Best Deepfake Apps 2026: Compared & Ranked

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Compare browser video swaps, mobile catalogue effects and local editing tools by the material you want to make. Deepfakes Web trains on uploaded footage, while Reface focuses on mobile clips and images.

Deepfakes Web trains on your footage instead of swapping frame by frame, so one long shot of a single subject holds together, and Reface is the only one that gives you a working swap free on a phone.

Quick Comparison Table

4. Reface — Best mobile face swap app

Reface is the only entry here that will give you a finished face swap on a phone, from a standing start, without an account or a card. You pick a clip or a still from its catalogue, add a selfie, and it returns the swap — and because the app has been shipping that one interaction since 2019, the path from opening it to having something to send is shorter than anything else on this page.

What it has become, though, is a general AI photo app with face swapping as one feature among many. Alongside the swap sit AI hairstyles and hair colour previews, AI headshots, avatar packs, a baby generator, an animator that makes a still photo sing, and age and gender transformations. That breadth is the appeal for a casual user and the problem for anyone with a specific shot in mind: you swap into the catalogue rather than swapping into your own footage, and there is no mask, no face selection and no way to fix an edge that lands badly. Where FaceFusion below hands you the landmarks and the mask, this hands you a button.

Pricing is the weakest part of the purchase and it is not close. Nothing is published on the web at all; the App Store listing carries ten separate in-app purchases, including one-off packs at $4.99, $5.99, $6.99 and $39.99, three different weekly subscriptions at $2.49, $3.99 and $6.99, a monthly at $12.99 and an annual at $24.99. A reader who lands on the weekly PRO rate pays $363.48 across a year for what the annual sells at $24.99. Which of those ten you are offered is decided inside the app, not by you.

The other thing to weigh is what the app does with what you feed it. Its own App Store privacy declaration lists user content — photos and videos among them — under data that may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies, and again under analytics. That is not an inference; it is the developer's answer on Apple's form. For a swap of your own face into a meme, most people will not care. For anything you would not hand to an ad network, it is the reason to use FaceFusion locally or Deepfakes Web's paid single-render instead.

• Free to install on iOS and Android with a working swap before payment
• Face swap plus hairstyles, headshots, avatars, animation and age changes
• Swaps into a supplied catalogue of clips and stills rather than your own footage
• Ten in-app purchases: three weekly rates, a monthly, an annual and four packs
• Rated 16+ with advertising and user-generated content declared

5. FaceFusion — Best open-source option

FaceFusion is the only tool here that lets you choose the swap model to suit the shot. It ships three: HyperSwap 1A, built for hidden faces and harsh angles and good with makeup; 1B, the balanced one; and 1C, the strongest for face match and face shape. That sounds academic until a subject wears glasses, turns to profile or has hair across one cheek — the cases where every other entry on this page returns one answer and leaves you to accept it. Here the first move on a difficult frame is to try a different model.

The second difference is that a near-miss can be repaired instead of re-rolled. Eleven processors run over the same footage: Face Enhancer for facial detail, Frame Enhancer for up to eight-times upscaling, Expression Restorer to put the original performance back when a swap comes out flat, Face Editor for head rotation, eye gaze, expression and mouth shape, a Lip Syncer, an Age Modifier, and a Face Debugger that draws the landmarks, the detection boxes and the face mask straight onto the frame so you can see why an edge is failing.

None of that costs a subscription. The source is public and free to clone, and the only money the project asks for is a $20 Windows installer or a $30 macOS one that automates the Git, Conda and FFmpeg setup and adds a desktop shortcut. Studio plugins for After Effects, Premiere Pro, Nuke and DaVinci Resolve are sold separately, and the memberships at $20, $40 and $100 a month fund the project rather than unlock it. A cloud partner runs the same HyperSwap models by API for anyone who needs them on a server.

What it asks for instead is hardware and patience. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux with accelerator backends including CUDA, TensorRT, DirectML, CoreML, ROCm and OpenVINO, and a long clip on a weak card is measured in hours rather than minutes. There is no browser version and no phone version. It also ships under an OpenRAIL-AS licence, which is open but carries use restrictions rather than granting the blanket permission a permissive licence would — worth reading if the output is going anywhere commercial. Nothing you process leaves your machine, which is the whole point and the reason it is the only sane choice for footage you would not upload.

