Google launches Pixel Studio, the app for creating images with artificial intelligence

Google announced a new imaging app at its Pixel 9 event today. The company says the app, called Pixel Studio, will come preinstalled on every Pixel 9 device.

Pixel Studio, much like Apple’s upcoming Image Playground app that’s expected to launch in iOS 18 sometime after the operating system launches, lets you create an image from a prompt. Users can edit images after the fact, using the prompt box to add or subtract elements and change the look or style of the image.

During the on-stage demo, an image of a campfire gradually transformed into an invitation to a beach getaway with the Golden Gate Bridge and fireworks in the background, rendered in pixel art style and complete with invitation details and stickers from the presenter’s friends pasted on top. The feature is based on Google’s Imagen 3 text-in-image template.

This feature joins other AI features Google has introduced for Pixel phones, such as the new Pixel Screenshots feature that works like Microsoft’s Recall feature, only instead of taking constant screenshots, each screenshot can be taken manually.