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Retrato

Magical Portraits ✨

3.8•18 reviews•

292 followers

Magical Portraits ✨

3.8•18 reviews•

292 followers

Retrato is an app to transform your photos into extraordinary portraits using AI. Explore 500+ community styles to turn yourself into a supermodel, game character or renaissance painting, or create your own style to get your perfect and unique portrait.

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Launched in 2023 View 1 launch

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Launch tags:

Photography•Artificial Intelligence•Photo editing

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Joel Hernández

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Maker

📌

Hi everyone 👋, As someone who is camera-shy, when I learned about the technology that could teach AI to recognize a person's face, I knew it was time to finally achieve the perfect portrait I've always wanted! After months of experimentation, I successfully created a portrait that was so lifelike, not even my own mom could tell it was generated by AI. And thus, the first version of Retrato was born 📸. Fast forward to today, I'm incredibly excited to launch the Retrato app, with which you can get the perfect portrait of yourself, your pets, or even you and your partner, with just a few taps. In it not only can you find 500+ community styles, like football player, fashion model or videogame character, but you can also create your own using simple words like "me on a scooter in paris". Styles can be shared, remixed and shared again, it's wild, no cap! For those who might be wondering whether this all costs a fortune, it doesn't. We want high quality portraiture tech to be accesible for everyone, that's why we only charge a coffee-cup's worth of dollars for a subject with unlimited styles 🤯. Even better, the first 50 fellow hunters to try the app, can get their first subject for free using the promo code PRODUCTHUNT ! Freeebiezzz ftw ☕️ Excited to see what you'll create with this 🥳. Peace out ProductHunt ✌️

2yr ago

21st.dev

@lifenautjoe Wow, Retrato sounds amazing! I love the idea of being able to easily create lifelike portraits with just a few taps. It's great that it's affordable too. Can't wait to try it out! 👍

2yr ago

Replai AI Replies for LinkedIn & Twitter

@lifenautjoe Wow, this sounds amazing! Can't wait to try it out and see what kind of styles I can create. Is there a limit to how many styles I can make for one subject?

2yr ago

Joel Hernández

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Maker

@ilyaberdysh Hey Ilya! No limits! 🚀🚀🚀🚀

2yr ago

Joel Hernández

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Maker

@serjobas Thanks a lot Sergey! 🫶 Let us know how it goes! ✌️

2yr ago

Roman Panchoshnyi

@lifenautjoe 🫶cool!

2yr ago

Maimovie

💡 Bright idea

On first glimpse, Retrato may look like something you've already seen before. In fact, I've already tried multiple apps that generate AI-Avatars. However, upon downloading Retrato, I've found remarkable benefits that can't be found on any other portrait-generating apps. 1. Free promo code for Product Hunt users! - Idk where & how to input the Promo code though, clearer instructions on how to apply the code would be appreciated :) 2. DIY Style - I can stylize my portrait in any style I want using text. For other apps, I was given only pre-set options for my portrait 3. More realistic outputs - My complaint about other AI Avatar apps is that they look very Avatar-ish haha. They looked like a glorified version of me. Retrato gives me more realistic options than apps like SNOW It's so much fun to play with, I love it! ❤️ One question! Is the team working on a shorter processing time? If not, what is the prioritized development for the team right now?

2yr ago

Joel Hernández

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Maker

@mycelebs_elle Thanks for the amazing review Elisabeth , we are printing this out to hang it in our homes as we speak 😭❤️‍🔥. 1. On the checkout step, there's a lil text above the purchase button with the text "Enter promo code". Let me know if it's there, otherwise we'll send an expedition team to find it 🫡 2. YASSSSSS 👨🏼‍🎨 3. This one was a real tough one to crack, but when we passed the mums-test, that of our mothers not being able to tell the difference, we knew we were onto something great! Curious to hear more about what styles worked the best for you! We also have a prompt engineer working fulltime on populating some more so be sure to keep an eye on that explore section 👀 4. Yes! We are currently in the process of migrating our infrastructure which will increase our processing time from minutes to seconds and hours to minutes! Thank you for your patience in the meanwhile 🥹 As in for priorities, we're working on creating a massive database of styles, making it easier to create consistent and amazing results on custom styles by doing some magic prompt augmentation and getting the word out there about the app! There's also a tool we're building for power users which will be coming out in the upcoming weeks but that one I must keep under the radar until then 🤐 Thanks a lot for your comment again Elisabeth!

2yr ago

Joel Hernández

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Maker

@adithya Hey Adithya! Can you restart the app and give it a try again? It should be on the last step and the coupon only has 3 more redemptions available so gogogogo! 🏃‍♂️

2yr ago

Congratulations on the launch 🚀! Does your functionality and performance more or less the same as in Lensa( I think they are the first who implemented personalized portraits) or you have smth unique?

2yr ago

Joel Hernández

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Maker

@alexey_yar Hey Alexey! We are something pretty unique ⭐️. Lensa does squared AI Avatars like dozens of other apps out there! We do full-blown extraordinary portraits. Anything from photorealistic lifestyle portraiture, to 3D renders, to seeing yourself as a bar of soap, we have trained our own model to excel at portraiture photography, regardless of what the desired style is :-). Yesterday there was a viral post on Twitter saying: In the next 3 - 5 years, every single image in social media will be generated by AI. We are *that* product 😬

2yr ago

@lifenautjoe 🔥

2yr ago

3.8

Based on 18 reviews

Review Retrato?

Retrato receives mixed reviews. Users appreciate its ability to create professional-grade portraits and avatars, with some highlighting its suitability for social media profiles. However, many express frustration over unclear pricing, noting that payment is required after uploading photos, despite initial impressions of a free service. Some users report technical issues during the upload process. Overall, while the app is praised for its creative potential and quality results, transparency regarding costs and smoother functionality could enhance user satisfaction.

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Ariel Weinberger

Amplication

I don’t appreciate it when I download an app to my phone, then I’m asked to upload 10 personal pictures which I need to spend quite some time on, just to find out that it’s paid without a trial or anything like that. I was even more surprised that nowhere on your website you mention anything about pricing. Just not cool, the kinda patterns I thought were gone a long time ago.

2yr ago

Joel Hernández

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Hey Ariel, we hear you. Generating these portraits cost a lot of computing resources we have to cost, before been able to show any results therefore it's not possible for us to offer free trials, not where technology is right now. We'll make sure that it's clear right from the get-go that it costs money to create your Retratos. Thank you for your feedback!

2yr ago

How do I get the Promo code?

2yr ago

The best AI app , you get to choose exactly what you want !!! Not like others that’s just so random 🥱 I believe this company has true potencial 🤘🏼to keep making this world a better place trough technology and arts ! Keep it up guys ! I loved it !

2yr ago