• Three swap models tuned for occlusion, all-round balance or face match
• Eleven processors including expression restoration, lip sync and 8x upscaling
• Face Debugger draws landmarks, detection boxes and masks on the frame
• Free to clone; $20 Windows or $30 macOS installer; plugins sold separately
• Runs entirely on your own machine — nothing is uploaded or transmitted

6. Akool — Best business face swap tool

Akool separates the swap into five distinct operations rather than one, and that is what it is here for. Face Swap replaces the face and keeps the expression and motion. Head Swap replaces the entire head while holding the pose and lighting, which is the answer when the face fits but the hairline or skull shape is what gives the edit away. Character Swap changes the whole person across a scene, Motion Swap maps movement from a reference clip onto your own subject, and Hair Swap changes only the hair. Choosing the right one is usually a bigger quality gain than any setting inside it.

It is also the only entry built for volume. You can send up to fifty files in a single upload, and multi-face detection is automatic with no manual masking — fifty product stills with the same model's face dropped into all of them is one operation, not fifty. Upload quality reaches 16K on the mid tiers, video runs to 60 minutes on the top plan, and a live face swap can hold for up to two hours for a stream or an event. Against FaceFusion above, the trade is exact: Akool gives you scale, hosting and a live pipeline, and takes away the mask, the model choice and the ability to fix a frame.

Plans open at $12 a seat a month billed yearly, then step through $21, $41.30 and $174.30 as the credit rate falls. The number that matters most is not the one on the tier: the licence is personal on Starter, Pro and Pro Max, and commercial rights begin at Business — $174.30 a seat, or $2,091.60 a year. Every admin or editor you invite is charged at your rate too.

The free tier is a demonstration rather than a plan. It stamps a full-screen watermark on the result, caps uploads at 720P, 150MB and 30 seconds, and runs on the slowest processing queue, so it will show you whether a swap works and nothing about what it looks like finished. Past that, the gap is recovery: there is no mask, no per-frame correction and no published rule refunding credits on a render you cannot use, so a swap that comes back wrong costs four credits and then costs four more. Vendor copy claims the models handle fast movement, occlusions and rapid lighting changes; that is a claim about the ceiling, not a rate at which it happens.

• Five swap types — face, head, character, motion and hair — priced separately
• Batch uploads of up to 50 files with automatic multi-face detection
• 16K upload quality on Pro and above; video to 60 minutes on Business
• Live face swap for streams, up to 60 minutes on Pro and 120 on Business
• Personal licence up to $41.30 a month; commercial rights from $174.30

7. Pseudoface — Best privacy and identity protection angle

Pseudoface is doing the opposite job to everything above it. It does not borrow a face from a photo you supply; it generates one that belongs to no real person and fits it to your own face shape and features, frame by frame, across your own video. The result is that you can appear on camera — talking, moving, in your own footage — with a face that reads as a real human being and is not yours, and stays the same face from clip to clip.

Because the mask is generated rather than taken, you can keep making new ones until one fits. Every tier includes unlimited mask creation and an editor that previews a mask at low resolution before you commit a video to it, and the vendor states the models are built to hold your own ethnicity unless you deliberately change it. It also grants full commercial licence and ownership of the masked output, and stores uploads encrypted on servers in Europe, not linked to identifying information. For a creator whose face is the reason they cannot post, that combination is not available anywhere else on this page.

The plans meter output rather than attempts. Amateur runs $14.99 a month for 150 images and 15 minutes of video, Creator $24.99 for 250 and 25 minutes, and Influencer $49.99 for 500 and 50 minutes, with extra credits buyable on all three. At entry that works out around ten cents an image or a dollar a video minute. There is no free version at all; a tutorial shows you how a mask looks on your own face and stops there, which is a single demonstration rather than a plan you can finish anything on.

Two limits will decide this for most people. It is an iPhone and iPad app — no Android, no browser, no desktop — so half the market cannot run it at all. And it is slow in a way the others are not: the vendor puts processing at 20 to 30 minutes for every minute of video, which makes the entry plan's 15 monthly minutes up to seven and a half hours of rendering. Its failure cases are stated plainly too — if the face is not clearly visible or well lit, or is covered or turned away, artifacts appear in the mask. That is the same occlusion and lighting problem the swappers have, and there is no mask editor to paint around it.

