Google's newest app is an AI-powered image editor

Source: Engadget

Overview

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, featuring object segmentation that lets you move, resize, or transform individual parts of your images—whether AI‑generated or not. While similar capabilities have appeared from Google, Adobe, and even on‑device on some smartphones, Pics introduces a few fresh ideas.

Key Features

• Text editing & translation – Modify text inside a photo directly and translate it into different languages while preserving the original font style and size.
• Workspace integration – Integrated into Workspace apps, starting with Slides and Drive, positioning it as a potential Canva rival for quick poster design and social‑media content creation.
• Object manipulation – Thanks to object segmentation, you can isolate and edit specific elements within an image.

Availability

• Launch – Pics is launching today to a limited group of testers.
• Rollout – Global rollout is planned for this summer to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
• Business preview – A preview will also be available to Workspace business users.

Paying customers will have access to a suite of AI tools. Google also announced that AI Inbox is now rolling out to all Google AI Plus and Pro subscribers in the US.

AI Inbox helps you stay on top of your inbox by prioritizing important messages and time‑sensitive tasks. Since its preview at the start of 2026, Google has added features such as personalized draft replies (instead of just reminders) and instant file access for files already stored in Google Docs, Sheets, etc.