Age Changer in Toybox AI can make you look younger in a photo you already have. Add one portrait, move the "Age" slider below your real age, and press "Change age". One new photo usually arrives in about 30 seconds. No subscription is needed, but each photo currently costs 85 credits, and the 20 credits a new account gets don't cover one. If you'd rather stay the age you are and only soften wrinkles, skip to the Smart Editor section below.
What you can make with a younger photo of yourself
- A then-and-now pair. Today's portrait next to the same portrait set to 25. Age Changer is set up to keep the pose, clothes and room, so age should be the main difference between the two frames.
- An age you have no good photo from. A recent portrait set to 30 fills the gap when the only real pictures from those years are blurry or lost.
- A family resemblance check. Your portrait set to 30, beside a real photo of your mother or father at 30.
- A run of ages. The same portrait at 25, 35 and 45. Each age is a separate run.
The hug-your-younger-self trend needs a different tool. It puts a recent photo and a real childhood photo into one picture, and Age Changer takes a single portrait. The AI Polaroid prompts cover that trend in Image Generator, which takes up to 3 reference photos.
Which age to set to make yourself look younger with AI
Set the age you want to look. The "Age" slider goes from 5 to 90 in steps of one year, and it has no "10 years younger" button and no strength setting. At 45, set 35 to look 10 years younger.
The slider starts at 35. If you're 35 or younger and press "Change age" without moving it, you pay 85 credits for a photo of yourself at the same age or older. The number beside the label ("30 years old") shows the age you're about to get.
To soften wrinkles at your real age, use Smart Editor
Age Changer can't soften wrinkles and leave your age alone. Every run redraws you at the age on the slider.
For softer lines at the age you are now, use Smart Editor, which edits a photo from a typed instruction. For example: "Soften the lines on my forehead and around my eyes by about half. Keep my age, face shape, pores, freckles and hair exactly the same." Smart Editor needs a Pro plan or higher and currently costs 85 credits per HD edit. The guide to retouching a photo with AI has wording for three levels of retouching, plus a free way to do it by hand.
What stays the same in the younger photo
Age Changer is set up to change how old you look and keep the rest of the picture. Its form says, "We keep the face, pose, outfit and background the same." So expect the younger you to wear the sweater from the original photo, in the same kitchen.
That also means no period styling. Age Changer has no way to know how you cut your hair or what you wore back then, and it doesn't restyle either to an earlier decade. For feathered hair, a denim jacket and film grain, the 80s photo trend prompts restyle a selfie by decade in Smart Editor.
The result is a new image made by AI, so details can shift. Put it next to your original and check the eye color, the nose, the ears and any mole or scar, then the clothes and the background. If one of those changed, run the photo again or start from a sharper portrait. The guide to keeping a face the same in AI edits covers what makes drift more likely.
To change one detail of a result, such as the hair, type it under "Want to change something?": "make my hair darker and thicker, keep my face the same". That box needs a Pro plan and currently costs 85 credits per change.
How close the younger photo is to the real you
Age Changer doesn't know what you looked like at 25. It works from the one portrait you upload and never sees your old pictures, so the younger face is a guess at how you could have looked. A real photo from that age is still the record. The page on what you will look like when you're older has a test with a childhood photo that shows how far an AI-aged face can land from the real one.
A bigger jump leaves more of the face to invention. An age under 18 leaves the most, because an adult portrait holds no record of your face before it finished growing. Use those ages on your own photo only, never on someone else's.
The result is a made-up image, so keep it off IDs and age checks. Keep it off dating and work profiles too, where people expect to meet the person in the picture. The guide on whether AI headshots are acceptable lists a face that looks five or ten years younger among the changes that make a headshot fail.
Tips for a younger photo that still looks like you
- Show your whole face. Pick a sharp, front-facing portrait in even light, with no sunglasses or hat brim over your eyes and hairline.
- Crop to one person. The form takes one portrait and one age, and has no way to say which person in a group should change.
- Turn off beauty mode first. A selfie taken in beauty mode already has smoothed skin, so the "now" half of a then-and-now pair would be edited too.
- Try 10 years younger first. Compare that result with your original before you set a bigger jump, because every try is another 85 credits.
Limits to know before you pay
- One photo and one age per run. As of November 2026 each run costs 85 credits, so a 25, a 35 and a 45 from one portrait cost 255. Credits come back only if a run fails.
- ChatGPT and Gemini edit photos free, within limits. As of November 2026, ChatGPT's Free plan lists limited image creation and limited uploads, and the Gemini app edits an uploaded photo for signed-in users 18 and over. In both you attach the portrait and type the request, such as "Show me at 30. Keep my face shape, pose, clothes and background the same."
- Other people have to agree. Toybox's Terms of Service prohibit generating images of real people without their explicit consent. De-age your own photo, or one of an adult who said yes.
How to make yourself look younger in Age Changer
- Open Age Changer and sign in, or create an account. No subscription is needed. Each photo currently costs 85 credits, more than the 20 a new account starts with.
- Under "Your photo", add one portrait (JPG or PNG, up to 10 MB).
- Drag the "Age" slider to the age you want to look, and read the number beside the label before you go on.
- Press "Change age". The younger photo usually arrives in about 30 seconds.
- Compare the eyes, nose, ears, clothes and background with your original.
- For another age, choose "Make a new photo" to go back to the form. Your portrait is still there, so move the slider and press "Change age" again.
- Download the PNG, or save the photo to your gallery. Unsaved results are deleted after 24 hours. Plan and credit prices are on Pricing.