Offline AI Photo Editors and Upscalers

Diffusers is an open-source Python library for developers and researchers who want to run diffusion models on their own hardware or build generation features into an application. It uses PyTorch and supports image, video and audio generation. The library is licensed under Apache 2.0 and supports Apple Silicon.

SD.Next is a self-hosted web interface for artists, researchers and people who want to generate and edit images or videos on their own hardware. It builds on Automatic1111 WebUI's original codebase and supports Stable Diffusion alongside other diffusion models. It's open source under Apache 2.0.

FaceFusion is an AI face manipulation tool for photos and videos that processes media on your own machine. It's aimed at content creators, VFX artists, and film studios that want control over their footage and personal data. Local processing keeps that media on your hardware rather than sending it to a cloud service.

ComfyUI is a local visual AI workspace for artists and technical teams who want to control how images, video, audio, 3D models and text are made. Its node canvas shows each model and processing step, so users can build and adjust workflows without writing code. It runs on your hardware.

InvokeAI is a free, open-source image generator for artists and production teams who want to create and edit images on their own hardware. Its locally hosted web interface brings image generation, canvas editing and workflow tools into one application. With local models, prompts and artwork stay on the machine you control.

rembg removes image backgrounds on your own hardware, with batch processing and a Python library for developers building image workflows. It's also useful for people preparing product cutouts or portraits who want control over processing and model choice. Local models keep images on your machine and can work offline once downloaded.

Waifu2x-Extension-GUI is a local AI upscaler for Windows users working with anime, photos and video. It combines image enlargement, noise reduction and video frame interpolation in a desktop interface. Media processing stays on your PC; the app doesn't upload your files or collect user data.

digiKam is a local photo manager and image editor for photographers who need to organize large collections of photos, RAW files and videos. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS and is open-source software under GPL-2.0. Its archived GitHub mirror points contributors to the maintained KDE repository.

DeepStack is a self-hosted computer vision API for developers adding image analysis to camera systems, home automation or other applications. It runs prebuilt and custom models on your own hardware and works fully offline. Image processing stays on the device or server where you host it, with no cloud service required.

CodeProject.AI Server gives developers a shared API for AI tasks that run on their own hardware. It's a self-hosted service for adding image analysis, text processing and generation to applications. Processing stays on the machine running the server, without cloud calls or sending data outside your device or network.

Fooocus is a free, open-source AI image generator for people who want to create images on their own computer without spending much time tuning settings. It uses Stable Diffusion XL and automatically expands prompts with a local GPT-2 engine. Generation works offline once the required models are downloaded, so prompts and images can stay on your machine.

Auto-Photoshop-StableDiffusion Plugin brings Stable Diffusion generation into Photoshop for artists who want to use AI alongside their existing editing tools. It connects to AUTOMATIC1111 or ComfyUI, so you can generate images within Photoshop and continue editing and saving them there.

NMKD Stable Diffusion GUI is a local AI image generator for people who want to create and edit images on a Windows PC. It combines Stable Diffusion generation with inpainting, LoRA training and image post-processing in a desktop interface. It's open source under GPL-3.0.

Qwen-Image is an open-source image generation and editing model you can deploy locally. It's for developers and creators who want to generate images from text or revise existing pictures on their own hardware. Its text rendering capabilities, especially for Chinese, make it relevant for images that need readable lettering alongside visual content.

Stable Diffusion 1.5 is an AI image generation model for creators and developers who want to generate images on their own hardware. It turns text prompts into images and supports text-guided changes to existing pictures, including turning rough sketches into detailed artwork. Local inference keeps that image generation work on your machine.

SwarmUI is a self-hosted AI image generation interface that combines a straightforward generation screen with direct access to ComfyUI's node-based workflows. It's for people who want to run creative models on their own hardware, with room to build more detailed workflows as their needs grow.

Amuse combines AI generation with media editing in a Windows app that runs models on your own hardware. It's for people who want to create images, video, audio and text locally, then work on the results in the same application. Its editor also accepts existing local video.

