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Fotor AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Online photo editor and design platform with AI image/video generation, retouching, background removal and templates.
9.2M visits/mo12K saves
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Recraft
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI image and vector generation platform for designers and teams needing art-directed illustrations, photorealistic images, and an API.
1.7M visits/mo9.2K saves
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Whimsical
✓ verifiedFreemium
A collaborative visual workspace for creating flowcharts, mind maps, wireframes, and boards with AI-assisted diagram generation.
1.4M visits/mo6.9K saves
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Luminar Neo
✓ verifiedPaid
One-time-purchase AI photo editor for landscape, portrait and general editing, usable standalone or as a Lightroom/Photoshop plugin.
1.3M visits/mo34K saves
Pricing
Fotor Basic: US$0
Fotor Pro: US$3.99/month billed annually (US$47.99/year)
Fotor Pro+: US$8.33/month billed annually
Fotor Max: US$19.99/month billed annually
Credit packs: From US$5.83/month
No public pricing
Free: $0/month/editor (3 boards, 3 teams, 10 guests, 7-day version history)
Pro: $10/month/editor (unlimited boards, 6 teams, 50 guests, 90-day version history)
Business: $20/month/editor (SSO/SAML, unlimited teams, 200 guests, unlimited version history)
Perpetual Desktop License: $119.00 one-time
Perpetual Cross-device License: $159.00 one-time
Perpetual Max License: $179.00 one-time
Core features
- ✦AI image generator
- ✦AI video generator
- ✦Photo editing and retouching
- ✦Background removal
- ✦AI presentation maker
- ✦Design templates
- ✦Multiple generation models (V2 through V4.1) with strong prompt fidelity
- ✦Vector and raster image generation and editing
- ✦Background removal, inpainting, and outpainting
- ✦Batch and asynchronous processing via API
- ✦Community gallery on the free tier vs. private images on paid plans
- ✦Top-up credits for usage beyond monthly plan limits
- ✦AI-generated flowcharts from a text prompt
- ✦AI-generated mind maps that auto-branch from an idea
- ✦Real-time multiplayer editing and commenting
- ✦Drag-and-drop wireframe building
- ✦Expert-made templates library
- ✦Version history with restore capability
- ✦Video and image embedding from Loom and YouTube
- ✦AI sky replacement and relighting
- ✦Generative erase, expand and object-swap tools
- ✦Portrait tools: skin smoothing, face and body enhancement
- ✦Noise reduction and AI upscaling
- ✦Focus stacking and HDR/panorama merging
- ✦Layers and masking support
- ✦Raw file support for 1,000+ cameras
- ✦Cross-device editing between mobile and desktop (higher tiers)
Use cases
- →Editing and enhancing photos
- →Generating AI images and video
- →Creating social and marketing visuals
- →Making presentations and designs
- →Designers generating on-brand illustrations and product imagery
- →Marketing teams producing campaign visuals at scale
- →Developers embedding image generation into apps via the API
- →Mapping out product workflows and user journeys visually
- →Brainstorming and organizing ideas with AI-generated mind maps
- →Building low-fidelity wireframes for new product features
- →Collaborating live with a team on shared diagrams and boards
- →Landscape and wildlife photographers replacing skies or enhancing detail
- →Portrait and wedding photographers retouching skin and faces
- →Photographers wanting a non-subscription editor
- →E-commerce and real estate photo cleanup
- →Editing on the go and finishing on desktop
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