Changelog

Follow new updates and improvements to Pikzels.

December 20th, 2024

🚀 Improvements

  • Dashboard Rewrite:
    The dashboard has been largely rewritten, significantly improving performance.

  • Color Handling Overhaul:
    Colors are now handled with a new system, making them much more vibrant.

  • Bugs:
    And of course, a bunch of bugs have been fixed that popped up in 2.2

🛠ī¸ Changes

  • Recreate System Update:
    The recreate system is no longer limited to a single message for variations. It now generates a new message for both Discord and the dashboard.

December 3rd, 2024

  • Fixed free trial images not unlocking properly when subscribing

  • Fixed "Application didn't respond" error on discord on an edge case

  • Fixed edit for recreate resulting in internal error (fix can only be applied to future thumbnails, open ticket if affected)

  • Fixed edge case where thumbnail compression failed which resulted in failure of thumbnail delivery

  • Fixed redo edge case on recreate resulting in failed thumbnail

  • Fixed recreate issue where the command changes weren't recognized (open ticket if you were affected)

  • Fixed recreate results showing "Prompt: Recreate" when no prompt was specified which is meant for the dashboard

December 2nd, 2024

🚀 The Dashboard

You can now create and recreate thumbnails directly in your browser!
👉 Visit the Dashboard

💡 Pricing Updates

  • New Plans Launched
    We've introduced new plans that offer double the credits for even more value.

🎉 Free-Trial Reimagined

  • All free trial users now receive 50 credits upon signing up (previously 30).

  • Free trial users now enjoy full access to all Pikzels features.

🔧 Optimizations

  • Editing has been fine-tuned for greater accuracy, making it easier than ever to perfect your thumbnails.

  • Various bug fixes

Note: We have a lot more coming in the following days :)

September 5th, 2024

New

Improved

Recreate reborn

  • Complete rebuild of the thumbnail recreation feature for enhanced results

  • The model can now use your thumbnail in the recreation process instead of working with a text based analysis

Added

  • Three new thumbnail inspiration levels: low, medium, high

  • Option to add custom prompts for thumbnail changes

Improved

  • Enhanced capability to create variations of existing thumbnails


Quality of life

  • Added /pricing command to show current credits cost for every feature

  • The Pikzels magic prompt feature has been tweaked for pkz-2 to follow thumbnail concepts better

  • The regenerate button is now available for free trial members

  • PKZ-2 now uses a seed based system for thumbnail edits which makes the edit feature way more accurate

June 28th, 2024

New

Introducing our new model: PKZ-2

  • Cutting edge prompt execution powered by ideogram

  • Enhanced realism

  • Amazing text accuracy

  • Pikzels will automatically choose the right model for you

  • Thumbnail edits should now be way more accurate using PKZ-2

Sunsetting our chat system

When Pikzels first launched, we had the vision to have an interactive model that you could speak to like ChatGPT. Over the months we realised that this is not realistic due to rate limiting on Discord.

New commands

/thumbnail - Generate a thumbnail

/recreate - Recreate existing thumbnails (Input ability to link images, YouTube videos and upload your own thumbnail)

/subscription - Used to view subscription info

/model - Used to choose model (Auto, PKZ-1, PKZ-2)

May 16th, 2024

New

Title Generator

  • You can now optimize your YouTube Titles using the /title command.

FaceSwap 2.0:

  • Facial quality improvements

  • Reduced likeliness of errors

March 31st, 2024

New

Introducing Short-Form Thumbnails:

  • Next time you generate a thumbnail, we'll ask you what kind of thumbnail you want to generate

  • Your choice will be saved for any upcoming thumbnails but can be changed at any time through the /format command.

Initially released 01.04.24

March 12th, 2024

New

Updated Pricing

  • Starting at just $8/mo (when billed annually).

  • Increasing monthly credit allocation

  • Option for credits to always add up & never reset.

New Features

  • Edit Thumbnail

    Request any changes & see it be applied to your thumbnail in seconds

  • Thumbnail Recreation:

    Simply paste a link to a video’s thumbnail you like and watch our AI do its magic to recreate it.


Initially released 13.03.24

February 13th, 2024

New

FaceSwap Feature for Pikzels Thumbnails

  • Click the 😊 FaceSwap button beneath any thumbnail generated by Pikzels.

  • Insert the link to the face image you want to swap in.

FaceSwap for Other Thumbnails

  • Simply use the /faceswap command.

  • Upload the thumbnail & the face images.

  • Each FaceSwap consumes 3 credits.

January 4th, 2024

New

Free Trial

  • 100 credits (~10 thumbnails) have been added to your account

  • Images will include a watermark but can be unlocked by subscribing

Additional features

  • Download your thumbnail in <2MB

  • Optimized query handling

  • Optimized image model to output more accurate images


Initially released 01.05.24