Magic Hour vs Viggle (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Viggle grades higher than Magic Hour: 2.6 against 2.4 out of 4.0.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Magic Hour grades higher on features. Viggle grades higher on value for money and the free plan. They get the same grade on ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Magic Hour
Browser studio of AI video, image and audio tools paid with credits
Viggle
Character-swap and motion video generator with a free daily allowance
Which one is for you
Pick Magic Hour if
- Fits if you want face swap, lip sync and video tools in one place
- Works for developers who want an API on the same credits
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need clean free exports, because free video and audio may be watermarked
- Tight if you need high resolution, as Creator caps at 1024px and 4K is Business only
- Watch out: annual plans charge the full year upfront
- Watch out: refunds apply only within 7 days and below 400 credits used, once per customer
- Watch out: Pro and Business were shown to us in ringgit, so check the dollar total at checkout
Pick Viggle if
- Fits if you want to put yourself or a character into a clip
- Works for developers who want character swap behind their own app
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free: 5 credits a day, one at a time, and a watermark on Mix videos
- Watch out: monthly plan credits expire on the billing date
- Watch out: purchased credits only work while you're subscribed
- Not for you if you want Seedance on Pro, as it's on Live and Max only
- Pricey if you want PINOC: it's separate, from $10.39 a month
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAMagic HourFair | 2.6GPAViggleGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CCreator is $12 a month billed yearly, in the category's middle-to-dearer band. | B$7.99 a month for Pro, billed yearly, which is inside the cheaper quarter of the category. Monthly billing is $9.99, and the plans go up to $63.99. |
| Free plan and trial | CSome tools work with no account, and a free account gets 400 credits plus up to 7 daily claims of 100. | B5 free credits a day, one generation at a time, with 7 days of storage and watermarked Mix videos. |
| Features | BText and image to video, face swap, talking photos, lip sync, image and audio tools, plus an API and SDKs. | CDoes one job fully: character swap, motion for a still character and live swap. It's a smaller job, and the 3D tool PINOC is billed separately. |
| Ease of use | CMore than 100 tools means a lot to find your way around. | CNo store rating on record. You supply a character photo and a motion video, which takes a few tries to get right. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb with an API and SDKs that use the same credits. | BWeb, iPhone and Android, with a pay-as-you-go API, and no desktop app. |
| Best for | a big bag of video and face-swap tools with free tries | putting a character from a photo into a video |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Magic Hour and Viggle. How we grade
Price against what you get
Magic Hour starts at $12 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Viggle starts at $7.99 a month and scores 2.3.
Magic Hour scores higher, and starts $4.01 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI image and video generators on the chart, 6 score higher than Magic Hour for less, and 6 score higher than Viggle for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Magic Hour also covers image generation.
At a glance
| Magic Hour | Viggle | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $12 per month, billed annually (MYR 78 billed monthly) | $7.99 per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | Selected tools work without an account within per-tool limits. A free account adds 400 sign-up credits and up to 7 daily claims of 100 credits. Free video may be watermarked. | Free credits refresh daily (5 a day), 1 generation at a time, limited multi-track and real-time swap sessions, and 7-day storage. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | Magic Hour AI, Inc. | Viggle |
| Price read from | magichour.ai | viggle.ai |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Magic Hour
- Annual plans charge the full year upfront and add the whole year's credits at once; monthly billing adds 12,000, 25,000 or 70,000 credits a month.
- The pricing page showed Malaysian ringgit to us, so Pro and Business are given in MYR; Creator's $12 comes from the vendor's page description and help center.
- Export resolution depends on plan: 1024px on Creator, 1472px on Pro, and 4K only on Business.
- Refunds apply within 7 days and only if fewer than 400 credits were used, limited to one approved refund per customer.
Viggle
- Free outputs from Mix carry a watermark and use the daily credits; the watermark is removed on paid plans.
- Monthly plan credits expire on the billing date; purchased credits do not expire but only work while subscribed.
- PINOC is billed separately from the Viggle plans.
- Seedance is available only on Live and Max.
Key features
Magic Hour
- Text and image to video
- Describe a scene to generate a clip, animate a still photo, or restyle an existing video with video-to-video.
- Face swap and character replace
- Swap a face in a photo or video, or replace a whole character in a clip with another person or figure.
- Talking photos and lip sync
- Add audio to a portrait to make it speak, or match a video's mouth movements to new speech.
- Image generation and editing
- Generate images from prompts and edit them by description, plus headshots, background removal, upscaling and colorizing.
- Audio tools
- Voice generator, voice cloner, voice changer, music and sound effect generators, and audio translation.
- API and SDKs
- A developer API with SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go and Rust that draws on the same credits as the web plans.
Viggle
- Character swap
- Put a character from a photo into an existing video, one character at a time or several together in multi-track sessions.
- Motion for a still character
- Add motion to a character image by supplying a motion video for it to follow.
- Real-Time Swap
- Swap characters live. Session length depends on the plan: 5 minutes on Free, 30 minutes on Pro, 6 hours on Live, unlimited on Max.
- PINOC 3D tool
- Builds rigged 3D characters from photos, with motion exportable as FBX or GLB. It has its own plans, from $10.39 a month.
- API
- Character swap and motion capture can be called from your own product. Pay as you go at $0.01 per credit, with 100 free credits for new accounts.
Plans
Magic Hour
Basic$0
Free tools without sign-up, 400 credits on sign-up and up to 7 daily claims of 100 credits; many image tools export without a watermark.
Credit pack$10
one-time, for 4,000 credits
$1 buys 400 credits, in packs of $10, $30, $80, $160 and $640. Credits never expire and include watermark-free, commercial use.
Creator$12
per month, billed annually (MYR 78 billed monthly)
144,000 credits a year (about 1.7 hours of video or 28,800 images), 1024px exports, 3 generations at once and 2GB uploads.
ProMYR 103
per month, billed annually (MYR 161 billed monthly)
300,000 credits a year (about 3.5 hours of video), 1472px exports, 5 generations at once and 5GB uploads.
BusinessMYR 276
per month, billed annually (MYR 414 billed monthly)
840,000 credits a year (about 9.7 hours of video), 4K exports, unlimited generations at once and 10GB uploads.
Viggle
Free$0
5 credits a day, 1 video generation at a time, 5-minute real-time swap sessions, 7-day asset storage and watermarked Mix videos.
Pro$7.99
per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly)
80 credits a month, 4 generations at once, no watermark, permanent storage and all models except Seedance.
Live$15.99
per month, billed yearly ($19.99 billed monthly)
200 credits a month, 6 generations at once, 6-hour real-time swap streams and access to all models.
Max$63.99
per month, billed yearly ($79.99 billed monthly)
800 credits a month, 10 generations at once, unlimited real-time swap sessions and access to all models.
Ways to pay less
Magic Hour
- Annual discount
Save 33% to 37% with annual billing
The pricing page offers 4 months free on yearly plans: 37% off Creator, 36% off Pro and 33% off Business compared with monthly billing.
Viggle
- Annual discount
Save 20% with yearly billing
The pricing page's Yearly option is marked -20%, for example Pro at $7.99 a month against $9.99 billed monthly.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Magic Hour or Viggle?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Viggle is cheaper to start with: $7.99 a month, against $12 a month for Magic Hour. Magic Hour starts at $12 per month, billed annually (MYR 78 billed monthly), and Viggle starts at $7.99 per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Magic Hour or Viggle?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Magic Hour and Viggle have a free plan.
Which platforms do Magic Hour and Viggle run on?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Viggle lists iOS and Android apps. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.