars, and how are they generated? Magic Avatars is a feature that the company is heavily promoting, but it is also the feature that is getting them