The ultrasound to baby portrait is SeeMyBaby’s main feature. You upload one photo of a scan you already have, and the app imagines what that face could look like as a newborn. Nothing about the scan is analysed medically; the scan is the starting point for a portrait.
Who it’s for and what you upload
It’s for expecting parents who have a scan picture and can’t stop staring at it. One photo is all you need:
- A 3D or 4D scan. These show the surface of the face, so the AI has cheeks, nose and lips to build on.
- A 2D scan. The classic black-and-white profile works too. It shows a slice, not a surface, so more of the portrait is imagined.
- A photo of the printout or a screenshot. Thermal printouts curl and shine, so a phone photo is fine as long as the scan fills most of the frame.
Before the upload, the app asks a few questions: your trimester, the sex if you know it, your family’s heritage (or “rather not say”) and what you’re most curious about. Those answers steer skin tone, features and the overall look.
How it works
- Answer the short questions in the app.
- Pick your scan photo from your library or take a photo of the printout.
- A live progress bar runs for about a minute while the portrait renders.
- Your imagined newborn appears. Save it, share it or keep it in the app’s gallery.
After that, you can unlock the 4-year-old preview of the same child as a one-time purchase.
Tips for the best result
- Choose the clearest frame. If your studio gave you several pictures, pick the one where the face is turned to the side or toward the probe, with nothing in front of it.
- Profile beats straight-on. A side view shows the nose, lips and chin line, which the AI uses most.
- Avoid hands, cord and placenta in front of the face. Anything blocking a feature has to be guessed.
- Photograph the printout flat. Shoot straight down in daylight, avoid glare from overhead lights, and crop off the clinic text.
- Scan timing helps. Faces look rounder in later scans as the baby adds fat. Our guide on the best time for a 3D ultrasound explains why, and how to get clear 3D ultrasound pictures covers what you can and can’t control on the day.
What it can’t do
Being honest about the limits matters more than any feature list:
- It can’t predict your baby’s real face. The portrait is a guess. Babies also look different at birth than on a scan, for reasons our guide to 3D ultrasound vs a real baby walks through.
- It can’t see more than your scan shows. A blurry or shadowed scan gives a more imagined result.
- It doesn’t check your baby’s health. No measurement, no diagnosis and no opinion on the scan. Questions about your scan belong with your sonographer, midwife or OB-GYN.
- It doesn’t tell you the sex. If you want a reveal moment, the gender reveal party gives a playful AI guess, just for fun, not a medical result.
- No video, and no ageing past 4. It’s iPhone only, with no Android or web app.
A word on “8K ultrasound”
You may have seen “turn your ultrasound into 8K” offers. An 8K ultrasound isn’t a sharper scan; it’s an AI rendering of a normal scan. SeeMyBaby does the same kind of job and says so: the result is an imagined portrait. Our explainer on 8K ultrasound covers what those images can and can’t tell you.
Your scan stays private
Your scan photo is held in memory only while the portrait renders and is never written to a disk or a database. The finished portrait stays on our server only until your phone has a copy, and never longer than 24 hours. Accounts are anonymous.
No scan to use?
If you don’t have a scan photo yet, or want to see a mix of both of you, try the parents’ photo portrait: one photo of each parent gives an imagined newborn who blends both. Plans and prices are on the pricing page.
