Face Swap App

Pick Akool for an installed app on iPhone or Android, Magic Hour for no-sign-up swaps in the phone browser and VidMage if you edit on a Mac. Pay-once credit packs from Remaker AI and PixNova suit people who swap only now and then.

Before installing FaceApp to swap faces, note that it is a selfie editor: it ages the face already in your photo, changes the hair or adds a beard, and does not move one person's face onto another picture or clip. The tools compared here take two inputs, a source face and a target, and differ in three practical ways: where they run, whether they need an account and how they bill in ringgit. Looping clips have their own GIF face swap comparison. Installed apps are only one way to work; the wider face swap AI comparison also includes browser tools that need no download.

01Browser tool or installed app on a phone

Most services in this comparison never ask you to install anything. Remaker AI, PixNova, Faceswapper.ai and Magic Hour run in a mobile browser, and their photo swaps work without an account. Magic Hour's official guide describes a browser workflow with nothing to download, which also leaves no store subscription to manage later.

An installed app makes sense when the feature you need lives there. Akool's mobile app is the documented option on both iPhone and Android, and VidMage's Mac app, built for M1 and later Macs, is the only way to process its swaps on your own computer and get 4K output. For a one-off photo swap, the browser is quicker and leaves no app to uninstall later.

Two names that show up in the same searches work differently. On SeaArt AI, face swap is one of several mini apps inside an AI art platform, paid from a shared daily Stamina allowance. Companion apps such as Candy AI chat as fictional characters and never edit your own photos.

02Lookalike apps and how to check the publisher

A store search for a brand name can surface unrelated face swap apps with similar names and icons, so the developer line matters more than the logo. Match it against the company on the official site or in its privacy policy:

• Akool: install from the store links on its official mobile page
• Pica AI: iOS app published by Wegital HK Limited
• Artguru: apps published by Cygnus Space (Hong Kong) Company Limited
• Faceswapper.ai: a browser tool run by Vertexshare Limited
• PixNova: a browser tool; store apps using its name are unconfirmed Pending verification

A listing from any other developer is a different product with its own terms and data handling, whatever its screenshots promise. If the publisher cannot be confirmed, use the website in the phone browser instead.

03Paying through App Store or Google Play in ringgit

Where you subscribe changes the price and the way you cancel. Web plans for these tools are mostly charged in US dollars, so the ringgit figures here use the BNM rate of RM 4.0841 and your card may add a fee. Inside an app, Apple or Google bills in ringgit at its own price: Pica AI's iOS price can differ from its RM 40.80 web plan, and Artguru's store subscriptions are billed in ringgit as well.

• Store plan: cancel in the Apple or Google account that bills you
• Uninstalling does not cancel a plan, as FaceApp's own FAQ points out
• Web plan in US dollars: check the card statement after the first charge
• One-off packs at Remaker AI and PixNova never renew