VidMage

VidMage's clearest advantage is the free tier's terms: 15 image face swaps a day, 20 seconds of video swap, 2 GIF swaps, no watermark and no registration — enough to test the output quality before you pay anything. The paid ladder is simple. The Monthly Plan is $14.99/mo for 400 credits; the Yearly Plan is $8.33/mo billed annually, which the site says saves about $105 against monthly. Pricing is transparent and the unit economics are published on the pricing page: 1 credit per photo swap, 1 credit per second of video or GIF swap, 5 credits per head swap. That means a 60-second video swap costs 60 credits — about a seventh of the monthly allowance — so this is a short-clip tool, not a long-form one. The Mac app is where VidMage differs from dedicated swappers. It processes swaps 100% locally, offers facial feature swap for partial replacement, gives real-time preview while a video plays, and supports live face swap during video calls and streaming. On the free plan, live swap is watermarked and capped at 5 minutes/day and each video has a 15-second preview time; the Monthly and Yearly plans lift both. If privacy of source media matters, that local path is the reason to pick VidMage over cloud-only tools. The wider tool list is a model aggregator play. Under one account you get Kling 3.0, Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Wan 3.0, Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3, Vidu, PixVerse, Hailuo, Runway, SkyReels, HappyHorse and Grok for video, and Midjourney, Nano Banana, GPT Image 2.5, Seedream, Qwen 3.0 and Z-Image for images, plus utilities like video enhancer, upscaler, extender, watermark remover, background remover, subtitle generator and lip sync. That breadth is convenient and it means VidMage's output quality tracks whoever ships the newest model rather than depending on one in-house model. The trade is depth: dedicated swappers like DeepSwap and Reface do more swapping-specific controls, and full creative suites charge more for fewer models. Weaknesses are real. The local app is Mac only, so Windows and mobile-first creators are stuck in the browser. Everything outside face swap bills against the same 400-credit allowance, so heavy video generation eats it fast. The tools are scoped to creative and entertainment use, not commercial production needing licensed output, and the acceptable-use policy against sexual, explicit, misleading or non-consensual content is strictly enforced with account termination. Support the site advertises an API and MCP endpoint only in beta. Where it fits: meme makers, short-form social creators, Mac users who want private local swap and live swap on calls. Where it doesn't: long-form video editors, commercial studios needing licensing, and anyone on Windows who needs the local privacy path.