# Avatarify review (2026): is it worth paying for? > iPhone app that animates a photo to sing or talk Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Avatarify is an iPhone app that turns a still photo into a short animated clip. Faces can sing, talk and lip-sync to a chosen song or audio, and clips are shared to social apps. The app is free to download with subscriptions sold in-app. - **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators - **Made by:** Avatarify, Inc. - **Website:** https://avatarify.ai - **Runs on:** iOS - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you use Android, as there is no Android app yet. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Avatarify is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $2.49 per week. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Some in-app subscription options include a 3-day trial. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Weekly Avatarify Premium | $2.49 per week | Weekly subscription; the listing also shows weekly options at $3.49, $3.99 and $5.49, some with a 3-day trial. | | Monthly Avatarify Premium | $3.99 per month | Monthly subscription. | | Yearly Avatarify Premium | $34.99 per year | Yearly subscription; the listing also shows yearly Pro options at $34.99 and $39.99 with a 3-day trial. | | 6 Monthly with 3-day trial | $34.99 per 6 months | Six-month subscription with a 3-day trial. | Read from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/avatarify-ai-face-animator/id1512669147 on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Avatarify before buying. ## Key features - **Singing portraits:** A photo can be set to a chosen song. - **Talking photos:** Photos can lip-sync to recorded audio or a short video. - **Face animation:** The App Store listing describes realistic facial motion for portraits, pets and characters. - **Sharing:** Clips are made to share with friends and on social media. ## Good for - Making short novelty clips from photos on an iPhone - Turning family photos into singing or talking portraits ## Worth knowing - The App Store listing says the app is for iPhone only; the site says it will email people when an Android app is ready. - The listing shows many subscription price points, so the price depends on which offer the app presents. - Billing periods are inferred from the product names in the listing. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Avatarify animates a photo so it sings or talks, on iPhone only. The listing shows weekly prices from $2.49 to $5.49, a $3.99 monthly plan and a $34.99 yearly one, and which one you see depends on the offer the app shows. - **Value for money: B.** $3.99 a month and $34.99 a year are cheap against the category's $11.88 middle, but the weekly options at $2.49 to $5.49 come to far more a month. - **Free plan and trial: D.** Only some subscription options carry a 3-day trial, and there is no free plan. A 3-day trial is shorter than a week. - **Features: D.** One narrow function: animating a face in a photo to sing or talk, plus sharing. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating is on record. It is an app you install and start using with nothing to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** iPhone only. The site says it will email people when an Android app is ready. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Avatarify's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI image and video generators - Avatarify's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 31 of the 168 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 31. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 120 of 168) and worst on features (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $10.79 a month, against a middle price of $11.88 for the category: 59 of the 120 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 47 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Avatarify you would be making a video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 106 of the 168 other AI image and video generators grade higher. It costs $129.48 a year. - You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. - You could not: A real app for iOS. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.8 out of 5 from 44,745 ratings in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1512669147 **Tags:** Video generation, AI features ## Alternatives - [D-ID](https://toolgpa.com/tools/d-id): Avatar video generator and AI agent platform with an API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/avatarify-vs-d-id) - [Hedra](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hedra): Character video studio and model inference platform. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/avatarify-vs-hedra) - [Reface](https://toolgpa.com/tools/reface): Face-swap, AI avatar and photo-to-video app for phones. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/avatarify-vs-reface) - [DeepSwap](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deepswap): Face swap for video, photos and GIFs, plus AI video tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/avatarify-vs-deepswap) - [Remini](https://toolgpa.com/tools/remini): AI photo enhancer that sharpens old and blurry pictures. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/avatarify-vs-remini) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/avatarify-ai-face-animator/id1512669147 - https://avatarify.ai Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/avatarify Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).