Revive Reviews

Summary: I am a media artist looking to animate Abraham Lincoln speaking about his struggles with melancholy or what today would be called clinical depression. Your app handled the job beautifully. The voice was relaxed so the movements followed the voice characteristics. I can see bringing all kinds of people back to life with this app.

Positive: Does a great job of animating still portraits both funny and serious. The realism impression and lip syncing is very good. A deaf person might even be able to read the lips for its accuracy. The facial, head, and eye movements were all very convincing on my subjects.

Negative: Resolution needs improvement. The 15 seconds voice recording time is a little short for my need of creating 2:00 pieces.

Summary: I have signed up for the "pro" level but I am far from stating it has a 'pro' level of easy use so far. I'm hoping to get some sort of customer assistance so that I can take the time to educate myself on how to effectively use the app without devoting the rest of my life to guessing and hitting buttons just to 'find' features I need to employ. Some of the audio on 'sounds' are garbled. Over all, a GREAT premise. Just might need some tweaking for folks like me at age 70 to not feel frustrated in making others laugh. (Frustration is not a good thing at my age thank you very much!) :-)

Positive: The premise. Quite funny.

Negative: The lack of ease in navigating the features. For me, I have to stumble and fumble my way through using it and have requested some sort of tutorial through the "contact us" feature on the web site.

Summary: This is a serious case of bait and switch. You sign up for a service and shortly afterward, what you "get" is just junk that makes TikTok look like HBO+ Imagine Spotify with only a couple dozen tunes by people who were eliminated from American Idol on day 1. You can do better.

Positive: Incredibly easy to use. The number and variety of tunes you could select from was amazing. Classic Rock. Contemporary Soul and Funk. Big Crosby. Nat King Cole. The Ramones. The Beatles. Okay, obviously I am dating myself, but that's what was so great. You could send these tiny little clips that even seniors could view. They could be stored on your phone and attached like any other attachable file.

Negative: Within a month of signing up for the "level up" version (no watermarks, full access to dozens and dozens (and dozens) of tunes....something happened. No warming or notification. All those great classic nostalgic tunes as well as virtually all the contemporary hip hop tunes...GONE. Replaced with lists of sound bites from TV, movies, and anime. I suppose that would be okay for a pre-teen, but I know what they offered, I know what I subscribed to...and this ain't it. It's like subscribing to a streaming TV channel, and after they cash your check, suddenly all you can watch are Friends, Big Bang Theory, and Judge Judy reruns.