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Picsart
✓ verifiedFreemium

Full-featured AI creative platform used by 130M+ creators for photo/video editing, design templates, and 140+ AI models.

17M visits/mo2.6K saves
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AI Anime Generator
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free AI anime generator turning text and photos into anime characters, scenes and short videos, no signup.

116K visits/mo

Anime-focused AI art platform with many house models and a hologem credit system; free tier plus paid plans.

29K visits/mo
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waifulabs.com
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Free AI generator that creates custom anime-style character portraits ('waifus'/'husbandos') through an interactive style-learning process.

41K visits/mo
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Raphael AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free AI image and video generator offering access to multiple leading models like GPT Image, Nano Banana, and Seedream for creators.

1.4M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0
Pro: $15/month, or $126/year

Free trial available

No public pricing

Free: $0 (100 hologems, 50 daily bonus)
Pro: $10/mo (5,000 hologems/mo)
Ultimate: $25/mo (20,000 hologems/mo)

No public pricing

Pro: $10/month (billed annually at $120/year, 2,000 credits/month)
Ultimate: $20/month (billed annually at $240/year, 5,000 credits/month)

Free trial available

Core features
  • Free AI design tools
  • Expert-crafted templates
  • Built-in asset libraries
  • Generative AI tools
  • Text-to-anime generation
  • Photo-to-anime conversion
  • Multiple anime styles
  • Character and scene design
  • Anime image-to-video
  • Many anime and semi-realistic image models
  • Tag-based prompt helper
  • Hologem credit system with a daily bonus
  • Style LoRAs and image variations
  • Community gallery and sharing
  • Image-to-image with adjustable parameters
  • Neural-network-based anime portrait generation
  • Interactive preference-learning generation flow
  • Character customization including backgrounds
  • Support for both female and male character styles
  • Free unlimited use
  • Tie-in with the Arrowmancer game for generated characters
  • Text-to-image and image-to-image generation
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
  • AI photo editing including background removal and image expansion
  • Access to multiple third-party models (Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT Image, Veo, Kling)
  • Lip-sync video creation
  • Preset style templates for portraits and art
Use cases
  • Social media creators producing trending photo and video content
  • Marketers generating on-brand product ads at scale
  • Small businesses creating merchandise and print-on-demand designs
  • Designers building branded video and motion content
  • Creating anime characters
  • Turning selfies into anime
  • Building anime scenes
  • Anime social content
  • Generating anime character art
  • Creating character sheets and variations
  • Exploring styles via the community gallery
  • Casual AI illustration
  • Anime fans creating a custom personal avatar
  • Game players designing personalized in-game characters
  • Hobbyist artists seeking AI reference art
  • Social media users wanting a unique profile picture
  • Generating unlimited free images with the base Raphael model
  • Producing product photos or ad creatives for marketing
  • Creating short AI videos with native audio and cinematic realism
  • Editing existing photos by removing backgrounds or expanding borders
  • Testing multiple leading AI image models in one place
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