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Free-to-start AI image-to-video generator giving two daily watermarked clips, with paid tiers for more output.
AI tool that turns old photos into short talking, singing or hugging videos, plus photo restoration.
AI video generator that turns a text prompt into a finished video with script, stock footage, voiceover, subtitles and music.
Fast AI video and image generator known for consistent multi-reference characters, anime motion, and free off-peak generation.
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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Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
- ✦Image-to-video animation
- ✦Text-to-video generation
- ✦Up to 1080p watermark-free export (paid)
- ✦Prompt-guided motion and effects
- ✦Multiple model options
- ✦Audio and duration controls
- ✦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
- ✦AI agent with long-term project memory
- ✦Batch editing across multiple clips
- ✦200+ integrated AI models (Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling, Seedance and more)
- ✦Multiplayer collaboration with real-time cursors
- ✦Custom agent creation
- ✦Storyboarding and timeline editing
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Short social videos for TikTok and Instagram
- →Product and ad animations
- →Real estate photo tours
- →Turning concept art into motion
- →Reviving family memories
- →Restoring damaged old photos
- →Memorial and tribute videos
- →Shareable animated keepsakes
- →Creating social media and YouTube videos
- →Producing faceless videos without filming
- →Turning ideas into first-cut videos fast
- →Generating marketing and ad content
- →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
- →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