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DeepLiveCam
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Real-time face-swap app for building live avatars for VTubers and streamers, with GPU and no-GPU 'Lite' editions for Windows and Mac.

159K visits/mo
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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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LivePortrait
✓ verifiedFreemium

Web tool that animates still photos into short talking-head videos, plus photo restoration and stylizing extras.

20K visits/mo
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Wan AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Alibaba's Wan AI platform for generating video and images from text or reference images, part of the Tongyi generative AI family.

3.1M visits/mo49K saves
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Vidu
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Fast AI video and image generator known for consistent multi-reference characters, anime motion, and free off-peak generation.

3.3M visits/mo50K saves
Pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

Basic: $7.90/mo (100 credits/mo)
Plus: $15.90/mo (300 credits/mo)
Pro: $23.90/mo (600 credits/mo)
Max: $34.90/mo (1500 credits/mo)

No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • Real-time face swap and live avatars
  • VTuber and streamer focus
  • GPU editions (Nvidia, AMD, Mac)
  • No-GPU 'Lite' edition
  • Windows and Mac support
  • Priority-support subscription
  • 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)
  • Text-to-video generation
  • Image-to-video generation
  • Text-to-image and image editing
  • Open-source model releases for developers
  • Part of Alibaba's broader Tongyi AI ecosystem
  • Text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation
  • Multi-reference consistency using up to 7 images
  • First and last frame transition control
  • Anime art-to-video animation
  • Unlimited free generation in off-peak mode
  • AI sound effect and AI image generation tools
Use cases
  • Live streaming avatars
  • VTubing
  • Real-time video face swap
  • Content creation
  • 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
  • Content creators generating short AI video clips
  • Developers building on open-source Wan model weights
  • Marketers producing quick visual content
  • Researchers experimenting with video diffusion models
  • Marketers producing branded video ads with consistent characters
  • Anime creators animating static art
  • Creators reusing saved characters/props across multiple videos
  • Users wanting fast, low-cost video generation via off-peak mode
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