Tattoo AI is live, and it is the first Tappa app where we worked with a small group of professional tattoo artists from day one.
Most AI tattoo generators produce something that looks great on screen and is impossible to actually tattoo. The lines are too fine, the shading does not translate, and the artist has to redraw the whole thing anyway. We wanted to ship something that is useful in the chair, not just on Instagram.
What we changed
Three things, all from artist feedback:
- Style presets that map to real tattoo styles. Traditional, Japanese, fine-line, blackwork, neo-traditional. Each one has guardrails on stroke weight and shading density that the model respects.
- A reference-pack export. Not one image — a five-image set, including a clean line drawing on white that an artist can trace and a high-contrast version for transfer paper.
- A size-aware preview. Show the design at the actual size on a forearm, an ankle, a back. The thing that looked great in the small preview often looks wrong at scale, and we want users to see that before they commit.
What this is not
It is not a substitute for an artist. The app says this on the first screen and again at export. It is a way to communicate an idea — to walk into your appointment with a clearer brief than "a wolf, but make it cool."
A word on safety
We filter prompts. There are categories of imagery we do not generate. We took advice from artists on what is and is not appropriate to even produce as a reference. The list is conservative on purpose.
Pricing
Free to try with a small daily allowance. Pro unlocks unlimited generations and the high-resolution reference pack. We chose a sub-monthly subscription because most people use this app for one tattoo every few months, not every day. The pricing should match the use.