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Animate Old Photos
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI tool that turns old photos into short talking, singing or hugging videos, plus photo restoration.
88K visits/mo7.0K saves
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Live Portrait AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI tool that animates a photo into a talking, expressive video, sold as one-time credit packs rather than a subscription.
60K visits/mo22K saves
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HeyGen
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI video platform for making avatar and spokesperson videos from text, with translation and voice cloning.
11M visits/mo3.7K saves
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AI Video by Media.io
✓ verifiedFreemium
Media.io offers free online AI tools for generating and editing video, images, and audio, plus viral content workflows.
5.4M visits/mo6.5K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Basic: $14.90 one-time (200 credits, 10s clips)
Standard: $29.90 one-time (600 credits, 30s clips)
Pro: $59.90 one-time (1600 credits, 60s clips)
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Core features
- ✦Photo-to-video animation (~5s)
- ✦AI audio: speech, singing, music with lip sync
- ✦Old-photo restoration and colorization
- ✦'Add loved one to photo' compositing
- ✦AI hug video generator
- ✦Prompt-guided motion
- ✦Photo-to-video facial animation
- ✦Lip-sync and expression generation
- ✦One-time credit packs, no subscription
- ✦Tiered video length and concurrency limits
- ✦Downloadable output and comparison clips
- ✦Text-to-video with AI avatars
- ✦Custom and personal avatar creation
- ✦AI voice cloning
- ✦Multi-language video translation
- ✦Template library for common video types
- ✦Team and API options
- ✦AI video generation (text and image to video)
- ✦AI image creation and enhancement
- ✦AI audio tools
- ✦AI ad and story video generators
- ✦Viral content studio
- ✦Video enhancer and effects
Use cases
- →Reviving family memories
- →Restoring damaged old photos
- →Memorial and tribute videos
- →Shareable animated keepsakes
- →Make a still photo appear to speak
- →Create short animated clips from portraits
- →Produce shareable talking-avatar videos
- →Create spokesperson marketing videos
- →Localize videos into many languages
- →Produce training and explainer videos
- →Scale social video content
- →Creating social and marketing videos
- →Generating AI images
- →Editing and enhancing media
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