11 Best Online Profile Picture Makers to Make PFPs With AI

A profile picture is the first thing people see when they search for your content. It’s important to make a memorable first impression, whether it’s putting your best face forward for friends who haven’t seen you since high school, or clearly outlining your brand and what you are about.  

With the right profile picture maker, you can create a good profile picture that will stand out from all the rest. We put together a list of the top PFP makers available so you can find the right one for your needs - whether you need to touch up your face for the perfect headshot, create a unique anime character from your own image, turn your dog into an oil painting, or create a logo to match your brand. 

• Snapshot of Our Top 3 Profile Picture Makers
• How to Choose the Best Profile Picture Maker
• How We Test Profile Picture Makers
• Best Profile Picture Makers Comparison Chart
• The Best Online Profile Picture Makers - Ranked
• What is the Best Profile Picture Maker?
• Profile Picture Makers FAQ

Snapshot of Our Top 3 Profile Picture Makers

How to Choose the Best Profile Picture Maker

Choosing the best PFP maker can be a daunting task, especially in today's digital age, where the plethora of options available can be overwhelming. Below, we discuss the factors to consider when choosing a profile picture maker that best suits your needs.

Purpose/Type 

Firstly, it is important to determine the purpose of your profile picture. Are you using it for professional reasons, social media, or personal branding? Second, what type of PFP do you want to make? The options on our list cover personal avatars, quotes, headshots, and logos. Once you have identified your purpose and type of image, you can begin to look for a profile picture maker that caters to those particular requirements.

Quality

One of the most important factors to consider is the quality of the images produced by the profile picture maker. A good profile picture maker should be able to produce high-quality images, with high resolution and clarity. It should be able to edit and enhance the images so they stand out and reflect your personality.

Ease of Use

Another important factor is the ease of use. The PFP maker should be easy to navigate, with a user-friendly interface. It should have simple instructions and controls that you can easily manipulate to get the desired results.

Customizations

A good profile picture maker should offer a variety of customization options. You should be able to choose from different filters, effects, and enhancements that suit your style and preference. This ensures that you are not limited to a few options, and you can get creative with your results.

Price

Lastly, consider the price of the profile picture maker. While there are many free options available, they may not offer the same level of quality and customization. Investing in a paid PFP maker may be a wise decision, especially if you want to stand out from the crowd.

How We Test Profile Picture Makers

We tested a large number of online profile picture makers and recorded our findings to help you make an informed decision. Here’s a look behind the curtain at how we conduct our tests.

Initial Upload

First, we gather some images we’d like to use as profile pictures and include some headshots and some full-body shots. We visit the site of our test PFP maker and upload the first image. In the initial upload, we look at the following:

• User Interface - is the site easy to use and understand?
• Speed - how long did it take to upload images?
• Format Support - did it accept popular image formats?

Making the PFP

Next is the fun part. It’s time to make a PFP. Because the options on our list are so varied when it comes to settings and style options, in our first round of testing we try to create a very basic PFP that should look relatively similar from each site. We simply crop/zoom our subject and replace the background with a solid color. In our next round of testing, we try all the available tools and settings to create interesting outcomes. We test AI-generated avatars, realistic and creative headshot generators, and various colors, borders, and effects. We make a note of the number of customization options for each site and how long it took to get results and use those to help us rank the PFP makers.

Comparing Results

We look at our results to see which PFP makers delivered the best quality, were the most unique, and the most realistic (if AI-generated). We decide who would benefit best from using each product so we can make recommendations in our reviews.

Additional Considerations

Finally, we look at the overall user experience. Was the experience enjoyable or frustrating? We also look at the different price points and what comes with each. We compare the number of features and customizations with the price and see how they stack up to determine overall value.

Best Profile Picture Makers Comparison Chart

The Best Online Profile Picture Makers - Ranked

• MyEdit for a variety of profile picture options for any platform
• LightX Profile Picture Maker for customizing PFP templates
• QuickTools Profile Picture Maker for removing backgrounds
• PFPMaker for business profile pictures
• Picofme.io for users with no design experience
• Fotor for AI-generated faces
• Canva for templates
• Adobe Express for marketing
• Avataaars Generator for kids
• Quozio for quote profile pictures
• Lucidpic for AI-generated people

Best profile picture maker overall

MyEdit

MyEdit is our choice for the best online profile picture maker available today. MyEdit offers multiple ways to create PFPs that are appropriate for any social media platform, including realistic professional headshots and artistic avatars. It is incredibly simple to use and one of the most affordable options on this list. MyEdit uses the latest AI-generation models for the most accurate outcomes and takes only minutes to produce multiple PFPs, as opposed to hours or days.

