Pseudoface
Pseudoface is an iOS app that swaps a creator's face for an AI-generated mask across photos and videos, so content can be published and monetized anonymously. Subscription only, from 14.99 USD a month, with monthly image and video quotas.
What is Pseudoface?
Pseudoface is an iOS app that bills itself as the camera for faceless creators. It replaces the user's face, in photos and in videos, with a face generated by artificial intelligence, and a standing banner on the site reminds visitors that all masks are AI generated, not real people. The promise is unusual: keep the safety of full anonymity while still putting a captivating face in front of the audience.
To build a mask you upload one photo of your own face, one per mask. That reference is what lets the app locate your face in a clip and fit the mask to its shape, altering the features just enough to make you unrecognizable. The models are designed to be agnostic to ethnic origin, and the editor lets you choose the traits you want; the site even suggests shifting the ethnicity slightly to put more distance between the mask and your real appearance. A low-resolution preview shows the result before you commit, and the publisher recommends testing on a short clip first.
Nothing about it is instant. Masking runs roughly 20 to 30 minutes of processing for each minute of video, in the background, and quality depends on the shoot: good lighting, an unobstructed face, filmed head-on. The FAQ argues the trade-off is worth it because rival AI services refuse NSFW material, do not generate a mask automatically, and expect a powerful computer plus programming skills.
The app is published by Aelusive Ltd, a British company registered in Cambridge and described on the site as founded by a couple. Around it sits a content operation: guides, articles and statistics drawn from more than 250,000 creator discussion threads, plus a free caption generator. The homepage counts 14,308 masks used by 5,723 creators, a banner claims 9,785+ masks generated, and the sales pitch leans on Reddit testimonials from creators saying they earned two to ten times more once a face was on screen. Access is subscription-only, from 14.99 USD per month, with monthly image and video allowances.
What it does
- Replace your face with an AI-generated mask in videos
- Apply the same AI mask to photos
- Design a unique mask in the built-in editor by picking its features
- Publish and monetize content without ever showing your real face
- Shift the mask's traits, including ethnicity, further away from your own likeness
- Create unlimited masks for as long as the subscription runs
- Buy extra credits when the monthly image or video allowance runs out
When to use Pseudoface / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Pseudoface is the right fit.
When to use Pseudoface
- Adult and OnlyFans creators who need to earn from their content without ever showing their real face
- Already faceless creators who want the engagement and revenue a visible face brings, without exposing their own
- People whose day job, family situation or public reputation would be at risk if their content were traced back to them
- Creators publishing NSFW material, which the FAQ says competing AI face services refuse to process
- iPhone and iPad owners with modest output, between 150 and 500 images and 15 to 50 minutes of video a month
When not to use Pseudoface
- Android, Windows and browser-only users: Pseudoface ships as an iOS app alone, with no Play Store release and no web version
- Anyone who needs a fast turnaround, since masking takes 20 to 30 minutes of processing for every minute of video
- Creators who need a contractual guarantee of anonymity or a refund if the render disappoints, as the terms exclude both
- Users hoping to clear an identity verification check on a third-party platform, which the FAQ rules out and which breaches platform terms
- Teams and developers wanting to automate masking or test at zero cost: there is no API, no integration and no permanent free plan
How to use Pseudoface
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Install Pseudoface from the App Store on an iPhone or iPad
- Work through the in-app tutorial, which one App Store reviewer warns takes a while
- Upload one photo of your own face, a single reference photo per mask
- Build the mask in the editor by selecting the facial traits you want
- Nudge the ethnicity or the features slightly away from your own to strengthen the disguise
- Check the low-resolution preview, then run a test on a short clip before committing a long one
- Shoot or select media in good light, face visible, unobstructed and turned toward the camera
- Import the photo or video you want masked
- Start the job and leave it running in the background, at 20 to 30 minutes per minute of video
- Create as many further masks as you like while the subscription is active, and buy extra credits if the monthly quota runs out
Pros & Cons
Pros
- A genuinely niche product: the site presents it as the only service doing this specifically for content creators
- Accepts NSFW content, which the FAQ says competing AI services refuse
- No technical skill required, and no powerful computer or code, unlike the improvised alternatives the FAQ describes
- Unlimited, re-editable masks for as long as the subscription runs
- Content stored encrypted on European servers and not linked to identifiable information, with an explicit Hard no on selling or sharing data and the option to request destruction of images and face data
- A free trial tutorial lets you judge the render before paying anything
- An identifiable publisher, with company name, registration number and address published, praised for its responsiveness in App Store and Reddit reviews
Cons
- iOS only: no Android app and no web version
