Text to Image AI Tools

Pixlr has been online since 2008. It is still free, still browser-based, and in 2026 it ships more AI tools than most paid alternatives. You get background removal, generative fill, object removal, face swap, image upscaling, video generation, and Nano Banana. Nano Banana is a chat editor: you type what you want changed, and the AI applies it in seconds. The free plan runs ads and limits saves. Premium costs $6.49 per month on annual billing.

NightCafe started in 2019. You access more AI models here than on any other art generator. Flux. DALL-E 3. Stable Diffusion. Google Imagen. Ideogram. HiDream. Seedream. Runway. Kling. Seedance. Google Veo 3 for video. The free plan gives you 5 credits every day. Most people never pay. People who pay start with the AI Beginner plan at 5.99 dollars per month. NightCafe serves people who enjoy creating AI art. NightCafe does not serve people who generate product mockups or marketing assets at scale.

Two hundred million people use Canva. That number says something — not just about how popular it is, but about how low the barrier to entry has become for creating decent visual content. In 2026, Canva is no longer just a design tool. It's a full creative platform with AI built into almost every corner of it: image generation, copywriting, video, background removal, automatic resizing. All in the same browser tab you already have open.