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Glasses and hair dye (with a color filter)
Face Filters SDK
Banuba Face AR SDK is a real-time, on-device face tracking and AR effects SDK that runs at 30 FPS on mid-range mobile hardware with a -80° to +80° head-angle tracking range.
Selected by Hundreds of Leading Brands
What Banuba's Face Filters SDK Does
Banuba's face filters SDK adds Snapchat-like filters, AR lenses, beautification, and real-time facial animation to live-streaming, social, and beauty apps. It processes every frame on-device, with no cloud dependency, the way it powers live chat for b.stage, which passed 1 million monthly active users across 224 countries.
Makeup
Let our face tracking neural networks do all the heavy lifting.
Users need only be concerned with which cosmetic product to try on first such as foundation, eyeliners, and lipsticks.
For a ready-made online retail deployment, see Banuba's virtual try-on for e-commerce platform covering makeup, glasses, jewelry, and more.
Hair Color
Integrate powerful algorithms that can detect and dye single strands of hair.
Combine realistic hair colorings with different lightings to produce engaging effects
Beautification
Leverage our multiple neural networks to segment and retouch facial features to produce professional photoshoot quality images and videos.
Our Beauty AR SDK offers a selection of beautification elements, including:
- Skin Smoothening
- Blemish Removing
- Teeth Whitening
- Eye circles and wrinkle removal
- Expressive eyes
Face Morphing
Our face tracking detects 68 facial anchor points and builds a 3D mesh of up to 3,308 vertices, delivering real-time structural changes to the nose, eyes, lips, and chin. The face tracking software holds steady under up to 70% facial occlusion and across the full -80° to +80° angle range, so morphing stays glitch-free even when the face moves.
Triggers
Preprogrammed or interactive AR scenarios (filters) that users can launch with facial expressions.
Our Augmented Reality SDK offers the following triggers:
Mouth open, Smile, Eye brows, Eyes (open/close).
Triggers are also the core building block of a touchless user interface, where facial expressions replace physical controls entirely.
Triggers can also be activated via hand tracking & gesture recognition, where specific hand gestures launch an AR scenario or controls.
Background
Hide that pile of laundry with our background subtraction filters, powered by a neural network that has detection accuracy better than that of most video-conferencing and streaming apps.
Background removal is also available as a separate background changer API if you don't need the full filter suite.
For full-body isolation beyond face detection, body segmentation handles the person cutout at the pixel level.
Avatars
Explore creative content possibilities with animated 3D avatars which are controlled with your own facial expressions.
Banuba's Avatar SDK algorithms go beyond simple mouth-moving to include:
- Individual eyebrow tracking
- Jaw movements
- Nose movements
- Mouth position
Game Filters
Give players an option to put on their “game faces” with cool 3D masks, or use facial expressions for game controls. You can use JavaScript to make effects trigger by opening mouth, moving eyebrows, tapping the smartphone screen, etc. This allows creating fun casual games where users can literally eat virtual objects or control their character with their face.
Frame Effects
Dynamic, transforming AR objects that make any video look magical, impressive, and very shareable. The system recognizes the user’s face and makes the effects stick to it. Combined with the AI SDK for smart clipping, it provides a foundation for smart video editing with AR effects.
LUTs
Color correction for entire videos, similar to what Instagram and TikTok offer. This includes both simple filters (black-and-white, sepia, etc.) and more outlandish color schemes.
What Face Filters SDK Includes
- Multi-Face Tracker
- SFX & Voice Changer
- Beautification
- 3D Renderer
- Filter Editor + Scripting
- DIY effect creation with Banuba Studio
- Sample Filters & Documentation
- Support & Consultancy
Technical Features
Face Filters SDK supports HTML5, iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Unity, Flutter and React Native. It runs on devices starting from iOS 13+ / Android 8.0+ with a 1280x720 camera (recommended) at min 30 FPS.
Mobile
OpenGL ES 3.0+
Android 8.0, API level 26+
iOS 13+
Desktop
OpenGL 4.3+ (4.1+ for MacOS)
Windows 8.1+
MacOS 10.13+
Web
WebGL 2.0+
Mobile: Chrome, FireFox, Safari.
Desktop: Chrome, FireFox, Safari.
Case Studies
Increasing camera enablement rate and user engagement with must-have AR features.
- Banuba delivered virtual backgrounds and face touch-up
- +30% monthly active user growth
- +54% registered users
- Virtual backgrounds, scripting engine, rendering engine, face touch-up
- The application is installed on over 500.000 devices
- AR features on display in 3000 shops in Japan.
Increasing user satisfaction in karaoke app with face filters and beautification for iOS and Android
- Licensing face filters from Banuba catalog
- Beautification with skin smoothing, skin tone correction, eyes and teeth whitening, face morphing
- Users can browse AR masks (Game faces) to play and unlock them for game bonuses
Providing a Multi-Platform Production Agency with face filters integrated into AR photo booths that foster video & photo marketing & ad campaigns.
