Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer app is coming out of preview today for iOS and Android users. Microsoft Designer lets you use templates to create custom images, stickers, greeting cards, invitations, and more. Designer can also use AI to edit and reshape images or create image collages.
Initially available on the web or via Microsoft Edge, Designer has been in preview for almost a year. It is now available to anyone with a personal Microsoft account and as a free app for the Windows, iOSAnd AndroidThe mobile app includes the ability to create images and edit them on the go.
Microsoft Designer includes the usual text prompt for generating images, but there’s also a huge selection of templates you can use to create things like greeting cards, social media posts, icons, wallpapers, coloring book pages, and more. Designer also includes an avatar creator, which it invites you to use on the mobile version of the app.
You can also use Designer to edit images with AI, allowing you to reshape existing images or frame them with AI-generated decorative borders. Designer also includes the ability to change and remove backgrounds, remove people or objects from images, and features like adding text and branding to images.
While Microsoft Designer is available as a standalone application today, Microsoft also offers Designer through Copilot in applications such as Word and PowerPoint. Copilot Pro subscribers can create images and designs directly in Word and PowerPoint, and Microsoft will soon add a new banner image generator for Word documents.
Windows Insiders will also have access to Designer in the Photos app on Windows 11 starting today, with features like object erasing, background removal, auto-cropping, and filters all available right within Photos. had been tested The Photos app now integrates features into Photos so you don’t have to leave the app. Similar features are coming soon to Microsoft Edge as well.
Microsoft Designer is coming out of preview with 15 free daily boosts that can be used to create or edit AI-powered images and designs. “Boosts are automatically used whenever you create or edit images or designs, both in the Designer app and where Designer is integrated with Microsoft apps,” says Sumit Chauhanvice president of Microsoft’s Office product division. “You can upgrade to a Copilot Pro subscription to receive 100 boosts per day.”