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149 tools, models and places to run them, grouped by what you want to do. Each links to a page with prices, licence and sources.

A video, a soundtrack or sound for a video

• MMAudio: A research model that adds matching sound effects to a silent video clip, or makes sounds from a text description. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• Adobe Premiere: Adobe's professional video editor. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• PixVerse: A web and phone app that turns a description or a photo into a short video clip, with extras such as lip sync, sound effects and extending a clip. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Seedance: ByteDance's video model family. (Model, Closed)
• Sora: OpenAI's app for making short video clips with sound from a written description, including putting yourself in scenes. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Sora 2: OpenAI's video model that made short clips with matching speech and sound from a description or a still image. (Model, Closed)
• Veo 3: Google's video model that turns a description or a still image into a short clip (usually 8 seconds) with sound, including speech. (Model, Closed)
• Wisecut: A browser video editor that trims long talking videos automatically: it cuts silences, adds captions and background music, reframes for phones and pulls out short highlight clips you can schedule to social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A video, short clips from a long video

• Klap: A web tool that turns a long video, such as a YouTube upload, into short vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Munch: Paste a link to a long video, such as a YouTube upload, and Munch picks out the most engaging moments and turns them into short, phone-shaped clips for social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• OpusClip: Cuts a long video, like a podcast or talk, into short clips for social media, adding captions and reframing for phones. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• quso.ai: Turns a long video into short captioned clips for social media, with an editor that trims filler words and a scheduler that posts to seven networks. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Vizard: Turns a long video into short vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Wisecut: A browser video editor that trims long talking videos automatically: it cuts silences, adds captions and background music, reframes for phones and pulls out short highlight clips you can schedule to social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Adobe Express: An easy design app for social posts, flyers, logos and short videos, with templates and built-in AI to make images from a description, remove backgrounds and edit photos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Async (formerly Podcastle): An online studio for podcasts and videos: record remote guests, get transcripts, clean up and edit audio, and turn text into speech with AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• FlexClip: A browser video editor with templates and many AI helpers: turn a prompt, article or slides into a video, add AI voiceovers, subtitles and music, remove backgrounds and make AI images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Gling: An editing helper for people who film themselves talking, such as YouTubers. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Kapwing: An online video editor that works in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pictory: A browser video editor that turns a script, blog post or long recording into a narrated video with stock footage, captions and AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Riverside: A browser studio for recording podcasts and video interviews with remote guests in high quality, then editing them by editing the transcript. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Submagic: Adds animated captions and quick edits to short videos for social media, and can cut longer videos into short clips. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Vozo: Translates and dubs videos into other languages, can match lip movements to the new audio, and translates subtitles and on-screen text. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A video, in another language (dubbing with lip-sync)

• Rask AI: A web app that translates the speech in your videos into other languages, re-voices them in a copy of the original speaker's voice, and can match lip movements to the new audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Vozo: Translates and dubs videos into other languages, can match lip movements to the new audio, and translates subtitles and on-screen text. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Adobe Firefly: Adobe's AI studio for making and editing pictures from text, plus short videos, voiceovers, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• AI Studios by DeepBrain AI: DeepBrain AI's AI Studios turns a script into a video with a digital presenter, can dub videos into other languages, and offers presenters people can talk to live. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Akool: A large web toolkit for AI video: talking presenters, talking photos, face swap (including live), video translation and voice cloning, plus picture and video makers that run many other companies' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Arcads: Makes video adverts in the style of social-media testimonials, using a library of AI actors who read your script. (Tool, Closed)
• Dubverse: A web tool that translates and re-voices your videos into other languages with AI voices, and also makes subtitles and text-to-speech. (Tool, Closed)
• HeyGen: Makes videos of a digital presenter reading your script, in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• InfiniteTalk: A free, downloadable model that makes a person in a video or photo speak along to a new audio track, moving lips, head and body to match. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• Kapwing: An online video editor that works in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• sync.: A lip-sync service: give it a video and new speech, and it changes the speaker's mouth to match. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Synthesia: Turns a script into a video with a digital presenter, mainly for training and business videos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• VEED: An online video editor aimed at social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Vidnoz AI: A browser tool for making presenter videos from a script with stock AI avatars, making a photo talk, cloning your voice and translating videos with lip-sync. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Zebracat: Turns a prompt, script or blog post into a finished short video with AI clips, stock footage, a voiceover and captions. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A video, by editing a video I have

