Comparison

Make a Face vs Tsunagi

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

Tsunagi

Features
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Tsunagi is a simple tool that lets you place two images side by side and merge them into one. Great for: Before & after comparisons Compositing AI-generated images Side-by-side photos for social media Product & interior comparison shots Features: Select two images and merge them horizontally Easily crop, inner-crop, reposition, scale, and flip using sliders Save & share with a single tap All processing happens on-device (no images are sent to a server) Plans: Free: Full access to all features (with ads) One-time purchase: Remove all ads permanently Simple. Fast. Clean.

Screenshots

Make a Face4 screens
Tsunagi3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Make a Face at none against Tsunagi's 1. Make a Face also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). Tsunagi's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 21 months). On price 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. Tsunagi sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Make a Face asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Make a Face ships an update every 21 months, Tsunagi every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Make a Face versus Tsunagi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMake a FaceTsunagi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKGTsuyoshi Iino

In-app purchases

None

Make a Face

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tsunagi

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Make a Face free?
Make a Face is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tsunagi free?
Tsunagi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Make a Face or Tsunagi have ads?
Tsunagi shows ads; Make a Face does not.
Which is updated more often, Make a Face or Tsunagi?
Make a Face ships an update every 21 months, and Tsunagi every 4 days. Most recently, Make a Face was updated on September 25, 2026 and Tsunagi on October 2, 2026.

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