AI Image/Design Tools

Reviewed AI Image/Design tools for AI-native marketers.

• AdCreative.ai — AI ad creative at volume, now mostly video, owned by Appier.
• Adobe Express — Adobe's quick-design tool, reachable from Claude.
• Adobe Firefly — The only image generator that indemnifies you, with caveats.
• Adobe GenStudio — Enterprise content supply chain, with an early-access MCP.
• Atria — One workspace for ad research, creation and the asset library.
• Beautiful.ai — Decks that design themselves. Read the refund terms.
• BrandCommsAI — Ad creative built on thirty years of marketing science.
• Canva — The design default, with an MCP connector on every plan.
• DaVinci Commerce (Jivox) — Getting your product catalogue recommended by shopping agents.
• DesignLumo — Editable layered designs, not flat AI images.
• Designs.ai (Pixlr) — Rebuilt around agents, but the pricing is unreadable.
• Figma — The design standard, with AI credits that run out fast.
• Gamma — Decks, sites and social graphics from a prompt, with an MCP server.
• Ideogram — Best-in-class text rendering, with a clean MCP server.
• Krea — Many models, an agent, and the weakest rights terms here.
• Leonardo.Ai (Canva) — Canva-owned image generation, with a gated MCP server.
• Looka — Logo and brand kit generation, priced as a one-off.
• Midjourney — Still the best-looking output. No indemnity, and litigation.
• Mujo AI — Many image and video models behind one creative workspace.
• Pencil (Brandtech Group) — AI ad creative at scale, owned by an agency group.
• Pomelli (Google Labs) — Free Google Labs campaign generator. Not available in the UK.
• Recraft — Design generation in an editable, layered canvas.
• Stability AI (Stable Diffusion) — UK-founded image models, now API and self-hosting only.
• Stills — Premium stock photography with search that understands images.
• TikTok Symphony — Free AI creative tools inside TikTok for Business.