starryai: AI Art Generator Ratings and Reviews

One of the best apps I’ve ever had!!

I can’t say enough about this app! I am not an artistic person at all more of a left brain type but this app is a great outlet for me to express myself through a proxy. It fascinates me how it almost seems to know what kind of art would interest me even though there is no option for me to request these specifics. For example I’m a firm believer that the best art is offensive and should elicit strong emotional responses even if it is anger fear or embarrassment because that means it’s making some kind of strong connection to you and I found that this AI (of course I DONT know if it understands these things that could also be why it does them but I’m choosing to believe that it IS that smart) seems to integrate this concept into a lot of the pictures for me which I absolutely love. One thing I found terrifying no matter how I look at it makes me question the desire to use AI so frivolously and is because of the result that was produced from the words “peace at last” it gave a post apocalyptic scene of destruction that had become overgrown by nature due to the extinction of humans. Is this AI also prophetic or what?!?!
Developers: Please make sure you program the AI never to want to destroy us or take over the world please! Remember even Hitler was an artist!
I’m joking but also NOT joking.
Thank you for this wonderful app and thank you to the merciful AI please try not to enslave all of humanity. Amen.
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Best AI Art App

This is the one app I use on a regular basis and made an account for because it is the most stable and intuitive app in the entire Appstore. it was also to my knowledge, the first one. There are so many junk AI Art apps now it’s ridiculous and time wasting, but this app is worth every second of your time. I have enjoyed the updates, so many additions have been made some of which I had asked for in the survey. I look forward to StarryAI continuing to get better and enjoy following other artists on the app. My next request is for StarryAI to add short movie clips or animated photos to the option for the starting image, if possible that would be awesome. I would also like a lifetime option to purchase the app. I don’t do subscriptions, but I still want to use the options that are unlocked when you pay and I also want to support the developers for making such an amazing app. I consider this the OG of AI Art apps. Thanks for your hard work guys, love your app and can’t wait to keep using it. Your app is the reason I got started making AI Art.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for being a loyal customer! We are really glad that you like our product - your support and voice are really important to us. Keep an eye out for exciting new releases as we continue to improve and bring more features to starryai. 

Have to pay

It’s fun until you run out of credits and can’t generate any new ai art unless you pay. Then it says you can get free credits if you wait til after 6am. Well 6am (24 hours) has passed and no free credits. I’m sorry but I am not paying $12/month or subscribing and having issues cancelling the subscription for ai art that really isn’t that good. I thought this app would be useful in helping me get ideas for my own art. I am an artist and needed ideas for horror art. Well, the art produced wasn’t really that good. At one point it even showed me a blurry image as a “final result”, what am I gonna do with a blurred image of nothing? I don’t know how people are getting the really beautiful ai images from this. And why does it have to cost? I can understand charging maybe a one time fee of $5 for the entire app unlimited but why $12/month ($144/year)?? There’s only so much you can do with this app and only so many things you can think of to have the ai generate. Also if I type in a phrase and someone else types in a phrase, will we both have the same results? Who owns the copyright then? This claims you own the copyright to your creations but how can every piece be unique??? Cool app if it was free or cheaper. I mean at least explain why it needs to be a monthly subscription and not a one time low payment. Does the ai machine need to be continuously maintained? Does the ai have to be fed more information on a daily bases? What is it??

