Sorry, Chatgpt - Gemini Is The New Top Free Iphone App Now

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Gemini is now nan astir downloaded iPhone app successful nan US.
• With nan latest stats, Gemini shifted ChatGPT to 2nd place.
• The caller Nano Banana image editor is apt nan logic for nan shift.

Move complete ChatGPT, there's a caller apical app successful town. Apple's latest US charts for iPhone apps show Google Gemini arsenic nan astir downloaded free app, shifting ChatGPT to 2nd spot and societal media app Threads successful nan 3rd spot. Gemini is besides tops among free iPad apps successful nan US, pinch Netflix successful 2nd spot and ChatGPT successful third.

Reaching nan No. 1 spot is simply a motion of intermittent advancement for Gemini's iOS app, which launched successful November 2024. Courtesy of the Wayback Machine, Apple's US charts from May 15 show nan app astatine number 48. The charts from Aug. 1 spot nan app astatine number 64. And nan charts from Aug. 29 show it recovering to 24th place.

Also: Your Gemini app conscionable sewage a awesome AI image editing upgrade - for free

Why nan abrupt leap to nan top? Google tin astir apt convey its Nano Banana AI image editor, which has been generating a batch of buzz. With this caller exemplary built straight into nan Gemini app, you tin edit images utilizing earthy connection prompts. Nano Banana besides offers a fewer different cool skills.

You tin upload a photograph of a personification aliases pet, and nan subject's quality will stay nan aforesaid moreover arsenic you put them into different scenarios. For example, you could put an image of yourself into different outfits, professions, aliases moreover humanities timeframes, suggests Google, and you'll still look for illustration you.

You tin edit an image of a personification aliases pet successful different ways, and nan quality will stay nan same. For example, you mightiness show Gemini to recreate nan image arsenic a watercolor image aliases an anime drawing. You could besides change nan clothing aliases nan background. Whatever modifications you make, nan look of nan taxable won't change.

Also: AI-generated images are a ineligible messiness - and still a very quality process

As different trick, you're capable to return elements from 2 different images and blend them to create an wholly caller one. For example, you could drawback a photograph of a female and a photograph of a canine and harvester them to make it look arsenic if they're cuddling together.

And here's 1 more. You tin support adding descriptions to nan punctual to alteration a circumstantial constituent of nan aforesaid image. For instance, you could adhd clouds to a entity aliases cars to a thoroughfare without affecting nan remainder of nan image.

To usage nan Nano Banana model, conscionable occurrence up nan Gemini app and show nan AI what you're seeking via nan prompt. You tin past refashion and refine it utilizing earthy connection astatine nan punctual until you get nan image you want.

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