Dawn AI - Avatar generator reviews
What users love and hate, from real reviews
An AI avatar and headshot generator that morphed from a beloved free art app into a paywalled selfie maker — and most reviews are about betrayed old fans and a wall of payments.
What users love
When the headshots land, they're more realistic than rivals
A smaller but genuine group of happy users praises the realism and consistency of the headshots: for those it works for, results come out lifelike and high-quality, sometimes beating Lensa.
the quality of this experience for an AI generator is pretty good for if you want to create headshots in different styles. It's more realistic than other AI generators. You can count on consistency.
Very good!! my avatars looks sooo realistic!!
generates better than Lensa but no 4k options
What users hate
It used to be a free text-to-image app — now it's just a paid avatar generator
The core complaint across almost all reviews: people loved the old Dawn for text- and sketch-based art, then updates ripped that out and left only the «avatar yourself» function. Longtime fans see it as the app killing itself.
text to image feature is gone. uninstalling
the current version after the most recent update has no AI art section at all, and the only thing that's there now is the AI "avatar yourself" function
From an AI Art Generator to a Avatar Generator, what is going on ??? Dawn Ai killed themselves
Everything is behind a paywall — you can't even try before you pay
A huge share of reviews: the app installs as «free» but won't generate a single avatar or even one trial result without a subscription. People delete it immediately, with no way to judge the quality.
the entire app has a pay wall, nothing at all is free and it costs weekly
they just stole my time. there is not even the one generation for testing, they immediately ask for money. "free" application)
You have to pay for literally everything in order to make a single avatar and you don't even get to see if it works first. Not worth it!
You pay the subscription — and they still charge extra for each pack and image
A common grievance: even after a weekly or yearly subscription, users hit fresh price tags — for each style, pack or extra generation. The subscription doesn't cover what they bought it for.
Its not worthy, you must pay up again and again even you already subscribe. The result also bad
Useless app. It is NOT worth the purchase. After subscription, it asks you to pay for each new pack, the price would keep escalating each time. DON'T INSTALL!
is why pay $2/ week, IF you still have to purchase the themes independently? What am I paying for?
«Something went wrong» on photo upload — falsely blames the internet
A specific reproducible bug: uploading photos throws an error blaming the internet connection even when the network is fine. For some users the app never works at all, especially on Android.
Any avatars I try to create it tells me something went wrong and to check my internet connection.
it displays a message saying that "Something went wrong Please check your internet connection and try again later"
Doesn't work, when you insert pictures it says bad Internet all the time
Stops working right after you pay
A painful pattern: the user pays and the app immediately breaks, crashes or refuses to generate. Money taken, nothing delivered — which many flatly call a scam.
Just paid for one week sub two days ago and this app stopped working. so no new images for the last 2 days
absolute disaster, the app started crashing after I paid for the service. not recommended
You guys took my money but the app all of sudden doesn't work! Either fix it or give me my money back!
Can't unsubscribe — they keep charging after cancellation
A serious billing issue: people can't cancel inside the app and charges keep coming. Support replies with templates or stays silent, turning cancellation into a fight.
Why i can't cancel the subscription after the trial period?
After I unsubscribe from this app you guys are still debiting me uptill now
there is no way to cancel. I had an old email and they keep charging me. There is no way to contact them. You always get an automated response.
Image quality dropped — low resolution and an intrusive watermark
Those who remember the old version note real degradation: images turned small and low-res, and a logo watermark now sits on paid results. Outputs often don't resemble the person.
now they changed there quality of photo to the smallest pixel ever, even while I pay weekly!,and today added there icon to all photo as water mark, while it already paid service!
the generated images have become much worse than it was 6-12 months ago
But today the images are so low quality what's worse is that the payments are never ending
Harsh daily caps even on «Pro» — 1-2 generations a day
Even paying subscribers complain they get just one or two generations a day, and the promised hundreds of images don't add up. People feel they pay for a sub and still hit a wall.
but 1 use per day for pro membership?
Even when u pay for subscription u can only make 3 edits per day. So rubbish lol
First they offered 3 credits per day, which was not okay, but acceptable . But now just one credit per day?
Won't let you save or download the generated images
A distinct technical pain: even after subscribing and generating avatars, users can't save them to the phone gallery. Images sometimes also vanish before the promised storage window.
Never allows you to download the picture
You cannot download any of the images generated by this app.
imagine subscribing for a pack and it's not allowing me to save the images
Feels like a bait and switch
Many openly call the model a bait and switch: the app advertises itself as free, trades on its old reputation, then demands money after it already has your data. Some threaten regulator complaints.
this app will tell you it is free and then demand money once you have already shared data
it meets the definition of a bait and switch at this point
You mislead the people putting this app for free but in reality it's paid once you downloaded it
Too few styles and no custom prompts
Even loyal users want more: the preset styles get old fast, custom prompts and face tags are gone, and there's no full-body option. The freedom the old version had is sorely missed.
I wish I had more options! After a little while the pre-made options get old
Old one was far better, use to allow you to put in custom prompts for your face tags but now its extremely limited.
Amazing I just wish it could generate full body pics