Launched in 2022, Craiyon AI was one of the first AI art generators that popped up that year and provided users with input to text descriptions of images and generate corresponding pictures from scratch. Utilising the DALL-E Mini technology to produce images from basic text descriptions, Craiyon AI brings text prompts to life by creating visually striking and entirely unique pictures that were previously nonexistent.
Furthermore, Craiyon AI is free to use, has a simple UI to navigate and has fast image generation. For example, you can use Craiyon AI with just two simple steps. Type a text input, and let the AI art generator do the work. You can even print your masterpiece on a t-shirt using Craiyon AI’s print-on-demand services.
However, despite these advantages and pros, Craiyon AI fell short in 2023 and will continue its descent in 2024 due to the number of ads littered across the platform, no account and image saving and no designated templates. Thus, our listicle today will bring you up to speed on the five best Craiyon AI alternatives for creating AI art in 2024.
Top 5 Craiyon AI Alternatives Ranked
1) Bing Image Creator
Kicking things on our list of Craiyon AI alternatives, we have the newly launched Bing Image Creator this year by Microsoft. Bing Image Creator is a free AI art generator platform powered by Open AI’s cutting-edge DALL-E 3 technology. It is an advanced deep-learning model trained on a vast dataset of images to generate images based on users’ textual prompts and create visually stunning and highly realistic images.
Besides its capabilities to generate hard-to-distinguishable real-life images, Bing Image Creator’s accessibility also makes it stand out from the rest on our list. For instance, unlike other AI-powered tools that require expensive subscriptions or specialised accounts, Bing Image Creator is open to anyone with a Microsoft account via Bing.com/Create, Bing Chat, or the Microsoft Edge browser.
In addition, Bing Image Creator has not taken any liberty in their security prevention, as the platform automatically rejects and alerts users regarding harmful prompts. For example, the system doesn’t accept prompts leading to dangerous or unsafe images, such as those depicting public figures, violence, or hate speech.
While it is still debatable whether the platform is entirely safety-proof, Microsoft is constantly updating and surveying the platform to prevent any deepfakes or harmful images sprouting from their image generator.
2) Simplified AI
Placing second on our list of Craiyon AI alternatives, we have Simplified AI with its everything-in-one-app AI content generation tool. When we mean everything, it means everything as Simplified AI consists of AI writing, image generation, video editing and social media publishing in one platform. It is a multifaceted tool that differentiates itself from the rest on our list.
How so? Firstly, with every feature combined into one app, it is simple and efficient for users to streamline their content-crafting process end-to-end. For example, users can also collaborate with their team by designing and scheduling all their content within a centralised hub. Furthermore, when users subscribe to the Free Plan by default whenever creating an account, it remains free forever to use the platform.
As for image generation, while it may not be comparable to Bing Image Creator, the platform still provides an AI-powered graphics tool with stock photos for users to create engaging pictures, especially for users in digital marketing. Furthermore, the platform also provides GIFs and an audio library for image generators, which other alternatives on our list do not have. With everything considered, Simplified AI is the best option for small businesses and tight-budgeting marketing teams to design AI art.
3) Wombo Dream
Third of our list of Craiyon AI alternatives may be controversial, but we have decided to go with Wombo Dream, the AI image generator platform featured on Google Play’s list of best apps in 2022. With the app featuring over 10 million downloads on the Play Store, it must be a no-brainer to put it at the top of our list. However, there are downsides to this superb platform.
For instance, users who did not subscribe to its premium version will only get one painting in its free version. Moreover, some of Wombo’s Dream style options remain locked in the free version, and users have to buy the paid version to access them even though you won’t miss too much if you continue using the former. Furthermore, the AI images generated are disappointingly generic and lack imagination compared to the above two on our list.
However, it is still a good app, evidently from his mostly positive rating for when you are done scrolling through Messenger and Instagram. As one reviewer mentioned: “Not sure why this is the best app of the year. It’s boring and doesn’t give results related to the prompts I put in. What’s the point in wasting time with all the settings that seem to have nothing to do with the final outcome? And they want you to upgrade to premium to see more random pictures. I don’t see the point in this when many other apps do more interesting things with images.”
4) Visme
Coming in penultimate on our Craiyon AI alternatives list is Visme, a popular and easy-to-use design tool millions turn to for creating engaging imagery, infographics, and other forms of visual content. For instance, Visme can create stunning visuals on the fly with its free and easy-to-use text-to-image generation tool. Users can access the AI generator inside all their Visme projects.
Moreover, users can use their all-in-tool, such as Visme Brand Design Tool, Visme AI Text Generator, and Visme AI Image Editor, all accessible via desktop and mobile apps to design their content.
However, the main drawback of Visme is that the app is tailored for individual use. For example, teams must subscribe to its Pro Plan with multiple users within a workspace to collaborate and create using Visme.
5) Midjourney
The final ranked AI image generator on our Craiyon AI alternatives list is the famed platform Midjourney. Although it is one of the hottest image-generation tools publicly available now, it still lacks in some areas compared to others on our list, especially the controversies regarding image generation.
Before we get into its cons, Midjourney is a revolutionary app in image creation, as anybody, even people with no artistic background, can generate photorealistic realistic images from scratch with remarkable precision with its prompts. Additionally, If the previous batch of pictures does not meet your expectations, you can regenerate a new batch based on your favourites by typing the specific prompt you want. Thus, Midjourney provides you with the sense of refining images until you are satisfied.
However, the AI image generator platform, which our site is also currently using, has some massive drawbacks. For example, it is only available on Discord as the platform has revoked free trials starting April 2023. In addition, their customer service is quite bad, as many customers have filed complaints against the platform for their lack of response. Techpilot even gave them a 1.7 rating out of 5.
Lastly, the Stable Diffusion program that Midjourney employs has controversies, with artists claiming the AI platform takes art found on the internet with similar tags and only modifies it a minor amount instead of producing something original.
Author’s Note
While we understand some of you may feel upset for not including platforms such as Jasper Art and Dall-E 3, with everything considered, we ultimately decided on these five Craiyon AI alternatives for you, our readers, to try out during 2024.
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