Cartoon My Pet: The Best Apps to Turn Your Dog or Cat Into a Cartoon, Avatar or Sticker

Last updated: October 2026. Prices and features were checked on each app’s own site or store listing in October 2026 and can change without notice.

Ways to cartoon your pet at a glance

“Cartoon my pet” means different things to different people: a sticker for the group chat, a profile picture, a trading card for the fridge, or a framed portrait. Below is each route, what it actually produces, and where it falls short. Lohji is ours, so read that section with that in mind; the rest we have no stake in. Earlier we also tested which AI pet art actually works, and the verdicts there still hold.

Lohji Best for 3D avatars and stickers

Lohji starts from a single photo. Upload any picture of your dog or cat, yours or anyone’s, and it builds a 3D, Pixar-style character of that specific pet (think Dug from Up or Max from The Secret Life of Pets, as the Shiloh’s House site puts it) that you can then put to work. From that one avatar the app makes custom stickers for your texts, watch faces, 4K wallpapers for phone, tablet and Apple Watch, cinematic mini movies starring your pet, and holographic trading cards, with 100+ themed Lohji Worlds (Rainbow Ice Kingdom, Alien Planet, Wizard School, Pirate Cove and more) as backdrops. The App Store listing adds dress-up and outfit design. Because the character is reusable, a holiday version, a matching set for every pet in the house, or a new sticker pack is a few taps rather than a new order; see 10 fun things to make in Lohji and cartoon any dog or cat.

It is free to download on the App Store and Google Play, available in 16 languages, and no subscription is required to start. The App Store listing shows optional in-app purchases: Lohji Coin packs from $2.99, plus Starter, Deluxe and Premium tiers at $1.99, $4.99 and $9.99. The honest limits: the look is one house style (3D animated-film), so if you want a watercolor or a pencil sketch this is not the tool, and like every AI generator it works best from a clear, well-lit photo with the face visible.

PetBooth Best for a batch of AI portraits

PetBooth is a website rather than an app. You upload 10 to 20 photos of your cat or dog from different angles (at least half with the face clear), pick 10 of its 80+ themes, and after roughly 30 minutes to an hour you get 100 images at 2048 by 2048 pixels: for each theme, 5 artistic portraits and 5 photo-realistic pictures. The Pet Booth Pro pack is $9.99. PetBooth says it deletes your original photos, the generated images and the trained model after processing, so download what you want to keep. The trade-off is the opposite of Lohji’s: you get variety across painted and photo styles, but a pile of still images rather than a character you can animate or turn into stickers, and you need a lot more source photos.

ChatGPT image generation Best for one-off prompts

ChatGPT can transform an uploaded photo or use it as inspiration, and refine the result through conversation; OpenAI’s launch post for its image model says the feature rolled out to Free, Plus, Pro and Team users. In practice you upload your pet’s photo, describe the style (“a Saturday-morning cartoon version of this dog, flat colors, thick outlines”) and iterate until it looks right. It is the most flexible option here because you can ask for any style, and the least repeatable: each image is a fresh generation, likeness varies from try to try, and OpenAI lists editing precision as a known limitation. The launch post does not spell out free-tier limits, so check what your plan allows.

Snapchat Cartoon Face lens Best for a quick video

Snapchat’s Cartoon Face lens puts animated eyes and a cartoon face over a live subject, and it does work on dogs; Tech Advisor’s walkthrough notes it can take patience, suggests the front-facing camera and moving the phone slowly until the eyes appear, and reports they could not get it to work on a cat. It is free and instant, and it is a filter: you get a clip or a screenshot, not a character you can reuse, and the pet has to cooperate in real time.

Etsy custom portraits Best for a human artist

Search “cartoon pet portrait” on Etsy and you get page after page of artists who draw or paint your pet from a photo: digital cartoon portraits, pop-art canvases, mini watercolors, line art, multi-pet paintings, and prints that arrive framed. On the listings we looked at, sale prices ran from under $5 for a deliberately scribbly “bad pet portrait” to about $10 to $21 for most digital and mini watercolor work, up to $142 for a multi-pet watercolor. You wait days to weeks, you get one piece, and revisions depend on the seller; what you also get is a human eye on your pet’s expression, which is why these make the best gifts. We covered the same marketplace trade-offs in where to buy custom dog tags.

How to cartoon your pet in Lohji

Three steps, under a few minutes:

1. Download Lohji free on iPhone or Android.
2. Add a clear photo of your pet. Good lighting and a visible face work best.
3. Generate your character, then explore styles, scenes and outfits, and export stickers, a watch face, a trading card or a mini movie.

The longer version, with photo tips, is in how to turn your pet into a cartoon with AI; for the sticker-and-emoji side specifically, see turn your pet into an emoji.

Which one should you pick?

Match the tool to what you will do with the result. A character you will reuse (stickers, watch face, cards, a seasonal remake): Lohji. A set of portraits in many painted styles: PetBooth. One very specific image: ChatGPT. A joke clip: Snapchat. A gift or wall art with a person’s hand in it: Etsy. Many pet parents end up with two, usually Lohji for the daily stuff and an Etsy piece for the wall.

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