HeyEditor is a browser-based photo and video editor built around AI face swap, with a photo enhancer and a photo-to-anime converter bolted on. You upload a photo or a video, pick the tool, and the site does the swap, the upscale or the anime makeover. That’s the whole pitch, and honestly I like it for that. It isn’t pretending to be a companion app or a sprawling generator studio. It’s a compact set of tools with a price tag at the friendly end of the market.
Who’s going to love it? People who want to play with swaps on their own photos and clips, clean up blurry shots, or turn a picture into an anime version, all without juggling three different subscriptions. If that’s you, HeyEditor is worth a look, especially if the bigger names in the space feel like more than you need.
What you see when you land on the site
First impression: clean and simple. The site calls itself an online video editor and photo editor, and the homepage is split exactly that way. There’s a block of Online Video Editor Tools and a block of Online Photo Editor Tools, each tool with its own “Try it out” button. Along the top you get Video Editor, Photo Editor, Pricing, Sign up and Log in. No roster of faces, no character grid, no maze of tabs. You pick a job and go.
The tools the site names are face swap (for video and for photos), Photo Enhancer and Photo to Anime. The meta description sums it up in plain words: upload video or photo for faceswap, convert video or images into anime, enhance photos for best resolution and details. The anime side is the fun wildcard here. If you’ve got a photo of yourself and fancy seeing it as an anime character, that’s a button, not a project.
In the rankings, HeyEditor sits at the bottom of our best NSFW AI face swap tools list. Keep that in context: the ranking is built from what’s publicly documented (here’s how we rank), and HeyEditor’s public pages are very short. Less on the page means less for us to score, not necessarily a worse tool.
How face swap, enhancing and anime conversion work
The flow the site lays out is about as short as it gets. You choose a tool from the homepage, say video face swap. You upload a source photo with the face you want and the video you want it on. The site promises the AI handles the rest. The catalog description leans on the “one click” idea, and that’s the vibe of the whole thing: fewer settings, more doing.
Photo face swap works the same way with a still image as the target. The output is an image, and for video swaps the site’s promise is a clip with the new face mapped in. The Photo Enhancer is the one I’d call the sleeper feature. Blurry or low-res shots go in, and the site promises sharper detail and better resolution coming out. It’s handy on its own and handy as a second pass after a swap.
Photo to Anime rounds things out. Upload a picture, get an anime-style version back. Whether a swapped face holds up through a whole video, frame after frame, is the question the homepage can’t answer, and it’s the one that decides whether you’ll stick around. That’s exactly why the pricing setup below is nice: you can start small and find out.
Credits or Pro: picking a HeyEditor plan
HeyEditor gives you two ways to pay, both by debit or credit card. The first is credit packs: 100, 500, 1,000 or 3,000 credits. The bigger packs come with a discount that grows as you go up, 8% off at 500, 10% off at 1,000 and 20% off at 3,000. Credits suit anyone who swaps in bursts rather than every week, because you’re not paying for months you don’t use.
The second is Pro, sold as a one-month plan or a twelve-month plan. The site shows the monthly Pro at half off its listed rate and the yearly at 70% off, which makes the annual option one of the cheaper ways into face swap anywhere on the list. What Pro opens up in detail, and how it relates to credits, is shown after sign-up rather than on the public pricing page. My take as a mate: buy the smallest credit pack first, run a few swaps and a video, and if you’re hooked, go straight to the yearly Pro, because that’s where the real value is. The monthly Pro is fine for a short binge, but the year works out far better per month.
Good to know before you start
There’s no free plan listed, so your “trial” is really the smallest credit pack. Think of it as a cheap test drive: it’s enough to see how the swaps and the enhancer look on your own material before you commit to anything bigger.
Video is where a tool like this earns its keep, and it’s also the heavier job, so if video swaps are your main reason for signing up, lean toward the larger credit packs or Pro rather than topping up the small pack over and over. If you want to see how others handle video specifically, our best NSFW AI video face swap tools list puts HeyEditor next to the rest.
It’s web only, with no app mentioned, which honestly is no hardship. It runs in the browser, so it works from a laptop or your phone without installing anything. And if a free way in matters more to you than price, Swaperface.com and Facy.ai both offer free plans, so you can compare and come back.
If a small, cheap, do-a-few-things-well editor sounds like your kind of tool, grab the smallest credit pack at HeyEditor and give your first swap a go.
Bottom line
HeyEditor costs $7.58/mo and has no free plan; it runs on Web. Where it lands in our rankings: lower half in Face Swap and Video. Best for: Budget users wanting face swap, upscaling and anime conversion in one place. Score 6.1/10 across six weighted criteria; how we rank.
HeyEditor alternatives
DeepSwap: $19.99/mo, free trial; sits at #17 in Face Swap. Against HeyEditor: $12.41 a month pricier than HeyEditor; adds image generation; scores 5.6 against 6.1 here.
Facy.ai: $19.99/mo, free plan; sits at #9 in Face Swap. Against HeyEditor: $12.41 a month pricier than HeyEditor; you can try it without paying, which HeyEditor does not offer; scores 6.5 against 6.1 here.
xFakes: $20/mo, no free plan; sits at #23 in Face Swap. Against HeyEditor: $12.42 a month pricier than HeyEditor; scores 4.8 against 6.1 here.
