🎨 Images & design
Image generation, text-in-image, and quick social graphics.
Midjourney
The look-best image generator.
Still the go-to for aesthetic, art-directed images.
BEST FOR: BEAUTIFUL VISUALSPaid plans
Ideogram
Image gen that gets text right.
Posters, logos, thumbnails. Anything where the words must be spelled correctly.
BEST FOR: TEXT IN IMAGESFree plan · paid tiers
Krea
Real-time generation plus enhance/upscale in one suite.
Fast iteration and access to many models in one place.
BEST FOR: RAPID ITERATIONFree plan · paid tiers
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's generative suite, wired into Photoshop.
Commercially minded and fits pro Adobe workflows.
BEST FOR: ADOBE USERSFree credits · paid tiers
New in images & design this week
FLUX 3 Image Klein (workflow update): Black Forest Labs shipped updated ComfyUI workflows for its small open-weights image model. It runs on consumer GPUs with about 8 GB of VRAM and takes up to 10 reference images. source ↗
Krea 3 (beta): Krea's new image editing model does native 2K edits in seconds, takes up to six reference images, and lets you box the exact area to change. It keeps products and characters consistent across rounds. source ↗
Magic Patterns MagicOS: An infinite AI design canvas. PRDs, inspiration, and variations stay side by side, and you can hand off to coding agents. source ↗
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