An AI birthday video message from one photo and your own voice
A personalised birthday video here is one photo plus an audio track you record. The animate-photo tool animates the still and the mouth follows your recording, so the message arrives in your own voice rather than a synthetic one reading a template. Five seconds is the default and you can go longer. There is no filming step, nothing about the greeting is pre-written, and the words are simply whatever you said into your phone.
Animate a PhotoNo credit card to sign up · First video $0.99
Three minutes of work, start to finish
Record the message
A voice memo is enough. Say the name, say the thing, keep it short — a greeting that runs past fifteen seconds stops being a message and starts being a speech. This audio file is the tool's real input.
Pick the photo
One sharp, well-lit, front-facing picture with the face clearly visible. A crisp phone snapshot beats a soft studio portrait, and a heavy filter costs you more than any setting can give back.
Generate and send it
The credit cost is quoted before the run, and the vertical MP4 lands in your Library. Send it however you normally send things — the file is yours, and nothing is posted anywhere on your behalf.
What makes these land
The voice is the personal part
A generated greeting in a stock voice reads as a card. The same words in your own recording read as you. That is the entire reason the tool takes an audio file instead of a script box.
Whose face, and whose permission
Animate your own photo, or someone's with their agreement. A surprise video built from a photo of a person who did not consent to being animated is the one version of this we will not help with, however warm the intent.
Short is the format
Cost scales with length, and so does the risk of the animation drifting. A five-to-ten-second greeting is both the cheapest and the best-looking version of this.
You get a file, not a service
What comes back is a vertical 9:16 MP4, sized for Reels, Shorts and TikTok, waiting in your Library. No re-export, no editor.
$0.99 to start, then credits
Creating an account, building your avatar and analysing a Reel cost nothing and need no card.
Unlocks 35 credits — enough for a 8-second clip at 4 credits per second at 720p.
Starter is 140 credits a month. One-off packs start at $10 for 50 credits — no subscription required.
Subscription credits refresh every month and don't roll over. Credits from a top-up pack stay in your account for 90 days from purchase. Credits are spent per second of video generated, and every tool quotes its cost before it runs, so a generation is never a surprise. If a generation fails on our side the credits return to your balance automatically.
Top-up credits last 90 days from purchase.
What this does not do
- It does not write the greeting or speak it for you. There is no text-to-speech step inside the tool — bring the audio you want the mouth to follow.
- It does not animate a photo of someone who has not agreed to it. Use your own likeness, or one you have permission to use.
- It does not turn a group photo into a scene. The tool is built around one clearly visible face.
- It does not deliver anything. No email, no scheduling, no card — you download the video and send it yourself.
- If a generation fails on our side, the credits go back to your balance automatically — you do not have to ask.
Common questions
How do I make a talking birthday video from a photo?
Can I use a computer-generated voice instead of my own?
Can I make the video of the birthday person rather than of me?
How long can the video be?
What photo works best?
What does it cost to make one?
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Make the greeting
Free to sign up, no card. The first video is $0.99 and the credits stay on your balance.
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