Four years before Snapchat released their face-decorating video filters, the very first live video mustache app appeared in the iPhone App Store in 2011. The now-archived app was called LiveStache, and used a novel iOS image processing technique to perform augmented reality at video frame rates on the now-outdated iPhone 3.
I created this humorous app to share my love and enjoyment for mustaches and beards.
Years later, the modern processing power of mobile devices has increased by more than 1000%, allowing Snapchat developers to add animations and face alignment detection to vastly improve on the experience.
Thanks to the many people who helped LiveStache bring mustaches to faces around the world.