Rigel turns still images into short cinematic videos on a phone. Underneath that one sentence are several generation modes, and this page links to the full guide for each.
Turning a still into a video
- Photo to video — the core workflow. Upload any image, describe the shot, get a 5–30 second clip with motion, depth and atmosphere. Start here.
- Live Photo to video — use the movement your iPhone already captured as the seed for a full generated clip rather than a three-second loop.
- Animate old photos — prints, scans and family pictures, with the preparation steps that decide whether the face still looks like the person.
Performance and speech
- Talking photo — add a script and the subject speaks it with realistic lip-sync and matching expression.
- AI facial expressions — smile, react, cry, perform. Emotional range on a portrait that was never going to give you a second take.
Scenes and stories
- Cinematic scene generation — place the subject in a described environment: beach at sunset, rain-lit street, studio with a hard key light.
- Long AI video — multi-scene storytelling, with the planning and character-consistency habits that keep a sequence from falling apart.
- AI hug video — a prompt guide rather than a preset, for the two-person embrace people most often ask for.
The models underneath
Rigel is built on frontier video models and updates its pipeline as better ones ship. Two pages cover what that means in practice: Veo 3, on what Google's model changed and how to judge a frontier-class result, and Seedance 2.0, on the multi-reference, audio-aware generation that reset the realism bar in 2026 — including Rigel's Pro Reality mode.
Platforms, formats and price
Rigel runs on iPhone with iOS 16.6 or later and on Android, and is rated 4.6★ on the App Store and 4.7★ on Google Play across 600+ reviews. Generations are 5–30 seconds, vertical or square, saved straight to the camera roll.
The app is free to download with starter credits included; credit packs and a subscription are available in-app, and the exact credit cost of every generation is shown before you confirm it. More context and behind-the-scenes writing lives on the blog.