• Generates a synthetic face rather than swapping in a real one
• Unlimited mask creation and editing on every tier, with a low-res preview
• $14.99, $24.99 and $49.99 a month for 150, 250 and 500 images
• 15, 25 and 50 minutes of video a month respectively, extra credits available
• Full commercial licence and ownership; encrypted storage on European servers

8. DeepSwapper — Best simple photo face swap

DeepSwapper asks for nothing. No account, no email, no card — you open the page, drop in an image, pick the face and download the result at full quality with no watermark on it. For a single still that needs a face changed, that is the shortest path on this page by a wide margin, and the output is yours to use commercially according to the vendor's own terms.

It handles more than a single portrait, too. The model detects every face in the image and lets you swap all of them or select particular ones, so a group photo can have one person changed and the rest untouched. Uploads accept JPEG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, MP4, WEBM and MOV, so a reaction GIF can carry a swapped face without becoming a video job, and the same models are offered as a commercial API for anyone building on top. Set against SwapMyFace below, the trade is simple: SwapMyFace keeps a library of everything you make and an upscaler to finish it, while this hands you an empty box and then gets out of the way.

Video is where the offer changes shape. The site markets free video face swapping in its own navigation, while its FAQ states that video needs a purchased subscription whose price appears nowhere on the site, in any currency, with no plans page to read beforehand. That silence is a purchasing disadvantage in its own right — there is simply nothing to hold against the rates the tools above it publish.

Everything past the swap is absent. There is no mask, no editor, no regeneration control, no queue information, and no published resolution or duration ceiling — a poor result is simply run again, which at least costs nothing on stills. Data handling is stated in terms of an account you do not have while using it anonymously: uploads are not stored unless the save history and save faces options are switched on in the account page, with no retention period given for anything else. Treat it as the quickest way to test whether a face swaps cleanly at all, then take the ones that matter somewhere with controls.

• Unlimited image face swaps, free, with no account and no watermark
• Automatic detection of every face, with per-face selection
• Accepts JPEG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, MP4, WEBM and MOV
• Video face swapping requires a paid plan whose price is not published
• Commercial use of the output is permitted under the vendor's terms

9. SwapMyFace — Best pay-per-image face swap

SwapMyFace does one thing and does it from anywhere: it puts your face into a picture. Its Chrome extension is the part nothing else on this page has — right-click any image you come across while browsing and swap yourself into it without saving the file, opening a tab or uploading anything by hand. A painting on a museum page, a film still, a poster on a shop site: the swap happens where you found the picture.

The rest of it is deliberately small. You upload a face, upload a target, and it merges them; faces you have used before are stored for re-use, so a recurring subject does not need re-uploading, and every image you generate keeps a permanent link you can go back to. A one-click upscaler sits in the same screen, which is the only correction step here — it raises resolution on a swap that landed well rather than fixing one that did not. The vendor puts total output at 700,000 pictures and publishes guides for swapping onto Midjourney and Leonardo output, which is the clearest signal of what it is for: putting a real face onto generated art.

It is the only entry here with no subscription of any kind. Credits come in packs at $9, $15 and $25, one credit buys one generated image, and new accounts get five before a card is needed. Against DeepSwapper directly above, that is the whole argument: one asks for nothing and gives nothing back, the other bills by the picture and hands you an upscaler and a permanent library in return.

The limits are worth being blunt about. It is stills only — no video appears anywhere on the product, at any price, which rules it out for everything the top half of this page is built for. There is no mask, no face selection and no published multi-face handling, and because you pay per generation rather than per usable result, a swap that comes back wrong is charged exactly like one that works. The vendor publishes no watermark policy and no output resolution. Its privacy policy states that the pictures you upload are collected and that data is shared with partners and service providers as needed, gives no retention period, and still carries a 2023 revision date; it also states the service is accessible to children while not aimed at them, which is worth knowing before uploading anyone's face but your own.

• Chrome extension swaps into any image you right-click while browsing
• Credit packs at $9, $15 and $25 — one credit is one generated image
• Five free generations before a payment method is required
• Built-in one-click upscaler and a permanent library of past results
• Stills only — no video face swap exists at any price

Deepfake Quality And Reliability

A usable face swap needs the replacement to follow the subject through the shot, hold its shape and blend with the original lighting. Recovery controls matter when that fails: compare another automatic generation with model selection, masking, expression restoration or frame editing.

