Le app that danno life to static photos in the style of MyHeritage and DeepNostalgia they have gained immense popularity in recent weeks. As technologies based on artificial intelligence and machine learning advance, the results are more and more spectacular, and deepfake videos created from images never cease to amaze us.
On Android you can use many applications that allow you to animate static images, including MyHeritage with its spectacular DeepNostalgia technology. Let's review the best.
App to animate photos: the best you can use on Android
- My inheritance
- Wombo
- VIMAGE
- PLOTGRAPH
- MotionLeap
- Movepic
- PixaMotion
Not all photo animating apps are created equal. Some, like MyHeritage, use artificial intelligence systems to generate animated photos based on models trained through many other images, to generate ultra realistic results. Others, however, allow you to add animated effects to photos to give them a unique touch before sharing them on social networks.
In this top we have chosen a total of seven such apps that you can use on your Android phone.
MyHeritage, the app that brings your old photos to life.
My inheritance
In recent months, has become the fashion app. MyHeritage is a tool that allows you to generate a family tree based on various data about us. However, the functionality that led MyHeritage to go viral is DeepNostalgia, a feature that uses artificial intelligence-based systems for animate faces in photos with a surprisingly realistic effect.
When you upload an image, MyHeritage allows you to create an animation with a high degree of realism and naturalness, which can later be saved in our gallery to share via messaging app or social media.
Most users of the app have used it for animate old photos of your relatives and ancestors or to create animated videos from photographs of famous people.
The app is free download, but it has a number of limitations that disappear in its paid version.
Wombo
Wombo is one of better alternatives to MyHeritage and DeepNostalgia. Like the previous app, this one also allows you to animate the faces of the photos to generate animated images or videos.
However, this app has a social focus as among its features are the ability to lip sync with popular songs, in order to look like the person in the photo singing.
The app allows you to upload your selfies or choose a photo from the gallery, ours or someone else's. You just have to make sure that the face is beautiful enough so that the app can correctly identify the features before applying the effect.
VIMAGE
Selected in its time as one of the best apps for Android by the publishers of the Google Play Store, VIMAGE is a fantastic app that allows you to create animated images from still photos.
Unlike the previous ones, VIMAGE does not focus its functions on deepfake. The app, on the other hand, allows you to create artistic images with moving 3D effects, as well as giving the possibility to add filters and edit images without the need to resort to third-party apps.
PLOTGRAPH
PLOTAGRAPH is an app that follows the same path as VIMAGE, in the sense that allows you to create artistic images with animated effects. It stands out for its ease of use and for the large number of effects it allows to use.
Could be downloaded for free via the Google Play Store, although it contains paid elements.
Motionleap
Formerly known as Enlight Pixaloop, MotionLeap is an awesome app capable of give life to our images thanks to its powerful editor, with dozens of moving effects to add to our photographs.
It is one of the apps in its category with one of the most advanced image editors, to be able to change any aspect of the photographs when adding effects. The results are simply impressive and the over 50 million downloads on Android they certify its quality.
Like the rest of the apps in this selection, Motionleap is free to download, but it contains some paid items that are used to unlock exclusive effects and other features.
Movepic
Il motto by Movepic is “bringing photos to life”, and that's exactly what this is Whatsapp lets you do to create animated images from the photos.
Come Motionleap, Movepic include un powerful editor from which it will be possible animate any part of an image simply by drawing a path, adjusting the speed or creating loops.
Includes several presets that make your work easier, but it's definitely best to experiment with its various options until you're able to create the most impressive animated images.
PixaMotion - Photo animator and video creator
We conclude the selection of applications to create moving photos from your mobile with PixaMotion, an alternative to MotionLeap that gives the possibility of add various motion effects to photos, to finish with the creation of artistic videos.
Its editor allows you to add movement to any element that appears in the photo, from clouds, to the sky or to a river. All this through easy-to-use tools.
