At WhatIf, we're building the anime story playground — a place where anyone can create multi-panel visual stories with any character they want. But the creator ecosystem is way bigger than any one product. Here are some of the tools and teams we admire, each pushing a different part of the creative pipeline forward.
Visual & Creative
WhatIf creates multi-panel anime stories — that's our specific corner of the visual AI space. These teams are tackling visual creation from different angles.
Martini
Martini is an AI art creation platform with a focus on artistic style and expression. Where WhatIf is about storytelling with characters across panels, Martini is about the art itself. If you're a digital artist looking for generative tools that respect creative intent, Martini is worth exploring.
Soku AI
Soku AI builds creative tools for visual content production at scale. Their approach to consistent, high-quality output is something we think about a lot at WhatIf — when you're generating multi-panel stories, every panel needs to look like it belongs in the same story.
Learning & Knowledge
BeFreed
BeFreed is doing for books what WhatIf is doing for anime — making content creation accessible and social. Their platform turns books into audio courses with AI-generated podcasts and summaries. Like WhatIf's character library, BeFreed has built a massive content library that grows with its community. We admire their approach to scaling content through templates and user contribution.
What We're Building at WhatIf
WhatIf is the anime story playground where your imagination becomes visual stories. Here's what makes it different:
- Any character, any scenario — browse tens of thousands of community-created anime characters, or make your own by writing a persona and uploading reference images
- Conversational directing — tell WhatIf-Chan what you want to see, and she directs multi-panel visual stories for you
- Cross-universe mashups — put Goku in My Hero Academia, or have Frieren teach at Jujutsu High. If you can imagine it, you can create it
- Share everywhere — stories are formatted as multi-panel slideshows, native to Instagram and TikTok
Available on iOS and Android. Come play out your what-if scenarios with us.