Exactly what the team will be doing for Google isn’t stated, though they did drop a couple hints, saying among other things, “Google Photos is … a flawless match for what we built at Fly Labs”.
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Fly Labs says that over 20 million videos have been created using their apps.
The Google acquisition came after the company reported its lowest deal activity, by value, in six years.
Fly Labs, developer of popular video editing apps for iOS, today confirmed it’s being acquired by Google in an announcement on its website. Crop is an app that is single-purpose and allows users to convert their portrait videos to landscape mode.
Fly Labs is known for providing service to help users edit photos and videos, and had recorded 3 million downloads in over 150 different countries, over the past 18 months.
Fly Labs has put up an official note on the acquisition, in which it mentions that they are excited about “joining Google and the Google Photos team in Mountain View, California”.
Fly Labs confirmed it will be working on the Google Photos team and said its looking forward to integrating its own technology with Google’s machine learning and computer vision technology. There’s a catch: They’ll be available in the App Store for only the next three months.
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There’s no telling how long it’ll be before we see the fruits of Fly Labs’ labor manifest itself in Google Photos, but for anyone that’s wished Android had the video editing capabilities of iOS – there’s hope.
