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Apps like Snapchat and Meitu use face filters to augment or otherwise alter portraits and selfies in various stylized ways, with the effect of making you look like some kind of animal, anime character, or whatnot. These almost always yield amusing results, bound to be shared with your friends and followers on social media. But what if you want your portraits and selfies modified but in such a way that the outcome, to a certain extent, keeps the photorealism intact? That is to say, it’s still a realistic representation of a human face, no bunny ears or supersize emotive eyes in sight. This is what FaceApp sets out to achieve — and largely succeeds at.

Put a smile on your face. To use FaceApp, you just need to take a new photo or load an existing one from your device’s library and then simply tap one of the available filter options, which are helpfully represented as emojis: Smile 2, Smile (slightly wider and toothier), Hot, Old, Young, Female, Male. After making your selection, FaceApp processes your photo and comes up with the corresponding effect in a jiffy.

Swap your gender. FaceApp also features tools that let you easily create GIFs, diptychs, and collages that combine different effects on your photo into one image, allowing you and your friends to see at a glance how the transformations compare with the original and with one another. (During the editing process, you can quickly compare the original and the filter effect by tapping and holding on the photo.)

What is it about?

FaceApp is a face transformation app that prides itself on its focus on photorealism. If you’re looking to do all sorts of cartoony stuff on your photos, sorry but FaceApp is not the app for you. But if you want to automatically change your photos in certain ways but want to keep their resulting appearances grounded in reality, then FaceApp should do the trick.

For those who...

like taking portraits and selfies.
want to improve how you look in photos without resorting to reshoots or Photoshop.

Not for those who...

don’t care how you look in photos.
think apps like this are lookist.

Why we love it

To be sure, FaceApp is not perfect, as it sometimes results in images that have a sort of uncanny valley feel to them. But for the most part, it’s a neat and easy-to-use app for transforming portraits and selfies in certain photorealistic ways. Say you have a photo of yourself that you really like, except you wish you had smiled when it was taken. Or another photo where you wish your face didn’t look so haggard or aged. Instead of reshooting your portrait or selfie (which may be impractical given the change in time and setting that has probably taken place since the original capture) or resorting to Photoshop (which may take a while especially if you don’t know it yourself and still have to ask someone else to do it), you can just load the photo onto FaceApp, tap the appropriate option, and voila, your closed mouth is turned into a grin, your physiognomy is prettified, or your countenance is made more youthful. And if you just want to see how you’d like decades from now or on the other end of the gender spectrum, and perhaps share the results with your friends to amuse or wow them, you can do that too in just a tap in FaceApp.

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App Details

Version

12.1.0

Rating

(1557256)

Size

105Mb

Genre

Photo & Video

Last updated

April 1, 2024

Release date

January 19, 2017

More info

FaceApp is FREE but there are more add-ons

$3.99

Pro

App Store Description

FaceApp is one of the best mobile apps for advanced photo editing. Turn your selfies into modeling portraits using one of the most popular apps with over 500 million downloads to date. FaceApp gives you everything you need to create Insta-worthy edits for free. No more extra tapping on your screen!

Use a fantastic set of filters, backgrounds, effects, and other tools to create a seamless and photorealistic edit in ONE TAP. You will never have to spend hours photoshopping again!

More than 60 highly photorealistic filters

PHOTO EDITOR

- Perfect your selfies with Impression filters
- Add a beard or mustache
- Change your hair color and hairstyle
- Add volume to your hair
- Try trendy full makeup filters
- Creative light effects
- Remove acne and blemishes
- Smooth wrinkles
- Easily enlarge or minimize facial features
- Try out the color lens
- Easy Compare tool at every step to compare before & after
- Total control of temperature, saturation, and more

HAVE FUN

- See what you'd look like as a different gender
- Discover your best hairstyle and color with our advanced tool
- Aging: try our popular Old & Young filters
- Borrow your favorite style from different photos
- Put your face in a popular movie scene
- Try weight filters: get bigger or smaller
- And many more fun filters!

READY TO SHARE?

Share your FaceApp edits directly to your favorite social media accounts

Just ONE tap and your photo is ready for a total social media blitz!

FaceApp PRO

You can subscribe to get access to useful style filters, filters updates and all the features and content offered for purchase within FaceApp.

Subscriptions are auto renewable and are billed monthly or annually at the rate selected depending on the subscription plan.

Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal can be turned off in Account Settings in iTunes after the purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.

- Terms of Use: https://www.faceapp.com/terms
- Privacy Policy: https://www.faceapp.com/privacy
- Online Tracking Opt-Out Guide: https://www.faceapp.com/online-tracking-opt-out-guide.html

You are welcome to contact us at support.ios@faceapp.com

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