Top 5 Best Free AI Image Generator Apps (November 2023 Update!) Midjourney Alternative

Summary

The video introduces and compares five of the best free AI art generator alternatives to Midjourney that are currently available. It first highlights Bing AI Image Creator and Canva AI as two easy-to-use options that produce high quality images with just a few clicks, although both have limits on free usage. It then moves on to the more fully-featured Leonardo AI and Adobe Firefly, which offer more advanced generative capabilities alongside free quotas that reset daily or monthly. Leonardo AI stands out for its unlimited daily token allotment, upscaling abilities to refine images, as well as intuitive mobile apps. Meanwhile Adobe Firefly provides unique stylistic filters and editing tools like expanding, erasing, or adding to image contents. Finally, the presenter recommends Playground AI as the best Midjourney alternative due to its extremely generous daily free quota and array of included generative features. Playground AI enables mixing image contents, swapping subjects between photos, inserting new objects or prompts, applying filters called "palettes", and fine-tuning image parameters like quality, details and prompt guidance. Its newly updated canvas layout also facilitates intuitive image manipulation and iteration. In summary, while all five AI art tools produce compelling results, Playground AI emerges as the top free alternative to Midjourney based on its virtually unlimited use quota and built-in generative capabilities that enhance creative control and customization. The presenter does note however that for quick and easy AI image generation with minimal configurability, Bing AI and Canva AI may still prove optimal.

Takeaways

• Bing AI Image Generator is a quick, unlimited way to generate AI art using DALL-E 3
• Canva recently added AI image generation capabilities with 49 free credits
• Leonardo AI offers daily free token resets for image generation and has great mobile apps
• Adobe Firefly has unlimited text effects and 25 monthly generative credits
• Playground AI has the most features and 500 free daily images
• Bing AI and Canva are the quickest and simplest free options
• Leonardo AI and Playground AI offer the most control and features
• Photoshop 2024 generative AI can be accessed for free in a limited way
• The presenter recommends Playground AI as the top free alternative to Midjourney
• The presenter creates the same prompt on multiple platforms to compare results

Q & A

Which free AI art platform has unlimited use?

Bing AI Image Generator has unlimited use but slower generation without boosts.

How many free credits does Canva provide?

Canva provides 49 free AI image credits which can be reset with new accounts.

What makes Leonardo AI unique?

Leonardo AI has great mobile apps and daily free token resets for users.

What Adobe product has AI capabilities?

Adobe Firefly offers generative AI features like text effects and 25 monthly credits.

Which platform won top recommendation?

Playground AI was most recommended for offering the most features and 500 free daily images.

How are the platforms compared?

The presenter creates the same prompt on multiple platforms to compare image results.

What does Photoshop 2024 offer?

Photoshop 2024 has generative AI capabilities accessible in a limited free way.

How quick are Bing and Canva to use?

Bing and Canva are the quickest and simplest free AI art options.

Which platforms offer the most control?

Leonardo AI and Playground AI offer the most creative control and features.

What do the best options provide creators?

The top options provide more artistic control through generative features.

Outlines

Introduction and Overview

The video introduces and provides an overview of the top 5 best free AI art generators and Midjourney alternatives. It mentions that some older videos demonstrate tools that are no longer free and that it will cover quick, easy-to-use tools as well as more complex ones with greater creative control.

Bing AI Image Generator

This section introduces Bing AI Image Generator (Bing Creator) which uses DALL-E 3 and produces high quality images. It has unlimited usage but is slower without the Boost feature. With Boost, images generate quickly but there are only 22 Boosts per week.

Canva AI

Canva AI is simple with few features but great for quick high quality images. It has 49 free credits currently. Canva Pro offers more. To get around limits, you can create new accounts.

Leonardo AI

Leonardo AI is virtually unlimited with tokens reset daily. It has rich features like upscaling and native mobile apps. Images take 35-40 seconds but results are great. Refining can enhance quality.

Adobe Firefly

Adobe Firefly offers generative AI editing tools beyond image generation. It has 25 free monthly credits currently. Like Canva, new Adobe IDs can reset usage.

Playground AI

Playground AI is likely the most feature-rich free tool with 500 daily images. It has full creative control and built-in generative AI features.

