Both are inside Flow now. Google announced on 25 February 2026 that “the best capabilities from our image generation experiments — Whisk and ImageFX — are moving directly into Flow”. Their old addresses no longer open a tool of their own: both redirect to flow.google.com.First-hand: this site made the requests on 16 Sep 2026 — labs.google/fx/tools/whisk and labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx each return HTTP 308 to flow.google.com.
Two image tools were folded into Google’s video studio. Nothing was deleted, but the doors moved — as they did across most of Google’s AI line-up.
- Announced 25 February 2026. Whisk and ImageFX moved into Flow.
- The old URLs redirect to flow.google.com, checked from here today.
- Your work can follow you: Google said transfers opened “starting in March”, opt-in.
- Images are generated inside Flow now, with Nano Banana built into the core experience.
- Google says image generation in Flow is free; it does not say for how long.
What happened to Whisk and ImageFX?
They stopped being separate products. Google’s wording is that their “best capabilities” moved into Flow, which is the difference between a merger and a shutdown: the features continued, the front doors did not.Google, Flow updates, 25 Feb 2026, read at source 16 Sep 2026.
What that buys you, in Google’s description: “you can now generate, edit and animate everything in one unified workspace”. The image model sits inside it — “With Nano Banana now fully built into the core experience, you can create high-fidelity images and instantly use them as ingredients and frames for Veo video generations without ever leaving Flow”.
If a tutorial tells you to open Whisk or ImageFX, it was written before 25 February 2026. Open Flow instead.
What happens to work you made in them?
Google offered a transfer rather than an automatic move: “starting in March, you can opt in to transfer all of your Whisk and ImageFX projects and assets directly into your Flow library”. Opt-in means someone who never went back may still have assets sitting where they left them, and this page could not check what happens to an account that never opted in.
Is it free?
For images, Google says yes: “you can generate images for free in Flow”. That is a statement about today, not a commitment. Free is not a permanent promise, and neither is existence — which is the whole reason this page exists.
What this page could not verify
- What happens to assets nobody transferred. Google gives an opt-in, not an outcome for the rest.
- Any limits on the free image generation. The post states it plainly and says nothing about caps.
- Whether the old tools still exist behind the scenes. All that can be checked is the redirect.
Google, Flow updates, February 2026, 25 February 2026, read at source 16 September 2026. The redirects were checked from this machine the same day.
Renames and merges are the fastest-rotting facts on this site. Re-check before relying on it.