About heroink
A comic of you, made properly.
heroink turns one photo and a few sentences into a printed comic where you are the hero. Not a generic AI illustration. Not a 4-panel meme. A real, multi-page comic with a story arc, a locked character likeness, and pages that hold together as a sequence.
The best comics feel oddly personal. Seeing yourself, your child, your partner, or even your dog appear consistently across a real story has a strange effect — it stops feeling like "AI images" and starts feeling like something made specifically for you.
Your photo, your terms
Photos anchor the character likeness — they aren't sold, shared, or used to train models. They sit in encrypted storage attached to your order, and you can delete your account and uploads any time.
Auto-deletion: uploaded photos are deleted automatically 60 days after the comic is finished, and immediately if a render fails. If you haven't completed a comic within 60 days of uploading, the photo is also deleted — you'll need to start fresh with a new upload. Part-built comics are not refundable after that window, so finish what you start.
Why this exists
Image generation is easy now. Consistent storytelling is not.
Try building a personalised comic with a generic AI tool and you'll hit the same wall every time: your face changes every panel. The costume drifts. The setting wanders. The story doesn't track.
heroink is the layer that fixes that — a screenplay engine, a character consistency engine, a continuity tracker, and a render pipeline that's been told who you are and won't forget halfway through Chapter Four. The output is a comic, not a gallery.
Why not just roll your own?
You can. The model APIs are there. Here's what you'd be signing up for:
- ·Prompt engineering at scale. Every page needs the right setting, wardrobe, cast, and beat — with the same character description threaded through all of them.
- ·Reference handling. Image-edit endpoints accept photos as anchors, but you pay per reference per page. Doing it cheaply means anchoring properly from the cover onward.
- ·A screenplay model. Pages without a plot are illustrations. heroink uses a separate text model to plan story beats before the renderer ever fires.
- ·A continuity engine. Wardrobe changes, time of day, location shifts — they all need tracking so page seven doesn't put you in a different jacket.
- ·A safety net. Models occasionally refuse, drift, or produce broken output. heroink retries failed pages, softens panels that trip a content filter, and lets you re-render single panels without scrapping the whole book.
We've spent months on the boring parts. The interface is "upload a photo, type a sentence" — everything behind it is the work you'd rather not do.
What you can make
Things people actually use heroink for:
Birthday gifts
A friend's hen do, a kid's 8th, your mum's 60th — turn them into the hero of their own adventure. Way better than another candle.
Wedding & engagement gifts
A bespoke comic about the couple's story — how they met, the in-jokes, the dog. Lasts longer than a card.
Leaving-do roasts
The colleague who always brings the cake. The boss who always lost the cake. Make them the legendary central figure of a comic everyone signs.
Kids' bedtime stories
Your child as the dragon-tamer, the football star, the explorer. Adult or kid audience setting changes the tone.
Stag / hen mementos
The story of the weekend, fictionalised just enough to be shareable with everyone.
Pet-as-hero comics
Your dog as the detective. Your cat as the time-traveller. Photos of the actual pet, dropped straight in.
What we won't help you build
heroink runs through content moderation — both on what you type and on the images we render. We'll soften, sanitise, or refuse outright if you push in any of these directions:
- ✕Anyone under 18 in sexual / suggestive contexts — full stop. Photos of children are fine, the content built around them must stay age-appropriate.
- ✕Real, identifiable people without their consent in a sexual, defamatory, or harassment context. Your photo, your story — not a comic to humiliate your ex.
- ✕Public figures, politicians, celebrities shown saying or doing things they didn't say or do, where the comic is designed to mislead.
- ✕Hate, harassment, incitement targeting protected groups — race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability.
- ✕Graphic violence, gore, self-harm content. Cartoon mishaps fine; horror-comic dark stuff fine; instructions for harm or glorification, no.
- ✕Illegal activity presented as a how-to. Heists in a comic, sure. Real instructions, no.
- ✕Reselling generated pages as standalone AI art. Buy a comic, give a comic — don't strip the pages and resell them as your own original work.
We log moderation interventions. Repeat attempts to push past the filter get accounts suspended.
Refunds & credits
You get the screenplay and a full first page for free before any paid render kicks off — so you know exactly what you're buying. Because of that, our refund policy is strict by design:
- ✓Render fails on our end → credits returned to your balance automatically. No action needed.
- ✕Comic completed (full or partial) → not refundable. Digital goods, already delivered.
- ✕You abandon mid-render → not refundable. Real OpenAI cost is incurred per page; the free preview existed for exactly this decision.
- ✕60-day window expires with no completed comic → photo and draft are deleted, no refund.
- ·Genuine issue, edge case, anything weird — email us. We grant goodwill credits by hand when something's gone wrong.
By starting a paid render you consent to immediate digital delivery and waive the 14-day right of cancellation under UK Consumer Contracts Regulations. Full terms on our terms page.
A note on AI
The art, story, and panels are AI-generated. We use the models as professional tools, the same way an illustrator uses brushes — but the output is genuinely synthesised, not hand-drawn.
Some pages will feel magical, occasionally one will feel off. We give you re-render credits for the latter, and we keep tightening the pipeline.
Ready?
Make your first comic — page 1 is on us.
Sign in with Google, get one free credit, turn it into the first page of your screenplay. If you like it, buy more credits to finish the book. If not — no charge, no commitment.