- No permanent free plan, and one App Store reviewer finds the 14.99 USD entry tier expensive
- Very slow rendering, at 20 to 30 minutes of processing per minute of video, with quality degraded by poor lighting, a covered face or a profile shot
- Tight monthly quotas, with extra credits sold separately
- No refund if the render disappoints, and no guarantee whatsoever that the mask makes you unrecognizable
- Terms and FAQ contradict each other on who owns masked content, and the terms still carry an unreplaced [Your Company] template placeholder
- No API and no integrations, a single email support channel with no response-time commitment, no DPA, no Article 27 representative, no named sub-processor list and no published interface language list
Pricing & Plans
Pseudoface offers no free plan: the FAQ states plainly that the AI models are too costly to give away, though a free trial tutorial inside the app lets prospective users see the masking result first. Paid access starts at 14.99 USD per month with the Amateur tier, followed by Creator at 24.99 USD and Influencer at 49.99 USD per month, and extra credits can be purchased on every tier once the monthly allowance is exhausted. No annual plan and no discount are advertised. The terms provide for no refund where the results fall short of expectations, and cap contractual liability at 100 GBP where no payment has been made.
- 14.99 USD per month - unlimited masks
- 150 images and 15 minutes of video a month
- 24.99 USD per month
- flagged Best Value - unlimited masks
- 250 images and 25 minutes of video a month
- 49.99 USD per month - unlimited masks
- 500 images and 50 minutes of video a month
- purchasable on all three tiers once the monthly allowance is used up
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Pseudoface handles your data.
GDPR overview
The privacy policy claims compliance with the UK GDPR, not the EU regulation, and Aelusive Ltd is a British company outside the EU since Brexit. It sets out the expected rights, namely access, rectification, erasure, objection, restriction of processing and portability, all exercised through a single address, pablo@aelusive.com. The minimum age is 16, aligned with UK guidance, and an account reported as belonging to someone under 18 has its information deleted and the account deactivated. Using the service means accepting a transfer of data to the United Kingdom, under UK law. What is missing matters for EU users: no Article 27 EU representative is designated, no data protection officer is named, no data processing agreement is published or offered, and sub-processors are described only by category, never by name.
Who owns the data?
The terms state that your own content remains your sole property, but that the AI-generated masks stay the exclusive property of Aelusive Ltd, and that any modification made to your content with those masks may become the property of the app. Uploading also grants a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt and distribute the modified content in order to provide and improve the service. The homepage FAQ says the opposite: you own the masked content outright, with a full commercial license. The site never reconciles the two, and the licensing clause still names its beneficiary as an unreplaced template placeholder, [Your Company].
Reuse rights
According to the homepage FAQ, you may reuse your masked photos and videos commercially without asking permission; the terms are markedly less categorical, so read them alongside the ownership summary. On the publisher's side, Pseudoface collects a name, an email address and the photos and videos you submit, plus passive data: IP address, device names and identifiers, hardware model, operating system and version, mobile network information, access timestamps and location. The privacy policy lists broad purposes: running and administering the service, support, fraud prevention, analytics and research, aggregated statistics, communication between users, cross-referencing with other collected data, targeted and personalized advertising, and messages about new products and promotional offers. Image Data and Face Data may be used to enhance our Solution unless you explicitly ask for their destruction, with Face Data kept longer for that purpose alone; both are described as disconnected from your identity and never used to track you. Data may be shared with categories of providers (hosting, payment, analytics, marketing partners, data analysis, email delivery), under legal compulsion or a safety risk, and in a merger or asset sale, while de-identified or aggregated data may be shared without restriction. The FAQ's blunt Do you share or sell my data? Hard no sits awkwardly beside those advertising purposes.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The homepage FAQ carries the only precise statement: your content is stored in secured servers located in Europe. All data is encrypted both in transit and at rest and it's not linked to any identifiable information. No hosting country is named, no region finer than Europe is given, and no hosting provider or sub-processor is listed by name, the privacy policy describing only categories of service providers, hosting among them. That policy also pulls in a different direction: by using the service you accept that your data may be transferred to the United Kingdom, where the policy is governed by UK law. Since Brexit that is outside the European Union, and the site never reconciles the two statements. The publisher itself, Aelusive Ltd, is registered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and the single contact point for data questions is pablo@aelusive.com. Note finally that the website is served behind an anycast address belonging to a CDN edge node, which says nothing about where user content is actually hosted.
