Reve is shaking up the AI image generator world with killer performance on tricky prompts. From realistic hands to detailed scenes and superior long text generation.
Reve AI, Inc. is a creative tooling start-up located in Palo Alto, California, made up of a small, passionate team of researchers, builders, designers, and storytellers with big ideas. Their first release, Reve Image, is built from the ground up to excel at prompt accuracy, aesthetics, and typography. Reeve just crashed into the AI image generator scene and is already beating big names like Recraft, Imagen, and Flux 1.1. So what’s the deal with Reeve? Let’s break down why it’s making such a splash.
Sure most AI image generators can handle basic stuff like portraits but Reeve really shines when you throw tricky prompts at it. You can mess with settings like seeds and aspect ratios to get better quality. It even makes four images per prompt though it’ll cost you four credits each time.
Reeve excelled at tricky prompts like the Golden Gate Bridge at night with glowing 'Artificial Analysis' text, a futuristic astronaut planting a silver flag on a moon with cosmic reflections, and a cozy scene of a small business owner with vintage goods. It also nailed a detailed dinosaur excavation blending high-tech gear with ancient bones and delivered a stylish anime-style detective portrait with perfect shadowy details. It has also outperformed its competition on tricky prompts like accurately generating yoga poses, creating readable text with a pen, and making realistic scenes involving famous people.
Reeve’s text generation can still turn out garbage sometimes. It’s also limited to 1024x1024 resolution images and doesn’t currently offer upscaling.
Signing up is free and gives you 100 credits—basically 100 images since each one costs a credit. Each day, you get 20 free images that are used before credits
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This discussion on Reddit highlights Reve's impressive prompt-following abilities, with users praising its ability to accurately generate detailed and complex images like a “masked warrior-witch holding a sledgehammer” and multi-character scenes.
Reve's co-founder, Hunter Loftis, confirms the company's ongoing efforts to enhance rendering quality, especially for complex scenarios involving multiple characters and objects. Users note that while Reve excels at creative prompts, it still struggles with fine details like hands and text generation.
Character recognition also remains a challenge, particularly for lesser-known or custom characters, but users can upload images for better accuracy. Daily credits are offered for free testing, and the model supports user feedback for continuous improvements.
Some users express concerns over censorship and limitations compared to other models like Imagen 3, especially when dealing with niche concepts or specific character rendering. Despite these challenges, Reve's prompt adherence, aesthetic quality, and versatility make it a promising contender in the AI image generation space.
Prompt:
A three-line ice-cream typography sculpture reading “AI” on top, “CREATORS” in the middle, and “TOOLS” at the bottom, all letters made from vibrant ice-cream textures, arranged in a playful “dancing letters” layout where each character sits slightly up or down and alightly angld left or rightt for a fun, bouncy rhythm.Text: “AI CREATORS TOOLS” in UPPERCASE using a chunky geometric-sans skeleton with softly rounded corners, medium extrusion, and crisp cutouts to keep counters fully open.Font Material: assorted ice-cream forms—smooth scoops, striped gelato bricks, waffle-cone fragments, marbled swirls, glossy melting lines, pastel layers, and subtle colorful sprinkles—with tiny dessert accents like wafer shards and micro chocolate curls.Composition: centered three-line stack with the dancing-letter treatment applied consistently across all lines; front-on view; 1:1 frame; letters large enough to read instantly.Background: solid matte charcoal backdrop with a subtle frosty cold mist softening the frame edges; keep center clean for legibility.Lighting: soft diffused studio light with gentle speculars on wet melt zones and soft grounding shadows.Color & Contrast: pastel pink, mint, vanilla cream, blueberry, chocolate, and lemon tones against a dark neutral background for maximum contrast. Aesthetic: whimsical product-photography style with crisp realism and playful energy.Legibility: open counters, clean silhouettes, consistent kerning despite the playful offsets and tilts.
Flat-lay arrangement of vivid, multicolored paper-cut cosmos and begonia flowers forming the word “AI CREATORS” on a dark matte-black background. Text: “AI CREATORS” crafted entirely from layered paper flowers—each petal precise, slightly curled, and arranged to shape every letter clearly. Below, the word “tools” is written in a delicate, flowing lime-green vine script, made of intertwined purple and yellow paper vines that curl and twist naturally. Material: crisp cut paper with visible edges, soft fiber texture, and gentle bends for realism; vine letters show fine paper veins and subtle gradients. Composition: centered flat-lay in 1:1 ratio, “AI CREATORS” large and dominant, “tools” smaller and tucked underneath; scattered petals and paper fragments add handcrafted authenticity. Background: deep matte black paper surface providing strong visual contrast; clean, no extra props. Lighting: soft diffused studio top-light, even illumination with gentle drop shadows for dimensionality. Color & Contrast: vibrant magenta, fuchsia, peach, lemon-yellow, and mint-green flowers pop brilliantly against the black; vine text glows with purple-yellow interplay. Motion: completely still. Aesthetic: bold, artisanal flat-lay; elegant handmade energy suited for brand or social hero imagery. Legibility: open counters maintained in floral lettering; clear spacing between stems and petals; balanced composition ensures instant readability.
