Microsoft’s Designer app comes to iOS and Android with AI editing and creation

Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer app is coming out of view today for iOS and Android users. Microsoft Designer lets you use templates to create custom images, stickers, greeting cards, invitations, and more. The designer can also use AI to edit images and restyle them or create image collages.

Originally available on the web or through Microsoft Edge, Designer has been in preview for almost a year. It’s now available to anyone with a personal Microsoft account and as a free app for windows, iOSIt is Android. The 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 large selection of templates you can use to create greeting cards, social media posts, icons, wallpapers, coloring book pages, and more. Designer also includes an avatar creator, which it prompts you to use in 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 edit and remove backgrounds, remove people or objects from images, and features such as adding text and branding to images.

Although Microsoft Designer is available today as a standalone application, Microsoft also makes Designer available 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 Windows 11 Photos app today, with features like erasing objects, removing backgrounds, auto-cropping, and filters all available directly in Photos. Microsoft I was testing send images from Photos to Designer, but now it’s integrating features into Photos so you don’t have to leave the app. Similar features are also coming to Microsoft Edge soon.

Microsoft Designer launches out of preview with 15 free daily boosters that can be used to create or edit AI-powered images and designs. “Boosts are used automatically whenever you create or edit images or designs in the Designer app and where Designer is integrated with Microsoft apps,” says Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Office product group. “You can upgrade to a Copilot Pro subscription to receive 100 boosters per day.”