Recraft

Graphic design research lab

4.7•41 reviews•

2K followers

Graphic design research lab

4.7•41 reviews•

2K followers

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Recraft is a graphic design research lab building state-of-the-art image generation models and tools for designers, marketers, and entrepreneurs. Built specifically for commercial design standards, its technology delivers full creative control, brand style consistency, and native vector outputs.

Recraft Reviews

The community submitted 41 reviews to tell us what they like about Recraft, what Recraft can do better, and more.

4.7

Based on 41 reviews

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Reviewers mostly praise Recraft for fast, high-quality image and vector generation, especially for icons, illustrations, mockups, presentations, and quick visual iteration. Many say the canvas feels intuitive, Figma-like, and useful for editing or trying variations. Founders of Daddy Issues and Albie say it helped them create consistent character sets and lesson illustrations quickly. Still, some reviewers report weak prompt interpretation on fine details, generic or mixed results, device and UI bugs, limited multilayer workflows, and one notably bad support experience.

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Pros

image generation (15)

high-quality output (6)

user-friendly interface (6)

vector image generation (6)

fast performance (4)

intuitive design (4)

editing tools (3)

free tier (3)

variety of styles (3)

AI-driven design (2)

Cons

bugs (4)

text recognition issues (2)

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Cons

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•1 review

What's great

Immature customer service. And Recraft is not for designers. Firstly, the refund policy says if 30 credits are used you are not eligible for one. I emailed them explaining how it is impossible to avoid that since a single request costs more than 30 credits. It kept giving me the same answer on a loop. Horrible customer service. No humans at the helm. Parrot bots repeating the same thing over and over again.

Forget that. I thought I might as well make use of these credits or I'd lose them. Coming to performance. Really bad interpretation. I was working on refining a logo. Mind you, I had already designed a base and wanted to explore relationships between letters and it messed it up royally. It simply did not understand that I was asking for changes to specific parts and kept changing other parts even after explicitly mentioning not to do it.

For eg. when asked to change how letter e is connected to letter m, it messed up the m and made it into letter n. I followed up asking it to restore the letter m and then it made it into a completely different letter m, hence changing the connection between e and m. It is completely useless. This way, I would simply run out of credits fixing mundane things.

The interpretation is so bad and the customer service is non-existent. My qualm is that they advertise Recraft as a specialist in vector logos and it does not seem to understand the smallest denominators of typography.

Horrible product. Silver lining: if recraft is the leader of the entire AI logo thing then at this stage, the craft of logo design will be untouched by AI for decades. A logo designer can never ever be replaced by anything. AI might generate pretty logos but high functioning, beautiful masterpieces? F*** that! Not happening. Disgusting experience with Recraft. 0/10

What needs improvement

text recognition issues (2)

Founders and company mindset

vs Alternatives

ChatGPT by OpenAI

ChatGPT, yes, a non specialist in logos and design has better interpretation and understanding of typography. Hence, responds better with changes.

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•4 reviews

What's great

I used Recraft to create icons for the gym equipment screen in my Android app, GymBuddy. Getting these right was harder than I expected. I needed recognizable illustrations of specific gym equipment, and the screen design tool I tried couldn’t produce the quality I wanted. Recraft gave me much better results for this task and helped me create icons I could use in the app.

What needs improvement

I don’t have a specific improvement to suggest

vs Alternatives

I first tried creating the equipment icons in Magic Patterns, which I had used for the app’s screen designs. It helped me a lot with layouts, but I couldn’t get the custom icons to the quality I needed. Recraft worked better for this specific task.

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•1 review

Recraft is insanely well-made. It does two things extremely well: * Quickly iterate on images in a manner that's intuitive to humans (digital canvas makes for super easy duplicate and try something else) * Make some touch-ups on images. It is a bit wonky at times and it definitely has a mind of it's own. If you don't give a lot of instructions it will put out some fairly generic products but if you take the photo-realism style and then instruct it to draw in a particular style it will do so. I have successfully created etchings, woodcuts, ghibli style paintings and other things and everything is saved so while you're iterating you can always go back if you liked one version. This tool gets full stars from me because of the design. Once I learned the tool (which took me like 1 day compared to years off learning to draw) I could put out some pretty cool stuff. Just remember that the garbage input, garbage output is very true here. The tool cannot read your mind so make sure to play around with wording to get the best results.

