What's new in 2.0

01The short version

Everything below runs on the device in your hand. There is still no account, no upload and no watermark.

02Remove and replace

• Remove is a new tool with four ways in: let the app find the objects in the frame, tap one to select it, paint over anything by hand, or brush a mistake back. The hole it leaves is filled in from the surrounding picture.
• Background cuts your subject out and fills behind it with nothing, a colour, one of your own photos or a searched image — and the new remove-only mode leaves a transparent PNG.
• Subject cut-outs now work before the optional add-on finishes downloading, and on phones with less memory to spare, so masking is available the first time you open the app.

03AI styles

• AI Styles+ adds 86 styles across 10 new families — patterns, ink and pen, glow, paint, colour grades. The whole shelf browses offline; only the style you tap is fetched, and each one is checked before it is installed.
• Manage downloads, in Settings, lists what you have installed and gives the space back in one tap.
• The original 182 styles now apply to the subject or the background alone, and run behind a progress card you can cancel — tapping a different style while one is working simply swaps it.
• Portrait finds the faces in a frame on its own for spotlight, skin smoothing and eye clarity.

04Precision editing

• Every effect gets a Full · Subject · Background switch, and each region keeps its own set of values — so the subject can be warm while the background goes cold, in one pass.
• Draw your own mask where the automatic cut-out is not what you meant: paint it, erase it, single-tap to move it.
• Curves, Selective, Color Mix and Split Tone give per-channel and per-point control, with preset shelves to start from.
• Reshape is a full liquify now — push, swell, pinch, twirl and a restore brush, undone a stroke at a time.

05Creative tools

• Draw brings 24 brushes for painting straight onto the photo, plus a blend mode that smudges the real pixels.
• Double Exposure blends a second photo in with seven modes and live transform; the picked photo can be edited before it lands.
• Text curves along a path, tucks behind your subject, and pulls from a searchable font library.
• Templates saves a finished session as a look — every tool, value, masked region and placed object, replayed in order on a new photo. 94 are built in to start from, including a new eighties pack — faded portraits, pastel summers, neon and video-club grades.
• Halation, Glow, Bloom, Grainy Film, Overlays, Frames and Vignette all stack on top of each other, each as its own undo step.

06Make it yours

• A rebuilt home screen: a rotating hero, the edit you left unfinished, daily challenges, one-tap looks, and a rail of AI style before-and-afters — tap one and the editor opens on that style.
• Light and dark everywhere, editor included — it follows your system theme instead of staying dark.
• 18 accent palettes, a Material You option, alternate app fonts and a pure-black mode for AMOLED screens, in Settings → Appearance.
• Tool guides — tap ? inside any tool for a walkthrough that points at the real buttons.

07Faster to get into

• PhotoMaker now appears in Android's share sheet and under Edit with, so a photo can come straight from your gallery or another app.
• A tool catalog with categories, and a row of the five tools you actually use, replace the old fixed tab bar.
• A camera button on the home screen shoots straight into the editor.
• 11 languages — English, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic and Hindi, laid out right-to-left where that is how you read.