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Desktop and cloud AI software for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, and restoring photos and video at professional quality.
A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
AI video platform that turns text and images into videos with lip-sync, bundling many models plus upscaling and editing tools.
All-in-one AI content platform for generating videos, music, voiceovers, and images from text or images using a shared credit system.
AI color-grading software for editors and colorists that auto-balances, matches shots, and runs locally in Resolve, Premiere, and more.
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- ✦AI image and video upscaling up to 4K/32MP
- ✦Denoising and sharpening models
- ✦Photo restoration and dust/scratch removal
- ✦Face enhancement and recovery
- ✦Background removal and colorization
- ✦Cloud rendering with concurrency limits
- ✦Bundled multi-app Studio subscription
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- ✦Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
- ✦Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
- ✦Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
- ✦Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
- ✦Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video
- ✦Lip-sync and talking avatar videos
- ✦Access to multiple AI video models
- ✦Video and image upscaling
- ✦Watermark removal and FPS boost
- ✦Text-to-speech and sound effects
- ✦Text/image-to-video generation with multiple AI models
- ✦AI music generation and song covers
- ✦Text-to-speech and voice cloning
- ✦AI image generation
- ✦Video/audio dubbing and translation
- ✦Lip sync and video effects tools
- ✦Shared credit system across all tools
- ✦AI shot matching across sequences
- ✦One-click auto color balance
- ✦AI auto white balance
- ✦Match a look from any reference image
- ✦Local, on-device processing
- ✦Plugin/standalone for Resolve, Premiere, Nuke, Flame, Baselight
- ✦Film and grain emulation (Pro)
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
- →Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
- →Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
- →Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP
- →Generating short marketing or social videos
- →Creating talking avatar clips
- →Enhancing and upscaling existing videos
- →Content creators making short-form video for social media
- →Musicians generating AI covers or original tracks
- →YouTubers producing voiceovers and dubbed content
- →Marketers creating UGC-style ad videos
- →Balancing and matching entire timelines
- →Fast cinematic grading for editors
- →High-end finishing and VFX color
- →Creating and sharing looks