Professional food photography: a single glass of layered chia pudding parfait in extreme closeup, styled like a gourmet food magazine. The glass is filled with vibrant layers of fresh kiwi slices, mango puree, raspberry compote, creamy chia pudding, and topped generously with blackberries, raspberries, diced mango, and a fresh mint sprig. Rich, juicy textures, glistening fruit surfaces, and tiny chia seeds visible in crisp macro detail. Black, moody background with soft diffused light highlighting the glass, dramatic reflections, shallow depth of field, artisanal food styling, luxury café aesthetic.
make an image: Will Smith meme reads "I hate spaghetti", as he is shown screaming and throwing a bowl with spaghetti back at the viewer refusing to eat it. Bowl and spaghetti along with tomato sauce and meatballs are captured mid flight in the mid-background and foregraund. Dramatic, epic, comically exagerated
A close-up medium shot portrait against a bright blue sky with white puffy clouds, stylized with a modern, fashion-influenced aesthetic. The subject, a woman, wears a light-grey t-shirt with print that reads "AICREATORS.TOOLS" in purple and lime colors with rainbow paint splashes around. On her head she wears a dark-grey baseball cap with silver details. Her long blonde hair falls freely from underneath the cap. Her expression is cheeky and flirtatious, gazing directly at the camera with a light smirk and a playful wink. She holds a little dog in her hands. The lighting is natural and bright, creating a high-contrast image against the vibrant sky, rendered with sharp focus and natural color tones. Tall format, realistic style
This subject presented as a premium collectible figurine on a designer’s desk. Scene: • Center: a realistic 1/6-scale figurine of the subject on a clear round stand, natural museum pose one foot slightly forward. Keep their current outfit, hair, and accessories exactly as in the source. • Right: an upright glossy retail box showing the same subject as box art matching outfit and look, with brand AI Creators Tools and model Gina; clean typography and a small authenticity sticker. • Left: a widescreen monitor displaying the subject as a grayscale digital sculpt/turntable in a 3D app UI that clearly matches the figurine. • Desk props: keyboard, mouse pad, a couple of notes; tidy and minimal. Lighting & look: • Bright natural studio daylight from windows, soft shadows, subtle tabletop reflections. • Photoreal materials hair, crisp print on the box, no duplicates or mismatches between figure, box, and monitor. Style tags: photoreal, product photography, studio lighting, sharp focus, clean composition. Format: tall, portrait
A congested city street under harsh midday sunlight. A speeding orange sports car is caught veering sharply; side mirrors, pedestrians flinching, and a trailing blur of motion are frozen mid-swerve. Flecks of dust and tire smoke drift in the frame. High-contrast realism with explosive action tone.
An extreme closeup shot of a 30-year-old man with tan skin and messy dark hair falling over his face. He’s staring straight at the camera with cold light-blue eyes that kinda stop you. Strands of his hair catch the light and frame his look.
There’s a clean tattoo on the side of his face running from cheek to temple. It’s got a bit of rough texture that stands out against his smooth skin.
The lighting’s sharp and moody. It throws some parts in shadow while showing off the details in his skin and the wet bits of hair. The background’s a blur, keeping all focus on him.
Shot with a telephoto lens and a shallow depth of field. The image’s super clear, pulling out every little thing - from the look in his eyes to the way his hair sits. The whole vibe feels raw, personal, and a little gritty.
Nice lighting and texture. Not too keen on the tattoo, all 3 images came out with this tiny weird one-liner. Mind you, this is easily fixed with a more detailed prompt in that regard.
Cheap tourist snapshot, slightly shaky and crooked angle, as if taken by an unskilled friend. A 30-year-old stylish blonde woman, mid-sentence, looking a little confused and caught off guard, her expression suspended between talking and posing. She’s standing dead center in front of a major tourist landmark, though the framing is awkward and cuts part of it off. Behind her, a random passer-by photobombs the shot — a young man suddenly leaping in from the left, frozen mid-air with a wild, unhinged expression and flailing arms, almost cartoonish. His exaggerated presence clashes with the woman’s seriousness. Lighting is flat, daytime overcast, emphasizing the raw, unpolished snapshot quality. Poor composition, random tourists half-cropped at the edges, and a sense of chaotic realism as if the camera captured a fleeting, messy, and hilarious moment.
Imagine her A woman in 1940s workwear sits on the edge of a steel I-beam high above a sprawling city. She wears a light blue denim shirt with rolled-up sleeves, gray work pants, lace-up boots, white gloves, and a red polka-dot bandana. Seated in a three-quarter view, her body faces left while her gaze looks ahead, giving her a thoughtful, stoic air. Her feet rest firmly on the beam, arms on her thighs, exuding quiet confidence. Positioned in the lower third of the frame, the beam stretches beneath her, with
a vast cityscape dropping away behind, emphasizing the dizzying height and scale.
Now we're talking! Following up in the same chat on my base prompt, I've asked the assistant: 'can you try again and this time make sure woman is closer to the camera, framed from head to waist?'
That's wide shot not even medium, and I've asked for loose closeup. Our woman isn't looking so hot. But there is likeness. And backdrop is preserved well.
