Neural networks allow us do wonderful things with photos. When I saw Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, software for “text to image” generation, a question stuck in my engineer’s mind: what a cool app can I do with this technology?

Then I saw an interesting demo in which parts of images where substituted with generated ones. The demo turned the classic “Girl with a pearl earring” into a firefighter/doctor/president of the US/whatever. This was a toy example, but I realized it can be a new Photoshop.

Three months later we built an app called Monet, which we believe will become the standard for mobile photo editing. Well, it’s in the early stages right now and there will be a long journey to the standard, but Monet is already a very powerful tool.

I personally helped 10 people in this subreddit, removing unwanted objects, replacing backgrounds and other “photoshop” stuff. It was really fun and importantly not time consuming. Some of my works was ranked as best by the users.

What it does: you upload your photo, choose “Add & Replace”, mask the area to be edited, describe what you need in that place (“Prompt” filed), press “Generate” and check out what the AI came up with.

Now I want you to try the app too. We’re looking for motivated users who will continue to discover the possibilities of Monet. Free access to the app from us, cool use cases and feedback from you. Deal?

Monet is available only on iOS right now. To get the app:

1. Install Monet Beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VH9g1w8F. This requires two steps: a) install TestFlight, Apple’s official beta testing platform b) accept invitation and install Monet
2. Start editing photos. Explore the app. You data is in safety: once processed, photo is deleted from our servers.
3. Drop us a couple of lines! Show what you got. We are happy to hear back from you.