DaVinci - AI Image Generator 4+

Better for some things than others

Not sure why it’s getting one-star reviews; maybe because the subscription model is a bit tricksy. I tried to buy a lifetime license, but it didn’t work—took the money, but didn’t give me access. Luckily I got a refund from Apple, but when I returned to buy again the lifetime access was no longer available. Rather frustrating.

As for the quality of the app, I’d estimate that you get a usable image once every two prompts. It seems to do women’s faces better than men’s. But when it does work I’ve gotten some absolute corkers of portrait photographs that I challenge everyone to tell me are not real!

I like that when you choose a style it allows you to see the entire prompt it used; then you can edit it to get your exact result.

Some features I’d like to see that would make the app more user-friendly: saving prompts for later, deleting multiple images at once, editing already-existing images.

Developer Response ,

We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience you had. We love hearing feedback from our users and growing together with you! It is great to see that you are enjoying DaVinci. :) Thank you for taking time to share your experience with us! Feel free to share our app with your friends and family! Best, DaVinci Support Team

Not happy with what you get with a subscription

I tried this out for a few days for free and liked it so much, I bought a years subscription. It was only when you have used it do you discover that you are limited to 50 images a day! This should be made clear before you pay. If you input a couple of prompts and recreate them in all the different styles, then that’s it, you can’t do anything for 24 hours!
Also, I uploaded 10 selfies to create Avatars only for a message to pop up stating that in order to access this feature, I had to pay an extra £30! I would have expected this to have been included; what a rip off! This is another thing that should have been made clear before you buy a years subscription.
Plus, the image prompts don’t always translate well. For example, I asked for 7 figures and got 5 in my first image and 9 in a recreation. A request for an “Alien Wedding” was just human figures, and a request for aliens with violet skin produced purple trees and no figures at all.
If I had known the above, I don’t think I would have bought a subscription. I was planning to have a lot of fun with this, only to have my fun limited to about 30 minutes tops per 24 hours, a request to pay double to import selfies, and some disappointing results from my prompts.

Flakey and hard to use

Too many issues with the app to make it worth the cost. There are much better AI image generators out there for a similar price or only slightly more.

- Reliability is poor. When I first attempted to take out a subscription, the app not only froze but managed to crash my whole iPhone, requiring a restart. Similarly, about 1 in 5 attempts to generate an image results in either the app crashing or the image failing to load.

- User experience. Why on earth they put the ‘surprise me’ button - a button that clears whatever you’ve entered into the text input box - right where you’d expect the generate button to be (especially as the actual generate button will often be hidden by the keyboard) is beyond me. And the UX for the art styles is awful: dozens of styles that seem to appear in a random order with no way to filter them or pin favourite ones, so trying to find a style that worked well previously can be impossible. And why is there no way to slightly edit your text prompt and then regenerate?

- Quality of images: as with all AI generation, your mileage may vary. Some can be excellent, and a lot depends on your prompt. However I frequently found the images bland with a tendency to pick up on random words in the prompt and apply them in irrelevant way rather than properly interpret the sense of the prompt.

Developer Response ,

We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience. We are constantly upgrading our systems so that you can have the best AI Avatar Art experience possible! Please make sure you’re using the latest version available and reach out to us via store@davinci.ai if you have any further feedback!