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list-of-ai-apps-for-visual-creation.md

114 AI apps for visual creation in 11 categories

A curated list of generative AI applications for creating, editing, and enhancing visual assets: images, videos, 3D models and more.

by Clement Levallois

💎 : unmatched

⭐⭐⭐ : global market leaders

⭐⭐ : good or very good but not recognized as global market leaders

⭐ : value to be ascertained

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🗿 Foundational models and fine-layer aggregators of such models

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	🎨	Seedream	✅	ByteDance’s model for creative image generation.	⭐⭐⭐	🇨🇳
2	🎥	Seedance	✅	ByteDance’s model for creative video generation.	⭐	🇨🇳
3	🎥	CapCut		ByteDance’s free video editor	⭐⭐⭐	🇨🇳
3	🎨	Nano Banana	✅	Google's latest image model accessible via Gemini or Flow	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
4	🎥🎶	VEO	✅	Google's latest video model accessible via Gemini or Flow	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
5	🎨 🎥 🎶	Flow		Google Labs' tool for image and video generation and post processing with Nano Banana and VEO	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
6	🎥	Hailuo AI	✅	Text-to-video generator producing short cinematic clips. Integrated in an app with editing capabilities	⭐⭐⭐	🇸🇬
7	👄🎙️	InfinityTalk	✅	AI model for dubbing. Research model integrated in Comfy and others	⭐⭐⭐	🇨🇳
8	🎨	Midjourney		Image generation model for concept art and visuals.	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
9	🎨	Reve	✅	image generation with a focus on post editing	⭐⭐	🇺🇸
10	🎨	Stable Diffusion	✅	Stability's flagship model for image generation	⭐⭐⭐	🇬🇧
11	🎥	Stable Video Diffusion		Stability's flagship model for video generation	?	🇬🇧
12	🎨🎥	Dream Studio		Stability's platform for image and video generation	⭐⭐⭐	🇬🇧
13	🎨	Photon	✅	Luma Labs AI' flagship model for image generation	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
14	🎥	Ray	✅	Luma Labs AI' flagship model for video generation	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
15	🎨🎥	Dream Machine		Luma Labs AI's studio for image and video generation + editing	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
16	🎥	Runway	✅	video generation	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
17	🎨	DALL·E 3	✅	OpenAI's image generation inside the chat interface	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
18	🎥 🎶	Sora	✅	OpenAI's model for video generation. Includes sound, realistic physics, cameo, etc.	💎	🇺🇸
19	🎨	Firefly	✅	Adobe's model and app for image generation	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
20	🎨 🎥 🎶	Imagine	✅	X / Grok's model for image and video generation	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
21	🎥🎶	Wan	✅	Alibaba's flagship model for video + audio generation	⭐⭐⭐	🇨🇳
22	🎨	Flux	✅	Black Forest Lab's series of models for image generation and transformation	⭐⭐⭐	🇩🇪
23	🎥	Vivix	✅	Offers very fast video generation (a few seconds)	⭐⭐	🇺🇸
24	🎥	Magi	✅	Sand.ai's flagship model for video generation	⭐⭐	🇨🇳
25	🎨	MAI-Image	✅	Microsoft AI (MAI)'s flagship model for image generation	⭐	🇺🇸
26	🎥🎶	MuseSteamer / 绘想	✅	Baidu's flagship model for video generation	⭐⭐	🇨🇳
27	🎨	Manus		Butterfly Effect's app for agentic AI, including image generation	⭐⭐	🇨🇳
28	🎨	Emu		A model without an app at the moment, equivalent to Nano Banana. Seems very good at image editing by prompting	⭐⭐⭐	🇨🇳

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🛠️ Specialized tools (post processing...)

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	📷🔎	Topaz Photo AI	✅	Upscaling, sharpening, noise reduction, etc.	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
2	🎥	EbSynth	✅	Editing and restyling videos with generative AI	⭐⭐	🇨🇿
3	🎥	sync.so	✅	Translation of videos with preservation of dubbing	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
4	🎥	mosaic		video editing with nodal UI	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
5	🎥🧊	Simulon		VFX studio on iPhone to integrate / mix 3D models in videos. Blender plugin available.	?	🇿🇦
6	📷🔎	Clarity AI	✅	Image upscaler	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
7	📷🔎	Magnific AI	✅	Image upscaler and enhancer + generator	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
8	🔤	drFonts		Font generator	?	?