The clearest divide is between tools that re-roll and tools that repair. DeepSwap, Akool, SwapMyFace, Reface and DeepSwapper all give you one button and one result; if the jawline is soft or an edge is visible, the only available move is to run it again and hope. FaceFusion is the only entry that treats a defective swap as something to work on — you can change the model, look at the mask the detector actually applied, restore the original expression, upscale the frame or edit the head pose, all without redoing the swap. On a difficult source that is not a marginal advantage; it is the difference between a usable clip and a discarded one.

Deepfakes Web trains on your footage before rendering, which suits one sustained shot of a subject. It deliberately limits realism so the output remains identifiable as synthetic, and adds an invisible watermark for detection tools. That trade-off matters if convincing likeness is the main reason for the purchase.

DeepSwap says small faces may not swap and that a subject can be split into separate detections; Pseudoface says a covered or badly lit face produces artifacts; SwapMyFace tells users the result depends on the source picture and offers an upscaler rather than a fix. Those admissions circle the same underlying problem — occlusion, motion and profile angles — and only FaceFusion sells a model specifically built for it.

Multi-face scenes separate the list again. Akool detects every face automatically and requires no manual masking, DeepSwap and DeepSwapper let you pick which detected face to change, and Reface, SwapMyFace and Deepfakes Web publish no face selection at all. If the shot has two people in it and only one of them consented, that is not a convenience feature — it is the difference between a usable tool and an unusable one.

Finally, a cheap render is expensive when it cannot be salvaged. DeepSwapper costs nothing per still, so a retry costs nothing; DeepSwap returns credits automatically on a failed render; Deepfakes Web refunds a failed generation but not a disappointing one, so a $10 video that renders badly is $10 spent; and Akool charges four credits again for the second attempt at the same shot.

Deepfake App Feature Matrix

Pricing Overview

These apps charge through credit balances, flat fees per video, monthly image or video allowances, or one-time software purchases. Compare the unit you need: $10 per video is different from $10 per month, and a free still-image swapper does not replace a video editor. Include the cost of another attempt and any hardware you need.

What one face swap actually costs

DeepSwapper offers free still swaps if simple automatic replacement is enough. FaceFusion costs a one-time $20 or $30 installer fee if you want automated setup, with no per-render charge and your own graphics card required. DeepSwap’s twelve-month rate brings a still below a nickel and gives each retry the same calculable credit cost.

The trap is the headline. Akool advertises from $12 a seat a month and that plan grants a personal licence; anything commercial needs the $174.30 tier at $2,091.60 a year. DeepSwap advertises $9.99 and that is a first-order price against a standard $19.99. Reface advertises nothing at all and lets the app pick which of ten purchases you are shown. Only SwapMyFace and Deepfakes Web quote a number a returning buyer will actually pay again.

What the free access really gives you

Free access comes with different compromises. Simple free swaps usually provide fewer correction controls, while a paid render or subscription can add a quota or specific settings. Reface includes advertising, and its privacy declaration lists uses that matter before you upload a personal face.

Choose the right face-swap controls

Match the tool to your media: a supplied mobile clip, your own photo, a long video or a synthetic face mask. Face selection, masking, enhancement and model choice matter more for detailed correction than a single automatic generation.

