Banuba

01/10/2026

Facial exercise has the same problem as every wellness product.

The progress is real, but it is invisible, and people quit long before they can see it.

Mimika (Face Yoga) solved it with the camera: they added a face scan and a before/after view to their app, built on our Face AR SDK, along with touch-up effects that make the result worth looking at.

The AR was never decoration, but a real retention mechanic and a reason to open the app again.

That app runs today as Mimika, with 2M+ women using the app worldwide.

📖 The early story, from the year they integrated: https://www.banuba.com/blog/faceyoga-by-mental-growth-a-success-story?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=carousel&utm_content=mimika-face-yoga

29/09/2026

A mask that swims off the jawline is a feature people switch off after one try.

The numbers that decide whether a mask stays on the face are head angle range and occlusion tolerance. Ours: 80 degrees either way, up to 70% occlusion, 3.7 meters, 30 FPS, all on the device.

📖 How it is built: https://www.banuba.com/blog/3d-face-animation-real-time-apps?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog-post&utm_content=3d-facial-animation

24/09/2026

"Why not just build video editing features ourselves?" is the first question on almost every call.

Here is the honest answer:

🔨 Building means owning Camera2 on Android, a GL render pipeline, hardware encoders and a timeline UI, then maintaining all four across a device fleet you do not control. That is six to twelve months of specialist work before anyone trims their first clip.

🚀 Buying means this, working on day one:
• AI Clipping and AI Captions
• Template Builder, so your own team publishes templates without us
• Background replacement: blur, solid color, image or video
• Picture in picture, the mechanic behind duets and reactions
• Face AR masks and beautification from the same SDK, not a second vendor

See it running before you talk to anyone:
➡️ iOS: https://apps.apple.com/by/app/banuba-ai-video-editor/id1577338331
➡️ Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.banuba.sdk.ve.demo

22/09/2026

Our virtual try-on app is now Built for Shopify! 💎

If you're still hesitating whether to add virtual try-on to your store – that's your sign.

What the app does, unchanged: makeup, glasses and hair color try-on on your product pages. Digitize your catalog fast with AI and go live just in time for the high season.

🔗 First 14 days are on us: https://apps.shopify.com/tint-virtual-try-on-by-banuba

18/09/2026

Looking for an affordable way to stand out on Black Friday and keep margin after the discounts end? This is it.

Virtual try-on right on your product pages, live in the three categories where shoppers hesitate the most:
👓 Glasses
💄 Makeup
🎨 Hair color

🦄 Try it on a dev store first, every feature unlocked, at no cost:
https://apps.shopify.com/tint-virtual-try-on-by-banuba

Unlimited products on every plan. When you are ready for the real catalog, the first 14 days are on us.

10/09/2026

From a dance battle inside an app to Samsung's Daily+ on 100 million TVs.

TopThis! runs head to head creator battles with tournaments and audience voting. Editing had to be solid on both iOS and Android, so they took Banuba Video Editor SDK as it comes and kept their own engineering on what makes the product different: the battles, the tournaments, the voting.

Their first tournament drew 70+ street dancers from more than 20 countries. Then Samsung selected the app for Daily+.

📖 How it was put together: https://www.banuba.com/blog/talent-competition-app-featured-on-100m-devices?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=case-study&utm_content=topthis

31/08/2026

New Release 🎉

Skincare AR is finally live on Banuba's self-service virtual try-on platform with:
• Acne detection that spots breakouts and problem areas
• Severity analysis for each concern
• Product recommendations matched to what the scan actually finds
• Live before and after of the expected effect, on their own face

Setup takes minutes and no developer.

🔗 Sign up now, first 14 days are on us: app.tintvto.com

27/08/2026

550,000 downloads in 10 days. 30 million in three months. $88M raised.

Chingari had weeks to replace TikTok in India, so they did not build a video editor. They just licensed Banuba's Video Editor SDK and spent the time on everything else.

📖 How it was put together: https://www.banuba.com/blog/video-editor-with-animation-effects-for-chingari-app-case-study?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=case-study&utm_content=chingari

25/08/2026

No dev background, one afternoon, and the Video Editor SDK running locally. That is how our own PMM got into vibe coding.

She then researched what builders actually keep in their Claude stack: like Supabase and Vercel for beginners, Figma and Playwright once you have real screens, docs-aware SDK skills when the integration gets serious.

📖 https://medium.com//vibe-coding-starter-pack-the-claude-skills-every-mobile-app-builder-actually-needs-c9cce7b94e13

From a PMM who set up an SDK environment for the first time and lived to tell about it.

21/08/2026

Measuring pupillary distance normally means holding a credit card to your forehead, or a trip to an optician.

Our Face AR SDK reads it straight from the camera feed, with nothing extra in the frame:
• Neural networks detect and track the face
• 68 facial landmarks
• A 3D mesh of the face gets built
• PD is the distance between the vertices at the pupil centers

One hand, a standard camera, any face.
Available on iOS, Android, Web, Desktop, Flutter, React Native and Unity.

Where it earns its place: positioning prescription lenses for online eyewear orders, frame sizing, contact lens try-on, and headset alignment in AR/VR.

📖 Our CTO Artem Harytonau wrote up how it works: https://www.banuba.com/blog/how-to-measure-pupillary-distance?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=video&utm_content=pupilary-distance