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🎞️ Focus on art, animation, storytelling

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	🎥	Morphic		Generation of video and editing, including for games	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
2	🎥	AniSora		Text-to-anime video generator with stylized output.	?	🇨🇳
3	🎥	Boba Anime		Text-to-anime video generator with stylized output.	?	🇬🇧
4	🎥	Flick		Focus on the creation of short films	?	🇺🇸

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👨‍🎤🤳 Generation of portraits, selfies, avatars ...

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	👠👨‍🎤📷	Caimera		AI photo studio for fashion and portrait photography.	?	🇮🇳
2	👩🎙️🎥	HeyGen	✅	Avatar-driven AI video generator for marketing and training.	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
3	👩🎙️🎥	MakeUGC		Generates ready-to-use influencer-style video ads.	?	🇬🇧
4	🤳🎥	PhotoAI		Generates selfies and portraits from selfies	⭐⭐⭐	🇳🇱
5	👩🎙️🎥	synthesia		Generates a video of avatars and voice from text	⭐⭐⭐	🇬🇧
6	👩🎙️🎥	Gaga	✅	Sand.ai's flagship model for avatar video generation	⭐⭐⭐	🇨🇳
7	👩🎙️🎥	VEED	✅	Video creation and editing platform with a focus on avatars	?	🇬🇧
8	👩🎙️🎥	Character.ai		Avatar creation. A service by character.ai which is an AI-based chatbot / conversational platform	?	🇺🇸
9	👩🎙️🎥	Mirage		Generates ready-to-use influencer-style short videos.	?	🇺🇸
10	👩🎙️🎥	Liminal		Generates ready-to-use influencer-style short videos.	?	🇭🇰
11	👩🎙️🎥	Argil.ai	✅	Generates ready-to-use influencer-style short videos.	?	🇫🇷
12	👩 🎥🎙️	PixVerse	✅	Text-to-video and image-to-video platform producing short animated clips.	⭐⭐	🇨🇳

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🎯📈 Focus on marketing, design and brand communications

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	👠	Fotographer AI	✅	AI-generated fashion and product photoshoots.	?	🇯🇵
2	🎨	Recraft	✅	Image generation and editing made easy for designers, creatives and teams	?	🇺🇸 🇬🇧
3	🎥	SeeLab	✅	Video clip generation for brands. Focus on entreprise.	?	🇫🇷
4	🎥	Vidu	✅	Text-to-video tool for product marketing presentations	?	🇨🇳
5	👠	Fermat		Turning sketches into realistic (3D) renders, for fashion and luxury brands	⭐⭐	🇺🇸
6	🎨🎥💡	StoryFlow		all-in-one app for the visual creation process for designers and marketers	?	🇬🇧
7	🎥🤳📦	arcads	✅	creating social media ads with AI actors, such as unboxing videos	?	🇫🇷
8	👠	AIO		AI co-pilot for faster, smarter fashion design and production	?	🇺🇸

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🧊 3D model creation

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	🪑⚔️	Hyper3D (Rodin)	✅	Turns 2D images into editable 3D objects	⭐⭐⭐	🇨🇳
2	🎥	Kinetix		No-code motion capture: 3D-Conditioned AI Video Model	⭐⭐⭐	🇫🇷
3	🎨	Omi 3.0		virtual photo studio: turn photo shoots into 3D visuals, especially for advertising	?	🇫🇷
4	🧟🕹️	Scenario		AI pipeline for consistent game assets, characters, and 3D-ready textures.	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
5	🎨	Spline	✅	Browser-based tool for designing and publishing 3D assets and worlds, with AI generation services	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
6	🎥	Krea		Real-time AI tool for images, videos, and text-to-3D workflows.	⭐⭐	🇺🇸
7	🎥	Hunyuan	✅	Raw model to turn 2D images into 3D assets	⭐⭐	🇨🇳
8	🪑⚔️	Meshy	✅	Creation of 3D assets	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
9	🪑⚔️	Stable 3D	✅	Stability's flagship model for 3D generation	?	🇬🇧

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🦾 All in one visual creation tooling suites ( 😮‍💨 crowded space!)

