Two surfaces, one account
Viko is made of two parts, each owning one half of the workflow:
| Surface | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Extension | The page you are browsing | Image breakdown, reverse prompting, quick generation, saving phrases and palettes |
| Web studio | /studio on the website | Combining keyword cards, batch generation, pack reveal, managing the four asset books, history |
Both surfaces share one account and one credit balance. Tasks, collections and palettes created in the extension sync to the studio; assets kept in the studio are available to both surfaces next time you create.
How data flows
- You explicitly start a reverse or generation in the extension; the task is submitted to Viko Cloud;
- The cloud runs the model call and pushes the result back to both the extension panel and the studio;
- Keywords, prompts, works and palettes you explicitly save are stored in your cloud account and visible across devices.
Viko does not read or upload the pages you browse on its own. Only images and text you explicitly act on are processed — see data & privacy.
Glossary
Every product term used in the Viko interface is defined here. Other docs pages link back to this table on first use.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Floating ball | The Viko entry button that appears when hovering an image on a page |
| Image breakdown | A structured description of an image: composition, subject, motion, lighting, color, texture |
| Reverse | Producing a natural-language prompt from a reference image, ready for generation (1 credit) |
| Prompt variant | Optional reverse output: keeps the core visual system, changes 2–4 specific dimensions |
| Keyword card | One saved keyword or phrase — the smallest building block in the studio |
| Tray | The staging area in the studio composer where keyword cards form the skeleton of a creation |
| Brainstorm deck | Draws random keyword cards from your collections along five axes: style, subject, composition, color, motion |
| Palette | Dominant colors and their proportions extracted from an image (extract, save and reference all cost 0 credits); referenced at generation time to carry a color mood |
| Pose reference | A pose constraint analysed from a reference image; constrains only pose and spatial relations at generation time (6 credits) |
| Pack | The envelope around one batch generation: results are sealed on completion until you reveal them |
| Reveal | Opening a pack to see the batch — flip cards one by one or all at once, keep the ones you like |
| Four asset books | Keyword book, prompt book, works and palette book — everything reusable you keep in Viko |
Where do I go for…?
| I want to… | Go to |
|---|---|
| Reverse an image I found online | Extension |
| Generate right after reversing | Extension |
| Save a phrase from a web page | Extension (text capture) |
| Combine keyword cards and batch-generate | Studio |
| Reference a palette while generating | Either surface |
| Manage keywords, prompts, works, palettes | Studio |
| See task history and details | Studio (the extension panel shows recent tasks) |
| Save to Eagle on this machine | Either surface, after connecting Eagle in the extension settings |