The Cartoonize Effect tool turns any image - portraits, landscapes, or even pets - into one of 14 different cartoon styles for free. There’s also an AI Anime effect with 26 anime styles including Zombie, Princess, and Sailor. MyEdit also offers the unique opportunity to generate a custom anime style from a text prompt.

You’ll also find several AI PFP generators offering different looks for various platforms. With AI Avatar, upload 10-20 images of yourself to train the AI, then choose 10 styles from either Realistic or Artistic. You’ll get 50 unique Avatars in only 10 minutes (20 credits for 50, 30 credits for 100, and 40 credits for 200). The AI Headshot Generator works similarly, but the styles you choose are purely professional. The headshot generator tries not to change your facial features and instead concentrates on giving you professional attire with a clean background. And finally, there’s AI Outfit, a PFP maker that places you in different locations, outfits, and even hairstyles. AI Outfit creates half-body looks you can use as-is, or crop for the perfect close-up.

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MyEdit is a fast, affordable, and fun profile picture maker. If you already have a photo you wish to use as a PFP, but find it is a little grainy, blurry, or low-res - MyEdit can help with that too! With tools like Image Enhancer, Image Upscaler, Deblur, and Denoise, you’ll have your pictures profile-ready in no time. MyEdit also has a background remover and AI-generated backgrounds to further enhance your images by removing distractions. MyEdit is constantly adding new AI-powered features, and we can’t wait to see what’s new in our next review.

Key Features

• Edit images into PFPs with Crop/Rotate/Resize tools
• Remove and generate AI backgrounds for people and products
• Generate multiple AI PFPs to try different outfits, hairstyles, and settings
• Cartoonize and Anime effects transform images with one click

Compatibility: Web Browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 5/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 4.7/5

Price: Free
*Premium subscriptions available for $4/month

Best customizations

LightX Profile Picture Maker

LightX’s Profile Picture Maker is different from other free online PFP makers because it has professionally designed templates you can customize down to the last detail. Upload your own image, or choose a stock image or sticker. The site will automatically remove the background and replace it with tons of beautifully-designed templates in categories like Celebrations, Love, and Professional. Next, you have the option to download or further customize your image. You can click on each element in the template and change its size, position, color, whether it is in front of or behind your subject, duplicate, or delete it altogether. You can even add new stickers and text to the template. 

To customize your template, you will have to sign in, but you can continue editing for free as long as you choose only the free elements. Once you have entered the customization page, there are even more templates to choose from in more specific categories, and you can change out your template at any time. 

LightX Profile Picture Maker is similar to QuickTools because both automatically remove your background and give you a variety of options. However, LightX ranks higher on our list because it offers free stock, stickers, and illustrations, plus you can customize and edit after your profile picture has been made. Since we last visited LightX, it has added several new AI tools, including AI Person Photoshoot, AI Product Photo Maker, and an AI Sticker Generator. If you plan to use the free version, be careful to look out for the crown that denotes premium features. 

Key Features

• A library of filters to apply to your generated PFPs
• Generate AI products and backgrounds from text for online selling
• Replace the sky and black out a subject to create a silhouette from any image

Compatibility: Web browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 5/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 4.5/5

Price: Free
*Premium subscription available for $4/month

Best background remover

QuickTools Profile Picture Maker

QuickTools, from photo editor Picsart, has a suite of completely free design tools you can access online. This includes a profile picture maker that automatically crops your image into a circle and removes your background. The background removal is the default setting, but you also have the option to use your original background. There are tons of backgrounds to choose from, and we love that there is a thumbnail preview of each one. You can choose a solid color/gradient or a textured background. Textured backgrounds are arranged into categories such as Bokeh Glitter, Nature Inspired, Draped Fabric, Water Flows, and Wooden Wonders. 

Some of the online profile picture makers we encountered only worked on close-up headshots. We tested Quicktools with a variety of photos, including a subject that was far away, a dog, a sticker, and an entire soccer team. It worked on all of them. As long as there is a clear subject in the image, you can use it.  

