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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

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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AI Baby Dance
✓ verifiedFreemium

Turns a baby photo into short AI dancing clips for social media using one-time credit packs, no subscription.

32K visits/mo11K saves
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Pika 2.2
✓ verifiedFreemium

A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.

2.2M visits/mo
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Vidu
✓ verifiedFreemium

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

Free trial available

No public pricing

Starter Pack: $9.90 (300 credits, ~15 videos)
Basic: $0/month (80 monthly video credits, 480p only, watermark on Turbo/Pro credits)
Standard: $8/month billed yearly (700 monthly video credits, all resolutions)
Pro: $28/month billed yearly (2300 monthly video credits, faster generation)
Fancy: $76/month billed yearly (6000 monthly video credits, fastest generation)

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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
  • 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)
  • Photo-to-dancing-video animation
  • Library of trending dance templates
  • Watermark-free downloads
  • One-time credits that never expire
  • No subscription required
  • Related pet and general dance generators
  • 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, 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
  • Reviving family memories
  • Restoring damaged old photos
  • Memorial and tribute videos
  • Shareable animated keepsakes
  • 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
  • Create viral baby dance clips for social media
  • Make shareable family keepsake videos
  • Produce trend-based short videos
  • 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
  • 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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