How to make any photo family-friendly in one click

Some photos are a bit much for the family group chat. You know the ones. Somebody sends a meme, and it is 90% fine — except for that one corner that absolutely is not fine for the Sunday afternoon thread that includes your gran.

Puritanizer exists for exactly this situation. One click, and an actual, plausible, fully-painted outfit gets added over the top. The face stays exactly as it was. The photo is suddenly safe for all audiences, and — let's be honest — much funnier.

What Puritanizer does

Puritanizer is a novelty image tool with one job: take a photo of a person and paint an unreasonably modest outfit onto them. Not an overlay. Not a censor bar. The outfit is rendered into the image as if the subject had been wearing it all along.

You get to pick the outfit from 350 options across 10 categories, or let the tool roll the dice, or narrow it down to a category and let it choose at random from there. A few of the highlights:

• Victorian & Edwardian — mourning gowns, Gibson Girl blouses, coronation robes. The classics.
• Religious & Holy — nun habits, friar robes, bishop's purple, Orthodox monk. Very dignified.
• Historical Periods — Tudor farthingale, Regency pelisse, 1950s tea dress. Period-accurate and unreasonably wholesome.
• Winter & Bulky — marshmallow puffer, Michelin-man snowsuit, quilted Barbour buttoned to the chin.
• Uniforms & Professional — beefeater, medieval plate armour, Victorian deep-sea diver (brass helmet and all), hazmat suit.
• Absurd Mascot — inflatable T-Rex, giant banana, full-body sumo fat suit, teddy bear onesie. These are where it gets good.
• Cultural & Traditional — kimono, sari, Scottish Highland dress, Bavarian dirndl, full Welsh costume.
• Fantasy & Fairytale — Jedi robe, wizard with stars and moons, Disney princess gown, full knight in armour.
• Grandma & Frumpy — floral housecoat, granny cardigan, beige twinset, quilted tabard pinny.
• Sports & Safety — American football pads, hockey goalie, cricket whites, fencer's plastron.

Why it actually exists

The obvious use case is the group chat — sending a funny photo without the thirty seconds of panic about whether anyone will scroll past the watermark first. But there are a few other situations where Puritanizer turns out to be surprisingly useful.

Memes. The contrast between the original and the puritanized version is the joke. A beach selfie reimagined in full Victorian bustle dress hits harder than the original ever did.

Content people made in their twenties that their mum now follows them on Instagram. You know who you are.

Work Slack. The internet is full of funny images that are technically not work-appropriate. A marshmallow puffer coat is 100% work-appropriate.

Just the sheer bit. Drop in a photo of your friend on holiday. Come back with them in a full hazmat suit. Send it to them with no context. This is worth £1.99 by itself.

How it actually works

Puritanizer runs on Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model — internally we call it Nano Banana, which seemed funnier at the time than it does now.

The interesting part is that Nano Banana handles detection and generation in a single call. It looks at the image, works out where the body is, and paints the outfit directly onto the subject without a separate masking pass. That's what makes it fast enough to feel instant rather than like waiting for a server to have a long think.

Crucially, the prompt explicitly tells the model to preserve the subject's face. It paints the body. It does not touch the head. This was not the first version of the prompt — the first version covered everything including the face, and the results were unusable. This version is much better.

Watermarks and credits

Free runs add a small watermark to the result. If you want a clean output — no watermark, full resolution — that costs one image credit. Credits come in packs starting at £1.99, and they never expire.

Two free attempts a day, no account required. For most people that is plenty. For the particularly enthusiastic, there are packs.

Give it a go

The best way to understand what Puritanizer does is to use it on something. Drop in any photo and see what Nano Banana decides to paint on. Twice today is free.

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