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HeyGen

“Be your best self, every time. Create clear, confident AI videos with your Personal Avatar—your face and voice, without filming every video.”

by HeyGen

Free planFree plan with paid upgradesAmateur & ProHeat 79

Our review

HeyGen generates talking-avatar videos and can translate existing videos into other languages while matching voice and lip movement. Popular for marketing, sales outreach and multilingual content.

Pros

  • Impressive video translation
  • Custom avatars of yourself

Cons

  • Free plan is limited and watermarked

Being used for

  • AI avatar and talking-head videos45 posts · X · Reddit · HN
  • Voiceovers and narration21 posts · X · Reddit · HN
  • Cloning a voice10 posts · X · Reddit · HN
  • Making ads9 posts · X · Reddit · HN
  • Dubbing and translating videos6 posts · X · Reddit · HN

Based on 62 public posts on X, Reddit, and Hacker News that describe using it · checked Oct 23, 2026

Also does

  • DistributionGood fit

    UGC-style avatar ads and translated spokesperson videos.

Use cases · Hear from users

Real posts from people using HeyGen on X, sorted by engagement (English first).

  • Today, I used @HeyGen_Official Digital Twin powered by Avatar IV, and it felt surprisingly real. It wasn’t just an avatar on the screen — it felt like me. It copied my gestures, facial expressions, and even the way I speak. The movements looked natural, not robotic — and for a…

    31 likes · 9 reposts · 35 repliesView on X ↗
  • See Fine woman…😫❤️ She’s AI… A very simple Nano banana + Kling + ElevenLabs + HeyGen workflow, I made this 5 months ago! I have a lot to teach y’all… can’t wait to start working on classes for you!!! https://t.co/FL9NrwxVZv

    61 likes · 5 reposts · 9 repliesView on X ↗
  • Headie @iamheadie

    On June 1st, I made an ad for @Heineken, and I received a lot of questions in my dm about how I created it and which AI tools I used. So today, I'll be sharing a quick guide on how I made my Heineken ad using invideo Agent One. Invideo Agent One is one of the best AI agents I'…

    30 likes · 2 reposts · 14 repliesView on X ↗
  • sandrom @sandrom303

    I tried the new image2lipsync of @HeyGen_Official The first test is mixed. Some turned out nice, others were only meh, once without lip movement. Granted, this was a hard one, but I used the dry vocals, not the actual song (that worked even worse). Room for improvement☺️ https:…

    27 likes · 5 reposts · 4 repliesView on X ↗
  • Ayyoub Ai @MaAyyoub

    No camera. No studio. No actors. Even Me talking is AI. 🎬 I made this entire 44s promo from a single character sheet. Here's the full workflow 👇 1️⃣ Character sheet → locks a consistent face across every shot 2️⃣ Studio shot → @higgsfield MCP (GPT Image 2.5): podcast s…

    12 likes · 2 reposts · 5 repliesView on X ↗
  • “Self Control”. Made a little music video to this @sunomusic song I made that I really love. Here’s the tools I used to make this one: Images: #Midjourney Animation: @heygen_official @hailuoai_official - Midjourney. #ai #aiart #aivideo #aimusic #suno #hailuo #minimax #heygen…

    21 likes · 2 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗
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  • Brian @8riantam

    I made a feature last month that replicates a physical product by putting it into my app, and made videos about it. Each video just keeps showing the digital product in a clothing shop together with viral music (it matters!). This explicitly shows the app’s feature on the phone…

    12 likes · 0 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗
  • I use many different creative AI tools everyday and recently started experimenting with @HeyGen_Official. I just wanted to commend the HeyGen team for their excellent community resources and documentation. 👏 As a product manager by day, I know creating quality tutorials, guides…

    6 likes · 1 reposts · 3 repliesView on X ↗
  • Clown @ohsopathetic

    My favorite AI video production tool is  @HeyGen_Official I made a demo video on how to use HeyGen as a complete beginner. You can generate personalized videos with any avatar of your choice. https://t.co/qHD5mSYhex I used @SupademoHQ to create the demo.

    9 likes · 1 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • I made myself an AI Clone that posts to social media for me. It's fully automated the creation and posting of talking head videos to TikTok, IG, YouTube & more. https://t.co/ISiwEIPamM Imagine creating videos of yourself talking to the camera - without ever picking up a camer…

    3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗
  • This is a seriously solid release from HeyGen. Audio is very important for AI realism, so having the generated voice match both your natural pacing and the actual acoustics of the scene is a huge deal. I've been using Heygen for a long time now. Heygen was an important part of m…

    8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗
  • ✅5 AI tools I used personally (paid for some of them) and found worth sharing about. First two are for content creation: 👇 1. @HeyGen : I create video content and this helped me create a video with my Avatar. My editor asked me if this was AI generated but my friends couldn’t…

    7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗
  • shogo @copilot_shogo

    I built an AI twin of myself to make my reels. Voice: cloned with ElevenLabs Face: HeyGen digital twin Edit: Claude Code writes the whole video in code First one is live. Every frame below was made without a camera 👇 https://t.co/s5TEycm4hv

    1 likes · 0 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗
  • @HeyGen @heyhollyx @nkwrnr Is Scamming People? Creators Need to Be Aware.Paid Accounts Deactivated Without Warning. Here’s What Happened to Me Thread 👇 I’ve been using @HeyGen since May 2026 and previously recommended it to my students and a community of 10,000+ creators

    0 likes · 0 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗
  • Lia Zhang @intoutich

    AI avatars make me curious: would I use one in my own content workflow? So I tried it myself with @HeyGen. The result surprised me. 👇 https://t.co/zWV8vMbGlK

    0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • @HeyGen I tried the Heygen video model via API with my own prompt. The API doc says I can send a prompt up to 32k chars, mine was around 8k and I got rejected because the prompt exceeded 5k. Can you please fix this?

    1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • I tried @HeyGen_Official Video Translate! I used a hindi video sample and asked it to translate into English with lip-sync. Here are the results... (1/2) Video Credits: @FITTRwithsquats https://t.co/qZkpGu2jot

    1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • RJ @20DollarBeats

    I used to charge $200 for these short video hooks. I made this for less than $20 in credits on HeyGen and got 1000's of visits within an hour. So why would you pay more for it? (see my prompts below 👇) https://t.co/q1hT6FCHG2

    1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • So somehow I managed to start working with The @gregisenberg -The 2nd video I made for him crossed 1M+ views in less than 24 hours. - It's at 1.6M with 160K likes as I type this. -The first video we posted is at 71K. I'm not surprised. I knew it was gonna rip. Last week I…

    3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗
  • Dei um rosto para o vídeo gerado pelo @NotebookLM com a @HeyGen_Official . Utilizei o vídeo que o NotebookLM gerou com base no texto da última edição da minha newsletter e combinei com um Avatar IA da HeyGen. E não é que ficou bom? Acompanha a thread 🧵 https://t.co/psAvjWQ7Vz

    0 likes · 2 reposts · 2 repliesView on X ↗