Face Distortion vs Piano Genie

Face Distortion is a fun iOS photo warping app that bends selfies and portraits with finger-touch controls on iPhone and iPad. You pinch, bump, twirl, or glitch any part of a photo to build exaggerated faces, swap features, or morph body shapes for jokes you can share right away.

Most face filters apply preset stickers. Face Distortion gives you eight manual warp modes, including pinch, bump, linear distortion, hole distortion, glitch, and twirl, so you control exactly how far a nose stretches or a smile puckers. That makes it closer to a pocket caricature tool than a one-tap beauty filter.

Party hosts, meme makers, and anyone who pranks friends on iMessage use it to warp group photos, add funny stickers, and post results to Facebook, email, or MMS. The base app is free on the App Store with optional Pro subscriptions for premium features.

Piano Genie is a browser toy that turns eight buttons into a full 88-key piano using a neural network trained on classical performances. Press keys 1 through 8 on your keyboard, the home row, or colored touch blocks, and the model picks plausible notes so you sound like you know what you are doing. The space bar works as a sustain pedal.

Guitar Hero maps fixed note charts; Piano Genie lets you improvise freely. The model was trained on roughly 1,400 virtuosic performances from the International Piano-e-Competition, so the output skews classical rather than pop or jazz. Google Magenta published the research at ACM IUI 2019 and open-sourced the training code.

Anyone curious about music ML who does not read sheet music can use it for a few minutes of fun. The Glitch-hosted demo shut down with Glitch platform changes, but the creator still hosts a working copy at chrisdonahue.com.