Top 5 FREE AI Art Generator Websites You Should Know About
As anyone who’s ever taken an art class knows, generating new ideas can be tough. And while there are plenty of ways to jump-start your creativity, sometimes it’s helpful to have a little assistance. That’s where AI-powered image generators come in.
AI art generators can generate high-quality images from simple text descriptions in natural language. And they’re becoming more and more accessible recently.
Some of these websites are free to use, and some of them offer paid subscriptions like MidJourney, OpenAI’s Dall-E2, and Stability AI’s DreamStudio.
In this article, I compiled five web apps that offer free text-to-image services.
Let’s explore what each website can do.
1. Mage
Mage.space went live in September 2022, offering unlimited generation on launch. Create an account and you can unlock an advanced mode that lets you push the quality to an “Insane” level and set guidance to 0, which means no restrictions on creating NSFW images.
Sample result.
Mage also gives you the option to “enhance” the result if you want to bump up the resolution and get rid of unwanted artifacts.
2. Playground AI
This web app is my personal favorite on the list. Aside from the usual text-to-image generation, it offers a lot of extra features like auto-fill of prompts, filters, and generating images with Dall-E2.
To my knowledge, no other web app right now is using the Dall-E2 model aside from, of course, OpenAI.
Compared to Stable Diffusion (SD), the Dall-E2 model makes images that are clearer and better in many ways. Take a look at this example made with SD when given the same prompt as the previous one.
The astronaut does not seem to be riding the horse properly, and there are unnecessary artifacts that are added to the image.
3. Hugging Face / Stable Diffusion Web
The Hugging Face app was one of the first that supported Stable Diffusion when it was released to the public.
Each generation produces a set of four 512x512 resolution images. Here’s a sample result from our “Astronaut riding a horse in space” text prompt.
4. Canva’s Text-To-Image
Text-to-image is an app for Canva created by Stable Diffusion. It’s still in the beta phase and has no clear indicator of limited generations. I confirmed with Canva that the image limit is still a work in progress. For now, users can generate as many images as they want.
The app produces two 512x512 results for each generation.
One thing to note is that Canva does not save the generated images. They are lost once you leave the canvas or start making another set of images.
5. Wombo Art
Wombo has been around for a little while now. It’s one of the OGs in the world of text-to-art generators. I’m glad it remained free until now.
Wombo has some interesting features, like the ability to switch between 39 different art styles, choose a reference image, and remix your NFT.
Wombo is now powered by Stable Diffusion. If you factor out the art style, you can expect it to produce almost similar results to others. Here’s our astronaut riding a horse in the “Analogue” art style.
Pretty cool, right?
Okay, that’s about it for today. I hope you liked this list. Go try them out while they’re free!
Final Thoughts
In a world where art is increasingly becoming more about the idea behind it and less about the process of physically creating it, AI art image generators are becoming more important.
I can see why people are worried that technology will replace artists and turn them into the next factory workers. But AI is nothing more than a tool in our arsenal. All it can do is mimic pre-existing paintings and photographs handcrafted by human artists.
Love it or hate it, generative AIs are here to stay, and they are only becoming more powerful. So why not use this technology as a way to get more done instead of as a rival?
