Popular iOS photo editing app Prisma is now available in the Google Play store, giving Android users their first chance to find out what all the fuss is about.

The app, which launched on iOS on June 11, allows users can upload or take pictures then select a variety of filters to transform the picture into an artistic effect.

While that doesn’t sound exciting by itself given that apps providing photo filters are a dime a dozen, Prisma actually uses a combination of machine learning and artificial intelligence to process the photo in the cloud versus the app itself and as a result, the effects the filters can deliver are nothing short of spectacular.

The off-app processing of the image though has had some drawbacks, with The Verge reporting that many people have complained about the app’s unresponsive moments, which are caused by server overload due to the number of people using the app; in our testing of the Android app today there are times where the app is slower, or on the rare occasion simply doesn’t work at all.

While not catering for scaling is never truly excusable (Pokemon Go *cough*) the numbers are highly impressive with the iOS version of the app said to have 10.6 million installs with over 400 million images already being “prisimed;” according to app monitoring firm App Annie Prism is now the four most popular app in the Photo and Video category in the Apple App Store, and the ninth most popular app overall, highly impressive for an app that has been in the wild for 44 days.

Cool

It’s hard to be impressed by yet another image editing app, but Prisma is something seriously new, and indeed for the time being, is cool as well.

As well as processing the images in the cloud versus the app, Prisma renders the image by going through different layers and recreating the image rather than inserting a layer over the image, which is why it’s results are just that good.

If you’re on Android you can grab Prisma from this link; be aware that the Google Play store is full of fake Prisma apps at the moment, the one you should be downloading is the one with the developer listed as Prisma Labs.

Image credit: Prisma Labs