Ghost Mannequin or Virtual Try-On: Which Clothing Photo Do You Need?
A ghost mannequin photo is the empty garment for the product grid. A virtual try-on puts the garment on a person in the camera. Voidwear makes the first. Anywear makes the second.
A ghost mannequin photo is the garment alone, holding its shape with nobody inside it. A virtual try-on puts that garment on a person who is moving. Voidwear makes the first. Anywear makes the second. They are not two ways to produce the same listing image.
Quick answer
| Voidwear | Anywear | |
|---|---|---|
| The picture | A ghost mannequin. The collar, shoulders, and sleeve openings are rebuilt, with no hanger, mannequin, or model in the frame | The person stays in the camera. You drag one clothing image onto the live video, and the garment is rendered while they move |
| Who it is for | The seller filling a catalog grid for Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, or Depop | The shopper, or a store widget, seeing how the garment hangs on a moving person |
| What you start with | A flat-lay, a hanger photo, or a mannequin photo of one garment | A camera, and a shot of one item. A full-outfit flat lay or a group photo gives the model an ambiguous target |
| What it will not do | Background removal only deletes what is behind the garment. A ghost mannequin rebuilds the shape. Campaign and editorial shoots stay in a studio | It does not measure you, and it does not tell you which size to order. An empty, unworn product photo is not the picture these pages describe |
| What you pay to start | Ghost mannequin previews are free, with new credits every day and no card. No public page lists a rate past those daily credits | Free during beta, with no account and no card to start. A store install is rate-limited. The model API is a separate price list |
Voidwear: the photo on the grid
A ghost mannequin photo, also called an invisible mannequin, is the garment in its worn shape with nothing visible inside it. A studio makes it from two or three exposures, then a retoucher composites them, which is why that work is billed per image. Voidwear starts from one photo: a flat-lay, a hanger, or a mannequin. It removes the hanger or mannequin and rebuilds the hollow neck, collar, and sleeves. Silhouette, fabric texture, stitching, labels, and print stay as photographed.
The export follows the marketplace. Shopify is a 2048 by 2048 canvas, transparent or seamless white, as WEBP, JPG, or PNG. Amazon wants at least 2000 by 2000, a pure white background, and the garment filling 85 to 90 percent of the frame, as a JPG. Etsy wants at least 2000 pixels on the shortest edge, with interior labels and stitching still visible. Depop wants a 1:1 cover.
Voidwear's own comparison puts a studio shoot at $15 to $40 an image and 3 to 7 days, and hand compositing at 20 to 40 minutes with no per-image fee. It calls its own path free and under a minute, with the same look across the catalog. The pricing section says previews are free, with new credits every day and no card. It also says the product is priced by the image, not by the seat, and no public page lists those rates. The Voidwear page keeps that gap. A campaign shoot is still a studio job. This is the catalog grid.
Anywear: the person stays in the picture
Anywear is Decart's live try-on. You open the camera, drag a clothing image onto the video, and the garment is rendered on that person while they move. The page says this runs at video frame rate, which is why a hem can swing. It shows how a garment looks. It does not measure you, and it does not tell you which size to order.
The wait is printed twice. The opening line says the garment appears about a second and a half after you drag it. The steps say it appears within a second or two. A typical session runs a little under eight minutes, and most people try several items. Fitted garments hold up best. Heavy coats, stiff tailoring, and voluminous skirts are the hardest. Drag a shot of one item. A full-outfit flat lay or a group photo is an ambiguous target. A plain wall is not required. Fast spinning breaks the drape for a moment, then it recovers.
The try-on and the Chrome extension say it is free during beta, for a limited time, with no account and no card to start. The store page says that trial is enough to prove it on your store, not enough to serve all of your traffic. Free-to-trial installs are rate-limited. Unlimited sessions are a paid conversation. On Shopify the install is one line in theme.liquid. Shoppers on a store need no account. The extension's button is for you alone, on a computer. Phones use the web app, because browser extensions do not install there. The camera run is a live stream for the session, not a photo library they keep.
The Anywear pages say the try-on runs on Lucy V-TON, and they do not print a per-second rate. Decart's API price list names the current virtual try-on model as Lucy VTON 3.5. Realtime at 720p is US$0.02 a second of active generation. Fast mode is US$0.04 a second, with the same output quality. As a video model, 720p is US$0.04 a second of generated video. That page says there is no subscription and no minimum spend. Those lines are the model price list. The beta sentences are the product pages. The Anywear page keeps both.
Through August 2026, across the extension and installed store widgets, one in nine shoppers who tried a garment on went on to add it to the cart. Three in four went past the first item. The average session was 7.8 minutes. The extension page says around 3,000 people have it installed, at 5.0 from 16 ratings. All three product pages say they were last reviewed on 19 August 2026.
Which one to open
- You need the photo on the product grid, sized for a marketplace, with the same look across the catalog. Start with Voidwear. Shoot the garment on a hanger. This is not the try-on, and it is not a background eraser.
- You want a shopper to see the garment on a moving person, on your store or in a browser. Start with Anywear. It does not replace the listing photo, and it does not pick a size. The beta is free and capped. The API rate is a different page.
- You need both. Use Voidwear for the empty catalog shot and Anywear for the try-on. Neither page says one file is handed to the other.
Voidwear and Anywear are on Seailife if you want the platform sizes and the beta limits beside this split.