The best private AI image generator: Morse, OpenArt, Grok, Recraft, and Krea scored

The Morse teamPublished November 8, 20266 min read

The best private AI image generator of the five we scored on November 8, 2026 is Morse, at 6 out of 6: its Studio stores your images encrypted in your browser on every plan, and Morse doesn't train AI on your content. OpenArt and Grok Imagine follow at 4, since both keep images private by default but leave training to a setting or say nothing about it. Recraft and Krea score 2 each, because their free plans can show your work to other users and their terms grant them broad licenses over it.

We read each company's pricing page, privacy policy, and terms on November 8, 2026, and scored only what those pages say. OpenArt, Grok Imagine, Recraft, and Krea aren't in our Midjourney alternatives comparison, which covers Midjourney, Firefly, Leonardo, and others. Recraft deserves credit for the most specific policy in the group: it dates each version, names what its model providers may not do, and puts the training switch in your profile.

The ranking

As of November 8, 2026. Prices are each company's own list price for the cheapest paid plan.

How we scored them

Each test is worth 0, 1, or 2 points.

1. Who sees your images by default. 2 if they stay on your device. 1 if they sit on the company's servers, private to you. 0 if other users can see them unless you pay or change a setting.
2. What privacy costs. 2 if no plan publishes your images by default. 1 if a paid plan is needed to keep them private. 0 if only a plan above $20 a month keeps them private.
3. Training. 2 if the company says in writing it doesn't train on your prompts and images. 1 if it trains with a switch or plan to stop it, or if its pages don't say. 0 if it trains and we found no way to stop it.

Is OpenArt private?

Mostly. OpenArt keeps even free images private by default, on its own servers. OpenArt's terms, last updated July 30, 2026, say "Your creations are private by default and only shared if you choose to publish or share them" (OpenArt). Private creations don't last, though. If you've never subscribed, private creations "are stored for 7 days, then automatically deleted if not published," and a lapsed subscriber gets 14 days.

The terms also let OpenArt share "prompts and reference images" and the results with third-party model providers, while promising not to share "your name, email address, or account credentials" with them. Neither the terms nor the privacy policy, last updated March 4, 2026, says whether OpenArt trains on what you make (OpenArt). Starter costs $14 a month, or $13 billed yearly (OpenArt).

Does Grok Imagine train on your images?

Yes, by default. Grok's consumer FAQ says it "may use your content and interactions with Grok (e.g., prompts, searches, and other materials you submit)" to train its models, and that on the mobile app you stop it under Settings, then Data Controls, by deselecting "Improve the model" (xAI). Content in Private Chat, "where available," isn't used for training.

The FAQ treats sharing as your choice, and warns that a share link is open to anyone who has it and may be indexed by search engines if you post it publicly. The terms, updated October 27, 2026, still take a wide license: a perpetual right to use your content, including to "display in public forums," for "any purpose" (xAI). The plans page lists Imagine in Plus, at $8 a month (Grok). For Grok's chat side, see Grok alternatives.

Does Recraft show free images in a public gallery?

Yes, and they can stay there after you leave. Recraft's pricing FAQ says free-plan images "are owned by Recraft" and "are publicly visible in the community gallery," and its paid plans start at Basic, $10 a month billed annually, with "Commercial rights and private generations" (Recraft). Its privacy policy, effective October 20, 2026 for new accounts and November 3 for existing ones, says a gallery asset "may remain available there after your account is deleted," and that Recraft doesn't "generally remove assets from the community gallery on request" outside legal requirements (Recraft).

On training, Recraft does better than most. It may train its own models on your content, but you can opt out "in your account profile settings," and content from Group Workspace plans or the API isn't used at all. It says its external image and video model providers work under "zero data retention or equivalent contractual terms that prohibit training." Section 7.3 still lets Recraft feature assets "and the prompts associated with them" on its websites and social media.

Is Krea private?

On some plans, and Krea's own pages don't say which. Its terms say that if your "subscription tier does not include the private mode feature, some of your User Submissions may be viewable by other users," and that managing visibility is your responsibility (Krea). The pricing page we read on November 8 doesn't list private mode under any plan (Krea).

Krea's license is the broadest here. You grant it a perpetual, sublicensable right to "fully exploit" your submissions, including through "third party websites and feeds," and "including after your termination of your account." Every other user gets a perpetual license to access and adapt them through the service. The only plan whose terms promise "no-training clauses for your content" is Business, at $200 a month. Basic starts at $9, or $5 billed yearly, and Free gives 100 units a day.

What about Midjourney, Leonardo, Firefly, and ChatGPT?

We compared those in the Midjourney alternatives comparison, on public galleries, training, and price. Leonardo gets its own teardown in is Leonardo AI private, and Adobe's training promises are covered in does Adobe train on your work. For a single model rather than an app, our FLUX.2 pro page covers what Black Forest Labs' terms let it do with your prompts.

Where Morse keeps what you make

Every app above keeps your images on its own servers and writes itself a license to them, so its score turns on a plan, a toggle, or a clause. Morse's Studio passes the three tests by keeping the images on your device.

• Who sees them by default: Studio stores your images in your browser, encrypted, and they're locked when you sign out.
• What privacy costs: nothing extra. The Free plan stores images the same way, with 3 a day on Z-Image Turbo and no card; Pro, at $19 a month, widens the choice of image models.
• Training: Morse doesn't train AI on your content, sell your data, or show ads.

Clearing your browser deletes your images, and Morse can't bring them back, so keep copies of the ones you want. Our Midjourney alternatives comparison walks through Studio's models and how to draft prompts in a private chat first.

Which one fits

• You want every image stored encrypted on your own device from the first one: Morse.
• You want free images private on a hosted app and can download them within a week: OpenArt.
• You already use Grok: turn off "Improve the model" before you make anything.
• You design vectors and logos: Recraft, on a paid plan, with training switched off in your profile.
• You use Krea's real-time tools: ask Krea which plan includes private mode before you upload client work.

Start free and make three Studio images today, kept encrypted in your browser.