Comparison
Twinly Lab vs Personify: live video twin or text clone widget?
Both let your audience talk to a version of you when you are not available. Personify — the London-based platform at personify.fyi, co-founded by Henry Howard-Tripp and Jekabs Musins — builds a self-serve text clone you embed on your site, with live voice sitting inside a separate Done-For-You service. Twinly Lab makes the live video consultation the product everyone gets on day one. Everything specific below about Twinly Lab is ours; the Personify details come from their own launch material and site, and for anything current, check personify.fyi directly rather than trusting numbers on a competitor's page.
What Twinly Lab is built to do
Live video is the default, not an upgrade path
A visitor lands on your public Twin page and talks face-to-face with an avatar that has your face and your cloned voice, in real time. Free gives 2-minute consultations from a photo avatar; Pro gives 10-minute consultations with a premium video avatar. You do not buy a managed service to unlock talking out loud.
Paid sessions through your own Stripe
You set the consultation price and connect your own Stripe account. Payment is collected before the session. On Pro you keep 80% per session on monthly billing, or 90% on annual, net of platform streaming costs — the breakdown is in your dashboard before and after every call.
A public page, plus an embed for your own site
Every creator gets a shareable Twin page with bio, category, featured affiliate links and the live consultation stage, optimised for mobile fullscreen — and an optional widget you can drop on your own website as an inline block or a floating button. Pro removes Twinly Lab branding.
Side by side
| Twinly Lab | Personify | |
|---|---|---|
| Core interaction | Live face-to-face video consultation with your avatar, in real time | Primarily text chat with your clone, via an embeddable website widget or a public clone page |
| Live voice conversation | Included on the self-serve plans, Free and Pro — real-time voice and video for everyone | Professional voice cloning with live voice conversation is part of a separate Done-For-You service on custom pricing |
| Training | A clear photo for the Free avatar, an instant voice clone, plus a knowledge base you control; Pro video avatars train from about a minute of footage | Setup wizard with automated website and document ingestion, plus customizable conversation prompts |
| Pricing | Free at $0/month, or Pro at $119/month ($99/month billed annually) | Free tier, Pro at $39/month ($29/month billed annually), Done-For-You service on custom pricing |
| Where it lives | A public Twin page you can share anywhere, plus an optional website embed | A shareable public clone page plus an embeddable website widget |
| Charging visitors | Built in through your own Stripe: 70% to you on Free, 80% on Pro monthly, 90% on Pro annual, net of platform streaming costs | Charging visitors for access is offered — see their site for current terms and fees |
| Best fit | Creators, coaches and consultants selling live time they cannot scale | People who want a text clone trained on their site and documents, with lead capture and conversation analytics |
Personify (personify.fyi) is a product of its respective owner and is not affiliated with Twinly Lab. The details above reflect their publicly stated features and pricing at the time of writing; we make no claims about their current features or pricing — check their site for those.
Choose Twinly Lab if…
- You want your audience to see and hear you, not read a chat thread.
- You want real-time voice and video on a self-serve plan, without commissioning a managed service.
- You are selling paid consultations, with the money collected before the call through your own Stripe.
- You want a public page for your bio link as well as a widget on your own site.
- Your audience is bigger than your calendar and you keep repeating yourself.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Twinly Lab and Personify?
- Personify (personify.fyi) is a self-serve platform for building a text clone of yourself: a setup wizard, automated website and document ingestion for training, customizable conversation prompts, a shareable public clone page, an embeddable website widget, lead capture and conversation analytics, plus the option to charge visitors for access. On the self-serve plans the core interaction is primarily text chat via that widget or page. Twinly Lab is built around a live, face-to-face video consultation: a visitor opens your public Twin page and talks to an avatar with your face and your cloned voice in real time, and pays for that session up front. One is a text clone widget; the other is a paid live video call with a version of you.
- How does live voice access differ between the two?
- With Personify, professional voice cloning with live voice conversation is described as part of a separate Done-For-You service — a higher-touch offering with deeper content ingestion, branded design and account management, on custom pricing — rather than the self-serve free or Pro plans. With Twinly Lab, real-time voice and video is the default self-serve product for everyone: the Free plan at $0 per month already gives 2-minute live consultations with a photo avatar and an instant voice clone, and Pro extends that to 10-minute consultations with a premium video avatar. There is no separate managed-service tier you have to buy to talk out loud.
- How does the pricing structure differ?
- Personify's published self-serve pricing is a free tier plus a Pro tier at $39 per month, or $29 per month billed annually, with the Done-For-You service on custom pricing. Twinly Lab's Free plan is $0 per month with no credit card and a 70% revenue share on sessions; Pro is $119 per month, or $99 per month billed annually, and you keep 80% per session on monthly billing or 90% on annual, net of platform streaming costs. Twinly Lab costs more per month at the Pro level because the product it delivers is real-time video streaming rather than text.
- Can I put Twinly Lab on my own website like a widget?
- Yes. Alongside your public Twin page you can enable an embeddable widget — inline, or a floating circle or square anchored to a corner of any page — so your avatar lives on your own site too. The difference is what happens when a visitor clicks: a live video consultation rather than a text thread.
- When is Personify the better choice?
- If a text clone trained on your website and documents, embedded on your own site with lead capture and conversation analytics, is what you actually need, and a free tier or a low monthly fee fits your budget, evaluate Personify directly against your requirements. This page only makes specific claims about Twinly Lab; the Personify details above come from their own launch material and site, and for anything current check personify.fyi.
New to the idea? Read what an AI twin actually is, or follow the step-by-step build guide.
