Open-Source Face Swap and Portrait Tools

ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate is a paid Windows desktop photo editor for photographers who want to manage large collections and edit their photos in one application. It combines non-destructive RAW adjustments with layered editing and AI tools for finding related images, retouching portraits and generating content. It works directly with existing photo folders, without requiring a collection import.

InstantID generates personalized portraits from a single reference photo without training a model for each person. Creators and developers can retain a person's facial identity while changing the image through text prompts. Its required InsightFace face models are restricted to non-commercial research.

FaceFusion is an AI face editing tool for people creating altered faces and lip-synced media on their own computer. It combines face manipulation with tools for improving faces and frames.

IP-Adapter adds reference-image prompting to Stable Diffusion for artists and developers who want to guide generation with an image rather than describe every detail in words. It works with an existing text-to-image model and can combine image references with text prompts.

PhotoMaker generates personalized portraits and artwork from reference images and text prompts. It's for people creating photos or avatars that retain a person's recognizable features across different settings and styles.

InsightFace is a face and person analysis toolkit for developers building identity verification, access control and media applications. Its Python tools and recognition server can process data on your own hardware.

Fooocus generates images on your computer for people who want to work from prompts without extensive settings adjustments. It uses Stable Diffusion XL and works offline after the required models are downloaded.

LivePortrait animates a portrait with facial expressions and head movements taken from a driving video. It's for creators who want to animate still faces or edit portrait videos on their own hardware.

Aperty is a desktop AI portrait editor for photographers working on weddings, family sessions and other portrait shoots. It helps apply consistent retouching across a photo set while leaving control over the strength of each adjustment.

CodeFormer restores degraded faces in photos and videos for people working with damaged images and researchers developing face restoration tools. Its quality control lets you balance a cleaner result against fidelity to the input face.

HitPaw FotorPea is a proprietary AI photo enhancer for Windows and macOS that combines photo restoration with image generation and editing. It's aimed at photographers, online sellers and people repairing family photos who want automatic corrections without extensive retouching experience.

Luminar Neo is a photo editor for photographers who want automatic adjustments alongside manual control over their images. It combines tools for portraits and outdoor scenes with layers, masks and edits you can revise without altering the original.

InfiniteYou generates images from a reference face and a text prompt while preserving the person's facial identity. It's a local AI framework for researchers studying personalized image generation, with model use restricted to academic research.

Faceswap replaces faces in photos and videos using deep learning. It's for VFX artists, hobbyists and researchers who want to train face-swapping models on their own material and run them locally.

PhotoGlimmer is an AI photo editor for photographers who want to brighten underlit people without changing the whole image. It separates people from the background so you can correct portrait lighting while keeping the surrounding scene as it is.

GFPGAN is an AI face restoration tool for repairing low-quality photos and adding restoration to image workflows. It reconstructs facial detail using a pretrained generative model, so results can alter a person's likeness.