Lensa
Officially listedAI portrait beautification app from Prisma Labs.
Lensa
Lensa is a mobile AI photo editor from Prisma Labs that went viral in 2022 with Magic Avatars and is regarded as the consumer product that first brought Stable Diffusion to the public at scale. It pitches one-tap results with no skills required, giving social media users who want to look better fast a one-stop experience from artistic avatars to daily retouching, with an App Store rating steady above 4.6 stars.
Core Capabilities
- Magic Avatars: upload 10–20 selfies, a dedicated model is trained in the cloud, and 50–200 AI portraits in anime, fantasy, and professional-headshot styles arrive in 20–30 minutes
- AI beautification suite: Hollywood lighting, hair volume boost, virtual makeup, one-tap blemish removal and smoothing, with AI face detection
- Object removal: swipe to erase passersby and clutter while AI rebuilds the background; upgraded to Advanced Eraser in 2026
- Image enhancement: AI super-resolution upscaling and low-light recovery bring detail back to low-quality photos
- Hairstyle try-on: preview different hairstyles from a single selfie — a 2025–2026 addition
- Background editing: one-tap background blur/replace, with foreground and background color-adjustable separately
Use Cases Suited to ordinary users and influencer-creators who want to quickly produce polished selfies for Instagram, TikTok, and Xiaohongshu (RED) and unify their social feed style, plus early adopters who want personalized AI avatars or professional headshots on the cheap. Not suited to privacy-sensitive users or professionals needing fine manual control or desktop workflows.
Unique Advantages Where Remini excels at restoration and FaceApp at playful transformations, Lensa integrates artistic avatars with a full AI editing suite in one app — editing, avatars, and export complete in the same session, highly automated with almost no learning curve. $3.99 buys 50 stylized portraits, a standout value against custom artists or studio photoshoots at $200+.
Editorial Review App Store 4.6+ with tens of millions of cumulative downloads; usable within 5 minutes, with solid polish and reputation — a flagship of the AI portrait beautification niche. But subscription plus avatar-pack stacked billing, a free tier limited to 1 save per day, and face-data privacy controversy mean it is not for everyone.
Pricing
### 💰 定价模式：免费增值 **起步价**：免费（Pro 订阅 $7.99/月起，Magic Avatars 头像包 $3.99 起） #### 主要方案 - **免费版**：$0 - 基本编辑可用，每天仅能保存 1 张照片，导出带水印，高级 AI 功能锁定 - **Pro 周付**：$2.99 - $4.99/周 - 无限编辑、全部滤镜与 AI 高级修图、去水印、无广告 - **Pro 月付**：$7.99/月 - 同上，多数来源报道 $7.99/月 - **Pro 年付**：$29.99 - $39.99/年 - 同上，多数来源报道 $35.99/年 - **Magic Avatars 头像包**：$3.99（50 张）/ $5.99（100 张）/ $7.99（200 张），Pro 用户约 5 折 #### 试用/其他信息 Pro 订阅含 7 天免费试用；官网无独立定价页，价格因地区、平台及 A/B 测试实时变化，以 App 内购页面为准。
FAQ
Is Lensa free?
It is freemium: the free tier allows basic editing but only 1 photo saved per day with watermarked exports; the Pro subscription unlocks unlimited editing, watermark removal, and all AI features; Magic Avatars requires a separately purchased one-time avatar pack.
What can Lensa do?
Lensa is a mobile AI photo editor whose core features include Magic Avatars artistic portrait generation, an AI beautification suite, object removal, image enhancement, background editing, hairstyle try-on, and one-tap filter presets, focused on beautifying and quickly polishing social portraits.
How does Lensa's Magic Avatars work?
After you upload 10–20 selfies, Lensa trains a dedicated model per user in the cloud using Stable Diffusion with Dreambooth-like personalized fine-tuning, generating 50–200 AI portraits in anime, fantasy, professional-headshot, and other styles in about 20–30 minutes.
How does Lensa differ from Remini and FaceApp?
The three differ in focus: Remini excels at old photo restoration, FaceApp at playful face transformations, while Lensa excels at artistic avatar generation and integrates avatars with a full AI editing suite in one app for a more unified experience.
How is Lensa's privacy protection?
The company promises edited photos and face data are deleted within 24 hours, and original photos and model copies are permanently deleted immediately after Magic Avatars generation succeeds, never used for AI training or advertising. But you must upload 10–20 selfies, and in 2022 it sparked controversies over sexualized images and racial bias.
Who should use Lensa?
It suits ordinary users and influencers who want to quickly produce polished portraits for Instagram, TikTok, and Xiaohongshu (RED), unify their social media style, or get AI art avatars and professional headshots cheaply; not for privacy-sensitive users or professionals needing fine manual control or desktop workflows.
How much does Lensa cost?
Magic Avatars packs are $3.99 (50), $5.99 (100), and $7.99 (200); the Pro subscription is about $7.99/month or $29.99–39.99/year, with Pro users getting roughly 50% off avatar packs. Prices vary by region and platform — in-app purchases are authoritative.