Where Deepfake Apps Fail

• Flicker on movement and profile angles — DeepSwap states that side angles and frequent movement affect face tracking and produce flicker in the result. This is the single most common defect in per-frame swapping and no hosted tool here exposes a way to correct it after the fact.
• One person read as several — DeepSwap states that when the model cannot confirm that all detected faces belong to one person, it splits them into separate selections. A subject who turns mid-clip can come back swapped in half the frames.
• Small faces skipped entirely — DeepSwap states that faces too small in a video may not swap at all. Group and crowd footage is the obvious casualty.
• Occlusion and poor lighting break the edge — Pseudoface states that a face which is covered, badly lit or turned away produces visible artifacts, and instructs users to record in good light and avoid covering the face. FaceFusion sells a model specifically for hidden faces and harsh angles, which is the same problem described from the other direction.
• Deliberately capped realism — Deepfakes Web states that it does not push the limits of the technology and intends its output to remain identifiable as synthetic through its imperfections, with an invisible watermark added to every video.
• Credits consumed by results you cannot use — DeepSwap refunds credits on a render that fails, and Deepfakes Web refunds a failed generation — neither refunds a render that completes and disappoints. Akool publishes no refund rule for an unusable result at all, so each retry costs the full four credits again.
• No route back from a near-miss — Six of the eight expose no mask, no per-frame editing and no regeneration controls. The only correction available is to run the whole thing again with the same settings.
• Prices that are not published before signup — DeepSwapper requires a subscription for video and publishes no price for it anywhere on its site. Reface publishes none on the web at all, leaving ten in-app purchases from $2.49 a week to $39.99 to be assigned inside the app.
• Plan terms that contradict themselves — Akool advertises a business face swap platform on plans that grant a personal licence until the $174.30 tier, and DeepSwap advertises face swaps on videos up to 30 minutes on a plan whose monthly credit grant covers five.

Privacy And Uploaded Media

A face swap means handing someone a photograph of a face — often your own, sometimes another person's. What happens to that file afterwards is stated clearly by three of these vendors and left vague by the rest. The absence of a published statement proves neither protection nor misuse; it means you cannot check.

Two practical conclusions. If the footage involves anyone other than you, or anything you would not want retained, FaceFusion is the only entry where the question does not arise — nothing is uploaded because nothing leaves the machine. And if you are using a hosted tool, DeepSwap is the one that tells you the clock: 30 days from your last swap on uploads, one week on finished results, and a permanent account deletion you can trigger yourself.

Best Deepfake Apps By Use Case

Choose according to your media format and the controls you need. Four of these are the best answer to a question the other seven cannot address at all.

Deepfake App Safety Checklist

The consent question is not a formality in this category — it is the main way people get themselves into trouble with tools that are otherwise entirely legitimate. Five checks before you upload anything.

• Establish the right to the likeness first. Use your own face, or one you have explicit permission for. No tool here can verify consent, and every one of them will process whatever you give it.
• Never make content that deceives or targets a real person. Impersonation, harassment and sexual material involving someone who did not agree are out of scope for every product on this page and for every legitimate use of the technology.
• Disclose synthetic media where the context could mislead. Deepfakes Web adds an invisible watermark for exactly this reason; the others leave the disclosure to you.
• Read the retention terms before uploading anything sensitive. DeepSwap publishes a 30-day upload clock and a one-week result clock. Most of the others publish no period at all.
• Use a local tool for material you would not hand over. FaceFusion processes on your own machine and transmits nothing, which is a different risk profile from any hosted service here.

Deepfake Apps vs AI Editors vs Local Pipelines

The term covers any tool that replaces a face in media that already exists, or manufactures a face and fits it to footage you shot. That is a wider church than it sounds, and the differences decide which of these will do the thing you actually want.

The split that matters most is between per-frame swapping and per-video training. A per-frame swapper finds a face in every frame and paints a new one over it: fast, no length limit, and prone to flicker when the subject turns. A per-video service learns the pairing from the footage first and renders once: far slower, and steadier on a single subject. The second split is where the compute happens — hosted means your face goes to somebody else's server, local means it never leaves your machine.

Three product shapes compete for the same search, and buying the wrong shape is the most expensive mistake available in this category. A dedicated swapper does one job and prices it by the unit. A general AI editor bundles swapping into a suite and prices it by seat. A local pipeline hands you the models and charges nothing per render, in exchange for hardware and setup.

Related Deepfake And Face Swap Guides

Face swapping sits next to two categories that get searched for in the same breath and behave nothing like it. If the intent is adult content, the tools, the limits and the consent rules are all different — start with AI face swap porn tools instead. If the intent is generating footage rather than editing existing footage, the metric changes from identity preservation to character consistency, and AI porn video generators covers that set.

FAQ

What is the best deepfake app in 2026?

DeepSwap, for most people, because it covers stills, GIFs and video from one browser account and publishes a rate for every action. Two rates worth knowing before you start: a GIF swap is a flat one credit regardless of its length, and VR face swapping is charged at two credits per 15 seconds — double the standard video rate.

What is the best free deepfake app?