• Adobe Premiere: Adobe's professional video editor. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Animoto: A long-running browser video maker: drop your photos and clips into ready-made templates, add licensed music and text, and export. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Autodesk Flow Studio: An online tool that reads ordinary filmed footage and rebuilds it as a 3D scene: it tracks the camera, captures actors' body, face and hand movement without suits, and lets you drop animated CG characters into the shot. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• CapCut: A video editor with templates and basic editing tools, plus paid AI credits for making short clips from a description using ByteDance's Seedance video models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Captions: A phone and web video editor for talking-to-camera clips. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Clipchamp: Microsoft's simple video editor for the browser and Windows. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• DaVinci Resolve: Professional desktop software for editing, colour, effects and sound. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• FlexClip: A browser video editor with templates and many AI helpers: turn a prompt, article or slides into a video, add AI voiceovers, subtitles and music, remove backgrounds and make AI images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Gling: An editing helper for people who film themselves talking, such as YouTubers. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• HitPaw VikPea: A desktop app that uses AI to make old, blurry or low-resolution videos sharper and bigger (up to 8K), smoother or colourised. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• invideo AI: A browser video editor where you describe changes in plain words and an AI agent makes them on a timeline. (Tool, Closed)
• Kapwing: An online video editor that works in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Submagic: Adds animated captions and quick edits to short videos for social media, and can cut longer videos into short clips. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Topaz Video: Desktop software (Mac and Windows) that cleans up and sharpens existing video: upscaling old or low-quality footage to 4K, removing noise, steadying shaky shots and adding frames for smooth slow motion. (Tool, Closed)
• VEED: An online video editor aimed at social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Videoleap: A phone and browser video editor from Lightricks with AI extras: turning text into video, AI effects and templates, background and object removal, auto subtitles and image generation. (Tool, Closed)
• Adobe Express: An easy design app for social posts, flyers, logos and short videos, with templates and built-in AI to make images from a description, remove backgrounds and edit photos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Adobe Firefly: Adobe's AI studio for making and editing pictures from text, plus short videos, voiceovers, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Akool: A large web toolkit for AI video: talking presenters, talking photos, face swap (including live), video translation and voice cloning, plus picture and video makers that run many other companies' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Bria: A business service for making and editing images (and some video clean-up) through an API, plugins and web tools, using Bria's own models trained on licensed stock images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• DeeVid AI: A browser and phone app that makes short videos and pictures from a description or a photo, using a choice of other makers' video models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Descript: Edit audio and video by editing a written transcript, like a document. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Facetune: A phone and browser app for touching up selfies and short videos: smooth skin, change makeup, hair or outfits, remove backgrounds and make AI headshots. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Google Flow: Google's browser studio for making short video clips and pictures from a description, a photo or reference images, then editing and stitching them into scenes. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Kaiber: A creative app for making stylised videos and images, including music-synced videos that move to the beat of a track. (Tool, Closed)
• Klap: A web tool that turns a long video, such as a YouTube upload, into short vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Kling AI: An app for making short video clips from a description or a photo, with tools to copy movement from one clip to another and to edit results. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Leonardo.Ai: A browser app for making and editing pictures and short videos from a description. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• LTX Studio: A browser workspace from Lightricks for planning and making short films: write or upload a script, turn it into a storyboard, then generate and edit the shots with LTX and other makers' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Luma Ray3: Luma's video model for making short clips from a description or a photo, or for restyling a video you already have. (Model, Closed)
• NVIDIA Broadcast: A Windows app that uses your NVIDIA graphics card to clean up your mic and webcam live: removes background noise and echo, blurs or replaces your background, and keeps you centred. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• OpenArt: A web studio that lets you pick from many other companies' AI models to make and edit pictures and short videos, keep a character consistent, and add voice or music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• OpusClip: Cuts a long video, like a podcast or talk, into short clips for social media, adding captions and reframing for phones. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Picsart: A popular photo and video editor for phone and web with many AI tools: make pictures from a description, remove backgrounds, enhance photos, and generate video, voice and music using dozens of other makers' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pictory: A browser video editor that turns a script, blog post or long recording into a narrated video with stock footage, captions and AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pika: A web app for making short video clips, lengthening clips, swapping things in a scene and adding a matching soundtrack. