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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
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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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AI Video by Media.io
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Media.io offers free online AI tools for generating and editing video, images, and audio, plus viral content workflows.
5.4M visits/mo6.5K saves
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Pika 2.2
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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
Pricing
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Free trial available
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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)
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
- ✦AI video generation (text and image to video)
- ✦AI image creation and enhancement
- ✦AI audio tools
- ✦AI ad and story video generators
- ✦Viral content studio
- ✦Video enhancer and effects
- ✦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
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
- →Creating social and marketing videos
- →Generating AI images
- →Editing and enhancing media
- →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
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