AI Art Generator ٤+

This app isn’t like the others. It’s a one-time payment (completely worth it) and doesn’t rain ads on you. Nor does it cost credits. It’s simple and to the point. The fact that it also creates the best results out of any app I’ve tried is the cherry on top. Trust me review: this is the app you’re looking for.

The description is vague as to how it works. It appears to use stable diffusion (open source). Needless to say, it does not run directly on your device, but must connect to the Internet—the artwork is generated on remote servers. That means if the servers go down, the app will stop working. Still, you can get your money’s worth out of this quickly if you use it a lot. Fidelity to the prompt is not always very good. For example, i prompted “Tim Cook showing off the latest iPhone“ and it showed a knight, a cyborg and other things but none of the images looked like Tim Cook. In another app I use, all of the images looked like Tim Cook. When I requested “Rembrandt in the style of Rembrandt,“ it worked great, but when I prompted “Rembrandt painting a self portrait,“ it always gave me a “unknown error!“ On the plus side, the images are a lot higher resolution than they appear on your phone. If you download them to a device with a large screen like a computer, you will be able to enjoy them in their full resolution, which is pretty decent!

Unlike some people on the Internet, I never claim any of the images created by the AI to be my own, and I never post any of the AI images. I find this to be a handy app. As a creator, its become a valuable tool in helping me think about my design and other directions than I might typically be thinking.

Among the issues I have with this app is it tends to crash frequently and will not re-open unless I reinstall the app. Every time I do this, it loses everything created to date. The same thing happens whenever the app is updated. It was updated about a month ago, I had some great images that I probably should’ve saved, but were lost forever, along with the prompts I used to create them. I had some good prompts that were lost.

The last update also made all of the in-app prompts unattainable. They are now at the top of the screen and beyond the top without any way to scroll to them, and the visible ones are not usable as nothing happens when touched.

Lastly, the app will give a dozen NSW before it finally produces an image that is not always useful. As an adult who paid for this app, I should be the one to decide what to view, not the app or developer. If you don’t want minors to view questionable material, put parental controls on the app.

I love that this is usable on my iPad. I only wish it were better.