Lens Studio

REACH MILLIONS ON SNAPCHAT, YOUR OWN APP, AND BEYOND

More than 250M people use AR Lenses on Snapchat an average of 6 billion times per day to play, shop, learn, and express themselves. Lens Studio is a free development and design tool that enables you to create custom AR experiences for Snapchat and the global Snapchat community. The Lenses you build in Lens Studio can also be shared to your own application or website via Camera Kit.

Download Lens Studio to build your first AR Lens and join our community of more than 300,000 creators, developers, and teams from around the world who are creating on the Snap AR platform.

WHAT IS LENS STUDIO?

Lens Studio is a free development software packed with powerful capabilities for creators to build AR experiences. Lens Studio is designed to empower developers, creators, and artists to design the highest quality AR experiences possible while growing their expertise and establishing a career. Developers can create a single asset in Lens Studio and share that Lens (AR on Snapchat) across a variety of channels, including Snapchat, Spectacles, and other apps via Camera Kit.

With Lens Studio, the creative possibilities are endless. Whether you’re using 2D art to transform faces or bringing 3D models to life in the AR world, Lens Studio offers world-class, professional-grade, easy-to-use tools as well as built-in learnings to help you get started.

GET STARTED QUICKLY

With access to hundreds of templates and online tutorials, Lens Studio makes it easy to bring your ideas to life, regardless of experience level.

BUILD THE FUTURE NOW

Because Lens Studio offers such an advanced and robust set of features, AR experiences are more creative, more believable, and more engaging than if they were created with any other tool. Build more realistic shaders and graphics using Lens Studio’s Material Editor or develop innovative Lenses with SnapML and the many built-in machine-learning features. Test your Lenses interactively on your computer or push to your mobile device instantly with the Preview Tool.

REACH AN ENGAGED AUDIENCE

The global Snapchat community engages with AR an average of 6 billion times per day to play, shop, learn, and express themselves. Get discovered in the Snapchat Lens carousel, Lens Explorer, in Spotlight content, and more!

BUILT FOR YOUR SUCCESS

Lens Studio is designed to help beginner and advanced developers find success with the right tools to help them get the job done. Now, you can spend more time creating and less time on logistics, so you can build your best work.