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• quso.ai: Turns a long video into short captioned clips for social media, with an editor that trims filler words and a scheduler that posts to seven networks. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Renderforest: An online studio for making videos, animations, logos and mockups from templates, now with AI tools that turn a description or picture into a video using several AI video models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Revid AI: A browser tool for making short social videos (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) from an idea, a web link or a script. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Riverside: A browser studio for recording podcasts and video interviews with remote guests in high quality, then editing them by editing the transcript. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Runware: A pay-as-you-go service for developers that runs many makers' AI models through one API, mainly for pictures and video, plus some audio, 3D and text models. (Place to run it, Closed, free option)
• Runway: A browser studio for making short video clips from a description or a still image, and for editing video you already have. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Seedance: ByteDance's video model family. (Model, Closed)
• Synthesys: A browser studio for making video adverts and explainer videos from a brief, a web link or your own footage, with stock AI presenters, AI voiceover, images and short AI clips. (Tool, Closed)
• Viggle: Puts a character from a picture into a video, copying the movement of the person in the clip, or swaps characters live. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Vizard: Turns a long video into short vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Wan 2.1: A free, downloadable video model from Alibaba's Wan team. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• Wisecut: A browser video editor that trims long talking videos automatically: it cuts silences, adds captions and background music, reframes for phones and pulls out short highlight clips you can schedule to social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A video, a longer version of a clip

• Adobe Premiere: Adobe's professional video editor. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Google Flow: Google's browser studio for making short video clips and pictures from a description, a photo or reference images, then editing and stitching them into scenes. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• ImagineArt: An all-in-one creative site for pictures, video and audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• LTX-Video: A downloadable video model from Lightricks that makes short clips from a description, a photo or a bit of video. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• MAGI-1: A free, open video model from Sand AI that animates a photo, continues an existing clip or makes video from a description, building it chunk by chunk. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• PixVerse: A web and phone app that turns a description or a photo into a short video clip, with extras such as lip sync, sound effects and extending a clip. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Scenario: A web studio aimed at game and design teams. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Seedance: ByteDance's video model family. (Model, Closed)
• SkyReels V2: A downloadable video model from Skywork that makes clips from a description or a photo and can keep extending a clip to make much longer videos. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• Veo 3: Google's video model that turns a description or a still image into a short clip (usually 8 seconds) with sound, including speech. (Model, Closed)

A video, from a description

• CogVideoX: A downloadable video model from the Z.ai (Zhipu) CogVideoX team that makes 5-10 second clips from a description or a photo. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• fal: A pay-as-you-go service for running many AI models through code or a web playground: image, video, speech, 3D, and talking-avatar and lip-sync models from various makers. (Place to run it, Closed)
• Fliki: Turns a script, idea, blog post or slides into a narrated video with stock visuals, AI voices and optional avatars. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Genmo: A video lab that makes short clips from a written description. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Google Flow: Google's browser studio for making short video clips and pictures from a description, a photo or reference images, then editing and stitching them into scenes. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Hailuo AI: A browser app from MiniMax for making short video clips from a description or a photo, plus pictures and ready-made effect templates. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Higgsfield: A web app that runs several makers' video and image models in one place, such as Seedance and Nano Banana. (Tool, Closed)
• HunyuanVideo: A free, downloadable video model from Tencent with about 13 billion parameters. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• Kaiber: A creative app for making stylised videos and images, including music-synced videos that move to the beat of a track. (Tool, Closed)
• Kling 2.5 Turbo: Kuaishou's September 2025 video model behind the Kling AI app. (Model, Closed)
• Kling AI: An app for making short video clips from a description or a photo, with tools to copy movement from one clip to another and to edit results. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• LTX Studio: A browser workspace from Lightricks for planning and making short films: write or upload a script, turn it into a storyboard, then generate and edit the shots with LTX and other makers' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• LTX-Video: A downloadable video model from Lightricks that makes short clips from a description, a photo or a bit of video. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• Luma Dream Machine: Luma's app for making short video clips from a description or a photo, restyling video you have, and making pictures. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Luma Ray3: Luma's video model for making short clips from a description or a photo, or for restyling a video you already have. (Model, Closed)
• Lumen5: A browser tool aimed at businesses that turns written text, such as an article or post, into a short social video. (Tool, Closed)
• Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• MiniMax Hailuo 02: MiniMax's video model from mid-2025. (Model, Closed)
