Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer app is releasing in preview for iOS and Android users today. Microsoft Designer lets you use templates to create custom images, stickers, greeting cards, invitations, and more. Designer also uses AI to edit images, change their style, create picture collages, and more.
Originally available on the web or Microsoft Edge, Designer has been available in preview for nearly a year and is now generally available to anyone with a personal Microsoft account as a free app for Windows, iOS, and Android. The mobile apps include the ability to create and edit images on the go.
Microsoft Designer includes the usual text prompts for generating images, but it also has a number of templates you can use to create greeting cards, social media posts, icons, wallpapers, coloring pages, etc. Designer also includes an avatar creator, which you’ll be prompted to use on the mobile version of the app.
Designer also allows you to edit images with AI, restyle existing images or surround them with decorative AI-generated borders. Designer also includes features such as editing or removing backgrounds, removing people or objects from images, and adding text and branding to images.
Microsoft Designer is currently available as a standalone app, but Microsoft is also making Designer available in apps like Word and PowerPoint through Copilot. Copilot Pro subscribers can create images and designs directly within Word and PowerPoint, and Microsoft will soon be adding a new banner image generator for Word documents.
Starting today, Windows Insiders will also have access to Designer within the Photos app in Windows 11. Features like object erasing, background removal, auto crop, and filters are all available directly in Photos. Microsoft has been testing sending images from Photos to Designer, but now we’re integrating this functionality into Photos so you don’t have to leave the app. A similar feature will be coming to Microsoft Edge soon.
Microsoft Designer is releasing in preview with 15 free daily boosts that can be used to create or edit AI-powered images and designs. “Boosts are used automatically when you create or edit images or designs, both within the Designer app and wherever Designer is integrated across Microsoft apps,” said Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president, Microsoft Office Product Group. “Upgrade to a Copilot Pro subscription to receive 100 daily boosts.”
