Petzyn

Everything about your pet — starting with their stories

Petzyn keeps their profile, their photos and everything you have made together. And it turns the things they actually get up to into comics and short films worth keeping.

Tell a story

Your pet's stories, told by them.

Add a few photos, write what happened in your own words, and Petzyn draws it — as a comic page, or a short vertical clip with narration. Nothing is drawn until you approve the script.

60 credits to start. One pet. No card.

A six-panel comic page made by Petzyn: a white poodle burrows into a pile of sofa cushions while her owner searches the house for her
Real output, not a mockup.

Photo to comic

Still them

One photo on each side. The animal on the left; on the right, what Petzyn drew from that photo — the markings, the ears, the face. None of it cherry-picked afterwards: each is the first drawing.

  • A black and white border collie, and the same dog drawn by Petzyn

    Border collie

    PhotoPetzyn

  • A tabby cat lying with its paws crossed, and the same cat drawn by Petzyn

    Tabby cat

    PhotoPetzyn

  • A grey cockatiel with an orange cheek patch, and the same bird drawn by Petzyn

    Cockatiel

    PhotoPetzyn

The drawing is not made from the photo every time. Petzyn studies the animal once, keeps that, and every panel after it refers back to the same study — which is why they do not change face halfway through a story.

How it works

Three steps, and one of them is the point

There is no prompt to learn. You tell Petzyn about your pet once, then write the way you would tell a friend.

  1. 01

    Add your pet

    A few photos and a name. Petzyn works out what your pet actually looks like and draws a character sheet from it — which is why the same dog turns up in every story instead of a different dog each time.

  2. 02

    Write what happened

    In your own words. The vet visit, the stolen sock, the thing they do at 6am. No format to follow and no prompt to get right.

  3. 03

    Approve the script

    You read the storyboard and edit the lines before a single panel is drawn. If the story came out wrong, fixing it costs nothing.

That third step is the one other tools skip. Drawing is the expensive part, so Petzyn spends a fraction of a cent on writing first — and never spends your credits on a version of the story you would have rejected.

Three ways to see it

Same story, same pet, same afternoon. Pick one, or make all three — the writing is done once and reused.

Comic page

One page, panels laid out, balloons and captions. Made to be printed, framed, or sent to the person who was there.

Vertical page · print-ready

Motion comic

A short vertical clip — panels held and cut on the beat, narrated out loud. Made for a phone screen, and for sending.

9:16 video · narrated · up to 60s

AI video

The one where it actually moves. Every shot is generated as real footage from its own drawing of your pet, cut together and narrated. Twenty seconds, and the most expensive thing we make.

9:16 video · really animated · 20s · Studio

Not just dogs

Yours too

Every one of these was drawn by Petzyn the way any pet is: from how their owner described them. One profile per animal, and every panel comes back to it.

  • Bidu, a caramel mixed-breed dog with one floppy ear, drawn by Petzyn

    Bidu

    Dog

  • Frida, a green-eyed calico cat, drawn by Petzyn

    Frida

    Cat

  • Nino, a grey cockatiel with round orange cheeks, drawn by Petzyn

    Nino

    Bird

  • Ruivo, a red betta with long trailing fins, drawn by Petzyn

    Ruivo

    Fish

  • Pipoca, a beige Syrian hamster sitting up on her hind legs, drawn by Petzyn

    Pipoca

    Hamster

  • Tofu, a white lop-eared rabbit, drawn by Petzyn

    Tofu

    Rabbit

  • Zeca, a green pond turtle with orange stripes, drawn by Petzyn

    Zeca

    Turtle

  • Uma, a cream ferret with a dark mask, drawn by Petzyn

    Uma

    Ferret

Dog, cat, bird, fish, hamster, rabbit, turtle, ferret — and anything not on the list, you name in your own words.

See it move

Twelve seconds that actually move

A real Studio clip, nothing trimmed. Nothing here is a held panel: every shot is generated as video, out of a drawing of the dog itself.

Real output, untouched. Press play — it has sound.
Generated video, shot by shot
Each shot runs four seconds and is generated as video: the dog walks, the tail goes, the ears fly. Then it is hard-cut together, the way short video is cut.
Still your dog
The motion is generated out of the drawing of your pet, never out of a written sentence. Asking for a running dachshund gets you some dachshund; starting from the drawing gets you yours.
Written in English from the start
This clip is not the Portuguese one with the soundtrack swapped. The same story in Portuguese is a separate script, with its own panels and its own voice — each language is written, drawn and narrated on its own.

Moving video is on the Studio plan, runs up to twenty seconds, and is the most expensive thing Petzyn makes. Every other plan makes the motion comic above.

The album

Where the rest of their life is kept

The comics are what Petzyn makes. The album is what it keeps: the photos and videos already sitting on your phone, in one place organised by pet and built to be opened again in five years.

Upload them as they came off the phone

Photos and video, straight from the camera roll, with nothing to compress first and nothing to pick one at a time. iPhone video included.

And find them again

Filter by pet, by photo or video, by date, by the ones you starred, or by a label you made up yourself. Text search ignores accents, so “ferias” finds “férias”.

Send the family a link

Pick the ones you want, make a link, put it in the group chat. Whoever opens it needs no account. You can take the link down whenever you like, and anything you delete leaves it too.

The location comes off at the door

A phone photo carries the coordinates of where it was taken, and so does a video — usually your home. Petzyn strips that before storing anything, and the original file is never served: what you see, and what anyone holding your link sees, is always the cleaned copy.

How much fits

free
1 GB
lite
10 GB
pro
30 GB
studio
100 GB

Anything Petzyn draws for you does not use this space — only your own photos and videos.

Roadmap

And the rest of it, soon

Keeping an animal comes with a surprising amount of admin. Petzyn is being built out to hold that too, in the same place as the parts you actually want to look at.

In build

These are on the roadmap and are not built yet. They are here so you can see where Petzyn is going — not because you can use them today.

  • Agenda and reminders
  • Health records and vaccinations
  • Diary
  • To-dos
  • Shopping list

Try it on one pet, free

60 credits when you sign up, 1 pet, and clips up to 12 seconds. No card, and no trial that quietly ends.

Free renditions carry a small watermark and render at 720×1280. Paid plans drop both.

Questions people actually ask

What does a story cost?

Credits — and how many depends on how long the clip is and how good the drawing is. Every plan comes with a monthly allowance, and the pricing page shows exactly what each one includes.

What happens to my photos?

They are stored privately in your album, and also used to draw your pet. Location data is stripped the moment you upload — phone photos and videos carry GPS more often than people expect — and the original file is never served: what anyone sees is always the cleaned copy. Delete something and it leaves the album and any link you have already sent.

Will it actually look like my pet?

That is the hard part, and it is where most of the engineering went. Petzyn draws a character sheet from your photos first and every panel refers back to it, so your pet stays the same animal from the first panel to the last.

Does this work for my animal, or only cats and dogs?

Any pet. When you create the profile you pick from dog, cat, bird, rabbit, rodent, reptile, fish and horse — and if yours is not on the list, choose “other” and type what they are. Ferret, hedgehog, chinchilla: Petzyn draws from what you wrote rather than from a guess.

Which languages?

Portuguese and English. Stories are written natively in the language you choose, never translated — a joke has to land in the language it is read in.

Can I cancel?

Any time, from inside the app. Everything you have already made stays yours.