Reshot AI
Reshot AI is a browser-based AI face editor that changes facial expressions, head pose and eye direction in existing photos. It works in real time, supports 4K images and offers unlimited edits on paid plans.
What is Reshot AI?
Reshot AI is a browser-based photo editor built around a single, narrow job: controlling the human face in a picture that has already been taken. Rather than retouching an image as a whole, it exposes direct control over three things — facial expression, head pose and eye direction — and applies them in real time, at resolutions up to 4K.
The editor is organised into three named modules. The Precision Eye Editor handles eyebrow expression, eye movement, eyelid opening and a wink. The Advanced Expression Sculptor shapes the smile and mouth animation. The 3D Pose Manipulator rotates and tilts the head through 3D controls. From one source photo the tool generates several variations, which the site says arrive in under thirty seconds, and paid plans set no cap on the number of photos or edits.
The product is operated by Reshot Technologies, a company the Terms locate in France; its founder, Alex Carlier, describes a background in AI research on the personal site linked from the footer. The homepage claims 3,829,361 photos edited for 1,885 professional users, and the page's structured data carries a self-declared rating of 4.5 from 32,419 reviews — figures asserted by the vendor rather than independently verified.
Access is by subscription. Opening the editor redirects to a sign-in page, where Google is the only identity provider actually offered. Two permanently free tools sit outside that gate as a shop window: a Free AI Eyes Editor, which the site admits runs on slower machines, and a Baby Filter that works by drag and drop.
A separate developer offer runs on prepaid credits. The documented Face Expressions API accepts an image and eleven numeric controls — pupil position, wink, eye opening, eyebrow height, three rotation axes, mouth opening and smile — with a Python example provided. A Normals Estimation API and an AI Relighting feature are both announced as coming soon. Around the product sit a blog of guides, pages on 3D Gaussian Splatting and AI illusions, and a listing on Microsoft AppSource.
What it does
- Change a subject's facial expression, from a neutral face to a full smile
- Adjust eye direction and eyelid opening, or add a wink
- Rotate and tilt the head in 3D to recompose a portrait
- Reshape eyebrow position and expression
- Open eyes that were closed in the original shot
- Generate several variations of one photo and keep the best
- Call the same editing engine from your own product through the API
When to use Reshot AI / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Reshot AI is the right fit.
When to use Reshot AI
- Content creators who need expressive YouTube thumbnails and want to lift their click-through rate
- Photographers and retouchers rescuing portraits where the subject blinked, looked away or smiled awkwardly
- Marketing and brand teams producing many portrait variations from a single studio shoot
- Actors, musicians and freelancers who maintain professional headshots and profile pictures
- Developers embedding facial expression control into their own product through the credit-based API
When not to use Reshot AI
- Anyone needing a general-purpose photo editor: Reshot AI touches the face only, not colour, background or composition
- Mobile-first users, since there is no iOS or Android app and no browser extension
- Newsrooms, courts and any setting where altering a subject's expression would misrepresent a real event
- Teams with procurement requirements, as no DPA, subprocessor list, hosting location or security certification is published
- Non-English speakers and under-18s, the interface being English only and the Terms setting a minimum age of 18
How to use Reshot AI
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Try the free tools first if you want: the AI Eyes Editor and the Baby Filter run without any account
- Open the editor and sign in — the app redirects to a login page, where Google is the only provider offered
- Upload a clear, front-facing photo by drag and drop or file picker
- Let the AI analyse the face; the site quotes under thirty seconds for a set of results
- Set gaze direction, eyelid opening and the wink with the eye controls
- Sculpt the smile and mouth opening with the expression controls
- Rotate and tilt the head with the 3D pose controls
