The top three best AI imaging apps for your smartphone

January 3, 2023 Luisa Rey

Artificial intelligence is currently going through a huge revolution. Especially AI based on machine learning and deep neural networks is exploding. For example, there are now AIs that are able to generate lifelike photos and art, chat and even create 3D designs. Below are three surprising AI apps with which you can do remarkable things.

WOMBO Dream AI

Appmaker WOMBO’s Dream AI app lets you generate hyper-realistic cars and art using a command prompt.

With the paid version you also have a greater choice in terms of filters. Depending on your imagination, you can generate landscapes, bizarre aliens or realistic-looking, but completely fake images.

For the most realistic images, it is best to use the HDR filter. Do you prefer a cartoon drawing, a painting or, for example, a psychedelic effect? Then choose another filter. In principle, you can experiment a lot. Even the sky is not the limit, because you can flout all the rules and laws of nature.

Since the operation of WOMBO Dream is quite simple, it is the ideal app to start your AI adventures. You can download WOMBO Dream for Android devices here, and for iPhones here.

Night Café

A little more complicated to operate, but with much more options is Night Cafe. With the free version you can make up to five pictures per day. With the paid version more, but that will cost you credits.

Night Cafe offers access to OpenAI’s spectacular Dall-E 2 engine, which can be used to create extremely realistic images. It is therefore definitely recommended if you already have some experience with artificial intelligence and you want to learn more about it.

Especially by entering absurd prompts, you can create remarkable works of art. As an example, on the left the result of “four ant chairs surrounding a scarab table”, with four ant-inspired chairs.

Do you want to create new art based on existing photos, or further evolve an existing work of art? Then you can use one of the three other models. These three other models are also somewhat less strict in terms of allowed and forbidden words, because they use the open source AI of Stable DIffusion.

Also very strong, and a unique ability of Night Café is the option to produce art in the style of, for example, Van Gogh, Picasso or Rembrandt. You can also share your creations and have them rated by other users. Are you serious about generated art, and do you want to grow? Then this is the ideal website for you.

NIght Cafe cannot be downloaded from Google Play or the Appstore. However, the website is very mobile-friendly, and you get prompts once you have logged in to the website. In terms of ease of use, there is actually little difference with an app.

Dall-E 2 from OpenAI

With NightCafe you already have access to some functions of OpenAI Dall-E 2. You may already know OpenAI because of their well-known chatbot ChatGPTin. But do you really want full access to the more powerful features of Dall-E 2? Then it is best to use the interface of OpenAI itself.

Every month you get 15 credits, with which you can generate images using a text prompt. Do you want to lose more? Then you can purchase these for around one euro each, with a discount for larger quantities. One of the most powerful features of Dall-E 2 is the ability to enhance images with AI-generated content.

For example, you can have Vermeer’s famous milkmaid surrounded by a matching 17th-century interior. Also, a very useful feature for graphic designers, you can have objects removed from a landscape and replaced with a likely background. In this example, the tree has been removed from a well-known esoteric picture and replaced with a background.

Here you also see the limitations of AI. The artificial intelligence has no insight into what exactly the image represents and simply uses patterns in similar images in its huge database. Often it goes well, sometimes it doesn’t.