Alternatives to LivePortrait
An open research project that animates a still portrait using the motion from a driving video. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
LivePortrait
An open research project that animates a still portrait using the motion from a driving video.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as LivePortrait.
D-ID
A platform for creating AI avatar videos and interactive talking digital humans from photos.
D-ID animates photos into talking avatar videos as a paid hosted service with an API, instead of running research code on your own machine.
Hedra
An AI studio and API for generating video, images and talking avatars.
Hedra offers avatar models for talking-character video in a hosted studio with a developer API, removing the Python setup but requiring an internet connection.
Akool
An online generative AI suite for face swap, talking photos, avatar videos and image generation.
Akool provides talking photos, avatar video and face swap online with API access, so no local GPU is needed but it runs only as a service.
Viggle AI
An AI tool that swaps or animates characters in videos and captures 3D motion from phone clips.
Viggle AI animates and swaps characters using motion from reference video and phone clips in the cloud, and can export motion to game engines.
neural.love
A browser platform of AI tools for enhancing video, generating and editing images, and animating photos.
neural.love includes photo animation among its browser-based image and video tools, processing files on its servers rather than locally.
Also worth comparing
These listings name LivePortrait as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
sync.
An AI lip-sync tool that matches a speaker's mouth movements in video to new audio.
LivePortrait animates still portraits from a driving video locally on your own machine, avoiding the cloud but requiring Python, model weights and a capable GPU.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
FaceFusion
A face swapping and face enhancement tool for images and video that runs on your own computer.
Deep-Live-Cam
A local tool for real-time face swapping on webcam video and one-click video deepfakes from one image.
HeyGen
A web service that turns text, images or audio into videos presented by realistic AI avatars.
EbSynth
VFX software that spreads edits from painted keyframes across a whole video for stylization and retouching.
FramePack
Local image-to-video generator that predicts frames progressively so it runs on consumer GPUs.
