Emoji Maker Sure, Android and iOS have tools that let you craft personalized emojis. But third-party apps let you go even further. Take Emoji Me Animated Faces, one of the best choices for iOS.

Emoji Me Face Maker This app lets you cartoonify yourself like Samsung’s AR Emoji. Take a selfie to use as a reference point, then match your physical traits best you can.

Lil B tells me that he helps design all of his apps and gets coding help from his business partner, so it’s a two-man emoji operation.

Last year, my roommate told me about an app called Bitmoji that lets you personalize a set of emoji to resemble yourself. Bitmoji, and the company behind it — Bitstrips — has grown in popularity.

Launching today in the App Store, Memoji by Facetune uses the intelligent portrait editing tools in the popular Facetune 2.0 app to instead mimic an emoji. From the big eyes and crocodile tear of ...