PhotoHero

Free Online Face Swap

PhotoHero is a face swapper that runs in your browser. There is nothing to install and no account needed to start — you can run a few image swaps a day without signing up at all, and see the finished result.

Those no-account results carry a "PREVIEW" watermark. Creating a free account removes it, moves the swap you already made across clean, and includes 100 credits — an image swap is 1 credit, so that is about a hundred more, with no card involved.

🎁 Start with 100 free credits — no card required

How it works

1

Upload a photo

JPEG, PNG or HEIC up to 25 MB. Straight from your phone is fine.

2

Pick the face

Every face in the shot is detected — choose which one to replace and what to replace it with.

3

Download it

Full resolution. Watermarked without an account, clean with one.

What "free" actually means here

Two tiers, stated plainly. Without an account you get a few real image swaps a day at full resolution, marked with a diagonal "PREVIEW" watermark — enough to judge whether the result is any good before deciding anything. A free account removes the mark, carries the swap you already made across clean, and includes 100 credits; an image swap is 1 credit, so that is roughly a hundred more, and no card is asked for at any point.

What this does not do is cap the free tier at a thumbnail, or take a card before letting you download.

What free credits do not stretch to is video. Video face swap is billed at 2 credits per second, so the same 100 credits is about 50 seconds of footage. If video is what you came for, it is worth knowing that up front rather than discovering it three clips in.

There is no recurring free tier. When the 100 credits are gone, credit packs start at $4.99 for 200 and never expire.

You can try it before you sign up

Upload, face detection, face selection and the swap itself all work anonymously — you get a real, full-resolution result without an account, watermarked, a few times a day. The cap exists because each run costs real GPU time, not to force a decision before you have seen anything.

Anything you upload anonymously is deleted automatically within 24 hours if you never create an account. If you do create one, the swap you already made comes with you, without the watermark.

What affects the quality of the result

The single biggest factor is how closely the angle of the source face matches the face being replaced. A straight-on source dropped onto a straight-on target looks convincing almost every time; a straight-on source dropped onto a sharp profile is where results start to look pasted on, because there is simply no information about the side of that face in your source image.

Resolution matters second. Images are normalized to a maximum edge of 1920px, so a source face that only occupies 60px of the frame has very little detail to work with no matter how large the overall file is. A tight, well-lit face fills more pixels and swaps better.

Lighting direction matters third. The model matches skin tone and blends edges, but it cannot move a light source — a face lit from the left composited into a scene lit hard from the right will read as wrong even when the blend itself is clean.

Frequently asked questions

Is it actually free, or free-until-download?+

Both tiers download at full resolution. Without an account you get a few swaps a day carrying a "PREVIEW" watermark; with a free account the first 100 credits are clean — one image swap is 1 credit — and no card is required at any point.

Do I need to download an app?+

No. It runs in a normal browser tab on desktop and mobile. There is nothing to install and no extension.

Can I try it without an account?+

Yes, all the way to a finished image — upload, face detection, face picking and the swap itself all work anonymously, a few times a day. Those results are watermarked; signing up free removes the mark and brings your existing swap with you. Anonymous uploads are deleted within 24 hours if you do not sign up.

What file types and sizes work?+

JPEG, PNG and HEIC (straight from an iPhone) up to 25 MB per image. Everything is converted to JPEG on upload and capped at 1920px on the long edge.

What happens to my photos?+

They are stored encrypted, are never sold, and are never used to train models. You can delete them from your gallery at any time.

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