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AI Avatars suite.
Cinematic, anime, editorial, fantasy. Upload 10–20 selfies, get stylized portrait packs. Profile-picture material for any platform.
Upload one selfie. Reface maps you into trending video templates, GIFs, photos and AI avatars — multi-pass alignment keeps expressions natural across every frame. Built by Neocortext.
The whole flow is three steps. Encoder reads your face once. Decoder paints it into whatever template you pick. No drawing, no compositing, no plugin chain.
One front-facing photo. The encoder turns your face into a numerical embedding — a vector capturing your features. That's the only training data the model needs.
Trending clips, cinema scenes, GIFs, anime stills, Renaissance paintings — the library updates weekly. Tap once. The decoder maps you into the chosen frame.
Multi-pass alignment keeps expressions natural across every frame. Export in HD, share to socials, save to camera roll. Try it →
Every template, every era, every style. One face — yours.
Reface isn't trying to be a video editor or a portrait studio. It's the app you reach for when you want a fast, funny, on-trend swap in two taps.
The trending clip of the week is in the template library by Friday. Swap your face in, share before the meme cycles out.
Reels and TikTok openers, AI avatars for thumbnails, hairstyle previews for branding shoots. One selfie, ten posts.
AI avatars in cinematic, anime, editorial. Drop one into LinkedIn, Discord, or your dating-app rotation. Refresh monthly.
Future Baby blends, family Renaissance portraits, "what would Grandpa look like today" animations. Slightly absurd, hugely shareable.
Face swap is the headline. The rest of the suite is what keeps you opening Reface week after week instead of deleting it after one swap.
Movies, GIFs, anime, paintings, decades. New drops every week so the library never stales. Tap, swap, post. Get Reface →
Cinematic, anime, editorial, fantasy. Upload 10–20 selfies, get stylized portrait packs. Profile-picture material for any platform.
One-tap restyle: bob, fringe, undercut, mullet, perm. Preview before the salon appointment. Useful before scary haircuts.
From selfie to LinkedIn-ready portrait. Color-matched lighting, studio backdrop, professional crop. No photographer needed.
Blend two faces to imagine the baby. Equal parts genuine fun, mildly creepy, and the most-shared feature in the app.
Make a still photo sing, react, lip-sync to your favourite track. Old family photos, vintage portraits, anything with a clear face.
Where Reface wins on templates, where FaceApp, Snapchat and Lensa still win on a single dimension, and the spots where you'd keep both.
The four-star one stays because pretending nobody complains about pricing wastes everyone's time.
"The Renaissance painting templates are unreal. I sent a 'Velasquez self-portrait' of myself to my group chat and three friends thought I commissioned it. Cost me one selfie."
"AI Avatar packs for LinkedIn beat the studio session I'd booked. Editorial style especially — looks like a Vogue feature, not a selfie filter. Profile updated in five minutes."
"Output quality is genuinely impressive — when it works. But the pricing is opaque: a base sub, then extra per-render charges on the web tool, and the video cap dropped from longer to 14 seconds. Pro user, conflicted."
Reface launched in 2020 when face-swap technology suddenly worked well enough to be entertainment rather than research. The team has been keeping the templates current ever since.
The original Reface team — Neocortext, Inc. — built the app around a single bet: that face-swap had crossed from "creepy demo" into "shareable fun" and that the right interface would be a phone, not a desktop research notebook. The bet paid off. Within a year the app was top of the App Store free chart in dozens of countries, with the GIF-of-yourself-as-Tom-Cruise-as-Iron-Man becoming a brief but undeniable cultural moment.
Under the hood the tech is straightforward in concept and surprisingly involved in execution. Your selfie goes through an encoder that compresses your face into a vector — an embedding — that captures features without storing the photo. A decoder uses that vector to paint your face onto a target frame. Then multi-pass alignment runs across the whole video clip to keep expressions, angles and lighting consistent. The original photo is deleted within 48 hours; the embedding is wiped on the fourth day. That privacy flow was added under regulatory pressure and has held up.
Reface has since expanded from pure face-swap into AI Avatars (stylized portrait packs), Hairstyle Try-On, AI Headshot Generator, Future Baby Generator, and photo animation with lip-sync. The interface is more cluttered than the 2020 launch and some features land better than others — that's the trade-off of evolving from a single-purpose hit into an "unboring content" suite. The trending templates library remains the moat — weekly drops keep the home screen worth opening. Official site →
None of those make Reface the wrong app — they make it a specific one. For the trending swap of the week, it's still the cleanest interface in the category. For everything else, you might keep a second app installed. Try Reface free →
The trending swap of the week is already in the library. Multi-pass alignment, AI Avatars, Hairstyle Try-On, Headshot Generator. Free to start, no install required for the web tool.