Conclusion and Recommendations

Comparing the results, the top options are Leonardo AI for quality and Playground AI for unlimited use and generative features. The video concludes with additional tips and recommendations.

Keywords

💡Midjourney

Midjourney is an AI art generator platform that creates images from text descriptions. It is mentioned throughout the video as the main tool the narrator is providing free alternatives for. The narrator compares the quality and features of the alternative generators to Midjourney.

💡AI art generator

An AI art generator is a software platform that uses artificial intelligence to create visual art, illustrations or images from text descriptions. The narrator introduces 5 different free AI art generator tools in the video (Bing AI, Canva AI, Leonardo AI, Adobe Firefly, Playground AI) as alternatives to Midjourney for creating AI generated images.

💡Generative AI

Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence capabilities that can generate and synthesize new content like images, video, audio, text etc. The narrator highlights that some free AI art generators like Adobe Firefly and Playground AI have advanced generative AI features for image editing and manipulation.

💡Text-to-image

Text-to-image is an AI technique where text descriptions are used as input to generate corresponding visual images. The video focuses on AI art generators that leverage text-to-image capabilities to create images from text prompts provided by the user.

💡Image editing

Image editing refers to manipulating and modifying digital images through tools like cropping, filtering, adding visual effects etc. The narrator mentions how some of the free AI art generators like Leonardo AI, Adobe Firefly and Playground AI allow advanced image editing capabilities to refine and adjust the generated images.

💡Prompt engineering

Prompt engineering is the technique of experimenting with different text prompts and descriptions to get better quality results from an AI art generator. The video demonstrates providing sample prompts to each AI tool and comparing the output images.

💡Limitations

Some of the free AI art generator alternatives mentioned have limitations in usage, like capped number of images per day/week. The narrator compares the limitations across the different tools.

💡Accessibility

Accessibility refers to the ease of accessing and using the AI art generators, like requiring waitlisting or account creation. The narrator briefly mentions the steps needed to start using some of the free tools.

💡Cost

The narrator compares the costs associated with using the features of different AI art generators, since some basic usage is free but additional capabilities come at a cost. This allows users to choose based on their budget and needs.

💡Quality

The narrator informally evaluates the visual quality of sample images generated by each free AI tool. Factors like detail, realism, aesthetics and accuracy are considered in assessing quality.

Highlights

Bing AI Image Generator is 100% unlimited and uses the new DALL-E 3 AI art generator engine.

Canva AI Image Generator incorporates AI into their design platform with simple templates and drag-and-drop functionality.

Leonardo AI resets free tokens daily and has an Alchemy V2 engine with models like Leonardo Diffusion XL.

Leonardo AI has a great fully-featured native iOS and Android app to generate images on the go.

Adobe Firefly offers amazing generative AI features like text-to-image and text effects for free.

Adobe Firefly allows uploading an image for reference when generating new images.

Adobe Firefly includes editing tools to expand image dimensions, paint out parts of images, or add new elements.

Playground AI recently updated their canvas layout for unique and intuitive image editing.

Playground AI has 500 free image generations per day which is hard to exceed for most users.

Playground AI includes mixed image editing to add detail, erase objects, and swap subjects between photos.

Bing Creator, Canva AI, and Leonardo AI offer quick image generation with minimal controls.

Adobe Firefly and Playground AI have more advanced features for greater creative control.

Playground AI ranked #1 for best free Midjourney alternative based on unlimited use and advanced generative AI features.

Photoshop 2024 offers some free generative AI capabilities to try out as well.

The author recommends subscribing for more AI updates as new developments unfold.

