Photo Lab

Photo Lab is a face editor tool. A mobile photo editor built around AI looks, hairstyle swaps, face replacement in photos and videos, style transfer art, skin enhancement and pop art meme templates. Curated one-tap results in seconds, with more than 500 million downloads reported.

Photo Lab is a long-running mobile photo editor that has moved its feature set onto AI processing. The app is distributed through the App Store and Google Play, and the publisher reports more than 500 million downloads. The core offer is a large library of one-tap transformations: swap a hairstyle, restyle a portrait as a painting, insert a face into a video, or push a selfie through a comic-book pop art meme template with captions preset in 12 languages. The design keeps the workflow deliberately short, so most results arrive seconds after a photo is uploaded. The AI features fall into a few groups. LookLab and LookLab 2.0 place a face into different professions, nationalities and historical eras, with controls for hair color, hairstyle and apparent age. DreamLook blends themes that range from realistic photographs to heavily stylized art while preserving the subject's facial features, skin tone and hair. ArtLook combines generative AI with style transfer, so a reference painting's brushwork can be applied to a portrait or a text prompt can build a new image in that style. The Enhancer handles skin refinement, tone and color with several intensity levels, from subtle correction to full glamorization. Identity work goes further with InstaLook, which uses facial recognition for face replacement in still images, and InstaMotion, which does the same for video. The Hairstyle tool covers a catalog from a clean shave and buzz cut through bobs, braids, dreadlocks and long waves, for men and women. Pop Art Meme Maker is the lightest entry point: bold comic panels with pre-set or custom text. Photo Lab suits casual users who want shareable results without learning an editor, and social creators who need volume rather than fine control. Compared with desktop editors built around manual layers and masking, it trades precision for speed: the selections are curated, and the output depends on how well the AI reads the source photo. It complements rather than replaces a full editor when retouching or compositing is the job.