If you have been using Google Whisk to generate and remix AI images, you have until Thursday, April 30, 2026 to save your work. After that date, Whisk will be permanently discontinued, and any images remaining in your Whisk library will be deleted and cannot be recovered.
Google announced the shutdown on March 12 in a Workspace blog post, confirming that Whisk’s capabilities are being absorbed into Flow, its unified platform for AI-powered image and video creation.
What Is Whisk?
Whisk launched in the United States in December 2024 as an experimental AI image tool from Google Labs. Rather than generating images from text prompts alone, Whisk allowed users to upload their own images as inputs alongside text descriptions. You could take a photo of yourself, upload an image of a setting, add an image of a style reference, and have Whisk combine them into a new AI-generated image. The tool used Gemini for understanding and Imagen 3 for generation. It expanded to over 100 countries in February 2025 and had been running as a standalone Labs experiment ever since.
Why Is Google Shutting It Down?
Whisk is not being deleted because it failed. It is being sunset because Google has decided to stop maintaining scattered AI creative experiments as separate products and consolidate everything into Flow.
As Google stated in the official announcement: “On April 30, 2026, the best capabilities from Whisk are moving directly into Flow, Google’s unified platform for AI-powered image and video creation.”
This is part of a broader consolidation Google has been running across its AI creative tools. ImageFX, another standalone image generation experiment, is also moving into Flow at the same time. Flow itself has grown significantly: users have already generated over 1.5 billion images and videos on the platform since its launch.
What Is Flow?
Flow launched in May 2025 as Google’s video generation platform powered by Veo, the same video AI used in YouTube Shorts. It has since expanded into a full creative suite.
With Whisk and ImageFX moving in, Flow now covers the complete creative workflow in one place: generating images with Nano Banana 2 (Google’s latest image model), editing images with precision tools including a lasso selection and natural language editing, and animating images into video with Veo. Image generation in Flow is free, making it more accessible than competing tools that charge per image.
New editing capabilities added to Flow alongside the Whisk migration include a lasso tool that lets you select a specific part of an image and describe what you want changed, clip extension to generate what happens after a video ends, and object add and remove in video.
Flow is available at flow.google.
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What You Need to Do Before April 30
There are three steps to take now, before the deadline.
First, download your Whisk library. You can export your images directly from the Whisk interface at any time before April 30. Go to your Whisk library and look for the download option on each image. Do this as soon as possible, as the deadline is firm and there is no recovery option after it passes.
Second, look for the migration prompt. Google says it will send an email to active Whisk users and display an in-product notification inside Whisk with an opt-in option to transfer your content to Flow. This migration option was not yet live at the time of writing but is expected to appear in the coming weeks. The migration is opt-in and will not happen automatically.
Third, set up Flow now. Go to flow.google, sign in with your Google account, and explore the interface before your Whisk content arrives. AI credits from Whisk carry over automatically, so you will not lose any generation credits you have accumulated.
A Note on Geographic Availability
Flow is not available in all countries. Users in regions where Flow is not supported will lose access to Whisk on April 30 without a migration path. If you are in an unsupported region, your only option is to download your images from Whisk directly before the deadline. Check flow.google for the current list of supported countries.
The April 30 date is final. If you use Whisk regularly, do not wait.
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