Incarn

OfficialRemoteby Incarncreditsverified Oct 10, 2026

Animates an old portrait or family photo into a short, subtle HD clip; one tool, one credit per photo.

What it does

Incarn does one thing: it takes an archival still and returns a few seconds of natural motion (breathing, blinking, a small smile) tuned for black-and-white and sepia faces that general image-to-video models tend to refuse or over-animate. The hosted server wraps that pipeline with upload, animate and status tools. For documentary and memorial work it is a narrower but more predictable option than prompting a general model.

Connect

Remote endpoint (Streamable HTTP)

https://api.incarn.co/mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http incarn https://api.incarn.co/mcp

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "incarn": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://api.incarn.co/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "incarn": {
      "url": "https://api.incarn.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Auth: oauth — https://www.incarn.co/developers (OAuth 2.1 on first call; a funded account is required to animate)

Sample tools

list_examplescreate_uploadconfirm_uploadanimate_photoget_animation_status

Field notes

Checked 10 Oct 2026: initialize and tools/list answer anonymously (five tools, server version 1.1.0) and list_examples runs without an account; the official MCP Registry lists co.incarn/photo-animation. Tool descriptions come back in French. The animate_photo description says there is no free trial through the API and a developer plan starts at EUR 19 per month for 25 photos (EUR 0.76 each); the consumer site sells one-off packs from EUR 1.99 per photo. Each animation costs one credit, failed runs are refunded, and jobs take one to three minutes. There is no prompt control beyond a subtle motion hint, so this is not a general image-to-video tool: for that compare kling, runway or luma.

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