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Fast-read signals for fit, pricing, and trust.

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Image Generation & Editing
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ai image generator
Pricing
Freemium
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Free plan available

What is this tool?

Ten Lumens a day, free and standing, is an unusually honest way in: enough to run the same prompt through PicLumen's own models, FLUX, Midjourney and Nano Banana and decide whether the output is good enough before any money moves. What the free tier cannot give you is a licence. Basic carries no commercial-use rights at all, Lite's licence is 'limited' and the pricing page never defines the word, and full commercial licensing starts at Standard (US$19.99/mo billed yearly). Personal and exploratory work fits the free allowance; anything a client pays for does not.

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Work starts at the model picker: choose a model, type a prompt or upload a reference image, generate, then edit or animate the result from the same asset view. Every generation or edit is priced in Lumens by model, a failed image generation is not charged, and NSFW output is blocked outright. The studio runs in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge and as iOS and Android apps; the iOS download button leads to a listing named 'naivideo-ai-video-effects', so search the App Store for that rather than for the product name.

The plan economy has two traps in it. Subscription Lumens reset every monthly billing cycle and do not roll over unless the plan has Lumen Vault (Elite keeps 30% of unused Lumens). And your price is locked only while the subscription stays active without a gap — subscriptions are not refundable, cancelling stops the next renewal and the current period runs out. Watermark-free creation is listed as a benefit of the four paid plans, and Elite's price depends on which of four Lumen tiers you pick, so check that on the pricing page.

The legal surfaces do not fully agree with each other. The pricing FAQ says you own what you generate from your own prompts, subject to your plan's commercial licence; the terms of service say ownership follows local law and, where it is silent, the content is jointly owned by you and PicLumen. The privacy policy names Stripe and PayPal as processors, lists uploads as AI input, and is silent on retention, deletion and training. The company behind the policies is Grand Vision Tech Software Limited, distributing for developer CHENGDU Yile Tech Co., Ltd.

Is this right for you?

Quick fit check against how you actually work.

ai image generatorai video generator
Choose this if
  • You want to run one prompt through PicLumen's own models and FLUX, Midjourney or Nano Banana without holding an account with each of them
  • Your work is personal, exploratory or portfolio-only, so a 10-Lumen daily allowance without commercial rights is enough to start
  • You would rather fix a near miss where you made it, with background removal, upscaling, colorizing, inpainting, combining and extending on the same Lumen balance
  • You want still images and short video clips from the same allowance and the same creation history
Consider alternatives if
  • You need to use output commercially on a free or entry tier: Basic has no commercial-use rights and Lite's licence is 'limited' with no published definition
  • You need sole ownership or a no-training guarantee: the terms deem content jointly owned where local law is silent, license Public Content for model training, and the privacy policy says nothing about retention or training
  • You need an API or a pipeline integration; the FAQ says none is offered
  • You need two or more characters, or one fixed wardrobe, held steady across a series — the recurring unanswered question in the community threads
  • You depend on a stable layout or on tutorials: features have been renamed and moved between updates, and the free allowance has shrunk more than once

What people say

Aggregate community sentiment, summarized — not native reviews.

Mixed signals

Community discussion centres on holding one character consistent across images, and for a single character commenters report reaching it by the route the tutorials teach. It is a community method, not a vendor-documented control — one audience watched the reference-image option disappear after an update. The recurring unanswered questions are two or more characters in one frame, and the same clothing and jewellery across a series. Views on output quality divide sharply: detailed, prompt-faithful portraits for some, anatomy errors and off-prompt results for others. Commenters also track features being renamed and moved between updates, which dates tutorials fast.

Key features

What you can actually do with this tool.

Several image models in one studio

PicLumen Art and PicLumen Anime sit beside FLUX, Midjourney and Nano Banana in the same prompt box, so a style or anatomy problem can be answered by switching model rather than switching product. Each model draws a different number of Lumens per generation.

Repair tools on the same credits

Background remover, image upscaler, colorizer, AI Replace (inpaint), image combiner and image extender run inside the studio, so a near-miss generation can be fixed in place instead of exported to another editor.

Video from text, image or clip with third-party video models

Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0 and Veo 3.1 were the video models the vendor documented in June, alongside one-click effect templates. Video spends the same Lumen pool as images at roughly 25 images per video, so a month's allowance goes much faster on clips.

Relax Mode keeps generating after credits run out

On paid plans, PicLumen's own models keep working at lower priority and slower speed once the month's Lumens are spent. Image Relax Mode is limited on Lite and unlimited from Standard; video Relax Mode is a Pro and Elite benefit.

Public gallery with remix

Other users' images and prompts can be browsed, remixed and animated from the community pages, and challenges pay out Lumens. Publishing there is a different act from generating privately: posted work becomes Public Content, and the rights the terms take over that category are far wider than over anything you keep to yourself.

Plans & pricing

Pricing tiers and what's included in each.

Basic

  • 10 Lumens per day
  • No commercial use rights

Lite

US$6.09/mo
  • Billed yearly; US$7.59/month when billed monthly
  • 750 Lumens per month (≈ 750 images or 30 videos)
  • Limited commercial licensing (not defined on the page)
  • Limited image generation in Relax Mode
  • Queue up to 3 generations
  • Watermark-free creation

Standard

Starting paid plan
US$19.99/mo
  • Billed yearly, ex. tax
  • 2,500 Lumens per month (≈ 2,500 images or 100 videos)
  • Full commercial licensing
  • Unlimited image generation in Relax Mode
  • 2 tasks at once, queue up to 5

Pro

US$37.49/mo
  • Billed yearly (ex. tax)
  • 6,000 Lumens per month (≈ 6,000 images or 240 videos)
  • Full commercial licensing + Extension
  • Unlimited image and video generation in Relax Mode
  • 5 tasks at once, queue up to 10

Elite

  • Priced by Lumen tier on the pricing page: 15K, 25K, 40K or 60K Lumens per month
  • 30% of unused Lumens roll over to the next month
  • Hyper generation mode
  • 10 tasks at once, queue up to 20

Enterprise

Custom Pricing
  • Custom terms; no allowances printed
Official pricing pagePricing may have changed. Always verify before purchasing.

Frequently asked

Common questions about this tool, answered.

Can I sell what I make on the free plan?

Not under the current terms: the Basic plan has no commercial-use rights. Lite carries a 'limited' commercial licence that the pricing page does not define, and Standard is the first tier with full commercial licensing. In every case only content you generated yourself qualifies; images and videos other users have published are reference material only.

Can PicLumen keep a character consistent across many images?

Community tutorials from 2024 to 2026 are largely about exactly this, and commenters do report getting there with one character; the method they describe is a fixed seed together with a reference image. Take that as reported practice rather than a documented control: one viewer could not find where to enter a seed on the phone. Two or more characters in one frame, or the same clothing and jewellery held across a story, is the question that keeps being asked and that no commenter reports solving reliably.

What happens to the images I upload and generate?

The privacy policy lists uploaded video, image and audio files as input for AI generation and names Stripe and PayPal for payments; it gives no retention or deletion period and does not say whether prompts or uploads train models. The terms do say that anything you make public is licensed to PicLumen perpetually, including for training AI models. The FAQ states that all data is encrypted; no certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is claimed.

Why does the iOS app have a different name?

The FAQ confirms iOS and Android apps, but the iOS download button points to an App Store listing called 'naivideo-ai-video-effects', and the June home page said the app was listed as Naivideo. Treat that listing as the official iOS client; there is no developer API, so the apps and the browser are the only ways in.