• Mochi 1: A free, downloadable video model from Genmo that turns a description into a short 480p clip. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• Moonvalley: A web app for making short film-style video clips from a description or a photo, with controls for camera moves and for copying movement from a reference clip. (Tool, Closed)
• Open-Sora: A fully open-source video model (code and weights under Apache 2.0) that turns a description or a photo into a short clip, about 5 seconds long. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• Pictory: A browser video editor that turns a script, blog post or long recording into a narrated video with stock footage, captions and AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pika: A web app for making short video clips, lengthening clips, swapping things in a scene and adding a matching soundtrack. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• PixVerse: A web and phone app that turns a description or a photo into a short video clip, with extras such as lip sync, sound effects and extending a clip. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pollo AI: A web app that puts many makers' video and image models in one place, such as Seedance, Veo, Sora, Kling and Wan, plus its own Pollo model. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Renderforest: An online studio for making videos, animations, logos and mockups from templates, now with AI tools that turn a description or picture into a video using several AI video models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Revid AI: A browser tool for making short social videos (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) from an idea, a web link or a script. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Runway: A browser studio for making short video clips from a description or a still image, and for editing video you already have. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Seedance: ByteDance's video model family. (Model, Closed)
• SkyReels V2: A downloadable video model from Skywork that makes clips from a description or a photo and can keep extending a clip to make much longer videos. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• Sora: OpenAI's app for making short video clips with sound from a written description, including putting yourself in scenes. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Sora 2: OpenAI's video model that made short clips with matching speech and sound from a description or a still image. (Model, Closed)
• Steve AI: Turns a script, blog post or idea into an animated or stock-footage video, with cartoon characters, AI presenters and computer voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Synthesys: A browser studio for making video adverts and explainer videos from a brief, a web link or your own footage, with stock AI presenters, AI voiceover, images and short AI clips. (Tool, Closed)
• Veo 3: Google's video model that turns a description or a still image into a short clip (usually 8 seconds) with sound, including speech. (Model, Closed)
• Vidu: A web and phone app for making short video clips from a description, a photo, or several reference pictures that keep the same characters or objects. (Tool, Closed)
• Vyond: A browser app for making animated explainer and training videos with cartoon-style characters, AI presenters and text-to-speech voices. (Tool, Closed)
• Wan 2.1: A free, downloadable video model from Alibaba's Wan team. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• Wan 2.2: A free, downloadable video model from the Wan team. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• WaveSpeedAI: A pay-as-you-go service for running many makers' AI models: video (Seedance, Wan, Kling, Veo and others), images, speech and music, lip-sync avatars and 3D. (Place to run it, Closed, free option)
• Zebracat: Turns a prompt, script or blog post into a finished short video with AI clips, stock footage, a voiceover and captions. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Adobe Express: An easy design app for social posts, flyers, logos and short videos, with templates and built-in AI to make images from a description, remove backgrounds and edit photos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Adobe Firefly: Adobe's AI studio for making and editing pictures from text, plus short videos, voiceovers, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Adobe Premiere: Adobe's professional video editor. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Akool: A large web toolkit for AI video: talking presenters, talking photos, face swap (including live), video translation and voice cloning, plus picture and video makers that run many other companies' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Animoto: A long-running browser video maker: drop your photos and clips into ready-made templates, add licensed music and text, and export. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Arcads: Makes video adverts in the style of social-media testimonials, using a library of AI actors who read your script. (Tool, Closed)
• Canva AI (Magic Studio): The AI tools built into the Canva design app: make pictures from a description, edit photos by pointing and clicking, remove backgrounds and resize designs. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• CapCut: A video editor with templates and basic editing tools, plus paid AI credits for making short clips from a description using ByteDance's Seedance video models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Civitai: A large community site for sharing and downloading Stable Diffusion and Flux models and add-ons, with an on-site generator for pictures and video paid for with its 'Buzz' currency. (Place to run it, free option)
• ComfyUI: A free, open-source app where you build image, video, audio and 3D workflows by linking boxes together, running open models on your own computer. (Tool, Fully open, free option)
• Creatify: Makes short video and image adverts, often from a product link, using stock AI presenters reading a script. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• DeeVid AI: A browser and phone app that makes short videos and pictures from a description or a photo, using a choice of other makers' video models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• DomoAI: A browser app that turns photos, descriptions or existing clips into short animated videos, including anime-style restyling and talking avatars. (Tool, Closed)
