Your photo is the first frame · Sound in every video · No watermark
Free animate photo AI for the photo you already love: a face blinks and smiles, a painting starts to move, clouds roll over a landscape, and it all comes with sound.
These are the three photos people most want to see move. Add your own in the generator above and say in one line what should move, the way each example below does.
One evening portrait photo of a woman leaning on a post. She holds the pose, blinks with her eyes on the lens, and a small smile spreads across her face while a few strands of hair stir. The background never changes, because it is still her photo.
Animate photo AI turns one photo into a short video that starts on that exact photo. Upload a JPG or PNG, type what should move, and a free run gives you a 4-second video with its own sound and no watermark, for personal use. It runs on the same engine as our free image to video AI: you start with no account, and a free account keeps going with no daily cap.
You get an MP4 with a start, an end and a sound track, ready for Stories, Reels or a message. For a face saying exact words to the camera, put the line in quotes in your prompt.
Creative engine
The free run is MiniMax H3, the same model behind every example on this page.
Animate photo AI keeps the photo you gave it. Faces, outfits and the background stay as they were; only what you ask for moves.
Sign in free and animate the next photo, and the one after it, with no daily cap. Each video lands in your history.
Left is the photo exactly as it was uploaded. Right is what animate photo AI made from it: the camera walks you down to the lake, she turns round and smiles, and snow starts to fall.
Animate photo AI is not only for a portrait photo. Two more photos that came to life from one photo and one line.
From the photo on your phone to a video you can send, in three steps.
Any JPG or PNG photo: a portrait, a pet, a photo of a painting, a landscape. One clear subject with a little room around it moves best.
Write it in a line: who moves, how, where the camera sits and what we should hear, like 'she blinks and smiles, a light breeze, quiet cafe sound'.
Press the button and keep the tab open. The video of your photo starts when the countdown ends, then plays right on the page with its sound, ready to download as an MP4.
Animate photo AI works on almost any photo, but a photo with these four things makes the motion look real on the first try.
A head-and-shoulders portrait gives the blink and the smile the most to work with. A face the size of a fingernail in a group photo moves less convincingly.
Hair, fabric and hands need room to move. A photo cropped tight to the chin cuts the motion off at the edge.
Sky, water, leaves, hair, a scarf: a landscape photo with clouds or a river animates far better than a bare wall, because there is motion to find.
This page opens on a tall 9:16 frame for Stories and Reels. Switch to wide in the generator for a landscape photo you will show on a TV or a laptop.
Unlimited MiniMax H3 on every paid plan, plus fast credits each month for Veo 3.1 and Grok. A failed run is refunded.
Free · A real clip before you pay anything
Nothing to sign, nothing to cancel.
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full-speed H3 a day, vs Starter
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clips rendering at once
What's included
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full-speed H3 a day, vs Starter
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clips rendering at once
Everything in Starter, plus
Checkout runs on Stripe. Your card details never reach Free Image to Video.
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full-speed H3 a day, vs Starter
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clips rendering at once
Everything in Creator, plus
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full-speed H3 a day, vs Starter
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Everything in Pro, plus
Cancel from Settings → Billing whenever you like; your plan keeps running until the end of the period you already paid for. Who runs Free Image to Video, every model on the shelf and how to reach us are on the about page.
Yes, this one. Upload a photo and it starts with no account and no card. A free account keeps going with no daily cap: each video is 4 seconds at 480p on MiniMax H3, with sound and no watermark, for personal use.
Yes. It starts a few minutes after you press the button, and a countdown shows when. To keep going, sign in with a free account; your first one there each day starts straight away.
It is built not to. Your photo is the first frame and the prompt asks it to keep the face, colours and framing, so the person still looks like themselves. A large, sharp face toward the camera holds best; a tiny face in a crowd can drift.
Yes. Take a photo of the artwork straight on, or scan it, and say what should move: the water in it, the clouds, a figure turning. Ask it to keep the brushwork and colours, as the painting example above does, and the art style stays.
Yes. Name what moves and what stays: 'the clouds roll, the river reflects them, the buildings do not move, camera still'. That is how the storm-over-the-river example was made.
No. You get an MP4 video with sound that starts on your photo and ends a few seconds later. It plays anywhere a video does: Stories, Reels, TikTok, a message.
A free video is 4 seconds at 480p. On a plan, MiniMax H3 makes up to 15 seconds at 768p, and Grok Imagine Video 1.5 and Veo 3.1 Fast are in the same model menu.
Free videos are for personal use. Any paid plan covers commercial use, so the same video can go in an ad, on a product page or on a monetised channel.
Pick the photo you look at most, the face, the pet, the place, and watch that photo move with its own sound. No account needed to start.
Free · 480p · with sound
