Pixlr AI (Extended)
Consumer AI art and video app — text and photos to stylised clips
Overview
Dream by WOMBO is a consumer AI art and video app (iOS, Android, web) that turns text prompts or photos into stylised images and short clips across 50-plus style presets. A pre-DALL-E-2 viral hit at its late-2021 launch; premium unlocks more styles, outputs and variations.
Pricing
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- Limited styles
- Basic outputs
- Premium styles
- Multiple outputs & variations
- Save as video
- All premium features
- One-time payment
Use cases
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Dream by WOMBO is the friendly end of AI art: prompt in, stylised image or short clip out, across 50-plus presets on web, iOS and Android, with no prompt engineering required. That accessibility — plus video and photo-animation modes — makes it a fine pick for hobbyists and social creators at $9.99 a month for premium. It's not a professional tool: control and fidelity trail Midjourney and current diffusion models, output skews stylised over photoreal, and there's no public API. The recurring user gripe is billing — reports of annual charges applied when a month was intended, and slow support responses. Casual fun, yes; production pipeline, no.
What people say
Dream had its viral moment before most people had heard of AI art — it launched in late 2021, months ahead of DALL-E 2's public debut, and Toronto-based WOMBO's apps have since passed 200 million downloads. The pitch hasn't changed much: type a prompt, pick a style preset, get a stylised image in seconds. What has changed is scope. Dream now runs on the web as well as iOS and Android, offers 50-plus art styles, and added video — 10-plus video styles plus a photo-to-video mode that animates portraits and landscapes.
It's squarely a consumer toy, and a decent one. Zero prompt craft required, results lean painterly and surreal rather than photorealistic, and output control is thin next to Midjourney or any current diffusion tool — no fine-grained editing, no public API. Premium runs $9.99 a month for more styles, multiple outputs and variations. The billing side draws the loudest complaints: reviewers on Slashdot report being charged for a year when they wanted a month, with support emails going unanswered. Read the subscription terms before tapping through.
The company behind it is alive and funded — Round13- and Nvidia-backed WOMBO raised CA$12.2 million in 2024 to build more generative apps, after shutting down its original lip-sync app in 2023 over copyright issues. For casual creators and social posts, Dream remains one of the friendliest on-ramps to AI art. Studios and marketers needing commercial-grade control should treat it as entertainment, which is how it positions itself.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
Notable facts
- WOMBO Dream reached 10 million downloads in its first week, months before Stable Diffusion or DALL-E 2 were publicly available.
- The app predates the mainstream AI art movement by almost a year, creating an early audience for AI-generated art.
- WOMBO Dream's dreamy, soft-focus aesthetic became the defining look of early consumer AI art.
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