About Based on Us

Based on Us is a personalized comic-book maker that turns your photos and your true story into a comic starring the people you love — for anyone giving a gift about a real relationship.

What Based on Us does

A personalized comic from your photos and story

Upload a few clear photos and write the story in your own words — how you met, the milestones, the joke nobody else gets. Pick an occasion and an art style, and Based on Us draws a comic starring the actual people (and pets) in the photos.

A free preview with your real faces before you pay

Every order starts with a sample panel and cover drawn from your real photos, generated before you pay anything. You judge the likeness yourself instead of taking a product page’s word for it.

15 art styles

Choose from 15 styles — superhero comic, storybook, manga, watercolor, and more — and the free preview shows your actual faces drawn in whichever one you pick.

A private share link and gift reveal

The finished comic lives at a private, unguessable link that opens as a wrapped present with a To/From message. You can send it right away or schedule it to land by email at a specific date and time.

A printable high-res PDF

Every comic includes a downloadable, high-resolution PDF at no extra charge, so you can print it at home, at a print shop, or through a photo-book service whenever you like.

Edits included

AI art edits are included with every order (the allotment is shown in the editor), plus unlimited free text tweaks — for the story captions and dialogue — until you finish, download, or share the comic.

What makes Based on Us different

A lower entry price

Comics start at $14.99 for 12 panels. That undercuts DearComic’s $24.99 Standard tier and LoveTales’ $22.49 Instant Digital price, the two closest AI-personalized comic competitors.

A free preview with your real faces, not a generic sample

You see your own faces drawn in your chosen style before you pay a cent. DearComic’s free tier is a PNG-only sample rather than a preview generated from your photos.

15 art styles to choose from

Based on Us offers 15 styles, against DearComic’s 4 and LoveTales’ 4 — from superhero comic to watercolor to pixel-art quest.

Minutes, not weeks, against hand-drawn studios

A comic is ready in minutes. Hand-drawn alternatives like yourcomicstory take 4–6 weeks and Make Me A Comic quotes 10–20 days for a book — and that’s before any printing or shipping.

One flat price, never credits or a subscription

You pay once per comic — no credit packs to buy and track, unlike personalizedcomics.com, and no subscription tier, unlike mycomics.ai’s credits-and-subscription pricing.

Digital-only, so there’s no shipping cutoff

Because nothing physical ever ships, there’s no cutoff date to miss. Printed-and-shipped competitors like Wonderbly, Hooray Heroes, and LoveBook need days to arrive; a Based on Us comic is a finished digital file the same day you order it, with a printable PDF if you want a physical copy yourself.

Who uses Based on Us

Gift-buyers 18 and older, giving a comic about a real relationship:

• Partners marking anniversaries, Valentine’s Day, or Christmas
• Wedding guests and couples
• Families making a keepsake for the whole crew
• Friends putting together an inside-joke or birthday roast comic
• Pet owners who want their dog or cat drawn as a hero
• Last-minute gift-givers who can’t wait on shipping — there’s nothing to ship

The team behind Based on Us

Based on Us is built and operated by Clearpoint Systems, based in New York. The site launched in August 2026.

The idea started from a simple observation: the best gifts prove how well you know someone. A framed photo is lovely; a comic where their dog runs off with the ring box is theirs. We wanted a gift that could hold an inside joke as carefully as it holds a milestone, at a price that costs less than dinner out.

It’s a small team on purpose — a human reads every message that comes into support@basedonus.com.

How Based on Us works

1. Add your photos. A few clear photos of them — partner, parent, best friend, or the dog.
2. Tell the story. Pick the occasion, then spill the details and inside jokes. Personal beats perfect.
3. Gift the comic. Download it, send the private link, or print it for the big day — then watch their face.

• No account needed to start — build your comic and see the free preview without signing in. Paying requires signing in (for example with Google), so your order is tied to an account you can come back to.
• Turnaround is minutes, not days.
• Who you work with — the same small team that builds Based on Us reads support email directly. There’s no ticket queue or chatbot in between.
• Talk to us by email at support@basedonus.com or through /contact.
• Refunds are covered in full at our refund policy — the short version is that we redraw it if the art isn’t right, and refund you fully if we can’t deliver.

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