AI Gender Swap

See yourself as another gender. A realistic, high-quality gender swap that keeps the result believable.

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JPG, PNG or WebP - up to 15 MB

Uses 10 credits - earn more free

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Why use Gender Swap?

Believable results

Adjusts features and hair holistically, not with a crude mask.

Keeps resemblance

The result still echoes the original person's look.

One-tap

Upload, generate, done - No settings to fiddle with.

The AI Gender Swap reimagines a face as another gender, thoughtfully adjusting features, hairstyle and styling for a natural, believable result. It's one of the most popular face filters out there - Fun to try on yourself and friends, and surprisingly realistic.

How it works

1

Upload a photo

A clear, front-facing portrait works best.

2

Generate

The AI produces a realistic gender-swapped version.

3

Download

Save and share your result.

Gender Swap examples

Popular ways to use Gender Swap

Gender Swap is used for fun social challenges, character and cosplay concepting, and curiosity edits. Creators also use it to design alternate versions of a character from a single reference photo.

Pairs well with our Age Filter and AI Avatar Generator.

New to this? Read our best photos to use.

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Why hair and styling make or break the result

A believable gender swap is about far more than facial features - hair, brows and styling carry a huge amount of the visual signal. Because the AI reworks these together with bone structure, the most natural results come from photos where your hairline and face are fully visible, not hidden under a cap or a heavy fringe. If you're not happy with the hair in a result, you can take it further: send the output to our Hairstyle Changer to test a different cut, length or colour on the swapped version. Neutral expressions and even, front-on lighting consistently give the most convincing transformation.

Creative and character-design uses

Artists, writers and cosplayers lean on gender swap to concept alternate versions of a character from a single reference image - a fast way to explore a 'genderbent' design before committing to a full illustration or costume. Streamers and content creators use it for reveal challenges and reaction videos, and it's a reliable engagement post for 'rate my other self' threads. To push a concept further, turn the swapped result into a stylised character with the AI Avatar Generator, or age it with the Age Filter to imagine the same alternate persona at a different stage of life.

Best photos to use

  • A clean-shaven or lightly-stubbled face for a feminine swap, since a heavy beard forces the AI to invent a whole jaw, chin and cheek surface it can't see under the hair
  • Visible, un-plucked eyebrows in their natural shape, because the model treats brow thickness and arch as one of its strongest gender levers and reshapes them first
  • A jawline and neck left uncovered by a high collar, scarf or turtleneck, as both a masculine and a feminine swap widen or narrow the jaw and need that edge to anchor to
  • Bare or near-bare skin with no existing makeup, so a feminine swap applies its own liner and lip tone instead of stacking on top of contouring you already wore
  • A neutral, lips-together expression rather than a broad smile, since a wide grin pulls the cheeks up and hides the jaw and lip shape the AI relies on to re-gender the lower face

What to keep in mind

  • It commits to one clear opposite-gender result and won't aim for a deliberately androgynous or non-binary midpoint, because the model is trained to push toward a single distinct target
  • Hard masculine cues that survive the swap - a heavy brow ridge, a very square mandible, a receding hairline, an Adam's apple - can bleed into a feminine output and leave 'tells' that read as slightly off
  • It changes appearance, not anatomy or biology, so the image is a styling what-if and not a medical or genetic prediction of how anyone would actually present
  • Very long, voluminous hair on the original can box in a masculine swap, since the AI tends to keep the existing hair mass rather than crop it short, leaving a mismatched long-hair-on-masculine-face look

What you get

You get one photorealistic still image of the same person reimagined as the other gender, with facial bone structure, brows, hair and styling re-rendered together as a set, while the original lighting, background, head angle and pose are carried over unchanged.

Real ways to use Gender Swap

Genderbent cosplay reference sheet
A cosplayer shoots a neutral front-on photo, swaps gender, and uses the brow, jaw and hairline the AI produces as a planning reference for wig style, wardrobe and makeup before building the costume.
Author casting a character's alternate version
A writer feeds a face they're using as a character model, generates the opposite-gender version, and keeps both images side by side as visual references for a gender-flipped version of that character in their story.
Sibling 'opposite-twin' comparison post
Someone swaps their own selfie and lines it up next to a real brother or sister to see how close the AI's other-gender face lands to an actual relative, a reliable format for a 'which sibling did I become' thread.

Gender Swap rebuilds bone structure and styling to read as the other gender; if you instead want to keep your own face and only add or remove cosmetics, use AI Makeup, and if you want to change only the look on your face without re-gendering it, use the Expression Editor.

Gender Swap FAQ

How realistic is it?
Very - It reworks facial structure, hair and styling together for a natural look rather than a filter overlay.
Best type of photo?
A sharp, evenly lit, front-facing photo with the full face visible.
Is it free?
Yes, free like every tool. It uses 10 credits per run.
Can I control how feminine or masculine the result looks?
The tool aims for a natural, balanced swap automatically; you can re-run it for variations, but it doesn't expose fine sliders for intensity.
Does it work on side-profile photos?
It can, but front-facing photos give it the most facial information to rework, so they produce the most believable swaps.