• Dreamina: A CapCut web app that makes pictures and short videos from a description or a photo, edits and upscales images, and creates talking avatars. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Dzine: A browser app for making and editing pictures and short videos with AI, with a canvas for layered edits, consistent characters, lip sync and talking avatars. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• FlexClip: A browser video editor with templates and many AI helpers: turn a prompt, article or slides into a video, add AI voiceovers, subtitles and music, remove backgrounds and make AI images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Fotor: An all-in-one photo editor and design app with AI tools: make pictures or short videos from a description, edit photos, remove backgrounds and get AI headshots. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• getimg.ai: A browser workspace for making and editing pictures with many different AI models, plus video, music, speech and sound effects. (Tool, Closed)
• HitPaw VikPea: A desktop app that uses AI to make old, blurry or low-resolution videos sharper and bigger (up to 8K), smoother or colourised. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Hugging Face: The main public library of AI models, where makers publish open models for pictures, video, speech, music and 3D. (Place to run it, free option)
• Ideogram: Makes pictures from a written description and is especially good at putting readable words into images, such as posters and logos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• ImagineArt: An all-in-one creative site for pictures, video and audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• invideo AI: A browser video editor where you describe changes in plain words and an AI agent makes them on a timeline. (Tool, Closed)
• Invoke (InvokeAI): A free, open-source app you install to make and edit pictures with open models like Stable Diffusion and FLUX on your own computer, with a layered canvas and workflow builder. (Tool, Fully open, free option)
• Kapwing: An online video editor that works in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Kittl: A browser design app for logos, merch, packaging and social graphics. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Krea: A browser studio that makes and edits pictures and short videos from a description, using Krea's own models plus many from other makers. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Leonardo.Ai: A browser app for making and editing pictures and short videos from a description. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Mage Space: A browser app for making pictures and short videos from a description or a photo, using many open models plus its own tuned ones. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• MAGI-1: A free, open video model from Sand AI that animates a photo, continues an existing clip or makes video from a description, building it chunk by chunk. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• Magnific: Began as an AI upscaler that makes images sharper and larger while adding detail. (Tool, Closed)
• NightCafe: A browser app with a big community where you make pictures from a description using many different AI models, and can also make short videos and edit images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• OpenArt: A web studio that lets you pick from many other companies' AI models to make and edit pictures and short videos, keep a character consistent, and add voice or music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Picsart: A popular photo and video editor for phone and web with many AI tools: make pictures from a description, remove backgrounds, enhance photos, and generate video, voice and music using dozens of other makers' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pixelcut: A photo editor for sellers and small brands: remove backgrounds, sharpen and enlarge photos, and make product shots and short ad videos from a description. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pixlr: A low-cost online photo editor with AI tools: make pictures from text, fill or extend parts of a photo, remove backgrounds and objects, upscale, swap faces and make short videos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• quso.ai: Turns a long video into short captioned clips for social media, with an editor that trims filler words and a scheduler that posts to seven networks. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Replicate: A pay-as-you-go service for running thousands of AI models by other makers, for pictures, video, speech, music and text. (Place to run it, Closed)
• Runpod: Rents graphics cards (GPUs) by the second so you can run AI models yourself, plus ready-made endpoints for popular image, video and speech models. (Place to run it, Closed)
• Runware: A pay-as-you-go service for developers that runs many makers' AI models through one API, mainly for pictures and video, plus some audio, 3D and text models. (Place to run it, Closed, free option)
• Runway Gen-4: Runway's video model that keeps the same character, object or place looking consistent across shots, guided by a reference image and a text description. (Model, Closed)
• SeaArt: A website and phone app for making AI pictures and short videos from text or images, using many different models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Together AI: A pay-as-you-go cloud service, mainly for developers, that runs many other makers' AI models: chat and code models, plus picture and video models such as FLUX, Seedream and Kling. (Place to run it, Closed)
• TopView: Makes marketing and product videos, including AI presenters that hold or show your product, lip-sync, and voice clones. (Tool, Closed)
• VEED: An online video editor aimed at social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Videoleap: A phone and browser video editor from Lightricks with AI extras: turning text into video, AI effects and templates, background and object removal, auto subtitles and image generation. (Tool, Closed)

A video, by bringing a photo to life

• DeeVid AI: A browser and phone app that makes short videos and pictures from a description or a photo, using a choice of other makers' video models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• MAGI-1: A free, open video model from Sand AI that animates a photo, continues an existing clip or makes video from a description, building it chunk by chunk. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• Runway Gen-4: Runway's video model that keeps the same character, object or place looking consistent across shots, guided by a reference image and a text description. (Model, Closed)
