caricature.life started from a simple frustration. Every time I wanted a clean, minimalist caricature, I hit gated websites asking for logins, emails, and unclear privacy trade-offs. I built caricature.life to be the opposite. 🔐 No logins or signups 👀 No tracking or stored photos ✨ No watermarks Upload a photo, generate your avatar, download it, and leave. Your face stays yours. Lifetime free and community supported ☕
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Balaji. This started from a small annoyance that kept coming back.
I just wanted a clean, minimalist caricature for my profile.
Every site I tried wanted a login, my email, or gave off that feeling that my photo would live there forever. It felt odd to give up more identity just to create an avatar.
At some point I stopped searching for a tool and decided to build one.
caricature.life is intentionally boring.
Upload, generate, download, leave.
• No logins
• No tracking
• No stored photos
Your face stays yours 🔐
It’s lifetime free and community supported ☕ because I did not want this to become another data funnel.
Try it and tell me what feels wrong or missing.
P.S. I built this mainly for social platforms where people want some level of pseudo anonymity, like Reddit, Discord, Twitter, and similar places.
Cool startup. It would be convenient to add a feature for selecting style and color. In theory, it shouldn’t take long to implement, and you could already offer it to users for a fee.
Can we make it more abstract? The weird, cute-ugly vibe feels very on trend right now.
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I am also getting the "exceeding quota"{"error":{"code":429,"message":"You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, head to: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api.... To monitor your current usage, head to: https://ai.dev/rate-limit. \n* Quota exceeded for metric: generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_requests_per_model_per_day, limit: 0","status":"RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED","details":[{"@type":"type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help","links":[{"description":"Learn more about Gemini API quotas","url":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api..."}]},{"@type":"type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.QuotaFailure","violations":[{"quotaMetric":"generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_requests_per_model_per_day","quotaId":"GenerateRequestsPerDayPerProjectPerModel"}]}]}}
Lovely. However, for "Generate New Style", it would be great if I could preview different styles and download the one(s) I like. Currently, If I don't download a caricature of one style and click on generate new style to explore more styles, my previous generation is gone.
Good step with skipping any login! Just getting right to the point without worrying where email info's going
It's a very interesting and useful tool, and it's very convenient to use. However, after clicking "Generate New Style," the generated image doesn't seem to change much.
I love it, though I can’t say it kept my distinctive facial features. Also, I ran out of styles without realizing there was a limit. I think it would be great to make this more visible (e.g., “you have 5 spins left”) and to allow access to previously generated styles (I wonder how to do this without logging in).
like the no signup and the style has taste. I'm changing my profile pic with the generated image :) Just my 2 cents: the re-generation doesn't significantly vary the style and look/feel - is that intended? I was kinda hoping a more drastic style change for each regen.
This is fun. Thanks for signupless
Great idea, thank you for this tool. I was just wondering if perhaps it would be possible to have the option to generate transparent PNG? or even SVG? It would help a lot. I appreciate the privacy features, really great work! It's simple and works well.
I fell in love with this tool. (Tho I do not look so pretty in reality than in the picture.) :DD
No login, no tracking, no watermark. Bless. I bail the second a site wants my email. Need a fresh Reddit/Discord pic anyway. If SVG export lands at some point, even better. Gonna try this on my lunch break.
Love this — a privacy-first, no-login caricature tool that feels refreshingly simple and respectful of users’ data.
