Free
Try the engine, keep your first frames.
$0/ month
free forever
- 20 generations per month
- 1080p stills
- 10-second clips
- Standard review queue
- Cortex mark on exports
Hyperreal photos and film
Cortex generates film-quality photos and video on your phone. Every result is carefully reviewed.
Watch the film — generated with Cortex
Almost real is not real. Cortex was built for the last one percent — pores, grain, the way light falls off a face. It renders thousands of frames and reviews every single one. You only ever see the keepers.
Built for the last one percent
Most generators get you close. Cortex is engineered for the part that makes people stop scrolling and ask what camera you used.
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Trained on light
Tuned for the physical stuff — skin, fabric, lens falloff, grain. Frames behave like they came out of a camera, not a model.
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Reviewed by people
Every render passes a human review before it reaches you. Warped hands and melted text never make it to your library.
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Photo and film
Stills up to 4K and motion clips up to sixty seconds, from the same prompt. One idea, every format you post in.
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Phone-first
Describe, generate, keep. The whole loop runs on your phone and lands straight in your camera roll at full resolution.
From sentence to keeper
The whole pipeline lives in one app. No desktop, no exports, no editing suite — just the loop below, on repeat.
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Describe the shot
Type what you see in your head. Lens, light, mood — Cortex speaks photography, so direct it like a DP.
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Generate takes
Cortex renders a set of takes in seconds, each one a different read on your prompt. Pick a direction, push it further.
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The review pass
Every take is inspected at full zoom before it reaches you. If a frame would not survive a close look, you never see it.
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Straight to camera roll
Approved frames land in your library at full resolution. No exports, no watermarks on paid plans, nothing to clean up.
New shot
What do you see?
35mm portrait at golden hour, wind in her hair, faint film grain
Portrait35mmGolden hourGrain
Generate
Rendering
4 takes · about 12 seconds
Take 3 of 4Passed review
Sharp at 100% · No artifacts
Camera roll
Saved at full resolution
Made with Cortex
Every frame below came out of the app, prompt included. Nothing retouched, nothing staged.
Lands where you publish
Keepers route straight from your camera roll into the apps you post, pitch, and cut in. No export dance.
InstagramReels-ready
YouTubeStraight to Shorts
XAuto-post
FigmaInto your frames
SlackShare to channels
DribbblePortfolio shots
LightroomEdit roundtrip
PremiereTimeline-ready
Final CutXML export
FramerEmbed live
LinkedInNative posts
WebhooksAnything custom
Creators keep the receipts
Photographers, directors, and designers use Cortex where the work has to hold up to a close look.
“I stopped explaining that it is AI. People just ask what camera I shoot with, and honestly I let them wonder.”
Lena Ortiz
Portrait photographer
“The review pass is the whole product for me. I post what Cortex approves and it has never once embarrassed me.”
Theo Marchetti
Creator
“Storyboards used to take my team a week of pulls and sketches. Now I walk into the room with finished frames.”
Amara Diallo
Art director
“It does light the way light actually behaves. Falloff, bounce, color temperature. That is the entire game.”
Jonas Lindqvist
Director of photography
“I cut a full mood film for a client pitch on the train ride to the meeting. They asked who shot it.”
Priya Raman
Brand designer
“My camera roll finally looks like the inside of my head. Fewer frames than other apps give you, but every one lands.”
Marcus Cole
Stylist
Pay for keepers, not noise
Every plan runs the full engine and the full review pass. Upgrade when you need more frames, longer film, or cleaner exports.
Pro
Most popularFor creators who post every day.
$14/ month
billed monthly
- 1,000 generations per month
- 4K stills
- 30-second clips
- Priority review queue
- Clean exports, no mark
- Full prompt history
Studio
For teams and heavy production use.
$32/ month
billed monthly
- Everything in Pro
- 60-second clips
- Batch generation
- 5 linked devices
- Early access to new looks
Prices in USD. Cancel anytime in the app — your plan runs to the end of the period.
Fair questions, straight answers
Anything else, write to hello@example.com. A person reads every single message.
Cortex is a mobile app that generates hyperrealistic photos and video from a written description. It runs the full loop on your phone: describe a shot, get a set of takes, and keep the frames that pass review.
Your next shot is a sentence away
Free to try on iOS and Android. Describe the frame, keep only what survives review.