Developer Response ,

We apologize for your less than stellar experience with starryai. Please do reach out to support via the i icon in the top right corner of your app and then clicking the support link so that we might resolve the issue you are having. We also encourage you to join our Discord community where you will find members and moderators both willing to help, as well as many tips and tricks (and style guides) for perfecting your art. As far as identical prompts go, it is highly unlikely that you and someone else will have identical results even using the same prompt unless they somehow also have access to the exact seed you used. The ai runs on servers which do need to be maintained and periodically upgraded, and there is a team of employees, as well. I am unsure what your phrase was, but let's say you used something like "a dog and a cat". Your prompt should look something like ("a dog and a cat"; fluffy, smooth, sharp focus, crispy quality, medium shot, studio photography, studio lighting; Steve McCurry, Bruce Weber, Artstation, Pixiv; soft lighting, ethereal, glitzy, 16k, photorealistic, unreal engine, SF, CGSociety, HD, HDR). The ai needs more than just the topic to render good images - it needs the styles and artist/photographer styles to create the imagery we imagine. There are many articles and sites out there available on prompt engineering, and if you join our Discord Community, there are channels dedicated to prompt engineering, style guides, style exploration, and more. While the ai does not have to be fed information on a daily basis, there are new checkpoints made for ai and released to the public from time to time. Just recently, SD 2.0 was released - there is plenty of information available about it if you are interested and run a Google search. Our team does need to make sure that our app is constantly being improved and upgraded, as well as that we are running the latest checkpoints once they have been tested and understood. Hope this information is sufficient, but if not, please do reach out on our Discord community on the AI-Discussion channel or in any of the feedback channels. Thank you!

Sexual Content

There are a lot of good things about this app, however, the developer's lack of response to reported sexual content is not one of them. I understand that, like many ai apps/sites, they rely on users to help them moderate content, and I have no problem with that. Other apps I've used immediately remove a reported image from public view until it's been reviewed. When I report content on Starryai, there is a message saying it will be reviewed asap, but the image remains. In the last few months, I've reported a number of images (usually of near-naked women) but they always remain. There is no action on the part of the developers. The deal killer tonight amounts to child porn. The image was reported, and I was hoping that this one would disappear. But of course not. The prompt blatantly calls for teenagers in skimpy clothing and underwear. If nothing else, there should have been safeguards in place regarding the wording of the prompt itself, as other ai apps do. I can't support this app and can only recommend people to avoid it. I realize none will be perfect, but there are equally good and better alternatives that do make the effort to preserve human dignity by setting and enforcing community decency standards. I hope that either developers will respond to this by taking direct action in their app and website, or that they will be shut down. This is inexcusable.

Developer Response ,

We apologize for your less than stellar experience with starryai. Your voice is really important to us. Please do reach out to support by clicking on the profile picture on the top left corner of your app, then clicking the support link so that we might resolve the issue you are having. Thank you!

One of the best programs for this sort of thing

Alright so I poked around a couple programs for these ai-generated art things, and I think this is probably the best, the only other good program that does this is nightcafe, and that only lets you do one decent-quality picture a day, starryai let you do 2 a day when I got it, and 5 a day now. The options for style are pretty versatile, and it recognizes non-words. I’ve tried inputting dnd monster and Pokémon names and it seems to recognize them enough to get the basic features, shapes, and colors right (I input “aboleth” and it creates a tentacled sea monster, I input “skitty” and it gave me a pink-and-cream batch of blobs, with a few cat ears scattered around). I’ve even seen it recreate humanoid figures, which I’d assume would be hard to make.

Tl;dr really nice program, I think the other people complain and give it 1 star because they don’t realize the credits reset daily, the one big improvement would be adding that to the app description so people realize

New Orion Update - Weird Artifacts

I use this app all of the time, and have spent a decent amount of money buying credits since I really enjoy it. I was a big fan of the Orion AI and thought I had it down pretty good to get what I wanted. The new update has allowed for initial images and seems to have changed the way the Orion AI works when you evolve images? I don’t mind that, and I feel like it’s a good direction for the AI, but I’m starting to get weird artifacts or squiggles in my creations if I evolve the piece more than once or twice. I used to evolve a piece probably 5+ times in average with no issue, which helped me get what I was really looking for, but doing that now is significantly messing with the quality of the piece and feels like I’m wasting credits. Hopefully it’s just an initial issue as bugs get worked out and the AI is further tuned. I’ll have to work with the settings to try to find a new combination that I really like/relearn what I should expect the settings to output, but I may hold off on using Orion for a bit until that gets fixed. Overall, the app is really great! I highly recommend it.

