Avatarify for iPhone

Quick summary

Avatarify: AI Face Animator (often shortened to Avatarify) is a free AR mobile app from Avatarify, Inc. It lets you animate a photo by using your own facial movements. The app applies photorealistic AI avatars to mimic your expressions, producing short, shareable video clips in which another face follows your gestures.

How it operates

The app uses facial motion-tracking to map your expressions onto a chosen picture. Its tracking can follow subtle eye movements and small head shifts while keeping the background stable. You record short videos while the selected image mirrors your facial activity in real time.

What you can use as the animated face

• Images from your personal gallery (friends, family, or other photos)
• Animal pictures
• Cartoon-style portraits
• Celebrity photos
• Characters from movies or TV shows

Saving and sharing options

• Save the clip directly to your device
• Post to Facebook
• Share on Instagram
• Upload to TikTok

Strengths

• Free to download and use
• Simple, user-friendly interface
• Accurate motion-tracking for most facial movements
• Supports uploading your own photos as target avatars

Limitations to keep in mind

• No inner-mouth tracking (teeth and tongue are not animated)
• Head motion needs to remain mostly inside the face guide, limiting very dynamic movements
• More complex lip or tongue animations available in some competing apps are not supported

Suggested alternative

If you want more advanced facial motion tools, CapCut is a commonly recommended free alternative that offers enhanced facial tracking and additional video-editing features.