So, it is no secret how terrible image editing on phones is, especially if you do not own the cutting edge phones, or even in some cutting edge phones, (apple I'm looking at you) the experience is still terrible.

Even so, if you are on pc or mac, you may still need to know or learn some tool to get the work done. In many cases the learning curve is directly proportional to the functionality offered, i.e., the harder it is to learn the more the functionality and vice versa. How about we make it the other way around, just a simple chat interface packing quite a number of functionality, with AI doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

So we got to work. Building an intuitive chat-based editor seemed almost impossible, especially with a budget under $50. But somehow—I'm still amazed how everything came together. We managed to pull off something pretty remarkable.

Here's what we built:

- A chat-based image editor you interact with naturally to handle tasks like background replacements, object removals, adding new elements, or even changing an object's color and properties.

- Edit poses, relight scenes, expand images, upscale images, restyle images, restore old images, face retouch, virtual try-ons and many many more image editing tasks you can think of.

- You can also create images directly from the chat, you can train on your own images and create professional headshots, brand assets e.t.c you can also create posters with the best texts on images in the market now (still hallucinates sometimes but far much better than most other services)

- Tech stack involves Next.js for the frontend, Convex backend, Polar for payment processing, PostHog for analytics, and AI SDK for agent orchestration.

- Most exciting is our agent-based workflow, which after testing, we found consistently offers image edits that are genuinely better than Apple's built-in features and many other services of the same kind.

The big advantage is you no longer need high-end hardware to access cutting-edge image editing: just open your browser and start chatting.

Now here’s the kicker—I did this with a team of one, from Kenya, and on a budget under $50 (thanks partly to some provider coupons). It’s been a wild journey, and I'm incredibly happy to finally share what I've created.

I'd genuinely appreciate it if you'd try it out: https://chatimages.online Please drop your feedback, critiques, or suggestions—your input means a lot to know if I'm headed in the right direction.

Also, check us out on for more examples and updates: https://x.com/KasiLabs

Thanks so much for giving this a look!