Hi everyone,

I’m building **Vissulo**, a mobile AI photo editing app for photographers, content creators, and everyday users who want powerful editing tools without giving up their privacy.

A big part of Vissulo’s story is **vibe coding**.

I’ve built most of the app through AI-assisted development, using free tiers, free models, trials, cooldown-limited tools, local models, and experimental AI coding workflows. During development, I used tools and models from Claude, OpenAI/GPT, Gemini, Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, Xiaomi MiMo, OpenCode, and other AI coding assistants.

Because of these limits, development has been slower than it could have been with paid professional tools. But it also pushed me to test many different models and use each one where it worked best: coding, debugging, UI planning, architecture, optimization, research, writing, and problem solving.

For me, Vissulo is not only a photo editing app. It is also an experiment in how far a solo creator can push AI-assisted app development with limited resources.

The idea behind Vissulo is simple: **high-quality photo editing, modern AI tools, and private on-device processing in one mobile app.**

Many modern AI photo apps rely on cloud processing, which often means photos are uploaded to remote servers. Vissulo is being built differently: photo editing and AI image processing are designed to happen directly on the device.

The app is designed to help users edit portraits, social media content, product photos, cinematic images, and everyday memories with a smooth and professional mobile editing experience.

Vissulo is currently around **70% complete**. Most of the essential tools have already been added, and the project is now in the polishing stage: improving tool quality, fine-tuning AI results, refining the UI, optimizing performance, and preparing for release.

The next major step is iOS implementation, with the goal of making Vissulo available for both Android and iOS users.

I started Vissulo as a photographer and videographer because I wanted to build something that real creators would actually use. Even though the app is being built with AI-assisted development, the creative direction, feature choices, editing style, and quality expectations come from real photography and visual content experience.

Vissulo already includes editing tools such as exposure, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, warmth, tint, sharpness, clarity, dehaze, grain, vignette, blur, fade, chromatic aberration, and color adjustments.

It also supports cinematic filters, film-inspired looks, mood presets, custom LUTs, and creative color grading.

On the AI side, Vissulo includes and continues to improve tools such as background blur, background cut, image upscale, low-light enhancement, noise reduction, smart depth effects, portrait enhancement, beauty retouch, face reshape, body reshape, skin smoothing, makeup-style effects, and manual warp tools.

One of the key parts of the app is **Beauty Studio**. The focus is not to make people look fake or overprocessed. The goal is natural, controlled, and realistic portrait editing.

Vissulo currently supports **10 languages**: English, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi. The goal is to expand this to 20+ languages later.

There is no public build yet, so I’m not asking for app testing feedback right now.

At this stage, I’d mainly appreciate feedback on the **concept, feature set, positioning, and development approach**:

Does a private, on-device AI photo editor sound useful?

Which features would matter most to you?

Would you trust on-device AI more than cloud-based photo editing?

What would make you want to try the first public build when it is ready?

Thank you for reading.

\- Sadiq

4 months of vibe coding Vissulo — a private, on-device AI photo editor