Kolors is a text-to-image model for people who want to generate photorealistic images on their own hardware, including work with Chinese prompts and Chinese cultural content. Developed by Kuaishou, it understands prompts in Chinese and English and can render text in both languages within generated images.

IOPaint is a free, self-hosted AI image editor for people who want to remove objects, replace parts of a picture or extend it beyond its original edges on their own hardware. The project is archived and no longer maintained. It's open source under Apache 2.0, with a browser interface and support for CPU, GPU and Apple Silicon hardware.

OmniGen is a local AI image generation model that handles text prompts, reference images, and image editing within one model. It's for creators who want to reuse subjects across images and developers building image tools on their own hardware. The code is open source under the MIT license.

Easy Diffusion runs Stable Diffusion on your own computer through a browser interface. It's for people who want to generate and edit images locally without assembling the software components themselves. The free distribution bundles the required software and works on Windows, Linux and macOS.

CodeFormer restores degraded faces in photos and videos using a learned library of facial details and a Transformer model. It's for people restoring images on their own hardware, developers adding face enhancement to a project, and researchers working on image restoration. Its main distinction is an adjustable balance between visual quality and fidelity to the input face.

Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge runs image generation on your own hardware through a browser interface. It builds on Stable Diffusion WebUI and suits people who want its image creation tools with more control over GPU memory use, as well as developers extending those tools. It's open source under AGPL-3.0.

Stable Diffusion web UI (AUTOMATIC1111) is a browser interface for generating and editing images with models running on your own hardware. It's for artists and anyone who wants control over prompts, models and image variations. The software is open source under AGPL-3.0.

Draw Things is an AI image generation app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that keeps generation on your device and works offline. It's for people who want to create and edit images without sending that work to a cloud service, including artists developing character concepts or trying out apparel designs.

DiffusionBee is an open-source AI art app for Mac users who want to generate and edit images on their own computer. It runs Stable Diffusion offline, with image generation processed on the device. Model downloads require network access, and optional image uploads can send images externally. Its visual interface suits artists and designers who want local image tools without working through code.

Dream Textures is an open-source Blender add-on for artists who want to generate images and apply AI textures to 3D work inside Blender. It runs Stable Diffusion on your own machine and connects image generation to scene depth, texture projection, and animation rendering.

Real-ESRGAN is a local AI upscaler and restoration toolkit for people enlarging images or improving video, with dedicated models for anime illustrations and animation. It builds on ESRGAN and uses models trained entirely on synthetic data to address degraded images. The code is open source under the BSD 3-Clause license.

chaiNNer is a desktop image processing editor for people who want AI upscaling and repeatable editing workflows without writing scripts. It runs models locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Connected nodes let you combine model processing with ordinary image edits in the same workflow.

GFPGAN is an open-source AI face restoration tool for people repairing poor-quality photos and developers adding restoration to image workflows. It runs locally with Python and PyTorch, with Linux support and optional NVIDIA GPU acceleration through CUDA. Its face models use knowledge learned by a pretrained generative model such as StyleGAN2 to reconstruct facial detail.

Upscayl enlarges low-resolution photos and graphics with AI. Its free, open source desktop app runs locally on Linux, macOS, and Windows, making it an option for people who want to improve images on their own computer. It needs a Vulkan-compatible GPU and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

FLUX.1 is a family of image models for people who want to generate or edit images on their own infrastructure. Black Forest Labs provides Python inference code for its open-weight models and a separate hosted API. Local inference runs on your hardware; API requests go to Black Forest Labs.

Krita AI Diffusion brings image generation into Krita for artists who want to paint and edit in the same workspace. The open source plugin is licensed under GNU GPL v3.0 and can run generation for free on your own hardware through ComfyUI. Interstice.cloud offers a separate online generation service for people without a suitable GPU.

IntraPaint is a desktop image editor for artists who want to paint by hand and use AI to refine the same image. It brings prompt-based edits into a layered painting workspace, so you can adjust a sketch or a selected area without moving files between applications. It's open source under GPL-3.0.