- Compare the generated variations and keep the one that works
- Download the result in high resolution, up to 4K
- For programmatic use, buy credits, create an API key on the account page, then post the image and an eleven-parameter control set to the Face Expressions endpoint
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Genuinely fine-grained control over the face — pupils, eyelids, eyebrows, smile and head rotation — rather than a one-click filter
- Real-time feedback in the browser, with nothing to install
- Full ownership and commercial rights over edited photos, stated in the FAQ and in section 5.2 of the Terms
- Low entry price at 9 USD per month on the annual plan, with unlimited photos and edits
- A documented API with a code example and volume discounts down to 0.008 USD per credit
- GDPR compliance claimed explicitly, with five rights listed and a 14-day deletion commitment
- Two free tools that can be tested without creating an account
Cons
- The Terms contradict themselves on who owns generated content: section 5.2 grants it to you, section 6 reserves it for Reshot AI
- No postal address anywhere on the site, only the country name France, and no legal notice, about or contact page
- A tangle of jurisdictions: a French company, Californian governing law, arbitration under French law, Singaporean law in the privacy policy and a service declared intended for US visitors
- No DPA, no subprocessor list, no hosting country or region and no security certification
- No documented way to exclude your data from model training
- The Terms disclaim any support obligation, and a refund requires both a 14-day window and no more than five photos edited
- Web only, English only, no permanent free plan on the full editor and a Google account effectively required
Pricing & Plans
There is no permanent free plan on the full editor, which requires a paid subscription; two standalone tools, the AI Eyes Editor and the Baby Filter, remain free of charge but offer fewer controls and slower processing. The lowest price point is 9.00 USD per month on the Yearly Plan, billed annually at 99 USD, against a monthly option at 19 USD. Both figures are displayed as limited-time offers set against struck-through prices of 228 USD and 29 USD respectively. Developer access is billed separately in prepaid credits, starting at 20.00 USD for 1,000 credits. All amounts are stated in US dollars and, under the Terms, are non-refundable except as required by law or under the 14-day refund policy.
- unlimited photos
- unlimited AI editing
- unlimited photos
- unlimited AI editing
- 6+ months free
- API credits — 1
- 000 for 20.00 USD
- 10
- 000 for 150.00 USD
- 25
- 000 for 250.00 USD
- 50
- 000 for 400.00 USD
- Free AI Eyes Editor and Baby Filter
- with fewer controls and slower processing
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Reshot AI handles your data.
GDPR overview
The privacy policy claims compliance in so many words, stating that it is fully compliant with the European General Data Protection Regulation as well as the laws in force in Singapore. Concrete measures follow. Five rights are enumerated — access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and portability — with a separate section on the right to object to direct marketing, all exercisable by writing to support@reshot.ai. Consent is presented as granular: declining non-essential data carries no loss of access. Deletion is quantified at 14 days after a confirmed request, and any change to the policy comes with at least two weeks' notice. Notable gaps remain: no Article 27 EU representative, no named data protection officer, no legal basis stated field by field, and no mention of international transfers, standard contractual clauses or hosting locations.
Who owns the data?
Under the Terms you keep everything you upload: section 8.2 states that posting User Content grants Reshot AI no rights, and that the vendor will not use, share or exploit that content in any way without your explicit permission. Section 5.2 goes further and gives you full ownership of the Generated Content, including commercial exploitation, with no obligation to the vendor, and the homepage FAQ repeats that position. One caveat matters: section 6 of the same document asserts that all rights in content generated from your input belong exclusively to Reshot AI, directly contradicting section 5.2. Only feedback and improvement suggestions carry a royalty-free licence to the company.
