Can you name these celebrities? App that changes your age and sex reveals what famous faces could look like

Photos reveal what celebs would like if they were a different age or gender
Filters can be applied to the image in seconds - sometimes with dramatic results
The app is free to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store

Published: 10:55 EDT, 28 April 2017 | Updated: 14:09 EDT, 28 April 2017

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Prince Harry will look just like his dad in twenty years time, if this app is anything to go by.

FaceApp offers a glimpse of things to come with filters that show how celebrities might age - and even what they could look like as a different sex.

The filters can be applied to the image in seconds - sometimes with dramatic results.

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Can you recognise the celebs? Saint-Petersburg-based face-scanning app, FaceApp, reveals what people might look like if they were a different age or gender. The filters can be applied to the image in seconds with dramatic results. Some well-known faces are almost unrecognisable as they get older. Others looks improve as they change sex or become younger.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The app is available on iOS and Android and is free to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Users can edit existing photos or take new ones using the camera.

Using algorithms the app transforms photos in a matter of seconds.

As well as making people look younger, older and of a different gender the app also lets users modify their photos by adding smiles.

The smart software, which was created by Saint-Petersburg-based designers, allows you to transform someone's face within seconds.

We tried out it on household names such as Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian and David Beckham.

Our findings suggest Kate Middleton will age with grace and Kylie Jenner will look increasingly like her mum Kris Jenner.

The software revealed that Donald Trump was a cute child, but the US president is not too dissimilar from his normal self with the female filter.

As well as making people look younger, older or a different sex, the app also lets users modify their photos by adding smiles.

Kate Middleton looks like she will age with grace as an older woman. The app makes her look quite different as a man

The software revealed that Donald Trump was a cute child, but the US president is not too dissimilar from his normal self with the female filter

Kim Kardashian looks like she will age well. She would also make a handsome man had she been born male

FaceApps's creators claim it will 'transform your face using Artificial Intelligence', allowing selfie-takers to alter their photos to look old or 'beautify' themselves.

The app attracts around 700,000 new users each day.

It is available on iOS and Android and is free to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

IS FACEAPP RACIST?

Earlier this week the app's creators were criticised for being racist.

Users complained after they found that one beautifying option, labelled 'hot', lightens skin tone.

'We are deeply sorry for this unquestionably serious issue,' wrote Mr Yaroslav Goncharov, the creator and CEO of FaceApp.

'It is an unfortunate side-effect of the underlying neural network caused by the training set bias, not intended behaviour', he said.

Prince Harry bears a strange resemblance to his father Prince Charles when the app makes him older and it seems he would have been an attractive as a woman

Kylie Jenner looks a more like her mum Kris Jenner as an older woman and bears a strange resemblance to Zac Efron as a man

Users can edit existing photos or take new ones using their smartphone's camera.

But earlier this week, the app's creators were criticised for being racist.

Users complained after they found that one beautifying option, labelled 'hot', lightens skin tone.

David Beckham looks like a silver fox with the age filter and attractive with the filter that changes the person's sex

Beyonce still looks sharp as an older woman. The filters don't make her look much different as a man - except for a hint of hair on her top lip

Rita Ora's smouldering eyes will carry into old age and would have made the songstress a handsome man, according to the software

In response, dozens of people posted photos showing how Faceapp had lightened their skin on social media.

'We are deeply sorry for this unquestionably serious issue,' wrote Mr Yaroslav Goncharov, the creator and CEO of FaceApp.

'It is an unfortunate side-effect of the underlying neural network caused by the training set bias, not intended behaviour.

Gigi Hadid could still be rocking her trademark Victoria Secret dressing gown well into her 50s and 60s. But the male version of Gigi seems not to have inherited her model features

Age may not treat Harry Styles too kindly, according to the app's predictions. But it seems the ex-One Direction star would have been just as good-looking as a woman