Transcripts

I'll show you the top five best free mid

Journey Alternatives that are working

right now and they really are the best

some older videos on YouTube demonstrate

mid Journey Alternatives that are no

longer free to use I'll start with two

free AI art tools that are quick and

easy to use with a few button clicks and

move on to the more complex ones that

give much greater creative control

including awesome generative feel and

other generative AI features some of

these AI tools are free and unlimited to

use and others have daily or weekly

quoters of free use remember to check

out the AI video maker course in the

description and pin comment below you'll

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videos and you can try it out for just

$1 now let's take a look at these free

AI art generators the first best free

mid-journey alternative I'm going to

show you is Bing AI image generator

otherwise known as Bing Creator it uses

the new and improved Dar 3 AI art

generator engine and you can see below

in the Explorer area that there's some

really crisp and beautiful looking

designs here being image Creator is 100%

unlimited however it does take longer to

produce the images when you're not using

the Boost feature however when you do

use the Boost feature the images are

generated very quickly at this point you

get 22 boosts per week and this resets

every week so if you're a light user

this is going to be a great solution for

you this free AI image generator

platform is quite simple and doesn't

include many of the features we'll see

in the other free AI image generators

I'll show you it's great for producing

fantastic images in a short amount of

time at the click of a few buttons watch

the video above to learn a little bit

more about how to use Dar 3 for free how

to access and use it let's create an

image of a cute cood on an inflatable

pool bed in a swimming pool with sunset

in the background this took about 13

seconds but I sped it up for the sake of

this video and we've got four great

looking results here all in quite High

detail they're pretty much exactly what

I put in the prompt let's have a look at

these four yeah they're all very cute I

think I like this one here the best so I

can just easily save the file by tapping

download the next best free AI image

generator mid Journey alternative is

actually canva AI canva has recently

Incorporated AI into their design

platform if you're not already familiar

with canva it's a great tool for doing

Simple graphic design with simple

templates to use and it's very drag and

drop to access the free online AI image

generator create a design come over onto

the left here and select apps scroll

down and come to the AI powered section

and you need to look for the magic media

tool so select that go ahead and open it

and then type in your prompt we'll use

the same prompt as before to compare

images here again you can see we've got

the option for different styles and

aspect ratios other than that canva AI

image generator is again a very simple

platform to use with not too many bells

and whistles so it's great to use for a

quick design with just a few button

clicks next just click create your image

this generation took about 30 seconds

and let's take a look at the results

here flicking through them them one at a

time we're again given four designs all

of them quite good the details in the

fur are fantastic here but I think I

like this one here the best and just

zooming in you can see how much detail

there really is and to save I can just

tap share then download as a PNG down

the bottom you can see that we have now

use one of our 49 credits so this is

actually limited and it doesn't reset at

this point if you have canva Pro you get

500 per month but you can get around

this by simply creating a new account

each time you want to access another $40

magic media uses and you can simply

create a new account with an email

address each time Leonardo AI is the

next best free mid joury alternative

that's unlimited while virtually

unlimited it takes a little bit to

access including going on a white list

which doesn't take long but check out

this video here to see how to access it

free and quickly on the Leonardo AI

homepage you can see that we have tokens

that get reset every single day also a

recent upgrade to leonado AI is their

new Alchemy V2 engine which comes in the

models of Leonardo diffusion XL Leonardo

Vision XL and albo base XL and we have

all these other different styles of

models to choose from okay we'll paste

in this same prompt before we hit

generate let's check out some of the

feature Rich options we've got with

Leonardo AI I'll run through these real

quick we have photo real alchemi V2

which we have turned on and then we've

got input dimensions and then we have

what's called a guidance scale down here

and with each selection of these

features from the left hand side you can

see that the cost to generate the image

goes up which you can see isn't going to

be anywhere near what my daily quota is

I've accidentally generated twice so I'm

going to get six images instead of just

three and you can see that each time it

took about 35 or 40 seconds to generate

these images again we're presented with

some really great results here I

actually like the top left one the most

it's the most believable and then when

we open it up you can see that down in

the bottom right we have a bunch of

different options we can use to change

the quality of the image so we can do

some refining here and change the

strength of the refining to make it even

more detailed and then we can click

refine to make the image upscaled and

I've saved both of these images both

before and after refining and you can

see the difference in detail between the

two so the upscaling feature is really

good here on leonado AI there's a lot

more other features you can use inside

leonado AI but I won't go over them

today play with it in your own time I

will say that another great feature with

the free AI image generator that is

