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AI · December 9, 2022

BeSanta, Real time Santa Claus AI avatars on your iPhone

I am the founder of animato.ai and just released "BeSanta", an iPhone app that you can use to create custom Santa Claus videos in real time, to bring some surprise and joy to your kids. The Santa Claus characters were made with generative AI and run on the phone neural engine in 16ms or something like that. Tired of the endless lines at the mall for meeting Santa Claus? Check it out :)

BeSanta, Real time Santa Claus AI avatars on your iPhone launched on December 9, 2022 with 28 votes, #1,085 of 3,688 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

In plain words

BeSanta is an iPhone app that generates custom Santa Claus videos in real time using AI characters. Parents can create personalized messages from Santa for their children without visiting shopping malls. The app runs AI processing directly on the device's neural engine, delivering results in milliseconds. It's designed to provide a convenient, personalized holiday experience for families.

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