Bitstrips is a fun app that allows you to design and share your own comic strips.

What is Bitstrips?

Bitstrips comes with more than 1,500 customizable templates which you can use to create your own comics. Bitstrips connects with your Facebook account, allowing you to share your finished comics with your buddies.

You can set your own Bitstrips avatar and publish cartoon status updates. You can add avatars of others and create comics with them in.

Not all of the comics in Bitstrips are particularly funny, in fact, many are quite weird and you could get some strange comments from your Facebook friends if you upload them to your wall!

How to use Bitstrips

Creating cartoons with Bitstrips is pretty straightforward. You start by making your own avatar and can then, once you've connected up your Facebook account you can import friends' avatars, or create them yourself.

You can get pretty detailed in your Bitstrips avatars, changing everything from the size of the person's nose, to what they are wearing. You select changes from the thumbnails and a preview is applied instantly to the character.

Once you have your character you can use Bitstrips to make a status comic, friend comic or even a greeting card. There's also a section for viewing comics created by your friends and an archive of your own comics.

The verdict

Bitstrips is an innovative idea and makes for a bit of creative fun on Facebook. Some of the weirder comic strips might baffle/annoy your buddies, though.