In 2016 PicsArt reached 75 million monthly active users and 300 million installs. When the app celebrated its three-year anniversary, it had 175 million installs, 50 million monthly users, and had 18.5 million users in the social network. In June 2014, PicsArt was released for all Windows 8.1 PCs, devices, and tablets. By March, the app reached 100 million installs on Android, 30 million active users, 60,000 images uploaded every day, and had a community of over 11 million users. In January 2014, PicsArt became available on devices supporting Windows 8. In December 2013, PicsArt became available for Windows Phone devices. In November 2013, two years after its launch, PicsArt had reached 90 million installs and had nearly 25 million monthly active users. The app had nearly 2 million unique daily users and 4 million registered users by January 2013. In May of the same year, it was released for the iPad. PicsArt for iOS was released in January 2013 for the iPhone.
The app was downloaded 35 million times during its first year. It was founded by Hovhannes Avoyan and Artavazd Mehrabyan. PicsArt was launched in November 2011 on Android devices.