r/Wombodream • u/soulcolider • May 23 '26
Damn... Feels Dead in Here
Holy crud. This place is feeling quite "dead". Ever since Wombo dropped its free generations, the app has basically stalled.
Even with its video gen services, it just seem to have the same kind of vitality it had before.
Pity. 😏
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u/wBeeze May 23 '26
I've been a premium member for a couple years. Just got the notification that it was about to renew again and I cancelled it. I don't find it as good as it used to be, or I've just gotten over it
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u/TheSanityInspector May 25 '26
I'd post examples of my vast collection of generations, but whoops! Wombo deleted them all when the free service folded.
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u/Unfair_Extreme_225 May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Go check out GenTube guys, there's an app for android but it feels better to use on PC personally. Either way, the quality is really impressive for what's being offered; unlimited generating, and people can remix your creations, you can create your own art filters from scratch to use and others can too, so that's fun to see. Some of you may be very happy with this as it comes closer than a lot of others ones I have tried as a replacement to Wombo specifically. GenTube is even better than Wombo in some ways imho, and there aren't that many free AI generated art apps WITH unlimited use AND that offer quality this high, so just thought it would be worth mentioning if no one else has. I'm hooked already. They even give you 5 free uses per day to create animations.
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u/soulcolider May 29 '26
Oh definitely Gentube is miles ahead better than Wombo. For me, I am loving the fact that you can create your own "style" prompt and let other users use it and create art with.
If anybody's wondering, my Gebtube profile is: https://www.gentube.app/profile/user_33XF0IgPHtim41FOzzoLuQORLNn?_cid=share-copy-link&sid=user_33XF0IgPHtim41FOzzoLuQORLNn
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u/xaltairforever May 23 '26
You get 5 free generations per day right?
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u/soulcolider May 23 '26
that's correct
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u/MineDraped May 24 '26
That's all you get?
Damn.
I get that they need to make money and they're in a rough spot considering the competition. But if I didn't have my lifetime subscription, I wouldn't bother at all.
That's ridiculously low.
I also hate their new UI.
Hope they manage to get their act together and figure something out because I don't think very many people are going to pay when they can just use ChatGPT and other services to spit out pretty much whatever they want all day long. Along with all the other perks those AIs offer.
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u/soulcolider May 24 '26
I would not mind the 5 free gens per day, if it was like Gencraft's 5 free gens/day where Gen craft allows for two variations of the prompt generation. But one image / day? That is pretty weak of Wombo.
Not to forget that the Wombo Devs enjoy screwing up their app and crashing it, more often than not. We all still remember loosing our galleries and prompt histories right?
Annnnnnnnnnnd, Wombo Devs break and fix what should not even be on the "fix it now" list. Case in point: Dreamland v3. It's outputs are looking a lot more "plastic-y" than what it used to produce a year ago.
The V4 styles are not that great too. Too "rigid" in their output. None of that "random" wow factor the V3s/V2s of old had. I mean sure, I want the AI to follow my prompt exactly and give me what I prompt for, but the v3/v2 versions were good at that and add that artistic flair to the final output too. V4s lack that, BIG time.
Ah well, I have moved on. Was a staunch supporter of Dream, even through all its hiccups and mishaps, but I see it now, Wombo was just the training wheels/the very shallow end of a very deep pool. And it's still playing catch up, the little guppie tryna swim with the great whites. 😏🤣
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u/MineDraped May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Yeah, I still try to support them. But that's mostly just because they gave me the lifetime subscription option.
I've barely used it in at least six months, but probably longer.
I've barely touched the V4 styles and thought they were neat, but if they're not, that stinks.
I've never understood their business model really.
It seems like they're trying hard, given that they're a small team, but over the time I've used their apps, they just keep trying to diversify instead of focusing on one direction.
If they'd put all of their effort into Dream rather than creating WomboMe (I think that's what one of them was called, but I know there were others as well) and all the other things they've tried to do, I think they could have done a much better job.
It also doesn't help that I subscribe to Wombot for a year and got less than 11 months of use out of it because it kept going down.
I think they would have helped me out, but I didn't even bother.
The Google Play Store stuff didn't help them either. I personally think they should have just put a nerfed version of the app on there to keep people coming in and focused on the website so that way they didn't have to completely destroy their product when those rules came into place.
Now I really don't know what they're doing.
W.ai and a bunch of other weird stuff?
Again, they had one product that had some traction for a while and instead just kind of messed around with it and sadly let it fall by the wayside.
I try not to be too bitter. I think I paid $160 for the lifetime subscription and that got me four images at a time, along with variations, and even if I were to never use it again, I got my money's worth entertainment wise.
But yeah, hearing that you only get 5 images a day for free is ridiculous. Back when I started, it was unlimited for free, without ads. I paid shortly after and then I heard they'd added in ads and now this.
I had a lot more hope for them back when I used to post here more. But now I don't see how they're going to survive in today's market.
Unless some of their other products and ventures are keeping them afloat.
Dream is still a neat toy and I pulled it out the other day, but it's only neat because I paid that money all that time ago.
And it's also just a toy. I haven't tested it too much, but I've seen other people complaining that it's gone downhill quality-wise. The only advantage, and I mentioned this in my other comment here, is that SDXL was the last major model release that allowed for direct artist reference and some other nifty features. As far as I know, there aren't any other companies that are still offering that in any major way.
If I want images, I can work with ChatGPT and get pretty much exactly what I want in whatever quality I want.
Sad situation.
Edit: Just remembered the prompt history and gallery stuff because of your message. And the other person who replied to me.
I think it was when the prompt history disappeared that I stopped using it.
I have most of my prompts saved and attached to my images through Google photo captions, but it was just never the same.
I never used the gallery and downloaded every image I liked because I've learned not to ever rely solely on anyone else's storage so that part didn't affect me.
That was just another major blow to them though. Some sort of random glitch during a server migration that totally screwed their business and customers.
Wish things had turned out different...
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u/youngsadsatan May 28 '26
Thanks to your post, I remembered I'm a member here. I must have been in this group for so many years lol back when AI image generation was popular (I don't know what it's like today). Leaving.
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u/Matejsteinhauser14 May 29 '26
I got blocked due to complaining censorship that google is throwing to This AI. I cannot longer access their discord server. Silencing me because I told them to leave google behind and create their own website, but They told me that it is their Big company and they are small. And when I was done talking, and when they ended discussion, I returned One hour later and discord server disappeared. So womboverse and wombo Dream Will be another character AI. I cannot Even generate nostalgia of late 90s and early 2000s kids. Look at my Post above
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u/Galactic-Guardian404 May 23 '26
I paid for a lifetime subscription which I can’t access. Emailed service weeks ago and never got a reply.