We bring you a collection of 16 applications to generate your avatars from photos, which are alternatives to Lensa avatars. Most of these alternatives use artificial intelligence, although there are some that are simpler and only edit from your photo.
These types of avatars are highly sought after, and that is why most of the alternatives are paid or have paid functions, although there are also some free which we have found quite interesting. The point is that you have a variety to choose from.
And as we always say in Xataka Basics, these have been our alternatives, but if you know of other good applications for this We invite you to share them with everyone in the comments section. Thus, all users will be able to benefit from the knowledge of our xatakeros.
Stable Diffusion
The best alternative to Lensa, and that even beats this app on pretty much everything, is Stable Diffusion. At Xataka Basics we have already taught you how to train this AI with your face, so that you can then generate all kinds of images and avatars from it.
Of course, in this case, once you have trained the AI and have started using the model with your face in Stable Diffusion, everything depends on your ability to write commands asking it to draw you a picture with your face like this. or another way. It can be good or very bad depending on your ability with words.
The creators of Stable Diffusion have a simplified free version called Dream Studio. In it you cannot use a trained model of yours or train it, but you can upload a photo and ask him to make modifications to it. This is image-to-image creation, which doesn’t always give the best results but can still give you some play.
Butter
This is another mobile application with which you can generate avatars based on your photos. Avatars can be of a person, a couple posing together, or a couple made up of a person and a celebrity. You will need to train the app by uploading 15 photos of yourself.
The big problem with this app is that it is also paid, and requires you to subscribe to their plan of 6 euros per month or 35 euros per year to be able to generate your AI avatars. Of course, it offers unlimited creations, which is already better than Lensa at that, and you have more than 40 styles.
Fotor
This is not a mobile application, but a web application that you run from the browser. Fotor is a simple photo editor, but it offers options to change the appearance of your photos through various Artificial Intelligence layouts.
They call it an NFT generator, but it can be useful for creating avatars because you can upload a photo of your choice and apply a variety of designs to it. It has a free and a paid version, and while you can create your avatars with the free one, you will download them with a watermark if you don’t pay.
Dawn AI
This is another app to generate AI avatars from your photos, and it has a large number of designs ranging from video game characters to manga or artistic style. All you have to do is upload your photo and choose the photo style you want.
The negative part is that using this app requires a subscription from 1.09 euros per week. In exchange for that, it will generate you 48 avatars, it will send you theme packs every day, and it promises you more than 1000 avatars a week.
Wonder
Another application similar to Lensa and other similar apps that we have also included in the list. It is an app with which you will be able to create avatars from your own photos. For this, in the previous process you will need upload 10 different photos of yourself to train the AI.
Wonder’s model is exactly the same as Lensa’s Magic Avatars. You pay for each pack of avatars you want to create, and prices range from 4.60 euros for 50 avatars to 16 euros for a pack of 200.
Aiby
Another application similar to Lensa. It has more variations, being able to choose non-binary sexes and skin color, but it is also much more expensive costing 11 euros to create your avatars. It will ask you between 10 and 20 photos to train its AI.
AI Profile Photo Generator
This is a project by a Reddit user, who decided to create an app to generate AI avatars from photos. It is very similar to the previous ones, but its advantage is that each user is entitled to an order of 10 free photoswhich usually takes 24 hours to arrive.
Thanks to this, you can have a sample of what the results are like before having to pay, something in which this little app is far superior to all the others. It is only for Android and is launched in Chrome, although you download it as an individual app. It asks you between 10 and 20 photos to generate your avatars, which are deleted 3 days after uploading them.
FaceApp
FaceApp has been one of the references for more than 5 years to modify your face with Artificial Intelligence. It does it in a very very basic way and without so many options, and it limits itself to allowing you change sex or ageor also add a beard or another hairstyle.
This app is simpler, since it is based on a photo that you upload to it, and it will modify that photo as you request. As usual, some features of this app are free, such as changing the age, but there are some other special filters that require a subscription.
PlayGround
It is another free website that allows you to play with Stable Diffusion, and although you will not be able to train an AI to create photos with your face, it does have an image-to-image function. This means that you can upload a photo of yourself and request small modifications through commands that help you edit an avatar.
Me in Comics
Possibly you have seen on social networks like TikTok some videos with a filter that turn a photo into a manga character. Well, this is the web page where you can do this process from your browser with any photograph that you upload by hand.
It is a completely free page and extremely easy to use. You simply have to upload a photo of yourself and in a few seconds an anime character will be generated from it. The results are usually far from reality, but this is part of the game.
Anime AI
And if the previous one falls short, this is an AI that generates manga photo packs from your photo. You only have to upload a photo with characteristics marked by the web, choose your gender and give the option to generate the avatars. You can add attributes like glasses, beard or being bald.
Here, again, we find ourselves with a paid tool, although its price is not excessively high. It promises to generate 100 anime images from your photos for just a couple of dollars or euros.
Self-Portrait AI
Being another pay page for generating profile pictures from your photos, this one is a bit different. Its operation is as follows, and it is that you can train the AI of the web to recognize one or multiple faces, depending on the amount of money you pay, and then generate images from these trained models.
The good thing is that it is a process like Stable Diffusion, but that everything is done by the web itself. The bad thing is that you have to pay. For $5, which is the minimum payment, you will have the possibility to train the AI for a face and then generate up to 500 images with it. In addition, they also give you a welcome pack of 50 images.
ToonApp
This is another more classic application, which is not so much to create an image by artificial intelligence as to edit a photograph that you upload and create a new profile picture with it in cartoon form.
The positive part is that the app has quite a few designs that are free, so you can get some good results without paying. But the negative part is that even with this it is full of ads, including some full-screen banners that invite you to go to the payment method that are very confusing and difficult to skip, it seems that you have to pay yes or yes.
Paint
This is another app apply filters to your photos, but it is surprisingly good compared to others we have seen like the previous one. For starters, it doesn’t interrupt you with ads or showing you everywhere that you have to pay to use all the features.
It also has a lot of filters, and each day offers you two or three premium filters for free so you can test it, and each filter you apply has a lot of options to adjust it to your liking. With the free account you will be able to create many avatars, although when you download them they will always have a watermark.
AI Avatar Generator
It is a web page that creates free avatars for you through image to image technologies, and is also based on Stable Diffusion. It’s totally freealthough for your avatar to be generated you usually have to wait a long time because there is a rather long queue.
The way to proceed is quite simple. You have to upload a photo of yourself, and if you want to configure the number of images or the SD seed you want to use, and the results will be offered to you after a while. The advantage of this service is that you don’t have to write anythingthe web is already in charge of introducing the image generation commands.
Starry
And we end up with another application that generates images using AI. It’s meant to be used as a text to image creator, but it also allows you to upload your own photo and work from it. It even has a prompt guide so you can better choose what you want to create, and a gauge of how faithful the resulting photo is to the original.
One of the biggest advantages is that it is a free app, although some of its best options are reserved for paid users. You can generate images from your photos and download them directly to your mobile. It also has a feed to see the creations of others and get ideas about the prompts to write.
