An example film made in Glim from 13 photos of Maya, from her first day to becoming a mother: an opening, a continuous transition from each photo into the next, even where they were taken years apart, in other places and with other people, and a closing card. We added the music afterwards, outside Glim. The family is fictional; the motion is real.
Each film has one style. Try your first animation free, with no credit card.
Upload photos in order, from the cradle to today, and the AI makes the transition between every two neighbouring photos. The result is one continuous take in which you watch them grow up.
Each photo moves on its own: a glance, a laugh, a little wind. No particular order is needed, and black-and-white photos and phone shots of printed photos come alive too.
Drag the film strip. Itai's photo at four becomes his bar mitzvah photo in one continuous take. Your film has a photo for every stage, up to 85 of them, with a transition between every two neighbours.
Uploaded: two photos. Made: one five-second transition. Every growing film is built this way, transition by transition, and joined into one film with an opening, music and age captions.
An example for every occasion, each marked “Example”: the families are fictional, the motion is real.
From the cradle to the Torah reading, in one take
From the baby girl to the young woman in front of everyone
60, 70, 80: from the old album to the screen on the night
From the chuppah to the grandchildren, all their years
Two children from two albums, until they meet under the chuppah
The photos of someone we miss, in gentle, slow motion
Grandparents and grandchildren on the sofa in 1992, breathing and smiling
The dog from the old house, with the red ball
Choose one photo and a style, and the AI turns it into a five-second cinematic opening. We set the title on top in the typeface you chose, so the letters come out exactly as you wrote them. The opening is included in every film.
A beam of light, film grain and a memory starting to roll
Also for remembrance
White petals drifting over the photo
FestiveAlso for remembrance
Warm sunset light sweeping across the faces
Festive
The photo appears out of a starry sky
FestiveAlso for remembrance
Soft, quiet candlelight, for remembrance
Also for remembrance
The photo develops under a red safelight
Also for remembrance
Up to three songs playing in sequence through the whole film, chosen one of three ways:
Songs licensed for use in the film, sorted by mood: moving, happy, quiet.
Answer a few questions: who the song is for, who it's from, and the small stories only the family knows. Lyrics are written that tell the story, the song is sung by an AI-generated voice, and you get two versions to choose from. You can also write the lyrics yourself.
Included from the 3-minute film up; add it to a smaller package for $8.90. The song is for personal and family use: in the film, at the event and shared with the family.
Upload a file and confirm you have the right to use it: the song you danced to at the wedding, grandpa's song.
Arrange, choose music and compile. Compiling the film and editing it again cost no animations, as many times as you like.
5 seconds
An AI opening from a photo you choose, or a photo and a title
5 seconds each
In your order, with a caption for every photo and age labels like “Age 3”
As you like
“Childhood”, “The army”, “The grandchildren”, with Hebrew and Gregorian dates
5 seconds
A blessing, a photo, or a short video you recorded
Through the whole film, up to three songs, with an optional slower pace
A 16:9 Full HD file (1920×1080), for the big screen.
A 9:16 vertical version (1080×1920) for WhatsApp status and a 1:1 square (1080×1080) for feeds and Instagram. Both fill the screen, with a crop that follows the faces.
One download page with the projector file, sent to the DJ or the venue before the event.
A printable card: guests scan it and watch the film on their phones, after the event too.
The event pack is included from the 5-minute film up; add it to a smaller package for $5.90.
Upload photos from your phone or computer, the AI animates each one, and everything is joined into one film with an opening, music and titles. Each animation usually takes 4–5 minutes, and they run in parallel; you can close the page and we'll tell you when they're ready. The long part is usually collecting the photos from the whole family.
Choose a style and a shape: wide for the projector, square, or vertical for phones. Upload photos from your phone or computer (JPEG, PNG, HEIC or WebP); each one is checked within seconds for faces, crop and content.
Photo check: seconds
About five seconds of animation for each photo, or for every two neighbouring photos in Growing. Every animation gets an identity check. Not happy? Make it again from your bank of retries, at no extra cost.
