Photo AI

A phone app for iPhone and Android. The user picks a look, such as digicam flash, golden hour or vintage photobooth, and takes or uploads a selfie. The app sends the photo to Google's Gemini image model and returns the same person in that look within seconds. A free editor with film filters runs on the phone without AI. AI pictures cost credits, which come with a weekly subscription or in packs.

The demand existed before the app: photos that look as if a compact digital camera from the 2000s took them have been a trend on TikTok since at least 2022. Boothie sells that look without the camera, for a small weekly price, to the people who already post such photos. The founder says every user came from TikTok picture posts made by about a dozen accounts in three countries, with no paid advertising. One person could build it because the image model is rented from Google and paid for by the picture.

A web studio that turns one photo of each person and one photo of each pet into a single AI-generated portrait of them together, in a chosen scene. The first three previews are free and watermarked. The first portrait costs US$19 and each additional one US$10, as a one-time purchase, and a portrait can be sent as a gift or printed on a framed print, mug, ornament or blanket.

It sells a picture that most pet owners do not have and cannot easily take: a good photo of themselves together with their pet. The customer sees a free preview before paying, so an ad only has to bring a person to the upload page. The founder says the sales come from ads, and the site says it advertises on Facebook and Instagram. Verified daily revenue rose from US$76 on 15 September 2026 to US$1,099 on 22 September.

You upload a photo. In about five seconds remove.bg returns the same photo with the background cut away, so the person or product in front stands on a transparent layer. A small preview is free; full-resolution results, the API and the Photoshop plugin cost credits.

It took one task that every designer does by hand in Photoshop, made it one click and free, and let Product Hunt, Twitter and TechCrunch spread it. Then it charged professionals for resolution and for an API, stayed profitable with no investors, and sold to Canva, which had already built the tool into its own product a year earlier.

You upload a photo of a room, pick a room type and a style, and about 25 seconds later you get a photorealistic render of the same room redesigned. It also furnishes empty rooms for real estate listings, turns sketches into renders, and makes walk-through videos.

It was the first product of its kind, built in five days in September 2022, a few weeks after the image model it uses was released as open source. The founder already had a large audience from ten years of public revenue reports, so the launch post was enough marketing. Rented GPUs and one person keep costs low. Revenue reached about US$40,000 to US$50,000 a month and has been falling since 2025 as large AI companies and competitors ship the same feature.

A church connects the audio of its service, from a microphone or the sound desk, to Glossa in a browser and starts a stream. Glossa turns the speech into text, translates the text, and reads the translation aloud with a synthetic voice. Each visitor scans a QR code, picks one of more than 100 languages on a phone, and listens with earphones or reads the captions. The church needs no receivers and no interpreter booth. It pays for the minutes of speech in each language, not for the number of listeners.

Churches with members from many countries meet every week, and the older solutions cost too much for most of them: an interpreter for each language, or radio receivers to hand out and collect. Glossa charges US$5 for one hour of speech in one language, counts by the minute, and charges nothing for silence, songs or extra listeners, so a small church can start with four free hours and then a few dollars a week. The product is shaped for this one buyer: captions go into ProPresenter and OBS, which churches already run, and a church can fix how names, Bible quotations and its own terms are translated. A very small team can offer this because the speech recognition and the voices are rented from model companies and paid by use.

A website and phone app that masters a song from a written request such as "warm, powerful and wide stereo". Each request comes back as a new revision that the user can compare with the earlier ones, and a Spotify link can serve as the reference for loudness and tone. The same subscription includes a splitter that separates a song into vocals, drums, bass and instruments. Since September 2026 the company also offers a generator that makes a music video from the song. Unlimited use costs US$16 a month or US$48 a year on the web.

For its first 20 months the product brought in about US$3,500 a month. Then three things came together: phone apps with weekly plans from August 2025, web plans with unlimited use at US$4 a month billed yearly, and a new group of customers, people who make songs with AI generators such as Suno and need the last step done for them. Monthly revenue rose 7.2 times between January and July 2026. No source states which of the changes caused the rise.