Swap People
PhotoHero.AI · Image
Swap People is PhotoHero's AI face swap tool: it replaces a face in a photo, a group shot, a GIF or a video clip, runs in a browser, and gives new accounts 100 free credits.
About Swap People
What Is Swap People
Swap People is the face swap service inside PhotoHero, a US based AI photo and video studio. Upload a photo or clip, point at the face you want replaced, supply a source face, and the service renders a new version with that face in place. The rest of the frame stays as it was.
Most face swap products hide their whole workflow behind an app install or a paywall. This one does the opposite. Face detection, face picking and the swap itself all run anonymously in a browser tab, and the result comes back at full resolution with a preview watermark. That's a reasonable way to judge whether the output is good enough before you pay anything.
The limits are worth knowing up front. Anonymous runs are capped at a few a day, both photo and video formats have hard size ceilings, and results depend heavily on how well the angle and lighting of your source face match the target. Video also costs a lot more than stills: 2 credits per second versus 1 credit per face swapped in a photo.
Getting Started
- Open the face swap page in any browser, on desktop or phone. There's no app to install and no extension.
- Upload the target photo or clip, then upload or pick the source face you want to paste in. Every face in the frame gets detected automatically.
- Click the face you want to change. In a group photo, repeat that for each person, and assign a different source face to each one if you like.
- Run the swap. Free runs come back marked with a preview watermark; creating a free account removes it and adds 100 credits.
- Download the finished image or clip, or save it to your gallery for reuse later.
Product Information
A quick look at Swap People's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Social media creators
- Families and friend groups making novelty photos
- Video editors testing a concept
- Privacy conscious users
Tasks
- Replacing one face in a portrait
- Swapping several people in a group shot
- Face swap on a GIF
- Head swap
- Putting a person into a new scene
Scenarios
- Making a birthday card where the whole family appears in one costume shot.
- Testing a talking head clip before a client meeting
- Building a batch of memes for a channel
- Fixing a group photo where one person looked away
Key features
Face Swap Online in Photos
Drop in a target photo and a source face, and the service replaces the face while keeping skin tone and edges blended. It handles JPEG, PNG and HEIC files straight from an iPhone, each up to 25 MB, and normalizes every image to a 1920px long edge. A photo swap costs 1 credit per face you actually change, so a group shot with two replacements costs 2.
Video Face Swap
This is the feature that separates Swap People from most browser based rivals. It tracks a face across every frame of a clip, so the replacement holds together as the subject moves and turns. Uploads go up to 500 MB in MP4 or MOV, and the original audio track is preserved, which keeps lip movement matching what was actually said. Billing runs at 2 credits per second regardless of how many faces you swap.
Multiple Face Swap
Detection covers the whole frame rather than a single dominant subject, and each face becomes its own selectable target. One run handles up to 10 faces, and you choose per person whether to swap, skip or leave them alone. Choosing targets by clicking the face you mean avoids the classic failure where an index based tool swaps the wrong person in a shot with two similar looking sitters.
Head Swap
Where face swap keeps the original hair, head swap replaces the whole head, hairstyle included. That matters when you're matching a character look rather than just a resemblance. The same tool also works on video, tracking the head through the clip while keeping the body's motion intact.
GIF and Meme Support
GIF face swap returns both a GIF and an MP4, so the result works in a chat app and in a video editor. For meme work, the service also covers the common format swaps you'd otherwise assemble by hand, and the low credit cost per face makes a batch of variations practical.
AI Photoshoot
This one goes beyond swapping faces. You supply up to four photos of a person and the tool places them into a new scene, so a plain snapshot becomes a studio portrait or a location shot. It's the closest thing here to a standing avatar: reuse the same reference set across several scenes instead of reshooting.
Utilities Without a Credit Cost
Background remover, image converter (JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF), image compressor and an AI headshot generator all run free and without an account. They exist alongside the paid tools rather than as a separate product, which is handy when a face swap output still needs a clean cutout or a smaller file.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Runs fully in a browser, with no install and no extension, on both desktop and mobile.
- Anonymous runs reach a full resolution result before you commit to a payment.
- Video swap keeps the original audio, so lip sync survives the edit without extra work.
- Group photos are handled in one pass, which makes multiple face swap practical without repeating the same upload.
- Uploads are encrypted, are not used to train models, and anonymous files are deleted within 24 hours.
Cons
- Video eats credits fast at 2 per second, so the 100 free credits cover roughly 50 seconds of footage.
- Results fall apart on fast head motion, sharp profile turns and hands or hair across the face, which rules out action footage and busy dance clips.
- Anonymous free runs are capped at a few a day and carry a preview watermark, so you need an account for clean output.
- There's no public API, and credits don't roll over when a yearly plan renews.
Frequently asked questions
Swap People handles face swap online: it replaces a face in a photo, a group shot, a GIF or a short video with a face you supply. The rest of the image stays as it was, so the output looks like the original scene with one person substituted. It's built for social posts, memes, novelty photos and concept tests, not for anything that misrepresents a real person.
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