Turn Your Napkin Scribbles Into Art With This AI Image Generator

AI image generators are all the rage right now, with a recent wave of updates to many of the options available. Ideogram is the latest synthetic image developer to join the trend this week with the launch of Ideogram 2.0. The new iteration of the image generator promises to outdo its predecessor as well as its competitors with several new and improved features, as well as a new iOS app and a searchable library of over a billion images generated by users over the past year.

Ideogram 2.0’s text-to-image engine gives the user much more control over the formatting of the AI-generated image. This includes a collection of several distinct styles to choose from. The Realistic style is arguably the most interesting, as it produces images that look very much like real photographs. Skin, hair, and other details are much better than those of the previous Ideogram model.

The Design style, meanwhile, focuses on text accuracy in images, a notoriously difficult area for AI models to master. With Ideogram 2.0, users can generate graphic designs with long, stylized text that remains readable. The other options are pretty self-explanatory, with 3D creating three-dimensional objects that can be rotated in real space, while Anime opts for that distinctive animated style, and General avoids tilting the image toward any particular look.

Ideogram on the move

Ideogram 2.0 also improved its Magic Prompt and Describe tools. Magic Prompt relies on an initial prompt from a user, while Describe reverses the usual setup and creates a text prompt from an image. They are now better at determining how to fill in details from an initially short text prompt and explaining an image using words, respectively.

Ideogram has paired its new model with the launch of its iOS app. The app allows users to create and customize images directly from their mobile devices. An Android version is also in the works. In addition to the mobile app, Ideogram AI has introduced the beta version of its API so that you can open up another app or website that has an AI image generator and actually use Ideogram’s model. It’s similar to how Microsoft uses OpenAI’s DALL-E or how X integrated Flux into the Grok AI chatbot. All of these are competitors, and while there’s no telling who, if anyone, will come out on top in this arena, there’s no denying that the final image will be crisp and photorealistic, with words that anyone can read.