• Stable Video Diffusion: A downloadable model from Stability AI that turns one still picture into a very short clip of a few seconds. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• Adobe Firefly: Adobe's AI studio for making and editing pictures from text, plus short videos, voiceovers, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Akool: A large web toolkit for AI video: talking presenters, talking photos, face swap (including live), video translation and voice cloning, plus picture and video makers that run many other companies' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Artbreeder: A playful browser tool for making pictures by mixing images and text, blending 'genes' of portraits, making collages and extending images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Claid: Online tools for shop product photos: put a product into a styled scene, show clothes on AI fashion models, remove backgrounds, upscale and fix lighting, or turn a still into a short video. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• CogVideoX: A downloadable video model from the Z.ai (Zhipu) CogVideoX team that makes 5-10 second clips from a description or a photo. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• ComfyUI: A free, open-source app where you build image, video, audio and 3D workflows by linking boxes together, running open models on your own computer. (Tool, Fully open, free option)
• Creatify: Makes short video and image adverts, often from a product link, using stock AI presenters reading a script. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• DomoAI: A browser app that turns photos, descriptions or existing clips into short animated videos, including anime-style restyling and talking avatars. (Tool, Closed)
• Draw Things: A free app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that makes pictures on your own device, offline, using downloadable open models. (Tool, free option)
• Dreamina: A CapCut web app that makes pictures and short videos from a description or a photo, edits and upscales images, and creates talking avatars. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Dzine: A browser app for making and editing pictures and short videos with AI, with a canvas for layered edits, consistent characters, lip sync and talking avatars. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• EchoMimic: A free, downloadable model from Ant Group that makes a photo of a person talk or sing in time with an audio clip. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• fal: A pay-as-you-go service for running many AI models through code or a web playground: image, video, speech, 3D, and talking-avatar and lip-sync models from various makers. (Place to run it, Closed)
• Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Flair: A browser tool for online shops that stages product photos in AI-made scenes, puts clothing and jewellery on AI-generated models, and makes short product videos and ads. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Fotor: An all-in-one photo editor and design app with AI tools: make pictures or short videos from a description, edit photos, remove backgrounds and get AI headshots. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• getimg.ai: A browser workspace for making and editing pictures with many different AI models, plus video, music, speech and sound effects. (Tool, Closed)
• Google Flow: Google's browser studio for making short video clips and pictures from a description, a photo or reference images, then editing and stitching them into scenes. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Hailuo AI: A browser app from MiniMax for making short video clips from a description or a photo, plus pictures and ready-made effect templates. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Higgsfield: A web app that runs several makers' video and image models in one place, such as Seedance and Nano Banana. (Tool, Closed)
• HitPaw VikPea: A desktop app that uses AI to make old, blurry or low-resolution videos sharper and bigger (up to 8K), smoother or colourised. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Ideogram: Makes pictures from a written description and is especially good at putting readable words into images, such as posters and logos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• ImagineArt: An all-in-one creative site for pictures, video and audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• invideo AI: A browser video editor where you describe changes in plain words and an AI agent makes them on a timeline. (Tool, Closed)
• Kapwing: An online video editor that works in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Kling 2.5 Turbo: Kuaishou's September 2025 video model behind the Kling AI app. (Model, Closed)
• Kling AI: An app for making short video clips from a description or a photo, with tools to copy movement from one clip to another and to edit results. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Krea: A browser studio that makes and edits pictures and short videos from a description, using Krea's own models plus many from other makers. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Leonardo.Ai: A browser app for making and editing pictures and short videos from a description. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• LivePortrait: A free, downloadable model from Kuaishou that animates a still portrait by copying the head movements and expressions from another video. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• LTX Studio: A browser workspace from Lightricks for planning and making short films: write or upload a script, turn it into a storyboard, then generate and edit the shots with LTX and other makers' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• LTX-Video: A downloadable video model from Lightricks that makes short clips from a description, a photo or a bit of video. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• Luma Dream Machine: Luma's app for making short video clips from a description or a photo, restyling video you have, and making pictures. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Luma Ray3: Luma's video model for making short clips from a description or a photo, or for restyling a video you already have. (Model, Closed)
• Mage Space: A browser app for making pictures and short videos from a description or a photo, using many open models plus its own tuned ones. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Magnific: Began as an AI upscaler that makes images sharper and larger while adding detail. (Tool, Closed)
• Midjourney: Makes artistic pictures from a written description, on its website or in Discord. (Tool, Closed)
• MiniMax Hailuo 02: MiniMax's video model from mid-2025. (Model, Closed)
• Moonvalley: A web app for making short film-style video clips from a description or a photo, with controls for camera moves and for copying movement from a reference clip. (Tool, Closed)
• NightCafe: A browser app with a big community where you make pictures from a description using many different AI models, and can also make short videos and edit images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• OmniHuman: A ByteDance model that turns one photo plus a voice or music track into a video of that person talking, singing or moving, from head-and-shoulders up to full body. (Model, Closed)
