Fotor is primarily an online photo editor, but it includes an AI avatar generator. This feature allows users to create stylized avatars from their photos. Fotor's AI analyzes the uploaded image and transforms it into various artistic styles, such as cartoon, anime, or sketch. It's a user-friendly tool for creating unique profile pictures and avatars for social media or online games. It's important to note this creates 2D image avatars, not 3D models.

Fotor AI

PicsArt is a popular photo and video editing app that includes an AI avatar generator feature. Users upload photos of themselves, and the AI generates a set of stylized avatars in various themes and artistic styles. It's designed for creating unique profile pictures and social media content. The focus is on fun and creative expression, rather than realistic avatar creation.

PicsArt AI Avatar

Dawn AI is a mobile app (primarily iOS, some Android availability) specifically designed for generating AI avatars. Users upload photos, and the app transforms them into avatars in a variety of artistic styles. It emphasizes ease of use and creating unique, stylized avatars for social media and other online platforms. The app offers various themed packs and styles to choose from. The Dawn AI technology learns from your selfies. You only need to train the AI once, and then use it to create countless awesome avatars.

Dawn AI

Aragon AI is a specialized tool that generates professional headshots from user-uploaded photos. While not strictly character or avatar generation in the traditional sense, it creates a specific type of avatar – a professional representation of the user. It uses AI to enhance lighting, improve image quality, and create a polished look suitable for LinkedIn, corporate websites, and other professional contexts. It focuses on realistic, not stylized, output.

Aragon AI

NightCafe Creator is primarily an AI art generator, but it can be used to create images that serve as the basis for avatars. Users can generate character portraits and concept art using text prompts and various AI models (Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 3, Flux etc.).  While it doesn't create 3D avatars directly, it's a useful tool for generating 2D avatar images. Start or join a chat room with your friends, then collaborate on AI Art, jam, or simply hang out while being creative.

NightCafe Creator

Synthesia is a platform for creating videos featuring AI-generated avatars that speak text.  Users can choose from a library of pre-made avatars or create custom avatars (with limitations). The avatars lip-sync to the provided text, making them suitable for presentations, training videos, and other content.  It's a video creation tool, with avatars as a key component. Streamline your video creation process by embedding your videos into your authoring tool, LMS, CMS, CRM and more.

Synthesia

D-ID specializes in animating still photos and turning them into talking avatars. Users can upload a photo, provide text or audio, and D-ID generates a video of the photo speaking the content.  It's used for creating engaging video content, virtual assistants, and creative projects. The Creative Reality™ Studio allows self-service video generation. Converse in multiple languages, making your AI Agent a global-ready digital assistant.

D-ID

Colossyan is an AI video generation platform that features customizable AI avatars. Users can select from a range of avatars, customize their appearance to some extent, and generate videos where the avatars speak provided text. It's designed for creating training videos, presentations, and marketing content. You can turn your PDFs or presentations into videos quickly with templates. Auto-translate your whole video with the touch of a button. Change accents and clothing

Colossyan

Hour One focuses on creating videos featuring AI-powered virtual presenters (avatars). Users can select from a library of presenters or create custom presenters (with limitations). The presenters lip-sync to provided text, making them suitable for news, training, and other video content. You can create an avatar directly from your webcam, or download their mobile app (IOS) to create your avatar in minutes.

Hour One

DeepBrain AI's AI Studios platform allows users to create videos featuring highly realistic AI avatars.  Users can select from a range of avatars or create custom avatars. The avatars speak provided text with natural-sounding voices and realistic lip-sync. You can design a custom AI avatar that fits exactly what your video calls for, by uploading a portrait, entering a script, and watching your image come to life.

AI Studios

Yepic AI is a platform for creating videos featuring AI-generated avatars.  Users can select from a range of avatars, customize their appearance, and generate videos where the avatars speak provided text. With Yepic you can create AI training videos and video chatbots that speak any language. Their Video Agents have the autonomy to adjust conversations based on how the user is feeling. Facial expressions are tracked in Real-Time and accurate emotion tags will be used to adjust the conversation.