QuickTools Profile Picture Maker is an easy free online PFP maker with no sign-up. It works great as a background remover and for putting your images in a circle format. In our last review, we mentioned that one of the downsides was that there were no image editing or design tools, however, Picsart’s free Quicktools site now has 50 AI tools available, including an AI writer, text tools, emojis, stickers, and various image enhancements. But each tool has its own separate page, which means you have to download the image and re-upload it each time you switch to a new tool.

Key Features

• Add a border and customize the color and thickness
• Zoom and Rotate your subject within the canvas
• Instantly create a color palette from your image

Compatibility: Web Browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 4.7/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 4.5/5

Price: Free

Best for business profile pictures

PFPMaker

PFPMaker produces 100s of different AI styles from your images. Choose either Business or Creative, then upload a handful of headshots with different angles and expressions. Choose 15 of your favorite styles and PFPMaker will generate 100+ options for you to keep (120 in Basic, 240 in Premium). The program uses AI to change your clothes, hairstyle, expression, and more, so every photo looks completely different. We particularly like it for creating Business profile pics for sites like LinkedIn, because most avatar generators don’t offer options for professionals. For instance, this profile picture maker can change your clothes to a tuxedo, suit, dress, or uniform. It can change your setting to a corporate jet, conference room, courthouse, etc. 

There’s a free version that will also produce good profile pictures by cropping your image into a circle and replacing the background with a solid color or pattern. It is a good choice for those with little editing or design experience because it shows you multiple versions and you can find the best one without any editing. You can also choose a color that matches your brand and see all the background patterns/styles in that color. 

PFPMaker is a fun and easy way to create over 100 professionally designed profile pics with no experience. You’ll get a good number of usable options, and most customers seem satisfied with the results (the online review scores have risen as the AI technology has improved). However, it won’t accept any pictures that aren’t already close-ups, so you will need to crop your images in a different software before uploading. Also, if using the paid version for pro-level AI-generated PFPs, it can take hours to get your results.

Key Features

• Choose an emoji and see it on different backgrounds with the Emoji PFP Maker
• Free AI Headshot Creator replaces your background with a clean, professional look and produces 20+ options
• Add lasers or glasses on top of your eyes and adjust the size until you get the perfect fit

Compatibility: Web Browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 4.5/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 4.3/5

Price: Free

*Premium versions available for $9 for Basic Creative, $15 for Basic Business, $32 for Premium Creative, or $50 for Premium Professional

Best design tools for beginners

Picofme.io

Picofme.io is an incredibly simple PFP maker with lots of easy-to-use design options for maximum customization. This free site gives you over 160 unique options in seconds, so more than likely you’ll find one you love right out of the box. But those who love to customize will not be disappointed. Picofme.io has layer editing capability and highly customizable backgrounds, effects, outlines, filters, borders, and shadows to add visual interest to ordinary PFPs.

Upload a photo, and the background will be automatically removed using AI. You can choose your crop from 5 different options, including circle, rounded corners, and Instagram. You’ll be given tons of profile picture options in various categories and styles. Click on your favorite image and personalize it if necessary. When finished, you can download or share your image. There’s even a button that allows you to request a design option (the site is still in beta).

Picofme.io is a great option for beginners with no design experience to make a custom PFP. It’s also great for teams and small businesses because you can save your design edits as a template to use for your whole team and maintain continuity. We also love that it is completely free, although with the free price tag comes some sacrifices, such as putting up with annoying ads on the site.

Key Features

• Add customizable outlines, borders, and shadows to your subject for visual interest
• Edit your image in the canvas by zooming, rotating, or flipping horizontally and vertically
• Add, remove, replace, and edit individual layers

Compatibility: Web Browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 4/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 4.5/5

Price: Free

Best AI-generated faces

Fotor

Fotor is a profile picture maker you can access online, or download on your Windows or Mac computer. With this PFP maker, you can create realistic faces from text. It’s a helpful tool if you are creating an ad campaign and can’t find exactly what you want from stock images. Simply type in specific features (i.e. black-skinned elderly woman with blond hair and glasses) and you will get a picture of a person who does not exist. It also creates cartoon images, anime, 3D, illustrations, and stylized images such as cyberpunk, which make excellent profile pictures.