Where Pseudoface works
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Pseudoface.
- Ownership of masked content is contradictory: the FAQ grants you full ownership and a commercial license, while the terms keep the AI masks as Aelusive's property and say modifications made with them may become the property of the app
- The terms still carry an unreplaced template placeholder, [Your Company], at the exact point where the beneficiary of your content license is named, a real drafting defect in a document you are asked to accept
- Nothing guarantees the mask actually makes you unrecognizable, liability for that is expressly excluded, and no refund is available if the output disappoints, so anonymity must be treated as a best effort rather than a shield
- By default your images and face data may be used to improve the product, and face data is kept for longer periods on that basis; opting out requires an explicit destruction request you have to send yourself
- Targeted and personalized advertising sits among the listed purposes for your data, which fits awkwardly with the FAQ's Hard no on sharing or selling it
- Liability is capped at 100 GBP, UK law governs, compliance is stated against the UK GDPR rather than the EU regulation, and no Article 27 representative is designated for EU users
- Support runs through a single email address hosted on a different domain, aelusive.com, with no response-time commitment, and the revenue claims on display come from third-party Reddit threads rather than from results measured with the tool
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. There is nothing to install beyond the iOS app itself, no hardware requirement and no code: you download it from the App Store, follow the in-app tutorial and upload one photo of your face per mask. The FAQ contrasts this with alternatives that demand a powerful computer and programming skills. The friction lies elsewhere. One App Store reviewer notes the tutorial takes a while, and the real difficulty is filming, since the result depends on good lighting, an unobstructed face and a subject facing the camera. Capture discipline matters more than technical ability.
Deployment
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Behind Pseudoface
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
Which devices does Pseudoface run on?
Is there a free version?
How much does it cost?
Do I have to upload a photo of my own face?
How long does it take to mask a video?
Will the mask respect my ethnicity?
Who owns the masked content?
Where is my data stored, and is it sold?
Can I use a mask to pass an identity verification check?
Who publishes Pseudoface, and how do I get support?
Should you pick Pseudoface?
Pseudoface occupies a strip of ground almost nobody else claims: giving creators the pull of a human face without exposing their own. For anyone whose income depends on being on camera and whose safety or career depends on not being recognized, that is a real problem solved, on a device they already own, with no technical skill required.
The reservations are just as concrete. It is iOS-only, there is no permanent free plan, and rendering takes 20 to 30 minutes per minute of video, which rules out any reactive workflow. Above all, the publisher never promises the mask makes you unrecognizable: the terms exclude that warranty, and no refund is offered if the result disappoints. Anonymity here is a best effort, not a guarantee.
The legal picture has a genuine grey zone. The FAQ says you own the masked content outright, with a full commercial license; the terms say the AI masks remain Aelusive's property and that modifications made with them may become the property of the app. Nothing on the site reconciles the two, and the licensing clause still names its beneficiary as an unreplaced template placeholder, [Your Company]. Compliance is claimed against the UK GDPR rather than the EU regulation, with no Article 27 representative, which is worth weighing from inside the EU.
The publisher is small, a British company founded by a couple, but identifiable, registered and reachable, and App Store and Reddit reviewers consistently praise its responsiveness. Test a short clip before subscribing, read the terms rather than the FAQ, and ask for destruction of your images if you would rather they did not feed product improvement.
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