Prompt

Prompt is where you create AI images and animations for your locations. Creating needs a Professional subscription.

Your prompt sessions

The Prompt tab lists your sessions. A session is one conversation or idea, and it can cover one or more locations.

• Search your sessions by prompt text.
• Locations — show only sessions made for certain locations.
• Sort by — Newest first, Oldest first or Recently updated. Recently updated is the default, and the app goes back to it when you restart it. While you're searching, results are sorted by Relevance until you pick a sort.
• Each card shows a few recent results, the prompt, and how many of its creations are in shows (used in the Play tab).
• Long-press a session to delete it, along with all its images.

To start something new, tap New. Pick the locations it's for under Prompt where?, and Prompt Chat opens. If you only have one location, the app skips this step.

Prompt Chat

Prompt Chat is the main way to create. Describe what you want in plain words, and every message paints fresh takes on your surface.

Sending a prompt

1. Type your idea, for example neon koi drifting in black fog. You can also tap the microphone to speak it, or paste it in.
2. Not sure what to make? Tap a starter idea (suggested from your surface photo), or Get inspired to browse community images.
3. Tap Send.

Without a Professional plan, the composer is replaced by a No subscription card. Tap Subscribe to pick a plan.

With Enhance Prompts turned on, the AI may ask up to 3 quick questions first. Tap an answer, or Use what I have. You can turn this off under Profile → Settings → Enhance Prompts to generate from exactly what you type.

Options above the composer

• Model — opens Choose a model. Models are grouped by tier, and each has a short description and a badge.
• 1× / 2× / 3× — how many takes to make per location (and per model).
• Add reference images — add up to 3 images. The AI blends their style and subject into your idea. The first image is the main subject; the rest steer the style.
• Undo / Redo — step back through edits to your prompt.
• Your token balance — tap it to buy more.

Working with results

• Tap a take to view it full screen. Use the Play bar on a take to project it.
• Long-press a take to Project, Download or Share it.
• Long-press one of your messages to Copy or Edit it. Long-press an image you attached to Reuse image or Share image.
• Open a take and tap Animate to turn it into a video. See Animations.

Live mode (in Chat settings) projects a take the moment you tap it. The same Live switch is at the top of the chat's Gallery and the main Gallery.

Chat settings

Tap the chat name at the top to:

• Change the Locations this chat paints on.
• Rename chat.
• Turn Live mode on or off.

The Gallery icon shows everything made in this chat. Its menu has Delete unfavorited, which clears out everything except your favorites.

If the chat paints on two or more locations, use the pills at the top (All, or one location) to filter the gallery, or swipe sideways to move between locations. Long-press to select items, then Animate, Favorite, Unfavorite, To Show, Share or Delete them.

If a take fails

• Couldn't paint that one. (or Couldn't animate that one.) — tap the card, then Retry or Edit.
• Blocked — the prompt broke a content rule, such as copyrighted content, real people, or sexual, violent or hateful content. Try a different prompt.
• Location not set up — the location needs a surface photo and a mask first. The card tells you what's missing: Add a mask or Add a surface photo.

Tokens are only charged when a job finishes. Failed jobs are marked Refunded.

Using the older prompt editor?

Accounts created before 14 September 2026 keep the previous prompt editor until you switch Prompt Chat on. You'll see a Prompt Chat is replacing this screen notice. Tap Switch to move to Prompt Chat, or turn it on under Profile → Settings → Experimental → Prompt Chat. Newer accounts always use Prompt Chat.

In the older editor, you choose an image engine, write your prompt (or tap Surprise me), pick How many? and a Seed, then tap Create. Tap a result to select it for that location. With Live on, it plays straight away.

Gallery

Tap Gallery on the Prompt tab to see what you've made. The gallery screen is called Prompts. It has a Create button and a Live switch at the top.

The gallery opens filtered to the location each of your Illumibots is pointed at now. To see everything you've ever made, clear the Locations filter.

• Search your prompts, and filter by Locations, Images, Videos, Favorites or In shows. You can also sort, and change how many fit across the screen.
• Double-tap to favorite. Double-tap a favorite again to unfavorite it.
• Long-press to multi-select, then Animate, Favorite, Unfavorite, To Show, Share or Delete in bulk.
• Tap an item to preview it. Tap again, or tap Fullscreen, for the full-screen viewer. Swipe up, or tap Details, for Generation Details (prompt, date, seed and model). If the image was made from another image, tap Before and after to compare the two.

Badges on thumbnails

Badge	Meaning
❤️ Heart	A favorite.
Amber corner with a number	How many shows use this creation.
Pill in the bottom-left corner	How it was made (image, animation, upscale or upload) and which model made it.
Painting / Finishing	Still being made. (In Prompt Chat, a take shows Queued before it starts.)
Red overlay (Refunded)	The job failed, and any tokens were returned.
Amber crossed-out pin icon	An animation made before you last changed the alignment. Use Repin video to re-fit it.

The Options menu

Open an item's ⋯ menu for:

• Play on projector
• Upscale — make a sharper, higher-resolution copy (costs tokens).
• Animate / Extend animation — see Animations.
• Repin video — re-fit an animation to your current alignment.
• Regional Prompting — draw a box on part of an image and describe what to generate there (costs tokens).
• Add to Show — add it to a show in the Play tab.
• Upload Custom Image/Video — use your own media.
• Load this prompt's settings — reopen the chat this prompt came from (or fill in the chat you're in) with the same prompt, seed and model, and the image attached as a reference image.
• Download, Share (to the community or through your phone's share sheet) and Delete

Animations

Turn any image into a short video. Animations cost tokens.

1. Tap Animate on an image, or select several images in the gallery and tap Animate.
2. Under Models, pick one or more models. Each card shows:
   • the clip length, such as 5s
   • the token cost, or Free
   • a speaker icon if the model also makes audio
3. Describe the motion, for example slow push in, fog drifting past. The AI suggests a starting point for you.
4. Tap the green Animate pill, which also shows the token cost. Check Cost, Your balance and Balance after, then confirm. If you don't have enough tokens, the pill turns amber and shows Need N more.

When you animate several images at once, tick Use these models on all prompts to use the same models for every image.

Extend continues an existing animation from its last frame, with new motion.

If you don't have enough tokens, tap Get more tokens. See Subscriptions & Tokens.

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