Reuse rights
Yes. The Terms grant a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable and sublicensable licence to use the Service for any purpose, explicitly including commercial and business use, and state that you may use, reproduce, modify, distribute and otherwise exploit the images you create without asking permission and without obligation to the vendor. The homepage FAQ confirms full commercial rights and ownership over edited photos, so output can go straight to social media, client work, advertising or professional profiles. Two reservations temper this. Section 6 of the same Terms claims exclusive ownership of generated content for Reshot AI, so the document disagrees with itself. And nothing on the site addresses the separate question of the photographed person's consent to having their expression altered, which no licence from the vendor can supply.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting location is published. Neither the privacy policy nor the Terms names a country, a region or a cloud provider, and the site has no trust or security page. No international transfer, standard contractual clause or data residency option is mentioned, so the jurisdiction in which uploaded photographs are stored and processed cannot be established from the site. What is documented is security practice rather than geography: the privacy policy lists security software including virus scanners, TLS-secured connections between the vendor's servers and the user's device, and the DKIM, SPF and DMARC standards for email traffic. The Baby Filter page adds a general claim that photos and edits remain private and secure, without saying where or for how long. One inference should be resisted: the domain resolves to a Cloudflare anycast address, which identifies the content delivery network in front of the site, not the place where user data is stored. The company itself is described in the Terms as located in France, which puts it within the direct scope of the GDPR, but that says nothing about the servers. Anyone with data residency requirements will need to ask the vendor directly.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Reshot AI.
- Consent of the person in the photo: changing someone's expression is not covered by any licence the vendor grants, and the site offers no guidance on it
- Ownership is contradicted inside the Terms themselves, section 5.2 granting you the generated content and section 6 reserving it for Reshot AI
- Authenticity drift: a portrait whose smile and gaze were synthesised still reads as a photograph, and nothing in the output is watermarked or marked as AI-modified
- Self-image and habit: unlimited edits make it easy to converge on a face that never existed, on professional profiles and dating pictures alike
- Legal recourse rests on a country name and an email address, with mandatory arbitration, a jury and class-action waiver, and liability capped at the greater of twelve months of fees or 100 USD
- Personal data may be handed to a court or to law enforcement without prior notice, and no hosting location or subprocessor is disclosed
- Prices are permanently displayed as limited-time offers, and the same page quotes both 99 USD and 108 USD for the annual plan
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very easy for the interface, moderate for the API. Nothing is installed: the editor runs in the browser, and the two free tools accept a photo by drag and drop with no account. The full editor requires signing in with Google, then uploading a picture and moving sliders, so no technical skill is involved. The API asks more: buy credits, generate a key on the account page, then send the image with an eleven-parameter control set to the documented endpoint. A Python example is provided, but there is no official SDK and no webhooks.
Deployment
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Behind Reshot AI
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly does Reshot AI edit?
Do I need an account to use it?
How much does it cost?
Is there a free plan or a free trial?
Who owns the photos I edit?
Are my photos used to train the AI?
How long is my data kept?
Is there an API?
Is there a mobile app, and which languages are supported?
Should you pick Reshot AI?
Reshot AI does one thing and does it with unusual precision. Where most AI photo tools apply a look to a whole image, this one hands you direct control over the parts of a face that decide whether a portrait works: the smile, the eyebrows, the eyelids, the direction of the gaze and the angle of the head. For anyone producing portraits or thumbnails in volume, being able to rescue a blinked shot or draw a dozen expression variants from one frame is a real saving, and at 9 USD a month on the annual plan the entry price is modest. The commercial position looks equally clear: the FAQ and section 5.2 of the Terms hand you full ownership and commercial rights over what you produce.
The reservations are documentary rather than technical. Those same Terms contradict themselves on ownership of generated content, section 6 claiming for the vendor exactly what section 5.2 gives away. No postal address appears anywhere on the site, and the legal framing stacks a French company, Californian governing law, arbitration under French law, a privacy policy invoking Singaporean regulation and a service declared intended for US visitors. Data governance is thin: no processing agreement, no subprocessor list, no stated hosting country, no certification and no training opt-out. Support is explicitly not guaranteed.
The sensible reading is that this is a well-executed creative tool from a small French company, not an enterprise platform. For an individual creator or a small team editing their own images, it is easy to recommend on its merits. For any organisation with procurement, compliance or sensitive-image obligations, the paperwork needs answers the site does not currently provide — and no vendor licence settles the separate question of whether the person in the photograph agreed to have their expression changed.
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