Prisma offline mode puts filters on your disconnected iPhone

Hit photo editing app Prisma has gained offline support, addressing one of the most common criticisms about the tool that uses artificial intelligence to manipulate images with artistic styles. Launched back in June, initially only on iOS but subsequently for Android users too, Prisma takes advantage of a neural network to analyze photos and then apply different filters to them, spanning a range from Pop Art through to classical watercolors and oil paintings. Unfortunately, that deep learning and AI required server-side processing in order to be applied, and often Prisma's developers just couldn't keep up. Images would either be slow to convert or stall entirely during the process. Now Prisma Labs is changing that, with the addition of offline filter processing for select effects.