Sharing a category with NovelAI is what puts a product on this page at all. These 18 image tools are the closest of the ones that do, ordered by how much of NovelAI’s categories and tags each one covers and how closely its own description reads like NovelAI’s — that is an ordering, not a verdict. We have not tested any of them, and there is no score on this page.
Collaborative AI image creation and editing tool
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with NovelAI
Artbreeder is an AI-powered platform for generating and editing characters, artwork, and visual compositions. Users can mix image genes, combine shapes and text, and participate in community contests and remix parties.
One AI studio for image & video
- Subscription
- Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with NovelAI
Affogato is an AI studio that lets creators generate, edit, upscale, and animate images and videos using over 170 models in a single workspace.
Create anime-inspired images from text prompts
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories with NovelAI
AI Anime Generator is a browser-based tool for exploring anime-inspired image concepts from text prompts. Users can select from visual styles such as chibi and may provide a reference image.
AI fanfiction generator with story memory
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories with NovelAI
FicWeave is an AI-assisted writing platform designed for creating long-form fanfiction stories. Users can generate an initial chapter without signing up, then save stories to a private library with chapter navigation.
AI tools for video, images and editing
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with NovelAI
neural.love offers a browser-based suite of AI tools for generating, editing, and enhancing videos and images. Users can upscale resolution, colorize footage, create AI art from text prompts, convert static images into v…
Create stunning AI art in seconds
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with NovelAI
Deep Dream Generator is an online platform that provides access to over 30 AI models for text-to-image generation, video creation, and image editing.
AI image and video generator
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with NovelAI
Dezgo is an online platform that provides text-to-image, image-to-image, text-to-video, and image-to-video generation using various AI models.
All-in-one AI image, video, and audio creation platform
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories and 2 tags with NovelAI
OpenArt is an AI creation platform that provides access to over 100 models for generating and editing images, videos, music, and voiceovers.
AI art generator with multiple models
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with NovelAI
NightCafe Creator is an online platform that lets users generate digital artwork using various artificial intelligence models.
AI art and video generator
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with NovelAI
Dream by WOMBO is an artificial intelligence platform that generates images and cinematic videos from text prompts.
Long-form writing AI assistant
- Subscription
- Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with NovelAI
Moonbeam is an AI-powered writing assistant built specifically to help users create long-form content such as essays, blog posts, stories, and technical guides.
Artificial intelligence artist and creative partner
- Contact for pricing
- Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with NovelAI
AICAN is an artificial intelligence artist and collaborative creative partner designed to generate novel images that move beyond established art styles.
AI studio for images, videos, product ads and stories
- Subscription
- Shares 2 categories with NovelAI
Jynno is an AI-powered creative platform that allows users to generate and edit images and videos from text prompts or existing visuals.
Create images, cinematic videos, and film projects
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories with NovelAI
Visual Maker AI is a creative platform that turns text and photos into AI-generated images, cinematic videos, and story-driven film projects.
Search millions of AI prompts for generative models
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories with NovelAI
PromptHero is a search engine and community platform for discovering artificial intelligence prompts. Users can search through millions of prompts for image, video, and text generation models like Midjourney, Stable Diff…
Your personal AI assistant and model suite
- Free
- Shares 1 category and 1 tag with NovelAI
Meta AI is a personal assistant that answers questions, creates images, and helps complete daily tasks. The platform provides access to various artificial intelligence models and developer resources, including image gene…
Turn text and images into short AI videos
- Freemium
- Shares 2 categories with NovelAI
FilmCraft turns text prompts and still images into short AI-generated videos for social posts, ads and storytelling.
AI coloring page and book generator
- Free
- Shares 2 categories and 1 tag with NovelAI
iColoring AI is an online tool that transforms text descriptions or uploaded photos into printable, watermark-free coloring pages in seconds.
How to choose a NovelAI alternative
This site holds four things about each of these products that are worth comparing before you open any of them, and none of them is an opinion. The pricing model above is the one recorded on the listing — a product marked Contact for pricing will cost you a sales call before it costs you anything else. The open-source column decides whether leaving later is a migration or an export. The shared categories and tags under each entry are how close the overlap with NovelAI actually is: a tool covering all of NovelAI’s categories is doing roughly the same job, one sharing a single category may only touch the same part of it — and a tool can be high on this page on the strength of its description alone, which means it describes the same work in the same words rather than that anybody checked it does that work well. Upvotes are votes cast here by people with accounts, and they say what this site’s readers picked, not what is best for you.
What we do not hold is a test. Nobody here has run these products side by side, so the last step is yours: open two of them and give each one the job you actually have.
NovelAI alternatives FAQ
- What can I use instead of NovelAI?
- 18 other image tools listed here share a category with NovelAI: Artbreeder, Affogato, AI Anime Generator, FicWeave, neural.love, Deep Dream Generator, Dezgo, OpenArt, NightCafe Creator, Dream by WOMBO, Moonbeam, AICAN, Jynno, Visual Maker AI, PromptHero, Meta AI, FilmCraft and iColoring AI.
- Are any NovelAI alternatives free?
- Meta AI and iColoring AI record a free model; Artbreeder, AI Anime Generator, FicWeave, neural.love, Deep Dream Generator, Dezgo, OpenArt, NightCafe Creator, Dream by WOMBO, Visual Maker AI, PromptHero and FilmCraft record a freemium one — a free tier with paid plans above it. Those are the models on their listings here, not a check of their current price lists.
- Are any NovelAI alternatives open source?
- None of the 18 on this page are listed as open source.
- How was this list of NovelAI alternatives put together?
- By query, not by hand. Sharing a category with NovelAI is what qualifies a listing at all; these 18 are the closest of those, measured by how much of NovelAI's categories and tags each one covers and how closely its description reads like NovelAI's. That is a measure of closeness and not a ranking against NovelAI — we have not tested any of these products, and nothing on this page is a score.