Getting started

Finding your way around

What each part of the screen is for, and where everything lives.

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Last updated: 6 August 2026

Almost everything happens on one page — your workspace. It has three parts: a menu of tools on the left, the panel for whichever tool you picked in the middle, and a gallery of everything you have made on the right.

The workspace: the tool menu on the left, the selected tool's panel in the middle with its prompt box and settings, and the gallery on the right showing a finished image.

The menu

Everything you can make or do is here, grouped:

GroupWhat is in it
CreateApex Image, Apex Video, Apex img2img, Apex Edit, Apex Transfer, Apex Upscale
ToolsApex Analyze, Magic Eraser, Frame Extractor, Clear Meta, Downloader
Partner Modelsother companies’ models, each named — Nano Banana, Seedance
Resourceslinks out

Apex is the name for the models and tools built here; Partner Models are bought in from elsewhere. The distinction matters mostly for cost and for which settings you get.

Picking one loads its panel in the middle. Until you pick something the middle says so, and offers Learn Studio and Take a Tour — the guided version of this page, inside the app.

The panel

Whatever you selected, its controls appear here. They differ per tool, which is why the panel is never quite the same twice:

  • The prompt box, where there is one, with its own character count shown beneath — the limit belongs to the tool, not the product
  • Reference media, where the tool accepts it — how many is set by the tool, and the panel says so beside the field
  • Reference audio on video tools — MP3 or WAV
  • Resolution, in whatever steps that tool offers
  • The button that starts it, showing the cost in credits before you commit

What each Create tool is for

Apex Imagethe flagship image model. Needs a connected avatar — see avatars
Apex Videovideo, from a description or a still
Apex img2imga new image based on one you supply
Apex Editchange one thing about a picture: Hairstyle, Poses, Facial Expressions, Outfits, Tattoos, Hair Color, Dim Lighting, Makeup, Photo Effects
Apex Transfermove a feature from one picture onto another — Tattoos, Outfits
Apex Upscalemake a picture bigger and sharper

The rest of the screen. Everything you make or bring in lands here, newest first. It is private.

Down the side of the gallery are views that filter it:

ViewShows
Recenteverything, newest first
Generatedonly things you made here
Uploadsonly files you brought from your device
Downloadsonly things saved from a link
Editedonly results of erasing, upscaling and similar
Favoritesonly things you starred
Trashwhat you have deleted, restorable until emptied
Your folderswhatever you put in them

These are filters over one library, not separate storage. An image you generated and then starred appears under Recent, Generated and Favorites at once. There is only one copy of it.

Your library covers this properly, and folders covers organising.

Opening a single item

Click anything in the gallery to open it full size, with its details beside it and buttons for the things you can do to it: favourite, download, edit, upscale, delete.

The address in your browser changes when you open something, so you can copy it and come back to that exact item later. That link is private — it only works for you.

Everything else

WhereWhat is there
Notificationswhat happened while you were away — finished work, follows, replies
Settingsyour profile, plan, payment, security, notifications, blocked accounts
Supportmessages to a human, and their replies
Feature requestsasking for something that does not exist yet, and voting on other people’s asks

Your credit balance sits at the bottom of the menu, beside Add Credits, with your account below it.

Some entries appear only once a feature is switched on for you, so your menu may be shorter than what is described here. Nothing is broken and there is no setting you have missed.

On a phone

Everything is available on a phone. The tool panel and the gallery share the screen rather than sitting side by side, so you switch between them instead of seeing both. Nothing is missing, and work started on a phone is in your library on a computer, because the library belongs to your account rather than to a device.