Like our top choice, MyEdit, Fotor has several different options for creating PFPs, including an AI Headshot Generator and an AI Avatar Generator. The Avatar Generator allows you to upload an image to use as the inspiration for your avatar, or you can choose a pre-made, customizable template. These templates come in cartoon, anime, and illustration styles.

Fotor is a good profile picture maker to create original images you can’t find anywhere else. There is a free version, but all the tools mentioned above are only available with a subscription. We only recommend this PFP maker if you have the budget for the subscription since it has all the best tools and templates and the free version has annoying ads. We also recommend staying away from the 3-day free trial of the pro features. Many customers complained that it has hidden charges and they charge your card before the 3 days are over. This has been an ongoing issue for several years that has not been remedied. We moved Fotor below Quicktools, PFPMaker, and Picofme.io because its interface is overwhelming, especially if you only need a profile picture maker.

Key Features

• Various one-click filters including cartoon, sketch, oil painting, etc.
• Automatic background and object removal
• Face, Avatar, and Headshot generators

Compatibility: Windows, Mac, Web Browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 4/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 4.5/5

Price: Free
*Premium subscriptions available for $8.99/month or $39.99/year for Pro and $19.99/month or $89.99/year for Pro+

Best Templates

Canva

Canva is a profile picture maker, photo editor, and graphic design tool with a huge selection of themed templates for every social media need. There are 3,600 professionally designed templates specifically for profile pictures. You can filter them by Style, Theme, Topic, Color, and Free/Paid, which is helpful if you are trying to stick with the free version. It’s a great tool for those who lack design know-how to jump-start their projects.

You can also use Canva’s AI toolkit, Magic Studio, to create a unique PFP. It includes AI generation tools like Magic Expand, Text to Image, and Magic Edit (for removing/replacing objects). There are handy AI editing features like a background remover, instant resizing to meet the size requirements of multiple platforms, and Magic Grab, which allows you to click on an object in a photo and make it editable.

Canva has some basic photo editing tools and tons of graphic elements so you can create a profile picture from any source. However, Canva’s best feature is its beautiful, customizable templates, which make creating a high-quality PFP quick and easy. Canva is constantly updating, and since we last visited the site, it has added lots of generative AI tools (we see from the site that a new launch is coming very soon as well). We also mentioned before that Canva was lacking in output options, but they seem to have more than remedied that issue. You’ll need to be satisfied with your image before creating your PFP with Canva, as it will not transform your images into anime or generate AI avatars. Also, if you plan to use the free version, the background remover is not included.

Key Features

• Thousands of stock images and icons available in the free version
• Take the main colors out of any photo so you can create matching text and graphics
• Upload custom fonts or use a pre-made text template

Compatibility: Windows, Mac, Web Browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 4.5/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 4/5

Price: Free
*Premium subscriptions available for $119/year for Individuals and $149.90 for Teams up to 5 people

Best for marketing

Adobe Express

Adobe Express is a one-stop shop for your marketing needs. You can use AI to generate images, choose from millions of stock photos, or design from a template. Create a cohesive campaign across all platforms with instant resize. With this PFP maker, you can store your fonts, logos, colors, and images to quickly apply to all marketing materials. You can also create locked templates with on-brand content for your whole team.

We found it easy to make a PFP using Adobe Express. There are 800 profile picture templates to jump-start designs, or you can use the crop tool, background remover, and library of backgrounds to create from scratch. The backgrounds go way beyond the basic solid colors and textures and incorporate beautiful patterns and illustrations. You can search these templates by Style, Mood, or Type.

Adobe Express is a very robust PFP maker and graphic design tool you can use to cover any social media or design need. It has added a large number of generative AI features, and free users get 25 free credits a month with which to enjoy them. This profile picture maker is very similar to Canva and has a similar price tag. We placed Canva on top because it offered more profile picture templates, and the ability to separate the free and paid options.

Key Features

• Generative AI tools including Text to Image, Generative Fill, Text to Template, and Text Effects
• Brand Kits and Scheduled Posts for content creators and marketing teams
• Over 220,000 professionally designed static and video templates

Compatibility: Web Browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 4/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 4.3/5

Price: $9.99/month or $12.99/month for Teams

Best for Kids

Avataaars Generator

Avataaars Generator is the most straightforward profile picture maker to create a personalized, cute, and fun avatar. All you have to do is click the selection you like in the drop-down menus to customize your avatar. We like this PFP maker for kids because it doesn’t use real images, so you don’t need to worry about privacy. Plus, the options are all very innocent (there aren’t any gross, scary, or sexy options), and it’s simple enough for kids to use without any help. 

