Real Fake vs Photo AI (formerly Avatar AI)

Real Fake turns a batch of selfies into polished professional headshots without booking a photographer. You upload 10 to 20 photos, pick portrait styles like Classy or Casual, and get dozens of AI-generated results within a few hours. It is an avatar generation service built for LinkedIn profiles, resumes, and workplace directories.

Most headshot apps apply quick filters to a single photo. Real Fake retrains a Stable Diffusion model on your uploads so the output matches your face across many poses and backgrounds. Plans start at €9.99 for 40 portraits, which the site compares to roughly €250 for a typical business photographer in Germany. The trade-off is wait time: even the fastest tier delivers in 2.5 hours, not instantly.

The product targets professionals who need a credible photo for LinkedIn, Slack, or a company site but dislike studio shoots. Testimonials on the site cite founders, engineers, and consultants who wanted a business look from home. A separate team product at Company Headshots covers bulk corporate orders.

Photo AI trains a personal model from your selfies, then produces photorealistic photos of you in new poses, outfits, and settings. Upload 5 to 15 diverse photos, wait about five minutes for training, and generate individual shots in roughly 20 seconds from a browser or phone. The product works like an AI photographer you hire once and reuse for every shoot.

One-off avatar apps like Lensa or ProfilePicture.ai focus on stylized headshot packs. Photo AI goes further with themed photo packs, virtual clothing try-on, AI video from stills, motion capture, and fully synthetic AI influencers you design from scratch. The trade-off is a paid subscription with a credit system instead of a simple per-pack purchase.

Creators, ecommerce sellers, and social media professionals use Photo AI for headshots, lifestyle content, and product modeling without booking a studio. The site reports over 30 million photos generated and 120+ avatar styles spanning professional, dating, travel, and creative categories. Founder Pieter Levels runs Photo AI as a solo independent business without outside investors.

After training, you can combine separate photos into group shots, upscale favorites, and turn results into short videos with talking scripts. Commercial usage rights apply on higher-tier plans. Photo AI operates at avatarai.me and was formerly known as Avatar AI, the product that helped kick off the viral AI avatar trend in 2022.