Magic Hour AI
Magic Hour is a browser-based AI creative platform that bundles 30+ tools for video, image, and audio production into a single workspace. Click the input box below to use similar features on Cuty AI.
Key Features of Magic Hour AI
- Face Swap for Video and Photos: Replace a face in any clip or still, frame by frame, with automatic lighting and skin-tone matching.
- Lip Sync for Video Localization: Re-animate the mouth in any existing video to match a new audio track or translated voiceover.
- Image-to-Video Animation: Animate any still photo, illustration, or product shot into a moving clip with a text prompt.
- Text-to-Video Across Multiple Models: Generate clips from a written prompt with a choice of underlying video models like Kling and others.
- Talking Photo and Voice Generation: Turn a single still photo into a speaking video using AI voices, voice cloning, or your own audio.
- AI Headshots, Clothes Changer, and Image Editor: A full image stack covering professional headshots, outfit changes, background removal, and prompt-based edits.
- Free Tier and Public API: 400 free credits a day with no watermark, plus a Video API for embedding the same tools into your own product.
Face Swap for Video and Photos
Magic Hour's face swap tool processes video frame by frame, automatically blending lighting, skin tone, and expressions onto the new face. It handles multiple people in a single clip and is the platform's most-used tool — marketing teams at Meta, NBA, and Dyson rely on it for campaign localization and branded content at scale. A separate Face Swap Photo tool covers single images.
Lip Sync for Video Localization
Upload a video and a new audio file, and Lip Sync regenerates the speaker's mouth movements to match the new track without reshooting. It is the fastest path to dub or localize existing footage into another language, and pairs with Voice Cloner to keep the original speaker's voice while changing the spoken language.
Image-to-Video Animation
Drop in a still — a portrait, product photo, or illustration — and add a short prompt describing the motion you want. Magic Hour generates a clip with AI motion that respects the subject and composition. It is the most flexible tool on the platform for repurposing existing photos into short-form social or ad content.
Text-to-Video Across Multiple Models
The text-to-video tool turns a written prompt into a finished clip using a selectable lineup of state-of-the-art video models, including Kling 1.6 and other partner engines. You can pick the model that fits the look and motion you want, set aspect ratio and duration, and iterate from the same prompt across different engines.
Talking Photo and Voice Generation
Talking Photo animates a single still into a speaking video from either text or an uploaded audio clip. Pair it with Voice Generator to write a script and pick from a library of AI voices, or use Voice Cloner to build a custom voice from a short sample and have the photo speak in your own voice across new scripts.
AI Headshots, Clothes Changer, and Image Editor
On the image side, Magic Hour pairs an AI Headshot Generator that turns casual photos into studio-quality portraits with an AI Clothes Changer for swapping outfits, a Background Remover, and an AI Image Editor that takes plain-language instructions to edit specific parts of a photo. Head Swap, Body Swap, AI Face Editor, and Photo Colorizer round out the kit.
Free Tier and Public API
Magic Hour's free plan ships 400 credits a day, no watermark and no credit card required, which is enough to test most tools daily. Paid plans start at $10/month annual. For teams that want to ship the same tools inside their own product, the Magic Hour API exposes face swap, lip sync, image-to-video, and the rest as scalable HTTP endpoints.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about magic-hour-ai
Magic Hour is a browser-based AI creative platform that offers 30+ tools across video, image, and audio. It is built by a Y Combinator-backed team (W24 cohort) and is used by creative teams at Meta, NBA, L'Oreal, Puma, and Shopify for face swap, lip sync, image-to-video, AI headshots, and voice work.
You open magichour.ai in any browser on desktop or mobile, pick a tool from the catalog, upload your source media — a photo, video, or audio file — and add a short prompt or script if needed. The platform processes the job in the cloud and returns a downloadable result, with no install or local GPU required.
Yes. The free plan includes 400 credits per day with no watermark and no credit card required. Paid plans start at $10/month on annual billing and add more credits, faster processing, and higher concurrency.
Yes — outputs from paid plans can be used for commercial work like ads, branded content, and client deliverables, which is why Magic Hour is used by marketing teams at Meta, NBA, Dyson, and L'Oreal. Free-tier outputs are intended for personal and evaluation use.
If you want to put a face into existing footage, start with Face Swap Video. If you want to localize or dub a clip, use Lip Sync with Voice Cloner. If you only have a still image and want a short animated clip, use Image-to-Video — these three cover most production use cases on the platform.
Magic Hour is built around transforming existing media — your photos, videos, and voice — rather than generating everything from scratch. It also bundles 30+ specialized tools (face swap, lip sync, headshots, voice cloning, clothes changer) into a single workspace and exposes them via a public Video API for embedding into other products.