Found an AI-generated image you love? Upload it and get a detailed prompt to recreate a similar look — plus a style breakdown and ready-to-use Midjourney and Stable Diffusion settings. Free, and no sign-up.
How it works
Upload any image and the tool analyses it and reverse-engineers a text-to-image prompt, a style breakdown, and suggested Midjourney and Stable Diffusion parameters. The exact original seed and settings can never be recovered from a finished image, so treat the numbers as close estimates — but the prompt and style will get you strikingly close.
Quick answer: can you get the original prompt from an AI image?
No tool can recover the exact original prompt or seed from a finished AI image, because that data is not stored in the pixels — a Midjourney seed is a 32-bit number (0 to 4,294,967,295, roughly 4.3 billion possibilities) that lives on the platform, not in the file. What an image-to-prompt tool does instead is read the picture with a vision model and reconstruct a close, high-quality estimate: a detailed text prompt, a negative prompt, a style breakdown and suggested Midjourney and Stable Diffusion settings that recreate the look rather than the byte-identical image. Convly’s Image-to-Prompt Generator does this free, with no sign-up, in a few seconds.
The exact prompt and seed are only recoverable in one case — when the file still carries its original generation metadata:
- If the PNG is untouched: AUTOMATIC1111 writes the full prompt, negative prompt, seed, sampler, steps and CFG into the PNG “parameters” text chunk, and ComfyUI stores the whole workflow — a metadata viewer reads them exactly.
- Once it is shared: uploading to Discord, X, Reddit, Facebook or Telegram strips that metadata, so the vast majority of images online no longer contain it.
- Midjourney never embeds the prompt in the file; you can retrieve the seed only for your possèdent jobs by reacting with the ✉ emoji in Discord.
- For everything else — someone else’s art, a screenshot, a stripped image — a vision-model estimate is the only route.
Questions fréquemment posées
How do I get the prompt from an AI image?
Upload or paste the image into an image-to-prompt tool and it returns a ready-to-use prompt in seconds. Convly’s runs a vision-language model over the picture and outputs a detailed text-to-image prompt, a negative prompt, a style breakdown and suggested Midjourney (–ar, –stylize) and Stable Diffusion (sampler, steps, CFG) settings. It is free, needs no account and works in 7 languages.
Can I recover the exact prompt and seed of a Midjourney image?
No — a finished image does not contain the prompt or the seed, so no tool can read them back exactly. A Midjourney seed is a 32-bit integer with about 4.3 billion possible values (0 to 4,294,967,295) held on Midjourney’s servers, and you can only fetch it for your own jobs by reacting with the envelope emoji in Discord. For anyone else’s image, a vision-model reconstruction is a close estimate, not the byte-for-byte original.
Is the image-to-prompt tool free, and do I need to sign up?
Yes, Convly’s Image-to-Prompt Generator is completely free with no sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit for normal use. Each image is processed in a few seconds and the tool works in 7 languages.
Does it work with Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL·E and Flux?
Yes. It describes any image regardless of which generator made it, then formats platform-specific settings: for Midjourney it estimates parameters like –ar and –stylize, and for Stable Diffusion (SDXL or SD 3.5) it suggests a sampler, a step count and a CFG scale. The same prompt also works as a starting point for Flux, DALL·E, Ideogram or any other text-to-image model.
Can I read the prompt straight from the image’s metadata instead?
Sometimes. If a Stable Diffusion PNG still has its original metadata, the full prompt, negative prompt, seed, sampler, steps and CFG sit in the PNG “parameters” text chunk (AUTOMATIC1111) or as a saved workflow (ComfyUI), and a metadata viewer reads them exactly. But uploading to Discord, X, Reddit, Facebook or Telegram strips that data, and Midjourney never writes the prompt into the file — so for most images you find online a vision-model estimate is the only option.
Does it work on real photos and non-AI images?
Yes. Because it describes the visual content rather than looking up a stored prompt, it turns real photographs, screenshots or hand-drawn art into a text-to-image prompt just as well as AI images. That makes it useful for recreating a photo’s lighting, composition or colour grade in Midjourney or Stable Diffusion.
Can I run an image-to-prompt model locally for free?
Yes. The classic open-source option is CLIP Interrogator, which pairs OpenAI’s CLIP with Salesforce’s BLIP captioner and runs on roughly 6–8 GB of VRAM (about 2.7 GB in low-VRAM mode). Midjourney also has a built-in /describe command that returns four prompt suggestions from an uploaded image. A hosted tool like Convly’s skips the setup and the GPU requirement entirely.
