Doppelshot: The Photo Booth's AI, Now From One Selfie at Home

One selfie, twenty seconds

For two years, the question we heard most at events was the same one, asked by a guest holding a fresh print: “Can I do this at home?” The answer is now Doppelshot. It runs on the engines behind your booths, with one difference: no booth, no event, no operator. One selfie from a phone, about 20 seconds, and the result lands in the browser.

The first preview is free, with no card. After that you pay per result in credits, and every paid result comes with a commercial license and no watermark.

The two selfies, taken on a phone in the street

Studio headshot: his selfie as a professional portrait

Movie poster card: her selfie on a rain-soaked thriller poster, the title she typed — Movie poster: her selfie, the title she typed

What a card is

Doppelshot has no prompt box on the front page. It has cards: a studio headshot, anime, an astronaut, a 1920s jazz club, a renaissance portrait, a movie poster with your own title on it. Each card is a prompt we wrote and tested, bound to the engine that renders it best. The user picks the card, uploads a selfie, and never sees a model name.

The engines are the ones your booths already run: Google Nano Banana and Nano Banana Pro for photos, GPT Image for some looks, Ideogram for posters where the text has to read, Kling for video, ElevenLabs for voices. If you read our Nano Banana 2.1 post, you know the likeness these models hold from a single reference. That is the whole bet behind Doppelshot.

From a photo to a video

The photo is the first step. The same photo can then:

Talk. Type a script, pick one of about 30 voices or clone your own, and the photo speaks it, from 10 to 60 seconds.
Sing. A 10 second jingle, your face performing it.
Move. Describe what happens in the shot and the photo becomes a short vertical clip. One-click effects (levitate, bullet time, set on fire, turn to gold) take one tap.
Print. Upscale 2x, 3x or 4x for A4, A3 or A2.

Videos are vertical, ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, and every result carries the machine-readable AI marker the EU AI Act asks for.

The AI twin, without training

A single selfie is enough for most cards. For a full set, Doppelshot builds an AI twin from 10 to 20 selfies. The default tier, Instant, uses the selfies as references with no training and no wait. Studio learns a face profile in a few minutes and gives the best likeness. Trained, the classic LoRA route, is still there for people who want their own weights, but we say plainly on the site that face training is on its way out. Our own likeness measurements put Studio above Trained.

With a twin, the LinkedIn pack and the Travel pack return six photos each, and the Video Studio casts the twin as the lead of a 60 second vertical episode of ten shots, in genres from revenge to werewolf to a cat drama.

How you pay

Credits, pay as you go: a pack of credits, valid 12 months, and each result costs a few of them. Monthly plans exist for creators who post every week, with a Studio twin included. The current prices are on the pricing section of the site, and nowhere else, so they stay true. There are no refunds on credits, and a failed generation is regenerated for free or refunded in credits.

What this means for booth operators

Nothing changes on your side. Doppelshot is a separate product with its own accounts, its own pricing and its own privacy rules: selfies and twins live in a private bucket, are never used to train models, and are deleted 90 days after last use or at once on request. Your booth credits, your plan and your dashboard stay exactly where they are.

Two things do carry over. First, every look we tune for Doppelshot cards is tuned on the same engines as your Live Edit modes, so the lessons flow both ways. Second, if a guest asks “can I do this at home?”, you now have an answer that is not a competitor’s app.

For agencies and founders there is a Doppelshot for business page: headshot sets for a whole team from one selfie each, product shots with the real product in frame, a talking video in the founder’s own voice, and a 30 second ad with the founder as the actor.

Where it stands today

The site is live in 20 languages, with every card, the pricing and a help center checked against the app. The app itself is opening in stages; the buttons on the site read “Coming soon” until it does. Doppelshot is for adults, runs in any modern browser on phone or desktop, and is made by the same team in Lithuania that builds AI Photobooth.

If you run booths and want to see the cards before your guests do, the catalog is at doppelshot.com/cards. The free browser tools (HEIC to JPG, resize, crop, compress, collage) at doppelshot.com/tools need no account at all.