PortraitAI - AI Portrait Reviews

by ItsSunee

A friend of mine asked me to download PortraitAI, so I did. When I downloaded it - it asked me if I wanted to sign up for a subscription, I clicked no, both times it asked in app. Then yesterday I checked to make sure I wasn’t subscribed to anything and I WASNT, only for today they charge me a subscription free to an app I used once for 6 minutes! NOT ONLY THAT but out of the apparently 5 subscription types they have they charged me for the MOST expensive version. 20$ charge for an app I never subscribed too and now apple says it isn’t eligible for a refund, and I am 15$ in the negative because I didn’t expect a random 20$ charge from a stupid app I never subscribed to.

by Meg McLafferty

I was super excited when I saw PortraitAI and how it changed my photos, but then my friend and I realized when we used POC celebrities it white washed them, especially Brown and Black faces, though some Asian faces were also given only Caucasian features. I realize there’s probably more artwork from the eras you’re using for reference of white people, but plenty of modern artists have painted POC in these types of older styles, really hope you can fix this soon, we were both really disappointed and upset by this, unplanned or not, exclusion of POC, how did you as the developers not realize this before releasing PortraitAI ?

by Furiousbitch

I used my picture, I’m Italian, it made me look like I was polish and completely changed my features... then I went to do my baby who’s light skin and her father who is dark skin and they both turned white, their noses became small and pointed and looked nothing like them at all. It actually infuriated me because with the world being at its most diverse why do we support an app that neglects people of color?! Not me or mine. I’m convinced any positive comment was from a Lilly white person or from the company themselves

by Disappointed Poc

Despite PortraitAI working pretty alright, it only works on people that are white, which is extremely frustrating and unfair to everyone else that isn’t in that demographic. The AI generates white washed images that completely change a person’s race and appearance and I feel this is not okay. Warning to everyone that is a POC.

by Ashhfacee1684226&633799

Super disappointed in PortraitAI honestly. As a white woman I had fun processing my own photos, then i started processing photos of friends. we noticed the trend that any time a friend had ethnic looking features they were virtually erased. Eventually we decided to try non-ambiguously non-white people (lucy liu and lupita nyong’o ) and PortraitAI completely whitewashed them to the point where they looked entirely european. not cool, do better.

by IllicitBarbhie

I didn’t realize this was going to tag my card, but it did. Now I have a month of PortraitAI and it’s not worth buying at all. Don’t recommend any purchasing of this. Only thing it’s really good for is the European styled portrait. So if you get it don’t forget to cancel your subscription before your charged.

by LylaBeee

PortraitAI does NOT work on black people it literally turns them white skin and makes their lips very small which is super lame because there are definitely renaissance era portraits of black people! i'm really disappointed because it does work nicely on caucasians (although it makes your features even more white which i question as well)

by Jo Blevins :)

I read a couple reviews before downloading this and saw poc complaining, but since i’m a light skinned half-white asian, i figured i’d be fine. I was wrong.

Not only does the ai lighten my skin, it also shrinks my nose, makes my eyes even more european, changes my eye color to gray or dark green, and sometimes makes my entire head thinner.

I guess i now know what i’d look like if i was all white and a painting. Wouldn’t recommend to any poc, even if you think you’re safe.

by Mrs.Hixs

This is a fun app. If a couple of things were fixed on it it would be perfect. For one, it doesn’t really pick up non European faces. For another it doesn’t really pick up glasses, so to get a decent picture you have to take the glasses off. I was curious and took a picture of my cat to see what happened and it didn’t really pick that up either, but I didn’t really expect it to.

by Spaceman Man

I understand that these things need a lot of things to work properly, but I’ve found that a lot of photos that have faces don’t work (even after editing photos to make faces more visible). I’ve seen some portraits of things that don’t look like faces at all, so I’m not really sure what PortraitAI is looking for in a face. It doesn’t always work, but the effect is fun when it does.

by Mcconnorp

This is the first app I’ve seen, aping off the Ai Portraits name that wasn’t blatantly lying. Unlike most of these apps this actually does generate a portrait from your picture and doesn’t just slap some cheap filter over it. Is it as good as the original AiPortraits website that had such a brief life span last year? I can’t really say. Does it at least make me happy to see something try and come close? Yes.

