Adobe has launched its Firefly platform as a mobile application for both Android and iOS devices, bringing its comprehensive suite of AI-powered creative tools to smartphones and tablets. The new Firefly app integrates Adobe’s native AI models alongside third-party contributions from Google and OpenAI, offering robust image and video generation, as well as advanced photo editing capabilities.
The San Jose, California-based software giant announced the app’s release, emphasizing its ability to allow users to create and edit projects with AI features from anywhere. A key feature of the app is its seamless synchronization with a user’s Creative Cloud account, ensuring all creations are readily accessible across devices.
For image generation, users have a choice of models, including Adobe’s Firefly Image 3, Image 4, and Image 4 Ultra, Google’s Imagen 3 and 4, and OpenAI’s GPT Image models. Video generation is supported by Adobe’s Firefly Video model and Google’s Veo 2, with an additional option to generate video from existing images.
Photo editing tools within the app include Generative Fill, which allows for intelligent object removal or addition, and Generative Expand, designed to extend images with AI-generated content based on user prompts. Users can also continue projects started on desktop versions of Adobe software, provided they are saved in their Creative Cloud.
Access to these AI features is managed through a credit system. Free-tier users receive a limited number of complimentary generative credits, specifically 10 per month. Paid subscribers, including those with Creative Cloud subscriptions or Firefly credit subscriptions, receive credits commensurate with their plans. Adobe clarifies that features utilizing smaller AI models, such as photo editing, consume fewer credits compared to the more intensive image and video generation features.
In a separate but related development, Adobe has also expanded the capabilities of its Firefly Boards platform. Now available in public beta, Firefly Boards has integrated video functionality, allowing users to remix uploaded video clips and generate new video footage. This enhancement leverages Adobe’s Firefly Video Model, Google’s Veo 3, Luma AI’s Ray2, and Pika 2.2 text-to-video models, providing a versatile tool for collaborative moodboarding and video creation.
