Looka vs Naming Magic

Looka

A fast way for a new business to land a usable mark and matching collateral, as long as you accept that the cheap package hands over a flat image you cannot resize.

Pros

• +Preview across cards, signage and social profiles before spending anything
• +Vector files and full ownership arrive with the $65 package
• +Brand Kit turns a single logo into several hundred ready-made templates

Cons

• −The cheapest package is a raster file only — no vectors, no clean resizing
• −Continued brand kit access is a subscription rather than a purchase
• −Results are recognisably generated and overlap between customers
• −No API, and no way to hand a designer editable sources

Naming Magic

Free, instant, and it does the one useful pairing — generate a name and immediately tell you whether the domain is gone. That saves the tab-switching that makes naming sessions miserable. It is also visibly frozen at the GPT-3 era, so the suggestions have a recognisable 2022 flavour, and there is no trademark checking at all.

Pros

• +Completely free with no signup or usage cap
• +Domain availability checked alongside each suggestion
• +Published by a named US firm rather than an anonymous operator
• +Zero setup — describe the product and go

Cons

• −Runs on GPT-3-era generation and produces dated naming patterns
• −No trademark or company-registry checking, only domains
• −No way to save, export or share a shortlist
• −No about page and no sign the tool is still maintained

Does Looka or Naming Magic have a free tier?

Naming Magic is free to use; Looka has paid plans only.