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toona
✓ verifiedFreemium

Beta AI toolbox for anime and manga creators covering image-to-video, colorizing, upscaling, and inbetween-frame generation.

36K visits/mo
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waifulabs.com
✓ verifiedFree

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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Imagetocartoon
✓ verifiedFree

Free, no-signup AI cartoonizer that turns photos into 80+ cartoon, anime and comic styles for avatars and social posts.

115K visits/mo22K saves
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NemoVideo
✓ verifiedFreemium

Web tool that turns photos into Studio Ghibli-style artwork with AI, offering ChatGPT integration and a free credit tier.

5.9K visits/mo
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Polyverse
✓ verifiedFreemium

Mobile app turning photos and videos into anime, action-figure, and other AI-styled filters built around viral visual trends.

1.8K visits/mo
Pricing

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Free: $0 (100 credits)
Starter: $19.99 (1,100 credits)

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Core features
  • Image-to-video generation
  • Manga colorization
  • Anime image and video upscaling to 4K
  • Frame interpolation up to 240fps
  • Inbetween frame generation
  • Background cut and fill
  • Motion painter for adding animation to stills
  • 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
  • Photo-to-cartoon AI conversion
  • 80+ art styles (anime, comic, 3D, clay)
  • Aspect-ratio control
  • No signup or login required
  • iOS and Android apps
  • Instant downloadable results
  • Photo-to-Ghibli style transfer
  • Text-prompt image generation
  • 20+ Ghibli art styles
  • High-resolution output
  • ChatGPT integration
  • Credit-based usage
  • Dozens of AI photo and video style filters
  • Trend-based effects (anime, action figure, Y2K, Ghibli-style, and more)
  • AI chat-based photo editing by typed instructions
  • Virtual dress-up / outfit try-on filters
  • Photo restoration and color enhancement tools
  • Available on iOS, Android, and Galaxy Store
Use cases
  • Manga artists colorizing black-and-white pages
  • Animators generating inbetween frames
  • Creators upscaling old anime footage
  • Fans making viral character remix videos
  • 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
  • Cartoon avatars for profiles
  • Stylized social-media images
  • Fun photo effects and prints
  • Anime/comic portrait creation
  • Turning personal photos into Ghibli art
  • Creating anime-style illustrations
  • Generating avatars and social media art
  • Casual users creating anime or stylized versions of selfies
  • Social media users chasing viral AI photo/video trends
  • People restoring or enhancing old photos
  • Users wanting quick AI-based photo editing without design skills
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