HeyEditor
HeyEditor is a browser-based AI editor for faces and images. It swaps faces across video, photo and GIF files, turns pictures into anime artwork and upscales blurry shots. A limited free trial precedes credit packs or a PRO subscription.
What is HeyEditor?
HeyEditor is an online face and image editor that runs entirely in the browser, with no software to install. Its terms of service describe it as an online face editor application that uses artificial intelligence algorithms to create unique content, and the published site keeps to that description: three tools sit behind the AI Tools menu, namely a face swap engine for video, photo and GIF, an anime filter that turns a picture into cartoon artwork, and a photo enhancer that raises resolution and sharpens detail.
The face swap flow has two steps. You upload a file, with video capped at ten minutes and 500 MB, photos at 10 MB and GIFs at 15 MB; the engine then detects the people in it, and you pick the person to replace, add the source face and choose a face shape before generating. The anime filter and the enhancer are single-step: upload an image, generate. Uploads and results remain available under My uploads and My Results, where they can also be deleted by hand.
Everything runs on credits. A counter sits in the header, a limited free trial produces a few images before any payment is due, and the interface warns when the balance runs out. Beyond that, two routes exist: credit packs bought outright, or a PRO subscription that removes the watermark, gives priority in the render queue, adds 200 credits a month, keeps results permanently and discounts the credit packs. Accounts are opened with an email address and a verification code, or through Google, Facebook or Apple, and uploads pass an automatic moderation filter.
The publisher stays anonymous. No company name, postal address, named contact or social profile appears anywhere on the site, and a single obfuscated email address handles support, legal notices and privacy requests alike. The terms place the service under Hong Kong SAR law and the privacy policy states that the application is maintained there and that uploaded material sits on a Hong Kong server. Both documents carry the same date, 31 January 2024, and the domain itself was registered in January of that year.
What it does
- Swap faces in a video, a photo or a GIF
- Turn a photo, a selfie or a profile picture into anime artwork
- Upscale a photograph and restore its resolution, colours and detail
- Detect several people in one file and choose which face to replace
- Adjust the face shape before generating the result
- Remove the watermark and skip the render queue with a PRO subscription
- Delete uploads, source faces and finished results at any time
When to use HeyEditor / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if HeyEditor is the right fit.
When to use HeyEditor
- Social media and content creators who need a quick face swap or an anime portrait for a post
- Video editors and VFX hobbyists testing a face replacement on a short clip before committing to a full pipeline
- Illustrators and motion designers looking for anime-style renders made from real photographs
- Anyone restoring or upscaling old, blurry or low-resolution personal photographs
- Occasional users who would rather pay per job with a credit pack than take out a subscription
When not to use HeyEditor
- Teams that need an API, developer documentation or an integration with their existing tools, none of which exists here
- Organisations that require a data processing agreement, a subprocessor list or a security certification before onboarding a vendor
- Anyone who needs an identified counterparty: no company name, postal address or named contact is published
- Editors looking for a full video suite, since HeyEditor cuts nothing and grades nothing and only replaces faces
- Non-English speakers and users under 18, as the interface exists in English only and the minimum age is 18
How to use HeyEditor
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the site in a browser, as there is nothing to download or install
- Create an account with an email address and the verification code sent to it, or sign in with Google, Facebook or Apple
- Pick a tool from the AI Tools menu: Video Editor, Photo Editor, Photo to Anime or Photo Enhancer
- For a face swap, upload the file to edit, respecting the limits of 10 minutes and 500 MB for video, 10 MB for a photo and 15 MB for a GIF
- Let the engine detect the people in the file, then select the person whose face is to be replaced
- Add the source face and choose a face shape
- Click Generate and wait for the render, bearing in mind that the queue is shared unless you subscribe to PRO
- For the anime filter or the photo enhancer, simply upload an image and generate directly
- Retrieve your files under My uploads and your renders under My Results, and delete them there when you no longer need them
- Buy a credit pack or upgrade to PRO from the pricing page, paying by card, PayPal, cryptocurrency or Klarna
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Three visual tools usable straight away in a browser, with nothing to install
- A limited free trial before any payment is required
- Credit packs available without a subscription, which suits occasional use
- Generous video limits of ten minutes and 500 MB per file
- A written refund policy: unused credits are refundable within 14 days of purchase
- Card, PayPal, cryptocurrency and Klarna all accepted at checkout
- Short announced retention, with results kept 7x24 hours, and self-service deletion of uploads and renders
Cons
- No company name and no postal address anywhere on the site, so the publisher cannot be identified
- A single obfuscated email address serves support, legal notices and GDPR requests alike
- No readable pricing page: the amounts exist only in the site's own catalogue service, never in the page itself
- No public API, no developer documentation and no named third-party integration
- No data processing agreement, no subprocessor register and no security certification
- Terms of service and privacy policy unchanged since 31 January 2024
- A very broad licence on uploaded content, with an option to make uploads public and reusable by other users
Pricing & Plans
A limited free trial is available before any payment, but no permanent free plan is advertised. The cheapest paid entry point is the one-month PRO subscription at USD 12.99, currently discounted from a list price of USD 25.99; a pack of 100 credits costs the same amount and requires no subscription. Unused credits may be refunded within 14 days of purchase.