by Sabrina Floyd

I originally got PortraitAI as a fun experiment, when I noticed something odd. Whenever I used PortraitAI on any of my black friends, the portrait it would produce was always of a white person. This is obviously problematic. There must be some way to rectify this and I hope changes are made in the future

by Gabie Allocca

I love seeing what we'd look like in medieval paintings.. Only down side is I wish it could get a little more of the body, like I'd like my shoulders a little more in the picture so it could look more like a "historical" painting...

by Armaan Youssef

PortraitAI is very fun, and pretty smart. I do love the selections of the paintings, although I do notice a lot of them do not represent people of color, as I hope there could be an option where the painting takes on the persons skin tone. To add to the selection of painted filters, there can be the use of orientalism, and many more portraits that portrayed people of color. I would also say that there should be an option of editing an entire photo then a selfie, or being given the option to crop the image we ones because sometimes the cropping of some images are a bit choppy. Overall, I am having fun with PortraitAI, but it could just be a lot better, even with the layout.

by Cat1245567

I love PortraitAI for myself, it’s a huge amount of fun and I spent a day playing with different photos of my friends, but it has a weakness. It’s really bad at darker skin tones. I don’t think it’s intentional or anything malicious! But I’d love to see them keep working on PortraitAI to make it work for everyone.

If you’re white and you don’t like your first photo try a different one. I ended up recognized as a guy a couple times and have to laugh, I look very silly with a mustache. ;)

by MargotLarouverey

I used to use the web version, on which they were very clear that the AI is trained on portraits of caucasians so unfortunately doesn’t work great on photos of POC (although sometimes I get results that are darker-skinned). It seems like they’re working on expanding that, so that’s cool.

I’d like to suggest an optional male/female checkmark thing. Sometimes I put in a male photo but the paintings look pretty feminine, and sometimes I put in a female photo and the resulting paintings all feature facial hair. So an option to force it to give male or female results would be helpful. (The facial hair thing seems to happen most often on women of color who are smiling, and overweight women of all races).

The “buy a subscription” thing pops up an awful lot. I totally get it, you guys want/need money, but the pop up could just be a little less frequent.

Overall pretty good app! Lots of fun.

I’m not sure why almost all the reviews say “pretty based”. Kinda suspicious when so many reviews say the same thing?

by Miguel Bloombito

PortraitAI is good and all, but, as someone said earlier, makes skin tones lighter. My tan skin turns a pale peach. Is this because only white people were present in the time that these paintings would've been? Also, when someone’s face is turned to the side, the software sometimes creates a grotesque image of a lopsided head. Otherwise, fantastic.

by Angrygirl#1

Wish it would capture ethnic people. Like my black friends couldn’t enjoy PortraitAI because it would lighten their skin.

by KingofSkulls56

I like it, It’s a fun little app to mess around with. I wish it was easier to use on fictional characters though that would be cool. It also seems to have trouble recognizing darker skin tones but it isn’t that big of a deal, I’m not going to get all pissy about it like the liberals reviewing it.

by Retromid

Please fix that recent bug. i subscribe this great app and enjoy turning to painting contents, but recently PortraitAI get an awful bug that crashes and when i want to save pics and click save button, app crashes. please fix this bug! from recent update

by Zekitty

White washes people of color. If you have melanin in your skin don’t bother. It’ll just turn you into a White person.

by Noahqwe

Doesn’t work.

by Bloob987

Or you like terrible pictures.

by CujoJones

It doesn’t recognize faces very well

by LochNeSie

Ive got darker skin. If you use this apps, your results will come out white. Not worth it.

by Jayeffsebastian

Only sees white faces

by J0nes Jr.

I really don’t know is that my phone or what but since I downloaded it PortraitAI keep saying don’t found face even the samples they put in..

by Asshdhhdhdjdjdhdhdjdhdhdhdh

Would be fun but the option to insert pictures from camera roll magically disappeared, and it takes longer to generate portraits than it did on the website anyway

by Saharuss001

I’m asian and it turns me into a white person. But I guess old portraits have always been of white people so the ai isn’t perfect.

by Jerdiaz

It makes people of color white, but cool app otherwise.

by Adritheangel

When it asks for permission to access camera roll I don’t have the choice to accept yes??

by Cpt.Carlson

Tons of fun

by Chelseabicole

Classical art is hilarious love it

by Ganga_90

It’s great app I have ever seen..