leonado AI is there an amazing fully

featured native IOS and Android app

available so you can generate on the Fly

and it's synced to your desktop version

as well which is great you can start

projects on your phone or on your

computer and pick them up at the other

end when you want to use it watch the

video above here to learn a little bit

more about using the leonado AI iPhone

app the next best free mid Journey

alternative is none other than Adobe

Firefly you can create a free Adobe ID

and use Adobe Firefly straight off the

web based version now looking at the

homepage of adobe Firefly you can see

all the great new features we have

included not only is adob Firefly a

great AI image generator but we have

some amazing generative AI features

built in that you can use for free so

yes we have text to image generative F

and text effects scrolling down you can

see we also have some of these other

features here that are either coming

soon or in Exploration mode scrolling

down further and you can see as we click

through backdrops animal portrait macro

people food and sci-fi we can move the

mouse left and right to see the

differences between Firefly image 1 and

Firefly image 2 Beta a huge upgrade in

performance let's put in that same

prompt and click generate this

generation took about 40 seconds some

interesting results definitely different

from the first three AI image generator

tools we looked at now on the right with

ad doobe Firefly we can choose between

again aspect ratios different types of

content we can change the visual

intensity and style couple of tool tips

here we've got what's called match image

style so you can upload an image for its

reference in generating an image and we

can play around with the photo settings

here so let's go with the hyperrealistic

and Bouquet effect and generate a new

image and you can see these images are a

lot more stylish and photographic

looking and I think out of the four of

these I like this one the best so I'll

go ahead and download that so again

using Adobe Firefly I have the feature

Rich generative AI editing tools I could

use such as expanding the dimensions of

the image to include more detail in the

extense of the image I can paint out

some parts of the image that I want

removed or even add in additional items

in the background or foreground but I

won't go into that today with this video

again Adobe Firefly is free to use but

it is limited as to how much you can use

it so we get 25 generative credits to

use and it resets each month looking at

this table here we can see what the cost

is to use each of the features and at

the moment for text effects it is

completely unlimited to use which is

great similar to with canbo if you

wanted to use this perpetually you could

just create Adobe ID after Adobe ID to

reset your count of generative credit

use the last best free mid Journey

alternative that I'm going to show you

is playground AI playground AI is

probably the most unlimited to use and

most feature Rich AI image generator

tool that we have for free at the moment

it has recently been updated and has

amazing generative AI features built in

as well as full control of all the

design features that you could want

scanning down the homepage you can see

we've got features such as what's called

mixed image editing use generative AI to

include more detail in the extent of the

image and we can see you can erase

things out of your image such as like

this and easily swap the subject of a

photo into different scenes like this

use your creativity to add in an object

using a prompt like this and much much

more pricing for playground Ai and you

can see the free plan includes 500

images per day which is so much and you

need to be a massively heavy user to go

over this each day all right we'll paste

in this prompt and generate that over on

the side here we can see we've got a

tutorial of this new canvas layout that

has been recently introduced and shows

us how to navigate around inside here I

think it's a unique and very cool way of

navigating around your canvas making it

as if it almost pitches on a wall that

you could move around at your own

Leisure you can see that on the left we

can choose between a few different

options including different f filters

they're called and we can make a new

image with this filter let's see what

type of image we come up with with this

filter uh this generation's moved a

little bit away from my prompt but

that's okay we can now look at the right

hand side where we have many more

adjustments we can tweak for our next

Generation including prompt guidance

quality and details and number of images

back on the left we also have negative

prompts and we can also use what's

called control traits and we've also got

image to image so after a few more

Generations we can see we've gone quite

far down the design tunnel but I like

this first one out of the lot so I'm

going to go ahead and save this one

comparing the results from all five

tools and they're actually all quite

compelling particularly Leonardo's

upscaled version Firefly is quite good

with that amazing Bok and Leonardo is

amazing too being in canva they were

quick Generations so it's great for what

it is at the click of a few buttons and

then of course with the other three

tools there's a lot more you can do to

get involved in the editing of the

design and then of course with five fly

and playground you have the generative

AI features overall I think the best two

platforms are Leonardo Ai and playground

AI simply because it's very close to

being unlimited use but the fact that

playground AI has generative AI built in

for free and it's pretty much unlimited

means it gets my number one position for

the best free mid Journey alternative I

didn't mention Photoshop 2024 as one of

the best free AI image generators as

it's mostly paid but watch this video to

see how to download and use Photoshop

2024 generative F to try it out for free

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