Google purchased Fly Labs, a New York-based start-up that makes video-editing apps.
The Mountain View-based tech giant aims to further strengthen its Photos offering. According to the statement of Fly Labs, the company's team will become part of the Google Photos development team. The start-up company's technology will be integrated into the existing Google Photos apps.
Fly Labs produced a quartet of video-editing apps to help people "edit on the fly." One of the apps called Crop can turn the vertical cellphone videos into horizontal and make it YouTube-friendly ones. Its newest app Clips can make small video fragments into so-called masterpiece short films.
The company mentioned that its app has created and produced over 20 million videos. In a span of 18 months, their video-editing apps have been downloaded more than three million times in over 150 different countries.
Fly Labs also stated that Google is their perfect partner, and they will dedicate the same passion for technology into Google Photos. They added that Google Photos is a good home for life's memories, powered by Google's machine learning and computer vision technology, and it will match their unfolding technology, according to Re/Code.
Currently, all Fly Labs apps are completely free with no in-app purchases, Business Insider reported. The apps will be available on the App Store for another three months. However, the company will no longer submit anymore updates to the apps. Once the apps are removed from the App Store, users will still be able to use them, but they will no longer be available for download.