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AI tool that turns old photos into short talking, singing or hugging videos, plus photo restoration.
Web tool that animates still photos into short talking-head videos, plus photo restoration and stylizing extras.
Multi-modal AI video generator that lets users reference images, video, and audio together for consistent, controllable video creation.
AI video platform for making avatar and spokesperson videos from text, with translation and voice cloning.
A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
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- ✦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
- ✦Animate static portraits into short videos
- ✦Fine control over eye and lip motion
- ✦Supports real, cartoon and artistic portraits
- ✦Template- or video-driven motion patterns
- ✦Built-in photo restore, colorize and upscale
- ✦Extra style filters (cartoon, 3D, pixel, clay)
- ✦Multi-modal input combining images, video, audio, and text
- ✦Reference-based generation for motion, camera moves, and characters
- ✦Consistency controls for faces, clothing, and visual style across shots
- ✦Video extension, merging, and segment editing
- ✦Built-in context-aware audio and music generation
- ✦Credit-based pricing tied to resolution and duration
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Reviving family memories
- →Restoring damaged old photos
- →Memorial and tribute videos
- →Shareable animated keepsakes
- →Bring old family photos to life
- →Add subtle motion to paintings and artwork
- →Create animated avatars for social posts
- →Enhance and restore images before animating
- →Advertisers replicating proven ad templates with new products
- →Educators creating animated lesson and tutorial videos
- →Social media creators replicating trending video formats
- →Filmmakers previsualizing camera movements and scenes
- →Create spokesperson marketing videos
- →Localize videos into many languages
- →Produce training and explainer videos
- →Scale social video content
- →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