• Open-Sora: A fully open-source video model (code and weights under Apache 2.0) that turns a description or a photo into a short clip, about 5 seconds long. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• OpenArt: A web studio that lets you pick from many other companies' AI models to make and edit pictures and short videos, keep a character consistent, and add voice or music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Photoroom: A phone and web app for product photos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Picsart: A popular photo and video editor for phone and web with many AI tools: make pictures from a description, remove backgrounds, enhance photos, and generate video, voice and music using dozens of other makers' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pictory: A browser video editor that turns a script, blog post or long recording into a narrated video with stock footage, captions and AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pika: A web app for making short video clips, lengthening clips, swapping things in a scene and adding a matching soundtrack. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pixlr: A low-cost online photo editor with AI tools: make pictures from text, fill or extend parts of a photo, remove backgrounds and objects, upscale, swap faces and make short videos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• PixVerse: A web and phone app that turns a description or a photo into a short video clip, with extras such as lip sync, sound effects and extending a clip. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Pollo AI: A web app that puts many makers' video and image models in one place, such as Seedance, Veo, Sora, Kling and Wan, plus its own Pollo model. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Renderforest: An online studio for making videos, animations, logos and mockups from templates, now with AI tools that turn a description or picture into a video using several AI video models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Replicate: A pay-as-you-go service for running thousands of AI models by other makers, for pictures, video, speech, music and text. (Place to run it, Closed)
• Runpod: Rents graphics cards (GPUs) by the second so you can run AI models yourself, plus ready-made endpoints for popular image, video and speech models. (Place to run it, Closed)
• Runware: A pay-as-you-go service for developers that runs many makers' AI models through one API, mainly for pictures and video, plus some audio, 3D and text models. (Place to run it, Closed, free option)
• Runway: A browser studio for making short video clips from a description or a still image, and for editing video you already have. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Scenario: A web studio aimed at game and design teams. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• SeaArt: A website and phone app for making AI pictures and short videos from text or images, using many different models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Seedance: ByteDance's video model family. (Model, Closed)
• SkyReels V2: A downloadable video model from Skywork that makes clips from a description or a photo and can keep extending a clip to make much longer videos. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• Sora 2: OpenAI's video model that made short clips with matching speech and sound from a description or a still image. (Model, Closed)
• Synthesys: A browser studio for making video adverts and explainer videos from a brief, a web link or your own footage, with stock AI presenters, AI voiceover, images and short AI clips. (Tool, Closed)
• Together AI: A pay-as-you-go cloud service, mainly for developers, that runs many other makers' AI models: chat and code models, plus picture and video models such as FLUX, Seedream and Kling. (Place to run it, Closed)
• TopView: Makes marketing and product videos, including AI presenters that hold or show your product, lip-sync, and voice clones. (Tool, Closed)
• Veo 3: Google's video model that turns a description or a still image into a short clip (usually 8 seconds) with sound, including speech. (Model, Closed)
• Vidu: A web and phone app for making short video clips from a description, a photo, or several reference pictures that keep the same characters or objects. (Tool, Closed)
• Viggle: Puts a character from a picture into a video, copying the movement of the person in the clip, or swaps characters live. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Vizcom: A design tool for product and industrial designers that turns rough sketches into realistic renders, and can also make simple 3D models and short animations from them. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Wan 2.1: A free, downloadable video model from Alibaba's Wan team. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• Wan 2.2: A free, downloadable video model from the Wan team. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• WaveSpeedAI: A pay-as-you-go service for running many makers' AI models: video (Seedance, Wan, Kling, Veo and others), images, speech and music, lip-sync avatars and 3D. (Place to run it, Closed, free option)
• Zebracat: Turns a prompt, script or blog post into a finished short video with AI clips, stock footage, a voiceover and captions. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A video, lips that match new audio

• InfiniteTalk: A free, downloadable model that makes a person in a video or photo speak along to a new audio track, moving lips, head and body to match. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• LatentSync: A free, downloadable lip-sync model from ByteDance. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• MuseTalk: A free, downloadable model that changes the lip movements of a face in a video to match new speech, fast enough to run in real time on a strong graphics card. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• sync.: A lip-sync service: give it a video and new speech, and it changes the speaker's mouth to match. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Wav2Lip: An older, free research model that makes the lips in any video match a new audio track. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• Arcads: Makes video adverts in the style of social-media testimonials, using a library of AI actors who read your script. (Tool, Closed)
