What does Flow actually do?
The biggest thing to understand about this task is that Whisk is no longer the live product you reach. Google now redirects that path into Flow and explicitly tells Whisk users that image and video generation have moved. That changes the evaluation completely. Instead of judging a narrow experiment, you are now looking at a broader creative studio that tries to keep generation, refinement, and scene composition in one place. For someone exploring visual ideas, that matters because the job is rarely finished after the first prompt. You usually need to change the framing, swap objects, extend the shot, or turn one still concept into a sequence that can support a pitch, a storyboard, or a short video direction.
Flow’s official page is strongest when it shows that this is not just an image generator with a fancier landing page. The language around creating, refining, and composing points to a multi-step workflow, and the capability list backs that up with ingredients-to-video, frames-to-video, scene building, video extension, object insertion and removal, plus upscaling at higher plans. That means the product is trying to own the messy middle of creative work, where you are still shaping an idea rather than simply exporting a final asset. If your work depends on iteration, that is much more useful than a tool that only gives you one result per prompt and leaves the rest to another app.