FaceFusion if you can install software, DeepSwapper if you cannot. FaceFusion is free to clone in full, and the support that makes that practical is community-run — a Discord of more than 42,000 members and a repository with over 29,000 stars, which is where troubleshooting actually happens rather than through a helpdesk. For anyone without a suitable GPU, the same swap models are available through the project's cloud partner on a pay-as-you-go basis instead.

Which deepfake app is best on mobile?

Reface, and the practical detail is compatibility: the iOS build requires iOS 17.0 or later, runs to about 169MB, and is rated 16+ with advertising and user-generated content declared. Pseudoface is the other genuinely mobile entry, but it is iPhone and iPad only with no Android build at all. If installing nothing at all matters more than a native app, SwapMyFace and DeepSwapper both run in a mobile browser.

Which deepfake app is best for business use?

Akool, but at the Business tier rather than the advertised entry price, because the cheaper plans grant a personal licence only. The upload ceilings scale with the tier too, and they matter more than the credit count for real production: face swap uploads are capped at 150MB and 30 seconds on the free plan, 300MB and five minutes on Starter and Pro, 500MB and ten minutes on Pro Max, and 1GB and 15 minutes on Business.

What should I check before uploading a face or video?

Consent first, then the refund and deletion terms, because both are narrower than they look. DeepSwap excludes cryptocurrency payments from refunds entirely, requires Google Play refunds within 48 hours, and deletes every creation one week after a membership expires — so anything you want to keep has to be downloaded before the plan lapses. Deepfakes Web refunds an unused balance or a failed generation but never a video that rendered.

Can these tools swap more than one face in the same shot?

Akool, DeepSwap and DeepSwapper all detect every face and let you choose which to replace; Reface and Deepfakes Web do not expose face selection at all. Akool goes furthest and prices each mode separately — a face swap and a character swap both start at four credits, a head swap at five and a hair swap at six, while motion swapping is the cheapest operation it sells at two. SwapMyFace publishes no multi-face handling at all.

How long does a face swap actually take?

It depends far more on the product shape than on the clip. Deepfakes Web publishes three stages that total between five and forty minutes for one video, and Pseudoface publishes 20 to 30 minutes of processing per minute of footage. Akool makes the answer a plan feature rather than a fixed figure: processing runs slow on the free tier, medium on Starter, fast on Pro, faster on Pro Max and fastest on Business. FaceFusion has no queue at all, because the wait is your own hardware.

Do these work on my own footage or only their catalogue?

DeepSwap, Akool, Deepfakes Web, DeepSwapper and FaceFusion all accept your own media, and SwapMyFace takes any picture you can right-click; Reface is the one built around swapping into a supplied catalogue first. Check the format list before you shoot, because it is narrower than you might expect: Deepfakes Web accepts MP4 only, up to 200MB, DeepSwapper accepts MP4, WEBM and MOV alongside JPEG, PNG, WEBP and GIF, and Akool is the widest at MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV and WEBM.

Final Verdict

DeepSwap is the one to buy if you want a single account that handles stills, GIFs and video and tells you exactly what each of them costs before you spend it. Nothing else here publishes a per-second video rate, charges the same for its best setting as its standard one, and puts your credits back automatically when a render fails. Budget for a credit pack if video is the point: the monthly grant is five minutes.

If the swap has to hold up to more than a phone screen, FaceFusion is the strongest tool on this page and the cheapest, and it requires a graphics card and installation. It is the only entry that lets you choose a model for the failure you are actually hitting, see the mask it applied, and repair a near-miss rather than regenerate it. For one long, steady shot of one person, Deepfakes Web trains on your footage first — provided you accept that it caps its own realism on purpose. For many faces, fifty files or a live camera, Akool is the only one built for it, priced at the Business tier if anything you make is commercial.

Pseudoface, DeepSwapper and SwapMyFace create different kinds of image and video edit. Pseudoface is not a face swapper at all and should not be bought as one, but it is the only tool here that lets a creator appear on camera as a consistent person who does not exist. DeepSwapper remains the fastest free way to find out whether a particular face swaps cleanly before you pay anyone anything. And SwapMyFace is the only entry with no subscription anywhere in it — credits bought once, one credit per picture, and a browser extension that swaps into images where you find them, provided you never need video.