ChronoCast AI Photograph anywhere. Watch it become a comic.

A ruin, a street corner, your own kitchen. ChronoCast reads your photograph, guesses where and when it is, and hands you a sentence you can edit — then returns a short comic about that exact place: four to six illustrated panels, narrated aloud in a voice you choose, with burned-in subtitles and a vertical video ready to post. Set it in 400 BC or in 2150. Tell it as history, as someone who was there, or in the voice of the place itself.

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ChronoCast AI

One Photo. A Narrated Comic.

Four steps, about three minutes, no writing required

Photograph a Place

Point at anything — a ruin, a bridge, a café, your kitchen — or pick a photo you already have. Ordinary places work as well as famous ones.

Choose a World

Socratic Anime turns the place into its own past, mid-argument. Future-Sketch shows the same spot in 2150, in neon and rain.

Correct the Guess

ChronoCast reads your photo and fills in a sentence — the place, the era, the narrator, the angle. Every underlined word is a button. Change what it got wrong.

Read, Hear, Share

Panels arrive one by one, narrated aloud. Export the whole thing as a 1080×1920 video with subtitles burned in, ready for Reels or TikTok.

A Comic About Your Photograph

Not a generic scene in a style — the place you actually stood in

Most AI image tools take your photo as a suggestion and hand back something beautiful about nowhere. ChronoCast sends your photograph to the illustrator with every single panel, and writes a scene description that is repeated word for word across all of them. The result keeps your geometry, your landmarks, your vantage point — and the same faces from the first panel to the last.

Your Place, Recognisable

The source photo anchors every panel, so the comic is unmistakably about where you were

Faces That Hold

A scene bible keeps each character identical across panels instead of drifting into strangers

You Correct the AI

Its guesses about the place and era arrive as an editable sentence, not as a hidden assumption

Everything in ChronoCast

A whole short film from a single picture

Two Worlds

Socratic Anime — figures who lived in this exact place, mid-argument about something that mattered. Future-Sketch — the same corner in 2150, described by someone who watched it happen.

Four Narrators

The Wise Philosopher, the Gossip, the Weary Detective, the Shōnen Herald. Each has its own writing register and its own voice — the same photo told twice is two different films.

Three Perspectives

Told as history, told by a witness who stood there, or told by the place itself — a bridge that has watched everything happen to it and measures time in centuries.

It Reads Your Photo First

ChronoCast identifies the place and proposes an era before anything is drawn, then shows you its reasoning as a sentence you can edit — including when a modern subject can't plausibly hold an ancient date.

Shareable Video

A 1080×1920 vertical MP4 with a slow cinematic push over every panel and subtitles burned in — because social video is watched with the sound off.

Yours, On Your Device

No account, no sign-up, no cloud library. Every comic you make is stored on your phone, and your library is yours alone.

ChronoCast Pro

Two free comics first — no account, no card

Free

See it work on your own photo.

  • 2 comics, free
  • 4 narrated panels each
  • Both worlds and all three perspectives
  • Read and re-read in your library

ChronoCast Pro

$7.99/week · $23.99/month

  • 10 comics a week, or 30 a month
  • Six panels instead of four
  • Every narrator, not just the default
  • Shareable video export
  • Everything in Free

Top-up

$9.99 — one off

  • 10 extra comics
  • Credits never expire
  • Unlocks six panels and every narrator
  • No subscription required

ChronoCast Pro is an auto-renewing subscription billed through your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically for the same period and price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. The top-up is a one-time purchase and is not a subscription; purchased credits do not expire and are not refundable once used. Prices shown are for the U.S. App Store and may vary by region. See our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

QUESTIONS

Frequently Asked Questions

What people usually ask about ChronoCast.

What does ChronoCast actually do?

You photograph a place — a ruin, a street corner, a café, your own kitchen — and ChronoCast returns a short comic about that specific place: four to six illustrated panels, narrated aloud, with burned-in subtitles and a vertical video you can post. You choose the world it becomes and the voice that tells it.

Does it actually use my photo, or just the style?

Your photograph is sent to the illustrator with every single panel, not just the first. The geometry, the landmarks and the vantage point stay recognisable underneath the illustration, so the result is a comic about the place you stood in rather than a generic scene in a style.

Do the characters stay the same across panels?

Yes. ChronoCast writes a scene bible for your photo first — the setting, the light, and an exhaustive description of each character — and injects that description word for word into every panel. Without it, generated panels drift into unrelated strangers by the third one.

Who narrates it?

You choose from four narrators — the Wise Philosopher, the Gossip, the Weary Detective and the Shōnen Herald — each with its own writing style and its own voice. You also choose the angle: told as history, as a witness who was there, or by the place itself.

Is the history real?

ChronoCast writes evocative fiction grounded in your photograph, not a verified historical record. It is instructed to avoid asserting specific names, dates or events it cannot stand behind, and to stay general rather than invent a citation — but it is a storyteller, and anything it tells you should be enjoyed as a story rather than cited as fact. Future scenes are speculation throughout.

How long does a comic take?

About two to three minutes end to end. ChronoCast reads your photo in a few seconds and hands you the editable sentence, then draws and narrates each panel in turn. The reader opens when the whole comic is finished, so you never start on a half-drawn story.

Is ChronoCast free?

You get two free comics with no account and no card. After that, ChronoCast Pro adds every narrator, six panels instead of four, and video export. A one-off top-up is available if you would rather not subscribe; purchased credits never expire.

Do you keep my photos?

No. There is no account and no cloud library — your comics live on your phone. Photos are sent to our processing service and AI providers only to make the comic you asked for, and are not retained to build a profile of you. See the Privacy Policy for the detail.