Going Downhill

I like the app, but the customer service is nonexistent. I was an active participant in the discord server, won two contests in three weeks, suggested three improvements that are all going to be part of the next release, created several interesting styles that added to the capabilities of the app (for example, a glass and crystal style, since they do not use the glass and crystal LoRAs). And despite all that, I was kicked off of the discord server for life and without warning because a mod with the personality of a 12 year old child, because he didn’t like something I said. I was having a conversation with two other adults at 3 AM. Of course, he only booted me, the women involved in the conversation were permitted to stay. This little boy is representing a company and using his mod abilities for power tripping. I told them I would stop being a paying customer if they did not let me back on the server, they refused, so I am no longer a paying customer.

Also, they have owed me 1247 credits since April 14th and still have not issued them. I can’t say anything bad about the customer service, I can’t say anything about it at all. It does not exist. PS: Today, they told me that I will not get the 1247 credits returned.

Developer Response ,

We apologize for the less than stellar experience with starryai. Google's policy prohibits the creation of sexual content. To stay compliant, we've restricted the ability to create art in this area. You can read more about the prohibition at Google's Safety Page: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9878810#sexual-content

Very Fun - Really Needs to Work on AI’s Bias

I really like the potential and have had a lot of fun using the app. Like any ai it takes quite a bit of time to get the hang of mastering the best way to create a prompt so I’m forgiving on that aspect, BUT the other tools in the app itself totally rely on trial and error as well to even figure out how to use them. I still haven’t figured out how to successfully retouch an image, and each time I make an attempt it costs a credit. I’m not sure if they do this to force you to spend more credits but I wish there were tutorials.

Another issue I wish they’d work on is the AI’s bias towards fair skin and light eyes. Even if I feed the AI an image of a dark skinned person I get a fair skinned person back almost every time. Even specifying which skin color I’m shooting for in the prompt does not help the whitewashing sometimes. Again, if each attempt costs a credit I wish this bias wouldn’t waste my credits.

Overall, I’m still willing to learn to use the app better and create more images because I’m having fun.

Save your money, try another AI generator

Starryai has a good idea but the execution isn’t there yet. The app is a bit limited in terms of options for the generator and there are bugs in the interface. The community gallery and rating system is what sets the app apart but this has the most problems. When scrolling through the gallery the viewer often duplicates certain artwork repeatedly preventing it from scrolling down to see others, at this point it will often crash if you continue to scroll. Often the app ignores when the view settings change. There is no way to view all of the gallery or see random entries so people can only see your art if it happens to get enough likes quickly enough otherwise it drops off the visible lists entirely and can no longer be viewed to receive more likes. Other random bugs include generated images that appear entirely black or hang the app. Credits are very expensive and starryai is stingy with credits even on the paid tiers. Other AI art generators such as Diffusitron give more credits per day free and are easier to control with more advanced features like model selection and honestly much better results.

Developer Response ,

We apologize for your less than stellar experience with starryai. Your voice is really important to us. Please do reach out to support via the i icon in the top right corner of your app and then clicking the support link so that we might resolve the issue you are having. Thank you!

Such a strange ai art app!

The images are good quality but no matter what prompt I put in lately it’s almost always the same one or two women in it. I’ve never asked for people at all, but that’s what I get. The same two women in different outfits. It also does the same dystopian image a lot with very slight variations - even someone I know got an image very similar to mine and neither of us had requested anything remotely near that. But I have over two hundred credits so I guess I’ll keep using the app anyway.

The good thing about the app is it’s completely free - you can pay, but it’s ridiculously expensive for what it offers (and even if you have a paid version it still makes you buy extra credits?!) and it gives you some credits every day that you can save up instead.

If there were more variation with the outcomes, more styles to choose from, and unlimited generations, it’d probably be up there with those charging $30-$40/year. But this definitely isn’t on par with those yet and it’s charging so much more, I don’t really understand. I’m assuming people paying for it just don’t know there are other AI Art apps out there.

Anyway, it’s a good app just to use as a check against other AI art apps - I’m hoping eventually they will have more variety and styles, and maybe calm down on the pricing a bit after the novelty wears off and it’ll probably be worth paying for. It is weird that an app with such good-quality output has so little to offer otherwise.