Meme Image is the current name for the workflow this page used to call Meme Generator. The URL still reads meme-generator, so existing links keep working; everything below describes the product as it ships now.
What Meme Image covers
Meme Image opens inside your current project, and two modes sit side by side on the first screen: Meme Generate and Meme Recreate. Both bill the same way. One confirmed generation is one image unit, 1 credit, and each submit produces exactly one image; there is no batch option. Reference images can come from your device, the account media library (500 MB per account), or a result in any of your projects.
Meme Generate
One reference image is the only required input. A written visual description (the scene, the mood, the action, where the joke should land) is optional, and leaving it empty is allowed: the paid task then fills in the visual direction itself. Choose how far the remake can go. Light touch keeps the original composition and expressions. Balanced remake, the default, keeps the main subject while style, background, and framing can move. Free remake keeps only what you name explicitly and warns that character similarity and detail consistency can drop.
The output aspect defaults to your reference; 1:1, 4:5, 9:16, and 16:9 are there if you want a social format. Changing the ratio is free, and only the next generation bills for it. Submit Generate · 1 credit and the result is a clean base image with no caption on it. Regenerate adds a parallel candidate to the same workspace and spends another credit; earlier candidates stay put.
Meme Recreate
Recreate takes two inputs: a template reference and a drawing reference. Templates come from the curated Meme Templates directory, searchable and browsable by category with Featured, Popular, and Latest views. Previewing a template commits you to nothing; the workspace exists only after you click Use this template. You can also upload a template of your own for the current task. Custom templates get a best-effort background analysis, and the generate button carries a standing notice: layout, characters, removal of the original text, and background details can differ from the template. When analysis finds no usable structure, the whole image serves as a single reference and generation proceeds anyway.
Platform templates keep their declared panel structure and caption slots. Your drawing reference runs through the same three remake levels as above, so how far it gets redrawn stays your call.
Captions, versions, and downloads
Paid generation never burns text into the picture. Click Add text on a finished base image and a free single-text-layer editor opens: content, font size, left, center, or right alignment, rotation from -30° to 30° with a reset to zero, and drag positioning, all in the fixed meme font (white bold, black outline). Saving creates a new version for free. The paid original stays untouched, and every saved version can be set as the cover or downloaded as a full-resolution flattened PNG. Private downloads carry no watermark; files taken from public Explore pages carry the author handle and an x-rush.ai watermark.
Each workspace has one persistent assistant. It can sharpen your visual description and suggest joke angles or captions; its chat replies bill through the shared assistance pool, 0.5 credits per 10 successful assists, while the prompt completion inside a paid task is included in the 1 credit. A caption becomes part of your picture only after generation succeeds and you adopt it; nothing is applied automatically. One paid task runs per workspace at a time and keeps running if you close the tab. The status line shows checking input, queued, generating, or saving result, with one automatic retry on a system failure and no percentage or ETA readouts.
What Meme Image does not do
- Generation starts from reference images; a sentence alone produces nothing here, and Image Studio is the place for text-first picture work.
- The paid task delivers a clean base image, and captions are added afterward by you. Each submit yields a single candidate.
- Editing stays light: one text layer, with no crop, no stickers, no extra layers, and no format choices. Downloads are PNG.
- Custom templates serve the current task only and never become reusable personal templates; the template directory is curated, so there is no user submissions lane.
Publishing sends one chosen version to Explore with a required title and tags, Allow Remix on by default, and Share final prompt off by default. Both switches can be flipped later without taking the post down.