Image Generation Tools
Turn text into images and visual concepts.
Who is this topic for?
- Useful for creators, operations and product teams, and anyone looking to apply AI to everyday work.
34 tools
PixMind
An AI image and video creation platform combining multi-model generation, image editing, an infinite canvas, workflows and API access.
Jimeng AINew
ByteDance's Jimeng AI creation platform for text-to-image, image-to-video and a smart canvas, running the Seedance 2.0 / 2.5 video models and Seedream 5.0 image models in 2026.
SeaArtNew
An AI art and video platform with a large community model library that also aggregates third-party models such as Veo, Kling, Seedream, Flux and Nano Banana, with LoRA training and ComfyUI support.
Nano Banana
Google's image model: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) is now the default generator across Gemini and Search, alongside Pro and Lite variants.
Flux.1
Black Forest Labs' text-to-image model family; the current FLUX.2 includes API-only pro, flex, and max plus open-weight dev and klein, with licenses that vary by model
Civitai
A sharing community for AI image models — downloads are free, on-site generation is billed in Buzz, and since 2026 creators set their own licensing fees
Midjourney
Midjourney V8.2 image generation on the web and Discord, with image and short-video creation on paid plans.
Stable Diffusion
Stability AI's open-source text-to-image model from 2022: public weights, local deployment and a large ecosystem of fine-tunes.
AI Art Special Feature
A guide to AI image generation tools, grouped by output quality, open-source ecosystem and Chinese-language platforms.
Niji Journey
The anime image generator from Midjourney and Spellbrush; Niji 7 is tuned for Japanese-style characters, illustrations and scenes.
NightCafe
An AI art platform launched in 2019, bundling several mainstream image models around an active sharing community.
Hugging Face
The world's largest open-source AI model community: download SD/LLM models and try them online in Spaces
Dreamup
DeviantArt's built-in AI art feature, metered in prompts and automatically tagging output as #AIart
Lexica
An AI image generator and prompt search site — its in-house Aperture model leans photorealistic and editorial, and the prompt library is free to search
Leonardo
An AI visual-creation platform for image generation and editing, upscaling, video generation and custom model training.
Liblib (Liblib)
A Chinese AI image-and-video community with models, LoRA training, WebUI, ComfyUI workflows and online generation.
Fooocus
Easy to use! Generate high-quality images for free.
Adobe Firefly
A creative generative model from Adobe, quickly becoming a favorite in the digital creativity industry.
CanvaAi
Free AI-powered image generation tool from Canva
Wujie AI
A domestic Chinese AI art generation platform that supports image creation in multiple styles
Bing Image Creator
An AI-powered image generation tool built on DALL-E; accessible directly via the Edge sidebar.
Illostration AI
An AI-powered illustration generation tool focused on creating vector-style artwork.
AISEO Art
An AI-powered image generation tool that integrates SEO content creation capabilities.
Imagine with Meta
Meta's free AI image generation, now folded into Meta AI — imagine.meta.com issues a 301 redirect to meta.ai
Artbreeder
An online AI-powered tool for creative image synthesis.
Wenxin YigeMovedNew
Baidu's AI art platform, with its standalone entry migrated: yige.baidu.com redirects to a migration guide and image generation now lives in Baidu Wenxin (wenxin.baidu.com)
Tongyi WanxiangNew
An AI image generation platform launched by Alibaba, supporting a variety of creative styles
Jianying AI Art GenerationNew
CapCut's built-in AI image generator, running ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 model from 2026, with images that drop straight onto the editing timeline.
360 ZhihuiNew
Style transfer AI art generation, LoRA training, and more.
Infinite CanvasNew
Intelligent image design, integrating design industry resources from Qianku.com
Toast AINew
A Chinese Stable Diffusion model-sharing community with online generation; the domain moved from tusiart.com to tusi.cn
Meitu WheeNew
An AI art platform under Meitu, specializing in portrait generation with a focus on photorealistic styles.
Sohu Simple AINew
Intelligent image generation platform and community
6penMovedNew
An AI art platform (moved to 6pen Pro): it generated artwork from text descriptions; the original site has closed and credits move to 6pen Pro