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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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HeyGen
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI video platform for making avatar and spokesperson videos from text, with translation and voice cloning.
11M visits/mo3.7K 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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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
Pricing
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)
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Premium (Pay as you go): Credit-based
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Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Text-to-video with AI avatars
- ✦Custom and personal avatar creation
- ✦AI voice cloning
- ✦Multi-language video translation
- ✦Template library for common video types
- ✦Team and API options
- ✦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)
- ✦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
- ✦Advanced multi-modal AI content generation (images, videos, speech)
- ✦Fast content generation in seconds
- ✦High-quality output with high resolution and sharp details
- ✦Unlimited creativity with various styles
- ✦Multi-format export for all platforms
- ✦Easy collaboration on projects
Use cases
- →Make a still photo appear to speak
- →Create short animated clips from portraits
- →Produce shareable talking-avatar videos
- →Create spokesperson marketing videos
- →Localize videos into many languages
- →Produce training and explainer videos
- →Scale social video content
- →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
- →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
- →Creating AI-generated images for marketing campaigns
- →Producing AI-generated videos for social media content
- →Generating AI speech and dialogue for voiceovers or podcasts
- →Transforming text ideas into visual and audio content quickly
- →Collaborating on creative projects with AI assistance
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