RealYou AI

RealYou AI is an iPhone and iPad app from Walter Labs, Inc. that generates realistic photos of the user with AI. It is aimed at people who want headshots, dating profile pictures or casual photos of themselves, and it can place the user in many styles and settings, from a professional model shoot or a historical figure to an ordinary iPhone snapshot or a cinematic scene.

To start, the user uploads 12-20 selfies, and RealYou AI trains a personal model, called a Persona, from them. No setup or photo editing skills are needed. Instead of picking from a fixed list of styles or themes, the user describes any scene in words and RealYou AI generates photos of the user in it, aiming for images that look as if a professional photographer took them or as if they were shot casually on an iPhone.

RealYou AI processes uploaded photos securely and lets users save their creations or share them on social media and with friends. Besides the Persona itself, it sells packs of extra generations. The app is listed in the Photo & Video category and carries a 13+ age rating, and the developer lists purchases, contact info, user content, identifiers and usage data as data that may be linked to the user.

RealYou AI is free to download with in-app purchases. Training a Persona through Create Your Persona costs $4.99 per week, with a $9.99 option also listed, and generation packs cost $4.99 for 10 or $9.99 for 25. The app requires iOS 17.0 or later on iPhone, iPadOS 17.0 or later on iPad, or macOS 14.0 or later on a Mac with an Apple M1 chip or later, and it is available in English.

Use cases

• Making professional headshots and dating profile photos without a photo shoot
• Seeing oneself as a professional model or a historical figure
• Producing casual, everyday-looking iPhone photos or cinematic scenes of oneself
• Creating pictures to share on social media