• Dzine: A browser app for making and editing pictures and short videos with AI, with a canvas for layered edits, consistent characters, lip sync and talking avatars. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• EchoMimic: A free, downloadable model from Ant Group that makes a photo of a person talk or sing in time with an audio clip. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• FantasyTalking: A free research model that makes a portrait photo talk: give it a picture and a voice recording and it produces a video of the person speaking with matching lips and head movement. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• HunyuanVideo-Avatar: A free-to-download Tencent model that makes a still portrait talk or sing in time with an audio track, with control over emotion and support for more than one character. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• ImagineArt: An all-in-one creative site for pictures, video and audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Kapwing: An online video editor that works in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Mage Space: A browser app for making pictures and short videos from a description or a photo, using many open models plus its own tuned ones. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Picsart: A popular photo and video editor for phone and web with many AI tools: make pictures from a description, remove backgrounds, enhance photos, and generate video, voice and music using dozens of other makers' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• PixVerse: A web and phone app that turns a description or a photo into a short video clip, with extras such as lip sync, sound effects and extending a clip. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Rask AI: A web app that translates the speech in your videos into other languages, re-voices them in a copy of the original speaker's voice, and can match lip movements to the new audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• SadTalker: A free, downloadable research model that makes a single portrait photo talk in time with an audio clip. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• SeaArt: A website and phone app for making AI pictures and short videos from text or images, using many different models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• TopView: Makes marketing and product videos, including AI presenters that hold or show your product, lip-sync, and voice clones. (Tool, Closed)
• VEED: An online video editor aimed at social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Vozo: Translates and dubs videos into other languages, can match lip movements to the new audio, and translates subtitles and on-screen text. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A video, by copying movement from another video

• Plask: Records body and hand movement from an ordinary video and turns it into 3D animation you can put on a character, all in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Rokoko Vision: Turns an uploaded video of someone moving into 3D character animation, free to try in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Viggle: Puts a character from a picture into a video, copying the movement of the person in the clip, or swaps characters live. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Akool: A large web toolkit for AI video: talking presenters, talking photos, face swap (including live), video translation and voice cloning, plus picture and video makers that run many other companies' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Autodesk Flow Studio: An online tool that reads ordinary filmed footage and rebuilds it as a 3D scene: it tracks the camera, captures actors' body, face and hand movement without suits, and lets you drop animated CG characters into the shot. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Higgsfield: A web app that runs several makers' video and image models in one place, such as Seedance and Nano Banana. (Tool, Closed)
• Krea: A browser studio that makes and edits pictures and short videos from a description, using Krea's own models plus many from other makers. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• LivePortrait: A free, downloadable model from Kuaishou that animates a still portrait by copying the head movements and expressions from another video. (Model, Fully open, free option)
• Mage Space: A browser app for making pictures and short videos from a description or a photo, using many open models plus its own tuned ones. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Moonvalley: A web app for making short film-style video clips from a description or a photo, with controls for camera moves and for copying movement from a reference clip. (Tool, Closed)
• OmniHuman: A ByteDance model that turns one photo plus a voice or music track into a video of that person talking, singing or moving, from head-and-shoulders up to full body. (Model, Closed)
• OpenArt: A web studio that lets you pick from many other companies' AI models to make and edit pictures and short videos, keep a character consistent, and add voice or music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• SeaArt: A website and phone app for making AI pictures and short videos from text or images, using many different models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• TopView: Makes marketing and product videos, including AI presenters that hold or show your product, lip-sync, and voice clones. (Tool, Closed)

A video, a different look for a video I have

• DomoAI: A browser app that turns photos, descriptions or existing clips into short animated videos, including anime-style restyling and talking avatars. (Tool, Closed)
• Hailuo AI: A browser app from MiniMax for making short video clips from a description or a photo, plus pictures and ready-made effect templates. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Krea: A browser studio that makes and edits pictures and short videos from a description, using Krea's own models plus many from other makers. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• LTX Studio: A browser workspace from Lightricks for planning and making short films: write or upload a script, turn it into a storyboard, then generate and edit the shots with LTX and other makers' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• LTX-Video: A downloadable video model from Lightricks that makes short clips from a description, a photo or a bit of video. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
• Luma Dream Machine: Luma's app for making short video clips from a description or a photo, restyling video you have, and making pictures. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Luma Ray3: Luma's video model for making short clips from a description or a photo, or for restyling a video you already have. (Model, Closed)
• Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Scenario: A web studio aimed at game and design teams. (Tool, Closed, free option)
• Videoleap: A phone and browser video editor from Lightricks with AI extras: turning text into video, AI effects and templates, background and object removal, auto subtitles and image generation. (Tool, Closed)