Changelog

Follow new updates and improvements to Pikzels.

May 31st, 2025

All-New Interface

  • Fully redesigned from the ground up for speed and performance

  • Way faster navigation and snappier interactions

  • Manage your subscription right inside the app — no extra tabs

Personas Finalized

  • Smarter AI: Our AI now gets your personas — age, body shape, and more — for way more consistent results

  • Beyond Recreation: Use Personas directly in text-to-thumbnail mode

FaceSwap 3.0

  • Rebuilt From Scratch: FaceSwap is now powered by Personas for sharper, more realistic swaps

  • Higher Quality, Better Fit: More natural results that actually look like your persona

Styles

  • Custom Styles Made Simple: Upload just 3 images to create your own unique aesthetic

  • Style From Channels: Prefer a YouTube look? Pick 3 thumbnails from any channel you like — no uploads needed

Enhanced Editing

  • New Editor: Edit just the part you want — no need to touch the rest of your thumbnail

  • Edit Without Masks: No selection? No problem. Make freeform edits that rebuild parts of the image dynamically

  • Full Image Edits with Personas: Transform the whole thumbnail while keeping your Personas intact

Quality of Life

  • Enhance Prompt Button: Instantly upgrade your prompts with one click

  • Audio-to-Prompt: Speak your ideas — we’ll turn them into prompts for you

March 18th, 2025

Pikzels Personas Are Here

You can now generate thumbnails with anyone you want — fully customized in just 30 seconds.

Image

February 7th, 2025

Title Feature Relaunch

Rebuilt from the ground up — now gives you 3 titles at once. Faster, smarter, and way better. Go try it.

Google & Discord Sign-Up

Signing up just got way easier. Use your Google or Discord account to join in seconds.

Speed Boosts & Bug Fixes

Faster load times, smoother experience, and a bunch of annoying bugs squashed.

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

🛠️ 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

  • 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