Offline AI Photo Editors and Upscalers

Upscayl is an AI image upscaler for people working with small photos, illustrations or other low-resolution images. Its desktop app processes images locally, with a separate cloud offering for work across devices.

Pallaidium is a Blender add-on for filmmakers and AI artists who want to develop scenes with generated visuals and sound before shooting. It puts generation on the Video Sequence Editor timeline, where you can test dialogue timing and edit scenes alongside music.

RealScaler is a local AI upscaler for people who want to enlarge photos and videos and reduce noise without uploading their media. Its Windows desktop interface uses Real-ESRGAN models, and processing works offline once the required files are available on your PC.

Qwen-Image generates images from text and edits existing pictures. It's for creators and developers who want to run an image model on their own hardware, especially for work that needs readable text within images.

Pixelmator Pro is a paid image editor for Mac and iPad that combines AI photo editing with layered graphic design and vector drawing. It's for photographers and designers who want to retouch images and build compositions in the same app. Its built-in image-processing tools use Apple hardware and machine learning, while feature availability and network requirements vary.

4M is a framework for researchers and developers who want to train and run models that combine images, text and other visual information. A single model can perform vision tasks and generate images from mixed or partial inputs.

InvokeAI is a free, open-source image generation application for artists who want to create and edit artwork on their own hardware. Its locally hosted browser interface combines direct canvas work with repeatable generation workflows.

ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate is a paid Windows desktop photo editor for photographers who want to manage large collections and edit their photos in one application. It combines non-destructive RAW adjustments with layered editing and AI tools for finding related images, retouching portraits and generating content. It works directly with existing photo folders, without requiring a collection import.

Open Generative AI is an AI image and video studio for creators who want to generate media on their own hardware. Local inference is available only in the desktop app.

ON1 Resize AI is a paid desktop photo upscaler for photographers preparing large prints, enlarging tight crops or restoring old scans. It also handles AI-generated artwork and combines AI with Genuine Fractals enlargement technology.

unbagrnd removes image backgrounds locally for people who need cutouts without uploading pictures to a cloud service. It includes an app for individual images and folders, plus a self-hosted API for developers.

VideoProc Converter AI is a proprietary desktop app for Windows and macOS that combines local AI media enhancement with conversion and compression. It's for creators working with camera footage, people restoring old photos and videos, and anyone preparing large media files for playback or sharing. It processes files on your computer, and batch conversion works offline.

Director's Console is a self-hosted workspace for filmmakers and AI artists who want to develop shot prompts, generate media through ComfyUI, and organize the results by project.

Aftershoot is a photo processing app for professional photographers who need to review and edit whole shoots. Its AI culling, editing and retouching run locally on Windows and macOS, without uploading images for processing.

rembg removes image backgrounds on your own hardware for cutouts and automated image workflows. Its local ONNX models keep image processing on your machine after the initial model download.

Image Toolbox is an Android photo editor for people who need to prepare images on their phone. It combines everyday edits with AI enhancement and tools for processing several images together.

IC-Light changes the lighting in existing images for people editing portraits, product shots, or other foreground subjects. It lets you explore different lighting conditions using a subject image as the starting point.

Visions of Chaos combines generative AI tools with fractals and complex-system simulations in one application. It's for digital artists, educators and people who want to explore machine learning or mathematical patterns without working through the equations themselves. Its AI models run privately on your own hardware, without paid online APIs or backend usage logging and telemetry.

BasicSR is an image and video restoration toolkit for researchers and developers building software to recover detail or reduce visual defects. It provides restoration models and pipelines for training, testing and inference.

AVCLabs Photo Enhancer AI is a proprietary desktop app for Windows and macOS that processes photo enhancements locally. It's aimed at photographers, people restoring family pictures, and creators preparing product images who want to apply corrections across a batch without uploading photos to a cloud service. AVCLabs also offers separate online image tools.

BrushNet fills selected areas of an image using a text prompt while retaining the surrounding content. It's for developers and researchers who want local image editing with pretrained diffusion models.

SUPIR restores and enlarges photos with diffusion models. It's for photographers and image researchers who want to process degraded images on their own hardware and control how closely the results follow the originals.

ALH Pro processes images, video and audio on your own computer. It's for people restoring older footage, enlarging photos or illustrations, and preparing media without uploading their files.

QualityScaler is a local AI upscaler for people who want to enlarge photographs and videos and reduce noise through a Windows desktop app. It processes media on your PC without an internet connection.

Topaz Gigapixel enlarges images for print, close crops and photo restoration. It's for photographers, artists and designers who need more detail from small originals or older pictures.

FaceFusion is an AI face editing tool for people creating altered faces and lip-synced media on their own computer. It combines face manipulation with tools for improving faces and frames.

Radiant Photo 2 is a paid AI photo editor for Windows and macOS that processes photos entirely on your computer. It's for beginners who want automatic corrections and photographers who need a starting point for manual editing or large batches. Photos never go to Radiant's servers or third-party cloud services.

digiKam is a free, open-source photo manager and image editor for photographers managing large collections of photos and videos. It combines library organization with editing and tools for finding images by their content or metadata.

Radiant Camera is an iPhone camera and photo editor for people who want automatic scene adjustments with room to fine-tune the result. All image processing, including AI, runs on your device. It combines capture and editing in one app, with scene detection for portraits, pets, macro shots, night scenes, and landscapes.

SD.Next is a self-hosted web interface for artists and researchers who want to create and edit AI images and videos on their own hardware. It supports Stable Diffusion and other diffusion models.

BiRefNet is an AI image segmentation model for developers and image workflow builders who need to separate subjects from backgrounds. It produces foreground masks for cutouts and has dedicated models for matting, where edges can include partial transparency.

Real-CUGAN NCNN Vulkan is a command-line AI image upscaler for people enlarging anime artwork on their own computer. It uses Real-CUGAN models through the ncnn runtime to increase image resolution and reduce noise.

SwarmUI is a self-hosted AI image generation interface for people who want both straightforward generation controls and access to detailed ComfyUI workflows. You can use it with models running on your own hardware.

ASUS MuseTree is an on-device AI image creation app for designers and people developing visual concepts. It works offline and brings prompts, sketches and reference images into a workspace for exploring and saving ideas.