Nano Banana
How vibe coders and indie builders use Nano Banana: 18 projects shared since May 2026 were built with it, and 5 were built for it.
How these numbers are counted and compared: the method.
Summary
18 projects shared since May 2026 were built with Nano Banana, 8 of them in the last 12 weeks. Another 5 projects were built for it. <0.1% of the projects from the last 4 weeks that stated their stack named it. It is too small for the last 12 weeks to show a reliable trend. It is most often used with GPT Image, Claude API and Seedance. Over the last 4 weeks, 35 Nano Banana prompts drew the most discussion (8 comments). It provides 35 tested text prompts for generating images with Nano Banana, grouped into portraits, products, infographics and mockups. The kinds of projects built with it most are AI image generation and creative canvases, AI short video generators and AI chat organizers and prompt libraries.
Projects built with it
18
Share of stated stacks, last 4 weeks
<0.1%
Adjusted trend, last 4 weeks vs previous 8 weeks
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
5
Share of stated stacks, each week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- GPT Image 8
- Claude API 6
- Seedance 4
- ChatGPT 3
- Gemini API 3
- Grok 3
- Qwen 3
- Stripe 3
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Nano Banana
- Image Lab — Routes a creative image brief to suitable image models, shows estimated cost, and generates compared alternatives in parallel after approval.“I built an open-source tool that explores multiple AI models in parallel instead of betting on one”
- UnitPic — Generates one prompt across multiple AI image models at once and shows the results side by side.“I almost lost money on every image because of token billing — my AI image comparison tool is finally live after 3 pricing rewrites”
- Have AI API keys / self-hosted… — Lets users chat with multiple cloud and self-hosted LLMs on iOS using their own API keys, with MCP connectors, RAG memory, and parameter controls.“Have AI API keys / self-hosted models but no iOS client? I have an app for you!”
- Nooodes AI Studio — Lets users chain AI image generation steps like text-to-image, image-to-image, image-to-3D and drawing-to-image in a node-based visual flow.“Nooodes AI Studio - Node-Based AI Image & Video Creation”
- atlas-marketing-studio — Generates complete e-commerce video ads from a product photo, link, or reference ad, including script, consistent shots, lip-sync, and variations.“Most AI video tools give you a clip. I built the ad workflow around it, open source”
- Prizm — Provides one API key and prepaid wallet for generating video, image, and voice with multiple third-party AI media models.“I got tired of juggling 5 AI provider accounts, so I built one API key for all of them”
- nanostudiopro — Stores and detects objects in uploaded photos, makes them searchable, generates images with Nano Banana 2, and syncs products with Shopify.“nanostudiopro.com adds detection to all your photos, makes them searchable, connects to claude so all your work project images are in one place. connects to shopify to sync with ecommerce products and is most likely (not e exagerating) the deepest nano banana 2 integration out there”
- sync all your projects work… — Searches and organizes image assets from all of a user's projects in one place, with integration to the Nano Banana 2 image model.“sync all your projects work assets in one single image photo search app with (the deepest) deep nano banana 2 integration of the internet.”
- Remake — Scrapes top-performing Meta ads daily, splits each into images and text, and regenerates them with AI image and text models in an editable Figma-style editor.“If you suck at marketing your sideprojects, I want to help you”
- agentsocial — Hosts a social feed where AI agents, each defined by a personality file and persistent memory, create, share and engage with multimedia posts while humans only observe.“Launching agentsocial: where humans observe, agents live”
- Image Prompt Maker — Reverse-engineers a reference image into editable controls and compiles slider and dropdown settings into prompts for AI image generation.“My aunt kept asking me to put her clothing brand's pieces on AI models. Writing the prompts took the whole day, so I built a tool that replaces prompts with sliders”
- SmophyAI — Combines multiple AI chat, image, and video models with writing, marketing, and business tools in one web workspace.“SmophyAI - intelligence workspace integrating 15+ AI models into one platform with dedicated studios for chat, writing, marketing, images and video [feedback welcome]”
- batchgen — Runs up to eight AI image or video generations in parallel using the user's own API key, with one-click video templates.“Turned my own subscription frustration into a second product (batchgen.io)”
- terraai — Generates images from multiple AI image providers on an infinite canvas where nodes can be connected and iterated on.“I created a website that generates unlimited canvas images.”
- Socialboy — Generates social media posts and images from a source like an API, endpoint, or newsletter and publishes them to LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Threads, and Instagram on a schedule.“Socialboy YOUR SOURCE. POSTED EVERYWHERE”
Latest add-ons built for Nano Banana
- Prompt Catalog — Provides a subscription library of AI image and video transformation prompts and theme assets, plus embeddable website widgets for showcasing them.“I made an AI prompt catalog for photo booth owners”
- 35 Nano Banana prompts — Provides 35 tested text prompts for generating images with Nano Banana, grouped into portraits, products, infographics and mockups.“Built a collection of 35 Nano Banana prompts that actually work”
- Unmark — Removes the Gemini sparkle watermark from AI-generated images and videos in the browser or via cloud processing.“I got tired of the Gemini watermark ruining my AI images, so I built a free tool to remove it in your browser”
- G{J}SON Bridge — Breaks images into editable JSON components in a Chrome extension UI for precise edits in Gemini image generation.“I built G{J}SON Bridge to precisely edit images in Gemini/NanoBanana using interactive JSON — Looking for feedback! (Giving away 50 free 3-month codes)”
- Prompt Trove — Injects a visual gallery of AI image prompts into ChatGPT, Gemini and Sora chat inputs so users can pick one without copy-pasting.“I built a free Chrome extension that puts a visual gallery of AI image prompts inside ChatGPT, Gemini & Sora — would love your feedback”