- USD 12.99 after a 50% discount
- list price USD 25.99
- 100 credits included
- billed monthly and auto-renewing
- USD 90.99 after a 70% discount
- list price USD 155.88
- 100 credits included
- billed yearly and auto-renewing
- USD 12.99
- one-off purchase with no subscription
- USD 59.99 after an 8% discount
- list price USD 64.95
- USD 116.99 after a 10% discount
- list price USD 129.90
- USD 309.99 after a 20% discount
- list price USD 398.70
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how HeyEditor handles your data.
GDPR overview
The privacy policy devotes a section to European privacy rights and names the GDPR explicitly, yet the publisher never states that the service is compliant. EU residents are told they may exercise access, portability, rectification, consent withdrawal and erasure rights by writing to the single contact address, that an identity check and a reasonable fee may apply, and that they may complain to their national supervisory authority. Transfers out of the European Union are said to be covered by the standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission. Beyond that the essentials are missing: no Article 27 EU representative, no data protection officer, no data processing agreement, no subprocessor register and no security certification. Use is restricted to people aged 18 or over in the EU, and the policy has not been updated since 31 January 2024.
Who owns the data?
Under the terms of service, you keep every intellectual property right in the files you upload and in the content the tool creates from them, while HeyEditor keeps all rights in the application, its technology and its software. In exchange you grant the publisher an irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and assignable licence to use your uploaded content in order to run the service. You also warrant that you hold the rights to whatever you upload. The same clause adds that you may choose to make an upload public, in which case, in the publisher's own words, every user could use it.
Reuse rights
You own your results because you owned the source material, and the terms make you warrant that you had the right to use it in the first place; nothing in them grants you any right over another user's content. The publisher, by contrast, may reuse what you upload without asking again: the licence you grant is irrevocable, sublicensable and assignable, and it covers running the service. Choosing to make an upload public opens it to every other user of the platform. Commercial reuse of a generated face swap is never addressed, and no rights clearance mechanism is described anywhere on the site.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The privacy policy states that uploaded photos, GIFs and videos are held on a remote server in Hong Kong, and that the application itself is maintained in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Users are told, and asked to accept, that data stored there may be subject to lawful requests by local courts or law enforcement authorities, and that their information may be stored, processed, transferred between and accessed from Hong Kong and other territories which may not offer the same level of protection as their own. For users in the European Union, transfers are said to be covered by the standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission. No other hosting country is named and no broad region is declared. The public site is served through Cloudflare and resolves to an anycast address in the United States, but that is delivery infrastructure rather than a declared place of storage. The terms place the whole relationship under Hong Kong SAR law, with disputes referred to the courts of Hong Kong.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting HeyEditor.
- Swapping someone else's face without their consent: the terms forbid it, but no consent check is described anywhere in the flow
- The licence granted on uploads is irrevocable, sublicensable and assignable, and an upload can be made public and reused by other users
- Data sits in Hong Kong and, in the publisher's own words, may be subject to lawful requests by the local courts or law enforcement authorities
- There is no identifiable legal entity, no address and no named contact to turn to if something goes wrong
- The application bundle carries conversion tags for adult advertising networks and leftover interface strings pointing to adult content, none of it visible on the public site
- Prices are permanently presented as discounts, with promotional windows running into 2031 and 2032, which makes the real reference price hard to read
- Used credits are never refunded, and the refund window on unused credits closes 14 days after purchase
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. Everything happens in a browser: nothing to install, no API key, no configuration. An account is required, opened with an email address and the verification code sent to it, or through a Google, Facebook or Apple sign-in. The face swap takes two steps, uploading the file and selecting the face; the anime filter and the enhancer take one. The only real constraint is respecting the file limits: ten minutes and 500 MB for video, 10 MB for a photo and 15 MB for a GIF.
Deployment
Supported languages
Behind HeyEditor
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Frequently asked questions
What does HeyEditor actually do?
Do I need to install anything?
Can I try it before paying?
How much does it cost?
What are the file size limits?
Is there a watermark on the results?
How long are my files kept, and where?
Is there an API for developers?
Can I get a refund?
How do I delete my data?
Should you pick HeyEditor?
HeyEditor does a small number of things and does them without ceremony. Three tools, a face swap for video, photo and GIF, an anime filter and a photo enhancer, run in a browser, take a file and return a result. There is nothing to install, a limited free trial lets you judge the output before paying, and credit packs make occasional use possible with no subscription at all. For someone who needs a face swapped into a short clip, or a portrait turned into anime artwork, the entry price is low and the path is short.
The reservations concern the publisher rather than the product. No legal entity is named, no postal address appears anywhere, and a single obfuscated email address answers for support, legal notices and GDPR requests alike. The terms place the service under Hong Kong law and the privacy policy puts the servers there, warning in the same breath that stored data may be reached by local courts and law enforcement. The licence you grant on what you upload is irrevocable, sublicensable and assignable, and an upload can be made public for other users to reuse. There is no data processing agreement, no subprocessor register and no security certification, and neither legal document has been touched since January 2024.
That balance points to a clear reading. HeyEditor suits personal and creative work where the source material is your own and the stakes are low. It does not suit a professional workflow that needs a contract, an identified counterparty or a documented security posture, and swapping other people's faces raises a consent question the site never answers.
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