Google's newest app is an AI-powered image editor
Google has launched a new AI-powered image editing app called Google Pics. The app features generative AI tools and fine-grain editing capabilities, allowing users to manipulate individual parts of images. It will be available to a limited group of testers and will roll out globally this summer to subscribers.
- ▪Google Pics combines generative AI tools with fine-grain editing.
- ▪Users can modify text in photos and translate it while maintaining font style and size.
- ▪The app will be integrated into Workspace apps like Slides and Drive.
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Big Tech Google Google's newest app is an AI-powered image editor It’s not Photoshop, but it could be better than what's in Google Photos. By Mat Smith May 19, 2026 1:45 pm EST Google Alongside an array of updates across its Workspace apps, including Docs and Drive, Google is launching a new image-editing app that combines generative AI tools with fine-grain editing. Google Pics is built on Nano Banana, with object segmentation, meaning you'll be able to move, resize or transform individual parts of your images, whether AI-generated or not. While we've seen this kind of thing (with varying degrees of success) from Google, Adobe and even on-device on some smartphones, Pics has some new ideas of its own.
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