One photo becomes a living video: a neural network builds real 3D from the picture and the camera moves around you, smoke drifts behind you with the light standing right behind your head, the frame glitches on the kick. Add your song and everything follows its beat — or make it without music. Free, no app, no watermark.
✨ Animate My Photo →Free · No watermark · No sign-up · Your files stay in your browser
Rendered in SLOVO from single photos, exactly as you would export them.
An ordinary animated photo is a zoom across a flat image, and the eye spots the trick immediately. 3D Photo is different. A neural network running in your browser works out what is near and what is far, separates the subject from the background and fills in the part of the background that was hidden behind them. Then a camera moves through the scene: the subject holds, the background drifts at its own pace, and the frame gains real depth even though there was only ever one exposure.
The camera can orbit, swing from side to side, push in slowly or circle evenly, and three sliders set how deep the scene is, how fast the camera moves and how hard it punches on the kick. The models — about 50 MB — download once, the first time you use 3D; on a computer a photo takes a few seconds, on a phone longer. The photo itself is never sent anywhere.
Smoke turns a portrait into a frame from a music video shot with a smoke machine and a backlight. Thick smoke drifts behind you, thin wisps pass along the bottom of the frame, and the light stands right behind your head — the smoke around your silhouette glows and rays spread out through it. SLOVO finds your head on its own, using the same depth map as 3D Photo, so the light lands behind you on any portrait. Pick a cold, warm, neon or white light; the bass rolls the smoke, and the kick flares the light behind you rather than the whole frame.
And on any of them, the photo itself can get 3D: switch it on for the frame and the camera moves through the picture under whatever effect you picked.
How strongly the image reacts changes the result completely. For a ballad, take everything out: the button with the drum in the top bar switches off every hit on the beat at once — the photo, the effect, the layers and the text stop pulsing, and only slow motion is left. That is what makes a still photograph look expensive instead of gimmicky. For phonk or hip-hop, switch it back on and push the reaction: flashes on the kick, glitch on the drop. One photograph, two settings, two completely different videos.
Drop up to 30 photos on a computer, or 20 on a phone, and they become a slideshow whose cuts land on the beats of your track. Reorder them in the strip, and give any frame its own entrance, length in beats, motion, colour and crop — or let the whole set share one look. The slideshow can loop or stop on the last frame.
Not every animated photo needs a track. Choose a video without music, set the length on a scale from 5 seconds to 5 minutes or type any length — 23 seconds is fine — and export. The file has no audio track at all, which is exactly what a Spotify Canvas, a status background or a living wallpaper needs.
Eight colour looks — black and white, warm, cool, faded film, punchy contrast, sunset, teal-and-orange and neon — with a strength slider, so a photo that came out flat on a phone camera can still look graded. For vertical video, the automatic crop option puts the subject in the middle of the 9:16 frame for you.
Two very different tools answer the same search. One is a generative model that invents new frames: the person in the photograph turns their head, blinks, moves their hair. It runs on somebody else’s servers, often costs money, and can quietly redraw a face into someone else’s. The other animates the frame itself — camera, layers, light — without inventing anything.
SLOVO is the second kind. It does not alter the face, the pose, the clothing, the colours or the composition; your photograph stays yours and stays recognisable from the first frame to the last. What moves is the camera and the layers: depth, parallax, smoke, grain, light. If you need the subject to literally come alive, you want a generative service. If you need a photograph to stop being still and start breathing with the track, you are in the right place.
Sharp, high resolution, one clear subject, and room around the edges — the camera moves, so anything sitting against the frame edge can leave it. A portrait where the subject separates cleanly from the background gives the strongest 3D and the best smoke. A small re-compressed screenshot gives the weakest result: motion only draws attention to the softness.
| Photo in | JPG, PNG, WebP · one photo or up to 30 (20 on a phone) |
| Audio in | MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, OGG — or no audio at all (5 s to 5 min) |
| Video out | MP4 (H.264) · 720p, 1080p or 4K · 9:16, 1:1, 16:9 |
| 3D | computed in the browser · models about 50 MB, downloaded once |
| Runs on | Desktop Chrome or Edge (best) · Chrome on Android · iPhone, slower export |
A personal photograph is not a file most people want to hand to an unknown service. Here it is not handed anywhere: the image and the track are both processed inside your browser, and there is no processing backend to receive them. The 3D models are downloaded to your device from a public model host; your photo goes nowhere. Only anonymous visit statistics leave the page, carrying no files and no file names.