Comparison

Make a Face vs AI Image Painter

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Make a Face

Create unique, animated composite pictures and videos of faces by dividing photos into quadrants and merging them. Share your creations with friends and family, or explore facial characteristics in new ways.

Highlights
  • Create animated composite pictures
  • Merge facial quadrants
  • Share creations with friends
  • Explore facial characteristics
  • Import and crop photos
  • Adjust alignment
Features
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Make a Face® is photography software to create unique, animated composite pictures and videos of faces. If you like taking pictures of yourself (on a good day), and if you like creating interesting photos and animations of the faces of your friends and family, then Make a Face® gives you a way to create photos taken from an interesting array of perspectives, from the sublime, to the artistic, to the ridiculous. Versions of Make a Face® with many additional features are also available for Mac desktop and notebook computers. The additional Mac OS X features include software to create colorful portraits, analyze facial symmetry, produce multi-colored videos of artistically combined and stylized faces, and produce innovative and unique movies. Make a Face divides photographs of human faces into quadrants whose common point is the center tip of the nose. These quadrants are then merged into an animated display that creates a smoothly aligned video of the combined, but individually recognizable, facial images from multiple facial graphic sources. Make a Face is also a great social networking platform used by friends, family, and people everywhere who enjoy looking at facial pictures of themselves and others joined into an infinite number of interesting and animated combinations. Any picture of any face, including historical figures and well known personalities, can be integrated into the Make a Face display sequences. For people who enjoy looking at people, Make a Face gives them a way to see themselves in ways they have never seen themselves before. Share the composite images you have made with Make a Face, and the pictures you have taken of yourself and others, with friends and family. The process by which Make a Face operates is an entirely novel approach to the display of human facial characteristics in juxtaposition for the purposes of elucidation, entertainment, social networking, and the study of physiological differences and similarities. For best results use pictures that have been taken with a similar, neutral, background, with the subject facing directly into the camera. Ask your subjects to show medium sized smiles. Search for suitable facial graphics on the internet. Share facial graphics with others. Using the "+ Camera" button, import the picture you want, crop it so that goes lengthwise from the exact top of the head to the exact bottom of the chin (not the neck), drag the crosshairs to the tip of the nose, and then tap Done. If each of your cropped pictures frame the face with closely similar dimensions, there will be excellent results with quadrant alignment during animation. If a picture needs to have its alignment adjusted, tap its thumbnail, tap Edit, and adjust as needed. Drag and drop back and forth between the Library and the Active thumbnails to choose which images appear in the quadrant animations. Double tap on any thumbnail to display an individual face in the display window. Dragging any picture into any quadrant will insert the correct section of the picture into the quadrant where it has been placed. If all of the graphics you choose adhere to the above parameters, your blended faces will be symmetrical and align themselves almost perfectly, yielding a very interesting study of different facial characteristics, both of people related to each other, and of people with very different ethnic backgrounds. You can, of course, also create all sorts of weird, peculiar, funny, and dysmorphic effects by clicking in lopsided places on your imported graphic. A few experiments will give you the idea. Clicking the play button will start an automatic, random selection sequence of mingled faces. A click will stop it. You can drag and drop any face into any quadrant to make specific selections within the display. An expanded version of Make a Face® that creates hundreds of different styles of composite face pictures and animations is available for Mac computers at the Mac OS X App Store.

About

AI Image Painter

Transform your photos into beautiful sketch paintings with advanced AI. This app provides a creative space to customize and experiment, turning everyday snapshots into artistic masterpieces.

Highlights
  • AI-powered photo to sketch conversion
  • Customizable artistic effects
  • Timeless artistic stroke styles
  • Creative experimentation tools
  • Elevates photography to art
Features
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Capture life's beauty through your lens and let our advanced AI turn your photos into stunning sketch paintings. With an array of pro features, AI Image Painter offers a creative playground at your fingertips. Customize, experiment, and watch as your images come to life with the timeless allure of artistic strokes. Elevate your photography to new heights — download AI Image Painter now and turn every snapshot into a work of art!

Screenshots

Make a Face4 screens
AI Image Painter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Make a Face at 100% against AI Image Painter's 0%. Make a Face also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and ads (none vs shown). AI Image Painter's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 21 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Make a Face holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Make a Face's written reviews are positive against 0% of AI Image Painter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Make a Face ships an update every 21 months, AI Image Painter every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Make a Face versus AI Image Painter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMake a FaceAI Image Painter
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKGRajaram Bhaskaran

Customer experience

Make a Face

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AI Image Painter

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Make a Face

No in-app purchases

None

AI Image Painter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Make a Face free?
Make a Face is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AI Image Painter free?
AI Image Painter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Make a Face or AI Image Painter?
Make a Face is rated higher. Make a Face averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while AI Image Painter averages 3.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Make a Face or AI Image Painter have ads?
AI Image Painter shows ads; Make a Face does not.
Which is updated more often, Make a Face or AI Image Painter?
Make a Face ships an update every 21 months, and AI Image Painter every 2 months. Most recently, Make a Face was updated on September 25, 2026 and AI Image Painter on September 23, 2026.

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