Google has announced the acquisition of Fly Labs, which is the company behind a number of iOS apps for video editing. The team behind Fly Labs will be absorbed into the Google Photos team.

Fly Labs will continue to offer the four apps, called Clips, Fly, Tempo and Crop, for the next three months, and Google will give away features that used to be in-app purchases for free during this time.

"In the last 18 months, our video editing apps have been downloaded more than 3 million times in over 150 different countries. More than 20 million videos have been created with apps made by Fly Labs," said Fly Labs in a blog post. "We're excited to continue on our mission by joining Google and the Google Photos team in Mountain View, Calif."

Fly Labs' apps basically allow users to quickly and easily edit videos simply by swiping and tapping on the display of their screen. Crop is an app that is single-purpose and allows users to convert their portrait videos to landscape mode.

It's not yet known how Fly Labs' technology will be incorporated into Google Photos, however, the hope is that Photos will soon support video editing, and Fly Labs will likely contribute to this. Photos does, however, allow users to stitch together photos into a video based on algorithms that it uses.

Interestingly enough, the founders of the app talked to iDigitalTimes last year, saying that it wasn't expected that an Android version of its app would ever be available, and that iPhone users appreciated great design more than Android users. iDigital Times continued on to say that Tim Novikoff, the founder of the app, didn't see the app ever venturing into Google territory. Well, it has now done just that.

Via: The Verge