Image-to-Video Tools
Image-to-video tools start from a photo, illustration or product shot and animate it. They give creators far more control over the look of the first frame than pure text prompts, which makes them popular for product videos, character work and social content where the starting visual matters.
27 tools in this category (including tools that also cover it)
Leonardo built its name on AI image generation and added motion features that animate images into short video clips. Creators who design a character or scene as an image first often use Leonardo to bring that exact frame to life.
Krea
Krea is a creative platform that gives subscribers access to a rotating set of leading third-party image and video models in one interface, plus its own enhancement tools. Designers use it to test models side by side without separate subscriptions.
Vidu is a video generation platform known for animating images and keeping subjects consistent using reference features. It is used for character stories, anime-style content and product clips where the same subject must appear across shots.
Stable Video Diffusion, from Stability AI, animates a still image into a short clip and became a foundation model many other tools built on. It represents the image-first generation approach, where controlling the starting frame is everything.
Viggle
Viggle animates characters: give it a character image and a motion reference (or pick from its templates and hosted video models) and it produces expressive character video built for memes, social clips and games. Its newer JST-2 model and PINOC engine extend the same idea into explorable 3D worlds, while paid plans also unlock hosted models such as Kling, Veo and Wan.
Immersity AI
Immersity AI, from Leia Inc. and formerly known as LeiaPix, converts ordinary 2D photos and videos into depth-based 3D: animated Immersive Motion clips for social feeds, side-by-side 3D and spatial video for headsets such as Apple Vision Pro, and depth maps. It does not generate new scenes — it gives existing media a third dimension.
Also covers image-to-video tools
Runway
Runway is one of the most complete creative AI video platforms, combining text and image-to-video generation with editing tools such as background changes, relighting and object removal. It is aimed at creators and teams who want generation and post-production in one workspace rather than a single-purpose generator.
Kling AI
Kling AI, developed by Kuaishou, produces detailed short clips from text or images and has become a popular budget-friendly alternative to Western generators. Its newer models support longer, higher-resolution output and are widely used for social and cinematic-style short clips.
Pika
Pika focuses on quick, fun short-form generation with effects and templates that make images melt, inflate, transform and move. It is popular with social creators who want eye-catching clips quickly rather than long cinematic sequences.
Luma Dream Machine
Luma's Dream Machine generates smooth, cinematic clips from text and images and is known for natural camera movement. It also works as a creative workspace where multiple models can be used, making it a common choice for storytellers and advertisers testing concepts.
Hailuo AI (MiniMax)
Hailuo AI is the consumer face of MiniMax's video models. It is known for expressive characters, stylised clips and subject-reference features that keep a character consistent, which makes it popular for short stories and character-driven social content.
PixVerse generates short videos from text or images and leans heavily into templates and viral effects for social platforms. It is designed for speed and volume, with frequent model updates and an easy interface for non-technical creators.
Google Flow (Veo)
Flow is Google's AI filmmaking tool built around the Veo generation models and accessed through Google AI plans. It focuses on scene building, ingredients-to-video workflows and consistent characters for short narrative pieces rather than one-off clips.
Seedance (ByteDance)
Seedance is ByteDance's video generation model family, available through platforms such as Dreamina and various aggregators. It is recognised for fluid motion, multi-shot storytelling from a single prompt and strong prompt following at an efficient generation speed.
Kaiber generates stylised, artistic video from images, text and music, and became popular for music videos and artist visuals. Its look leans creative and experimental rather than realistic, which suits musicians and visual artists.
Freepik has added an AI creative suite on top of its stock library, including access to several third-party video generation models. For designers already paying for Freepik stock, generating video in the same account is convenient.
Pollo AI
Pollo AI positions itself as a single platform where users can generate video with many well-known models and effect templates. It appeals to creators who want to try trending models and effects without opening accounts everywhere.
Wan is Alibaba's family of video generation models, notable because versions have been released with open weights that developers can run or host. Through hosted platforms it reaches regular creators who want capable text and image-to-video generation.
fal.ai hosts many generative models — including leading video models — behind fast APIs priced per generation. Developers and product teams use it to build video features into their own apps without negotiating access to each model lab separately.
Dreamina (CapCut)
Dreamina is ByteDance/CapCut's AI generation platform where users create images and videos with models including Seedance. It connects naturally to the CapCut editing ecosystem, making it a common route for social creators to generate then edit in one family of tools.
Adobe Firefly is Adobe's all-in-one generative AI studio on the web, covering image generation and editing, text and image-to-video, audio and design tools, with access to 30+ models including Adobe's own Firefly Video Model and partner models. Because Firefly models are positioned as commercially safe and the credit pot is shared with Creative Cloud, it suits creators and teams already working in Adobe's ecosystem.
OpenArt
OpenArt is a multi-model creative studio: generate images and video with leading models under one subscription, keep a character consistent across scenes, and use Director mode to plan and refine multi-shot video through chat. It is built for creators who want to test and mix models — Veo, Seedance, Kling, Hailuo and more — without paying for each service separately.
DomoAI
DomoAI turns text, images or existing footage into stylised video: restyle a clip into anime or painted looks, animate a character, connect keyframes, or run hosted models such as Seedance and MiniMax H3 from the same credit pool. Its Relax Mode queues generations without spending credits on paid tiers, which makes it unusually forgiving for experimentation.
GoEnhance
GoEnhance built its name on turning real footage into anime and other styles with strong subject consistency, and has grown into an all-in-one studio: video-to-video restyling, text and image-to-video through hosted models such as Veo, Kling and Seedance, character animation, AI avatars, lip-sync and face swap, all spending from one token balance. A free tier with some tokens lets you try every tool before subscribing.
SkyReels
SkyReels is Skywork AI's (Kunlun's) cinematic video platform, built around its own SkyReels V4 model and supplemented with hosted engines. It generates 1080p video at a native 32fps with synchronised audio, understands film language such as dolly, pan and tracking moves, and adds a digital-human engine with expressions, gestures and multilingual lip-sync. It is aimed at short-drama and storytelling creators who want scenes, not just clips. Note: the live product site is skyreels.app.
Morphic
Morphic is a canvas-based AI studio — formerly Morph Studio — where generation, animation and editing happen in one workspace. Ready-made workflows turn an idea into a short film, a cinematic scene, a UGC ad or a music video, while saved character and style references keep a look consistent across shots. Under the workflows sit direct controls: frames-to-video, 3D camera motion, inpainting, resizing and colour transfer, with team workspaces on the shared-credit plans.
Based Labs
Based Labs is a multi-model aggregator: one credit balance runs video and image models such as Seedance, Kling and Veo alongside image models like Nano Banana, with face-swap and other creative tools in the same workspace. Its homepage promises no watermarks on output, and payment can be made with crypto or Telegram Stars as well as by card, with no subscription required.