Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to PhotoSmileys

Transform your face into animated 3D emoji

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PhotoSmileys launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Emojiface▲92

   Turn your face into an emoji

   2015 · emojiface.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Emojer▲103

   Animate yourself! Turn any photo into an animated emoji.

   2018 · its alternatives →

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   Emoji Me Face Maker▲112

   Transform you and your friends into emojis

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Emojify▲108

   Convert photo into an emoji artwork

   2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Memoji by Facetune▲151

   Make your face an emoji. Your face is about to go viral.

   2017 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Fotomoji▲146

   Turn your photos (and selfies) into an emoji explosion 😂

   2016 · secondverse.org · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Emojify▲114

   Filters are boring. Add emoji to your photos. 😀 😉 😎

   2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Emojifyer▲239

   Emojify yourself with AI

   2024 · emojifyer.com · its alternatives →

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   Emoji▲135

   A collection of fun 3D emojis

   2021 · wannathis.one · its alternatives →

10. 10
    InstaEmoji▲86

    Replace your friend's face with emoji 😹

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Shuggie▲76

    Animate emoji over your pictures

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Image2Emoji▲97

    Turn any image into a collage of emojis

    2015 · image2emoji.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Emoji Masks▲214

    Emojis for your face

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    EMOJIZ▲131

    Animated 3D emoji set with source files

    2021 · emojiz.design · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Face Maker▲141

    Get creative with the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Image to Cartoon▲228

    Best AI cartoonizer online for free

    2021 · imagetocartoon.com · its alternatives →

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    Facemoji▲108

    Emoji your face (via your webcam)

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Emoji Mosaic▲123

    Upload any photo and convert it to an emoji portrait.

    2015 · ericandrewlewis.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Tokkingheads by Rosebud▲159

    Instantly animate a portrait photo w/ text, speech, or video

    2020 · app.tokkingheads.com · its alternatives →

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    Image Object Removal API▲117

    This demo allows you to recreate images using emojis. You can provide images or emojis to paint with, and it will attempt to recreate images using emojis. Much of the code is adopted from the Paint Transformer (https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03798) paper. In this code base, I treat emojis like “brushes”, and use a Gumbel Softmax-based lookup to choose an emoji to paste to the canvas during training (similar to how attention uses a softmax to select keys during training).

    Dec 2025 · replicate.com · its alternatives →

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    Emojify▲75

    Make your own emojis.

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Askey▲97

    Turn your drawings into text & emoji on iOS!

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Cartoon Face▲75

    Turn your photo into a Disney 3D cartoon face with AI.

    2022 · imgkits.com · its alternatives →

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    Real Emoji▲56

    Bringing life to emoticons!

    2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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