Cinemagraph generator
A cinemagraph is a photo that keeps a small part of itself alive — steam curling off a coffee, hair moving in the wind, water rippling under a still sky. Upload an image and get one as a seamlessly looping MP4.
Drop a photo here to turn it into a seamless loop
JPG, PNG or WebP · up to 8 MB · 1 free loop per day, no signup
The old way took hours
Traditionally a cinemagraph meant shooting video on a tripod, importing it into Photoshop or After Effects, masking the region you wanted to keep moving, freezing everything else, and hand-tuning the loop point until the seam stopped showing. It is a genuinely fiddly craft and it is why good cinemagraphs used to be rare.
Here you upload a single still. The model infers what motion the scene implies, animates it, and the clip is mirrored so the last frame lands exactly on the first — the part that used to take the longest is handled by construction.
Choosing a photo that will come alive
The strongest cinemagraphs have one obvious thing that should be moving and a lot of stillness around it. A harbour at dusk with drifting cloud. A cup with steam. A neon sign reflected in a wet street. Rain on a window. Long hair or a loose scarf outdoors.
If a photo has no plausible motion in it at all — a flat product shot on white, a document, a screenshot — the model has nothing to work with and you will get a very subtle result. That is a limitation worth knowing before you spend your free render on it.
Where people use them
Website hero sections that feel alive without a distracting full video. Social posts that stop the scroll because something is quietly moving. Phone and desktop wallpapers. Digital signage and menu boards. Slide backgrounds that are not static but do not pull focus either.
Questions
- How is this different from a normal AI video?
- A normal image-to-video clip has a start and an end, so when it repeats there is a visible jump. Here the clip is mirrored back on itself, so the end frame is the start frame and it can repeat forever cleanly — which is what makes it read as a cinemagraph rather than a short video.
- Can I control exactly which part moves?
- Not with a mask, the way you would in After Effects. You can type a motion hint like 'only the steam moves' and the model will lean that way, but it is guidance rather than a hard selection.
- What do I get back?
- A 6-second MP4 with no watermark. Play it on loop anywhere that accepts video.
- Is it free?
- One cinemagraph per day per visitor, free, no account needed.