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	🎨	Dzine		AI design platform for generating and editing images	?	🇺🇸
2	🎨	Freepik AI Suite	✅	Aggregates AI models to images with just a prompt or an image reference.	?	🇪🇸
3	🤖	Glif	✅	Collaborative platform where agents for visual generation can be created and shared.	?	🇺🇸
4	🎥	Pippit		Video and image generation with a veneer of broader services (asset management, "analytics"...). By the creators of CapCut.	?	🇨🇳
5	🎨	FLORA (FloraFauna)		AI creative suite for images, motion, and storytelling.	?	🇺🇸
6	🎨🎥🎙️	Comfy	✅	AI creative suite for images, motion, and storytelling.	💎	🇺🇸
7	🎨🎥🎙️	Kling AI	✅	AI video generator capable of realistic motion synthesis.	⭐⭐⭐	🇨🇳
8	🎨🎥	Seedance		AI Art (image/video) generator. Not related to Bytedance's "seedance", it seems.	⭐	🇨🇳
9	🎨🎥	Awen		single space to create and edit content across text, images, video, and 3D.	⭐⭐	🇫🇷
10	🎨🎥	Higgsfield		model aggregator for image and video generation and edition, with a focus on building a social community.	⭐⭐	🇺🇸
11	🎨🎥	LTX Studio		professional video production tooling suite	⭐⭐⭐	🇮🇱
12	🎨🎥	Adobe Suite		since Sept 2025, Adobe Illustrator integrates Google's flagship model for image generation	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
13	🎨🎥	Leonardo.ai	✅	studio for image and video generation and post processing	⭐⭐⭐	🇦🇺
14	🎨🎥	imagine.art		studio for image and video generation and post processing	⭐	🇺🇸
15	🎨🎥	letz.ai	✅	studio for image and video generation and post processing	?	🇱🇺
16	🎨🎥	Hedra		studio for image and video generation	?	🇺🇸
17	🎨🎥	Skyreels		studio for image and video generation	⭐⭐	🇨🇳
18	🎨🎥	Video Ocean		studio for image and video generation	?	🇸🇬
19	🎨🎥	Weavy		Nodal workflow for visual creation	💎	🇮🇱
20	🎨🎥	Genspark		A "do everything with AI" app	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
21	🎨🎥	invideo		video generation and editing	?	🇮🇳
22	🎥	Velvet		video generation and editing	?	🇺🇸
23	🎥	Wondercraft	✅	video generation and editing	?	🇬🇧

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🤸 end to end creation of web applications and documents

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	💻 📱	Orchids		Automation of web interface design by prompting	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
2	🖺	Gamma	✅	Generation of documents: office docs, web pages...	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
3	📊	MyLens	✅	Generation of infographics, flowcharts ...	⭐⭐	🇺🇸
4	💻 📱	Lovable		Automation of web app creation: front and back	⭐⭐⭐	🇸🇪
5	💻 📱	Create Anything		Automation of web app creation: front and back	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
6	💻 📱	v0		Automation of web app creation: front and back	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
7	💻 📱	MagicPath		Ideation and prototyping of web interfaces	⭐⭐	🇺🇸
8	💻 📱	JustCopy.ai		Natural language to full-stack application	?	🇺🇸
9	💻 📱	vibecode		The app that builds apps. Create native apps in seconds with AI	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸

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👁️ visual intelligence

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	🎨🎥	Moondream	✅	Computer vision: make images and video searchable, tag images, enable robot understanding of their surroundings, perform UI testing etc.	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸

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👩‍💻 platforms for developers

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	🎨🎥	fal	✅	Generative media platform for devs ("like Huggingface but specializing in models for visual creation")	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
2	🎨🎥	HuggingFace	✅	Catalogue of models for visual creation (among others)	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸

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🫢 Value or function is not super clear - or not really launched

#	Logo	App Name	API	One line description	quality	"nationality"
1	🎨	DreamEngine.ai		Image generation	🤨	🇺🇸
2	🎥	DreamEngine.app		Video and image generation	🤨	🇺🇸
3	📷	FotoFluid		Minimalist UI, no clear documentation	🤨	🇮🇳
4	🎥	FinalFrame		Generates cinematic frames & visual storyboards.	🤨	🇺🇸
5	🎥	SkyReels		AI generator for short social media videos.	🤨	🇸🇬
6	🎥🌎	World Labs		spatial intelligence company building Large World Models to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world. In closed beta.	⭐⭐⭐	🇺🇸
7	🎥	Pika		Mobile first : transform a picture, to a new picture or a video. Not perfect but focuses on ease of use. For art / hobby / communication	⭐⭐	🇺🇸
8	🎥🌎	Moonlake	✅	2D and 3D worlds generator	?	🇺🇸
9	🎥🌎	Genie		Google's 3D worlds generator. In preview.	?	🇺🇸
10	🎥🌎🕹️	Odissey		AI video you can play like a game. In private beta.	?	🇺🇸

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🙏 Special thanks!

The curation of this list benefits from my reading of the news and updates posted by:

• Rémi Rostan: check out "lhc"!
• Gilles Guerraz and Caroline Thireau: check out their "Generative" newsletter on substack

(a missing app or correction? send your comments just below or at clementlevallois[at]protonmail dot com)