(Credit: Adobe)
If you’re looking to make something using AI, Adobe Firefly is one of the best options, giving you access to generative AI image, video, and audio tools. Now, Adobe has brought its all-in-one AI service to mobile for the first time.
Tools within the Firefly mobile app include the option to turn text into either images or videos, plus you can turn images into videos. Other features include Generative Fill and Generative Expand, which first debuted within Adobe's Photoshop. The Firefly app can now be downloaded from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
Anything made within this mobile app will then automatically sync to your Adobe account, which means you can pull over what you've made into bigger projects. Adobe thinks this means you'll use the mobile Firefly app to be creative when you're on the move, and then you can use whatever you generate when you're back at your desk.
Many of these tools will require you to spend the company's Firefly generative credits. Your subscription to Adobe will determine how many you have each month. For example, the Firefly Standard subscription gives you 2,000 credits for $9.99 a month, while Adobe Creative Cloud Pro gives you 4,000 alongside access to all Adobe products for $69.99 a month within a year-long subscription.
The new app also introduces Firefly Boards, which is the company’s digital mood board tool with AI elements throughout. This feature has been in beta for a couple of months, but it's now coming to the whole service including on desktop versions of Firefly. Adobe says you can upload mood board ideas like images, text, and colors, and then you can generate new images to experiment with these designs.
If you want to experiment with other AI models, Adobe allows for that directly in Firefly. The company is expanding support, and you'll now be able to pick from 2.2 text-to-video from Pika, Flux.1 Kontext, Gen-4 Image by Runway, Ideogram 3.0, and Ray2 by Luma AI. You can also use ChatGPT image generation as well as Google’s latest Imagen 4 and Veo 3 models.
"Our goal with Firefly is to deliver creators the most comprehensive destination on web and mobile to access the best generative models from across the industry, in a single integrated experience from ideation to generation and editing," says Adobe CTO Ely Greenfield.
In our review of Adobe Firefly earlier this year, PCMag said, "Adobe's Firefly is a promising entrant in the crowded field of generative AI tools. It provides many style options, but it doesn't yet produce completely convincing results."
Adobe continues its push into mobile creativity; earlier this month, Photoshop was made available on Android for the first time.