This profile picture maker also provides a link where you can download zoom backgrounds with your avatar. It’s free and has a random generator button for those who don’t feel like taking the time to custom-select all of the avatar options. 

Avataaars Generator is a completely free online PFP maker with no sign-up required. You have the option for your avatar to have a transparent or circle background, however, the circle background comes in a bright blue, and oddly, we couldn’t find a way to change the color. This is not the PFP maker for you if you want to use an image of yourself, it only makes basic cartoon avatars. The site states that new options are coming soon, and you can subscribe to get updates.

Key Features

• Choose a transparent background or a blue one
• Customize your avatar’s eyes, eyebrows, mouth, and skin tone
• Choose a style of shirt and change the color (or choose a graphic for the Graphic Tee option)

Compatibility: Web browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 4/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 3.5/5

Price: Free

Best for Quote Profile Pictures

Quozio

Quozio is a specialized profile picture maker for quotes. You can type in a quote, or choose one at random, then customize the font and background image. You can create a look from scratch, or choose a premade template. It’s a great PFP maker for anyone who likes to use quotes, and it is incredibly fast and user-friendly for beginners. 

It’s quick and easy to make a PFP once you visit the site, and the free version has more than enough options for most people. You will have to create a free account, however, to access your finished product. The affordable Pro version adds more backgrounds and fonts, plus the ability to add watermarks, organize your creations into Boards, download high-def full-size copies for prints, and premium customer support.

Quozio is a fast and simple way to make a PFP from your favorite quote. However, that’s all it can do. If you want to create a PFP from your own images, we recommend the versatile MyEdit, which lets you generate new images, transform your current images, and enhance photos. Quozio hasn’t changed much since our last review, but it remains the best option if you want to make a text-based PFP. 

Key Features

• Stamp your creation with your name, website, or social media handle
• Make your design landscape, portrait, or square for various platforms, or original size for printing
• Create and organize public and private boards with your favorite quotes, similar to Pinterest

Compatibility: Web browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 4/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 3/5

Price: Free
*Premium subscription available for $29/year

Best AI person generator

Lucidpic

Lucidpic is an AI person and avatar generator. With this profile picture maker, you can create imaginary people to use as stock images or create a personal avatar using your own image. There are many settings for creating your avatar or imaginary person, including gender, ethnicity, age, hair color, hair length, body type, clothing, background location, and overall image style. Like with MyEdit, you can choose results that are Creative or Realistic.

You can add even more personalization with positive and negative text prompts (what you want and what you don’t want). We recommend it for creating stock images without the need for hiring models or conducting a photo shoot. The site also works well for generating realistic clones of yourself for profile pictures. We loved the varied background options, including Nightclub, Farm, Gym, Museum, Hospital, and many more.

Although the sample images displayed on the main page were all perfectly cropped headshots, your results will be half-body shots that you will need to upload to another program for cropping. Most AI avatar generators we’ve come across give you a large number of results because AI is unpredictable, and 50 images might only give you 5 viable options. With Lucidpic, you only get 1-4 images at a time. And while we love all the settings and customizations the site offers, when you have to fill them in over and over again to get one realistic image, it is awfully time-consuming.

Key Features

• Upload Face feature to create an avatar that looks like you
• A large selection of places for PFP backgrounds
• Supports positive and negative prompts for AI generation

Compatibility: Web browser

Beginner-Friendly Tools: 3.5/5

Profile Pic Adjustments: 3/5

Price: $12/month for Basic, $24/month for Pro, $95/month for Premium

What is the Best Profile Picture Maker?

We brought you a varied list of profile picture makers - some with generative AI tools, some with image editing tools, some that were quick and easy, and some that are design-heavy. We found MyEdit to be the best of the bunch, with multiple ways to create PFPs for any platform or use case.

Generate business-like AI Headshots for LinkedIn, or turn yourself into a fun character for Discord. There’s an AI Anime Effect and Cartoonizer to transform your selfies and make them social media-ready. You can also use MyEdit to enhance and crop your images and remove/replace backgrounds with one click.

MyEdit has a free option for basic tools, and free daily credits to use for generative AI. Try it for free today by clicking the link below.