Prisma applies art styles to photographs, drawing on hundreds of looks inspired by famous painters, in one tap and without any editing skill. Prisma Labs also makes Lensa AI for portrait enhancement and background replacement; between them the apps have passed 200 million downloads and won App of the Year on both stores.
Prisma is the app that made neural style transfer a mainstream thing in 2016, which is why it is still worth attention a decade later. It arrived before the current wave, established the one-tap-transformation pattern that everything since has copied, and has kept shipping while most of its contemporaries disappeared.
It is free to download with a three-day trial, then subscriptions from $1.99 a week. No pricing appears on the company’s own site, only in the app stores. Style transfer is a filter rather than generation, so the result depends heavily on the photograph underneath, and weekly subscription pricing on a consumer app adds up far faster than it reads.