What's great

intuitive design (4)image generation (15)variety of styles (3)editing tools (3)

What needs improvement

bugs (4)

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171 views3yr ago

•2 reviews

Congrats on the launch! I've been looking for something like this to help out with technical visuals and had a reasonable success with MidJourney and InkScape's bitmap->vector conversion tool. I've been playing around with recraft and so far the results are quite mixed though it feels that something is there. So far I had the best luck with abstract sceneries like "city scape", "desk with a laptop" and specifics like "Python" (the snake) would produce nightmare monsters lol I'll keep at it, thanks!

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139 views3yr ago

Recraft

Hi Reb, if you are still interested in AI tools for design, we encourage you to give Recraft a try again - everything has been improved since then - and especially the quality of generation. We would appreciate any feedback!

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3yr ago

•1 review

Looks like an interesting tool, though I'd give 5 stars if I could see clearly how to: - upload my own raster image (that part is clear) - apply a style to it out of the set available by default (this isn't, as I cant re-craft with an empty prompt) - and only THEN vectorize it and play with it further My use-case: I have a pen plotter, and would love to convert a raster to a nice line drawing svg, change a few things here and there, and then dump it to Inkscape for plotting.

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78 views3yr ago

Recraft

Unfortunately this scenario is not supported out of the box. But you can try doing this now, for that you can try playing with similarity parameter - start from your image, add a prompt that properly describes it, and recraft with different similarity parameters. No guarantees that it will work though. Thanks for a feature request, we'll definitely think of that!

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3yr ago

•1 review

It is a strong and powerful tool, but not good on the go. Mobile devices or laptops are a lost cause with this ai art generator. Everything just bugs out. The display doesn't resize but the images do, importing only sometimes works, the lasso tool can cause you to accidentally refresh the page, that kind of stuff. You need a high-end device with a large monitor to run this.

What needs improvement

bugs (4)mobile device compatibility (1)

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21 views3yr ago

Recraft

Hi Blaze and Thunder, if you are still interested in generative AI for design, please give Recraft a shot again - we have improved a lot of things from user interface, set of features and quality of images. I bet you'll like the new Recraft20B. If not, we are happy to hear any feedback

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3yr ago

•2 reviews

Found hard to go around the background being part of the art, also moving layers up or down is not working. It is quite nice to do isolated art, but multi-layered artwork is not possible with the current toolset.

What needs improvement

layer management (1)

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18 views3yr ago

Recraft

Hi Doug, Thank you for your feedback. We really appreciate it. We've found an issue with Bring to front / Bring forward / Send to back / Send backwards hotkeys and will fix it soon. Thank you one more time and I hope Recraft could be one of your day-to-day tools.

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3yr ago

Recraft

Hi Doug, We've eliminated bug and now everything should work correctly. Thank you for your feedback. We're looking forward to see your artworks generated and edited by Recraft.

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3yr ago

•1 review

As a Product Manager, rather than a designer, I've found immense value in using Recraft to generate icons for my mock-ups. Additionally, the Upscale feature has been invaluable for my tasks. I'm also looking forward to the potential addition of text recognition capabilities. Best wishes, and keep up the great work

What's great

image generation (15)high-quality output (6)

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18 views2yr ago

•1 review

I recently started using this service and was pleasantly surprised. Unlimited free generations in different styles and constantly adding new tools! It looks very similar to Figma, but I think that was intentional :) I really hope the free features remain free. Thank you for the service, guys!

What's great

free tier (3)variety of styles (3)unlimited free generations (1)

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15 views2yr ago

•2 reviews

Freaking amazing. I think I now lost my designers for a week or so, since they are so thrilled to go through all the app has to offer. We are currently in the phase of rebranding, so this should be a lifesaver for generating new ideas, graphics and craft (and recraft?) the ideal style for us.

What's great

image generation (15)style-consistent design (2)

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14 views3yr ago

Recraft

Wow! I hope Recraft will help you go through this phase with ease! We'll appreciate any feedback from you!

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3yr ago