Yepic AI

Ready Player Me is a cross-game avatar platform that allows users to create a consistent avatar for use in various virtual worlds and games.  While not exclusively AI-driven, it uses AI for some aspects of avatar creation and customization, such as generating avatars from selfies. It's focused on interoperability and ease of use. For easy integration, you can use the SDKs (Unity, Unreal, React) or directly work with the APIs and/or iFrame Avatar Creator integration.

Ready Player Me

Drive audience engagement with a production-ready framework for building AI agents with client-side logic and local model inference with Inworld AI. Streamline the creation of agentic experiences with a composable framework to build cognitive architectures and AI pipelines. Kickstart prototyping with pre-built templates, model and component integrations, and node visualizers. Refine agent behavior, coherence and performance. Dynamically scale from proof-of-concept to supporting massive waves of concurrent users with infrastructure designed to handle unpredictable surges. Deliver the responsive, glitch-free experiences that keep players from revolting.

Inworld AI

With Didimo you can automate character creation, fit assets dynamically without limits, and create infinite character variations with Popul8™. Watch your art and specifications instantly turn into heroes or entire crowds. Apply character changes at any stage. Break free from sequential workflows and embrace agility - create characters instantly, reduce costs, and speed up time-to-market.

Didimo

MetaHuman Creator is a cloud-based tool from Epic Games (creators of Unreal Engine) for creating highly realistic digital humans. sing MetaHuman Creator, you can customize your digital avatar's hairstyle, facial features, height, body proportions, and more. With MetaHuman Animator, you can reproduce facial performances as high-fidelity animation on any MetaHuman. Every nuance of the actor’s performance is captured and transferred onto your digital human. Your MetaHumans are ready to use in Unreal Engine alongside all of its advanced character technologies such as physics-based animation and the ML Deformer. And, once you're happy with your content, MetaHumans come with eight levels of detail (LODs), enabling you to achieve real-time performance on your target platforms.

MetaHuman Creator

BasedLabs AI specializes in creating stylized AI avatars from user-uploaded photos.  It uses AI to transform photos into various artistic styles, creating unique profile pictures and avatars. It's not for creating 3D models, but for generating 2D avatar images. Each generated character comes with a unique set of traits and backgrounds, making them more than just a name. Develop well-rounded personalities that can enhance your story's complexity and captivate your audience. Enrich your narratives with characters that feel real.

BasedLabs AI

Lensa AI is primarily a photo editing app, but it includes a popular 'Magic Avatars' feature that uses AI to generate stylized avatars from user-uploaded photos.  It creates multiple variations in different artistic styles. It's not for creating 3D avatars or for professional character design, but it's a popular consumer-focused tool.

Lensa AI

HeyGen is primarily a video generation platform that allows users to create videos with realistic AI avatars. It includes text-to-speech capabilities to generate the voices for these avatars, supporting multiple languages and accents. HeyGen is designed for creating marketing videos, training materials, and explainer videos. Create videos 10x faster with AI. No editing skills needed. Simply type your text to generate professional-looking videos in minutes.

HeyGen

ArtFlow AI enables users to create and animate digital characters with consistent identities across multiple scenes, supporting both image and video generation. Users can upload personal photos or use default templates to build unique avatars, customize expressions, outfits, and backgrounds, and generate cinematic stories or dialogue videos. The platform offers advanced features like Director Mode for precise image control and Double Shot for dynamic character interactions, making it suitable for creators seeking seamless storytelling and character coherence.

ArtFlow AI

Create lifelike avatars with AIVERSE. Use AI tools to generate custom characters from photos or text, including free talking avatar options for 2025 creators.

AI for Character & Avatar Generation

Fotor AI

Create custom avatars instantly

PicsArt AI Avatar

Create avatars from selfies

Dawn AI

Create avatars from selfies

Aragon AI

Generate professional headshots

NightCafe Creator

Create art from text

Synthesia

Create talking video avatars

D-ID

Create talking avatar videos

Colossyan

Create talking video avatars

Hour One

Create lifelike video avatars

AI Studios

Create talking video avatars

Yepic AI

Create lifelike video avatars

Ready Player Me

Create 3D avatars from photos

Inworld AI

Generate interactive NPCs

Didimo

Batch 3D character creation

MetaHuman Creator

Create realistic digital humans

BasedLabs AI

Customizable character creator

Lensa AI

Create avatars from selfies

HeyGen

Create talking photo avatars

ArtFlow AI

Consistent character generation