Animation: usually 4–5 minutes, all in parallel
Set the order, add an opening, a closing, music or a personal song, captions and dates, and compile. Download in Full HD, share a link, send it to the DJ.
Compiling the film: free, as often as you like
Words from families who made a film, shared with their consent.
One payment by the length of the film: 12 animations per minute, and a bank of retries of the same size. No subscription, and animations never expire. Prices are in US dollars, and the price shown is the final price.
The first animation: free, no credit card. Try it now
These are people's lives, sometimes children's and sometimes of those no longer with us. Before uploading you confirm you have permission: for children as parents or with their consent, for those who have passed away with the family's consent.
Photos and films are private: you, and whoever you send a link to. Glim's team sees a photo only if the automatic check stopped it, when you ask for help, or when someone reports prohibited content.
Glim doesn't train models on your photos, doesn't sell them and doesn't use them in marketing. The provider that animates a photo receives only that photo, through a link that expires after two hours.
Glim is built so photos, animations and films are stored on AWS servers in Tel Aviv. The AI providers receive only what a generation needs, and every one of them is listed in the privacy policy.
Download all your data in one file, or delete your account. A deleted project stays in the bin for 30 days and is then gone completely.
And what Glim doesn't do: it doesn't swap faces, doesn't put anyone into a photo they weren't in, doesn't clone voices and doesn't put words in anyone's mouth. The animations bring to life only the people in your photos.
A real person answers on WhatsApp, not a bot: about photos, the order, the film, anything unclear.
Yes. The first animation is free, with no credit card: upload a photo, the AI animates it, and you see exactly what you'll get. If something doesn't come out right, you have two more free retries on it. You pay only when you decide to go on to a whole film.
Not by us. Glim uses your photos only to make your film: it doesn't train models on them, sell them or use them in marketing. The provider that animates a photo receives only that photo, through a link that expires after two hours, and the copy prepared for it is deleted once the animation is ready. The privacy policy lists every provider and what each one receives.
Each animation usually takes 4–5 minutes, and they are made in parallel rather than one after another. Compiling the film itself is quick. What takes longest is usually collecting the photos from the whole family, so start a few weeks before the event.
A slideshow shows still photos one after another with music. In a Glim film every photo moves: in Classic it comes alive, in Growing it flows into the next photo, so you watch the person grow up. Both have an opening, music and titles. To go through hundreds of photos quickly, a plain slideshow is enough.
A film in which real photos from different ages flow into one another until you watch the person grow from a baby to today. Glim's AI makes the transition between every two neighbouring photos, from your photos; it never guesses how someone would look at another age.
Yes. The film comes out in Full HD, and a wide 1920×1080 version suits the projector. The event pack makes a projector version, a 1080×1920 vertical version for WhatsApp status and a 1080×1080 square for feeds from the same film, the phone versions filling the screen with a crop that follows the faces, and adds a download page for the DJ and a QR card for the tables. Send the file to the venue a few days ahead and check it on their screen.
No. Glim works in the browser, on a phone or a computer. Sign in with an e-mail and password or with Google, upload photos from your gallery or computer, and carry on where you left off.
Every animation has a free retry from a shared bank, and you can add your own instruction or swap the photo. A failed generation returns the animation to your balance automatically. And there is a full refund within 30 days of purchase. And if something still isn't right, write to us.
You pay once per package, with no subscription, and the price you see is the final price. Paddle, Glim's online reseller and Merchant of Record, collects the payment and e-mails you the receipt. On your card statement the charge usually appears as PADDLE.NET* CODEPAL AI, after CodePal.AI, the company that runs Glim.
Yes. Titles are set right to left in Hebrew typefaces, with a Hebrew or Gregorian date as you choose, and you see every title before the film is compiled. We add the text on the opening ourselves, not the AI model, so the letters come out exactly as you wrote them.
Glim (glim.co.il) is an Israeli service that turns family photos into a film gift: photos that come alive and growing-up films from baby to today, with an opening, music and titles, for screening at an event and sending to the family. Hebrew first, English too.
Start with one photo. It's free, with no credit card, and if it moves you, you'll know what to do with the rest.