- Face Filter SDK for Android
- Background segmentation for green screen virtual background changer
- Custom filter design services and filter licencing from Banuba catalog
A popular mobile game that uses AR, blockchain, geopositioning, and other popular technologies.
- 4M+ installs
- 100K monthly active players
- Top-grossing NFT-powered mobile game
- $7000 average price of a sold NFT
An engaging random live chat with AR features.
- 20M installs
- 4B+ matches
- 15M Banuba feature launches per month
Why Banuba
- Make custom AR filters quickly and decrease the time-to-market.
- Covers 97% of Apple smartphones and 80% of Android ones from a single cross-platform integration.
- Tracks 68 facial anchor points under up to 70% occlusion and at distances up to 3.7 meters, so filters stay locked on in real conditions.
- High quality of filters, on par or better than TikTok, Snapchat, or Instagram, with minimal battery use even on low-end devices.
- Over 1000 AR face filters you can license from the asset store to save development time.
- Runs fully on-device and works offline, so user video never leaves the phone.
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Yes, before purchasing a license you have a 14-day free trial period to validate the performance of our SDK.
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Banuba Face AR SDK pricing is based on 3 factors:
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The number of supported platforms
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The number of monthly active users
- The specific feature set you need
See the Face AR SDK pricing page and FAR pricing guide for details, or tell us about your needs to get a personalized quote.
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You can create your own face filters using any 3D graphical editor and then convert them into the SDK-supported format with our Studio.
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Yes, we have a collection of ready-made face filter assets which you can licence in your app. Please, read more information about face filter licencing in our whitepaper.
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Yes. Banuba Face AR SDK provides Agent skills that help AI agents understand, configure, and integrate the SDK quickly.
Banuba Face AR SDK Agent skills
These Agent skills are designed to support AI-assisted development by giving agents structured SDK knowledge, integration guidance, and workflow context for building AR experiences with Banuba. -
The official technical documentation for Banuba Face AR SDK is available online and includes requirements, setup instructions, and configuration details:
Banuba Face AR SDK iOS documentation
Banuba Face AR SDK Android documentation
Banuba Face AR SDK Flutter documentation
Banuba Face AR SDK Rect Native documentation
Banuba Face AR SDK Web documentation
Banuba Face AR SDK Unity documentation
Banuba Face AR SDK Desktop documentation
This Banuba Face AR SDK documentation should be your primary reference during integration.
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You can access official integration code samples for the Banuba Face AR SDK on GitHub. Banuba provides platform-specific examples to help you integrate faster:
Banuba Face AR SDK iOS integration code sample
Banuba Face AR SDK Android integration code sample
Banuba Face AR SDK Flutter integration code sample
Banuba Face AR SDK React Native integration code sample
Banuba Face AR SDK Desktop integration code sample
Banuba Face AR SDK Web integration code sample
Banuba Face AR SDK Unity integration code sample
These Banuba Face AR SDK repositories include setup instructions and minimal working examples for quick deployment.
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The Banuba Face AR SDK provides official cross-platform plugins to simplify integration into hybrid applications:
Banuba Face AR SDK Flutter plugin
Banuba Face AR SDK React Native plugin
These Banuba Face AR SDK plugins are maintained by Banuba and support faster implementation for cross-platform apps.
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Our Face Filter SDK is supplied with a 3D rendering engine. It allows bringing the most diverse and realistic face filters, animation effects and 3D lens. The following graphical technologies are supported:
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3d modeling and animation
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Image-based lighting
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Physics-based rendering
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Animation billboards
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Morphing
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Physics
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High dynamic range imaging
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Video textures
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Multisample anti-aliasing
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Sprite animation
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LUT post-processing
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Yes. Our Unity Face AR extension brings Banuba’s 3D face tracking technology across multiple platforms and allows developers to create realistic and complex Unity face masks, augmented reality effects, and 3D objects.
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This is a category of AR effects that applies to users’ faces. It includes masks (complex 3D objects), stickers (simple 2D objects), and beauty filters - virtual makeup and face touchup. Face filters became especially popular since the rise of TikTok and other video-based social media.
Apps that need video editing alongside face filters can combine this with Banuba's Video Editor SDK.
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If you are a user, just download one of the many face filter apps. If you are a developer, your best bet would be using a face AR SDK in your project. Integrating it is much quicker and cheaper than developing the same technology from scratch.
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Yes. Banuba offers dedicated Apple Vision Pro AR software for spatial computing experiences on visionOS, separate from the standard mobile and web SDK.
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Yes. Banuba's face filters SDK runs in real time on-device, so it layers beauty, AR masks, and background effects on top of a live video feed without adding a cloud round-trip. It has a ready Agora extension and already powers live chat for platforms like b.stage. For apps that also need editing, it pairs with the Video Editor SDK.
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Yes. Banuba's face filters SDK does all face tracking and effect rendering locally on the user's device, with no cloud dependency, so camera frames never leave the phone. This on-device design is why it keeps working offline and suits privacy-sensitive use cases like verification and kiosks. See the Beauty AR SDK for the on-device beautification stack.