Image Playground vs Microsoft Designer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Image Playground
This app uses machine learning to predict and apply filters to your images. Future updates will include style transfer and super-resolution features.
- Machine learning image analysis
- Apply various filters
- Predictive image content
- Future style transfer
- Future super-resolution
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Image Playgroundでは、あなたの画像に対してさまざまな操作をしながら楽しむことができます。 機械学習の機能を活用して、画像に何が写っているのかを予測したり、画像に対してフィルターをかけることができます。 今後実装予定の機能 ・画風変換機能 ・超解像度化機能
Microsoft Designer
Visually create and edit anything imaginable with AI. Generate unique images from text, design personalized cards and wallpapers, and enhance photos by removing distractions or backgrounds.
- AI image generation
- Custom sticker creation
- Generative erase tool
- Background removal
- Custom wallpaper design
- Greeting card creation
- Photo restyling
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Unleash your creativity — visually create, design, and edit just about anything you can imagine with AI. Use the power of generative AI to create eye-catching images with your words, craft next-level designs that pop like personalized birthday cards, holiday cards, wallpapers for your phone, and even use AI to edit photos like an expert - removing backgrounds and erasing distractions from photos. Create what you want, when and where you need it. Key capabilities: • Images: Create any image you can imagine. Sci-fi art, surreal scenes, funny images? Dream it, describe it, and create it with AI. Your imagination is limitless! • Stickers: Create something that sticks. Make custom stickers that help you stick out on messaging apps, social, and more. • Edit with AI: make your photos and images picture perfect with AI. o Generative erase: Erase distractions to make objects you don’t want in your image disappear. o Remove background: Say bye-bye to bad backgrounds. Easily remove unwanted image backgrounds in one step. o Blur background: Bring what’s most important into focus. Blur the background of any image to make your subject pop. o Add filters, adjust brightness, resize: Customize to fit your creative vision, including resizing to turn your creations into a square or custom size that fits just right. • Wallpapers/Backgrounds: Put it all on display. Create custom wallpaper or background to fit your current mood, make a statement, or to keep a special occasion front and center on your phone screen. • Greeting cards: Craft the perfect greeting for any occasion. From birthday cards to holiday cards and beyond, create a thoughtful greeting card with personalized messages and images even if you’re at a loss for words. • Restyle image: Transform photos into a work of art—like turning portraits, landscapes, and pet photos into artwork. • Monograms: Make your mark. Add some personal pop to your everyday life or for a special occasion like a wedding with custom crafted monograms that use letters and more to define your mark. • Invitations: Create invitations that wow. Customize your invitations for every occasion and any event like birthdays, weddings, and anything else big or small. • Social posts: Stand out online. Elevate and craft your next social post with Designer to create the perfect image and text to share online. • Icons: Express yourself visually. Create icons to easily communicate your vision and decorate your designs. • Emojis: Express yourself! Have the perfect reaction on hand with custom crafted emojis to fit any mood. • Coloring book pages: Color it in and get in your flow. Create custom coloring book pages to make coloring more exciting. Great for all ages. • Frame image: Turn your photos into a customized framed memory that you can share everywhere. • Collages: Bring your favorite photos, styles, and descriptions together create a custom collage from your favorite memories. • Banners: Create banners for newsletter headers, social profiles, and more to grab attention and stand out. Microsoft Designer is available for free with a Microsoft account. Your Microsoft account provides 5 GB of free cloud storage that you can use to save your designs, files, and photos across your devices. Additional information about terms of use can be found here: https://designer.microsoft.com/consumerTermsOfUse/en-US/consumerTermsOfUse.pdf Download Designer and create something new today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Microsoft Designer at 76% against Image Playground's 0%. Microsoft Designer also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.6) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). Image Playground's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Microsoft Designer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Image Playground asks for nothing beyond the download.
Microsoft Designer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft Designer has 556 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Image Playground's written reviews are positive against 76% of Microsoft Designer's.
Image Playground ships an update every 5 months, Microsoft Designer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Image Playground | Microsoft Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (13 ratings) | 4.5 (556 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 76.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 556 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #148 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Yudai Yamane | Microsoft Corporation |
Customer experience
Image Playground
Microsoft Designer
Bugs and requests
Image Playground
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Microsoft Designer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inconsistent performance and loading issues
- Inability to view or manage past designs on mobile
- Unexpected content restrictions and rejections
Requested features
4 requests- AI-powered video editing capabilities
- More advanced image editing tools
- Improved handling of diverse character designs
- Better organization and navigation of past projects
In-app purchases
Image Playground
No in-app purchases
Microsoft Designer
- Microsoft 365 Basic Monthly$1.991 Month
- Microsoft 365 Personal Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Microsoft 365 Family Monthly1 Month trial$12.991 Month
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- Microsoft 365 Premium Monthly1 Month trial$19.991 Month
- Microsoft Copilot Pro$20.001 Month
- Microsoft 365 Personal Yearly1 Month trial$99.991 Year
- Microsoft 365 Family Yearly1 Month trial$129.991 Year
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