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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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Lottielab (Magic Animator
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Lottielab's AI tool that turns static vector designs from Figma or Canva into animations exported as Lottie, GIF or MP4.
21K visits/mo
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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
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)
No public pricing
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
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
- ✦One-click AI animation of vector designs
- ✦Import from Figma, Canva and Adobe Express
- ✦Export as MP4, GIF or Lottie
- ✦Keyframe editing for polish
- ✦Chat-based animation assistant (coming)
- ✦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)
- ✦AI Artwork Generation
- ✦Boomerang Gif & Video
- ✦Overlay & FX
- ✦Videos & Gifs
- ✦Spotify Canvas Integration
- ✦Track Selection
- ✦Customization Options
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
- →Animate logos and icons
- →Turn social posts into motion content
- →Add UI micro-interactions to apps and sites
- →Export Lottie animations for web and apps
- →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
- →Creating engaging visuals for music releases on Spotify Canvas.
- →Generating promotional videos for TikTok and other social media platforms.
- →Creating unique vinyl covers with AI.
- →Exporting full-length videos directly to YouTube.
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