Image-to-Video Tools
Image-to-video tools start from a photo, illustration or product shot and animate it. They give creators far more control over the look of the first frame than pure text prompts, which makes them popular for product videos, character work and social content where the starting visual matters.
17 tools in this category (including tools that also cover it)
Leonardo built its name on AI image generation and added motion features that animate images into short video clips. Creators who design a character or scene as an image first often use Leonardo to bring that exact frame to life.
Krea
Krea is a creative platform that gives subscribers access to a rotating set of leading third-party image and video models in one interface, plus its own enhancement tools. Designers use it to test models side by side without separate subscriptions.
Vidu is a video generation platform known for animating images and keeping subjects consistent using reference features. It is used for character stories, anime-style content and product clips where the same subject must appear across shots.
Viggle
Viggle animates characters: give it a character image and a motion reference (or pick from its templates and hosted video models) and it produces expressive character video built for memes, social clips and games. Its newer JST-2 model and PINOC engine extend the same idea into explorable 3D worlds, while paid plans also unlock hosted models such as Kling, Veo and Wan.
Also covers Image-to-Video Tools
Runway
Runway is one of the most complete creative AI video platforms, combining text and image-to-video generation with editing tools such as background changes, relighting and object removal. It is aimed at creators and teams who want generation and post-production in one workspace rather than a single-purpose generator.
Kling AI
Kling AI, developed by Kuaishou, produces detailed short clips from text or images and has become a popular budget-friendly alternative to Western generators. Its newer models support longer, higher-resolution output and are widely used for social and cinematic-style short clips.
Pika
Pika focuses on quick, fun short-form generation with effects and templates that make images melt, inflate, transform and move. It is popular with social creators who want eye-catching clips quickly rather than long cinematic sequences.
Luma's Dream Machine generates smooth, cinematic clips from text and images and is known for natural camera movement. It also works as a creative workspace where multiple models can be used, making it a common choice for storytellers and advertisers testing concepts.
Hailuo AI (MiniMax)
Hailuo AI is the consumer face of MiniMax's video models. It is known for expressive characters, stylized clips and subject-reference features that keep a character consistent, which makes it popular for short stories and character-driven social content.
PixVerse generates short videos from text or images and leans heavily into templates and viral effects for social platforms. It is designed for speed and volume, with frequent model updates and an easy interface for non-technical creators.
Google Flow (Veo)
Flow is Google's AI filmmaking tool built around the Veo generation models and accessed through Google AI plans. It focuses on scene building, ingredients-to-video workflows and consistent characters for short narrative pieces rather than one-off clips.
Seedance (ByteDance)
Seedance is ByteDance's video generation model family, available through platforms such as Dreamina and various aggregators. It is recognized for fluid motion, multi-shot storytelling from a single prompt and strong prompt following at an efficient generation speed.
Kaiber generates stylized, artistic video from images, text and music, and became popular for music videos and artist visuals. Its look leans creative and experimental rather than realistic, which suits musicians and visual artists.
Freepik has added an AI creative suite on top of its stock library, including access to several third-party video generation models. For designers already paying for Freepik stock, generating video in the same account is convenient.
Wan is Alibaba's family of video generation models, notable because versions have been released with open weights that developers can run or host. Through hosted platforms it reaches regular creators who want capable text and image-to-video generation.
Dreamina (CapCut)
Dreamina is ByteDance/CapCut's AI generation platform where users create images and videos with models including Seedance. It connects naturally to the CapCut editing ecosystem, making it a common route for social creators to generate then edit in one family of tools.
Adobe Firefly is Adobe's all-in-one generative AI studio on the web, covering image generation and editing, text and image-to-video, audio and design tools, with access to 30+ models including Adobe's own Firefly Video Model and partner models. Because Firefly models are positioned as commercially safe and the credit pot is shared with Creative Cloud, it suits creators and teams already working in Adobe's ecosystem.