Offline AI Photo Editors and Upscalers

Fooocus generates images on your computer for people who want to work from prompts without extensive settings adjustments. It uses Stable Diffusion XL and works offline after the required models are downloaded.

Step1X Edit edits existing images from written requests. It's for developers and researchers who want to run image editing on their own hardware, with control over the model and specialized training.

Real-ESRGAN is a local AI upscaler for people enlarging images or restoring degraded images and video. It builds on ESRGAN, with dedicated models for general images, anime illustrations and animated video.

Krita AI Diffusion adds AI image generation to the painting workspace for artists who want to refine artwork without leaving Krita. It lets you direct changes through selections and visual input.

Topaz Photo is AI photo enhancement software for photographers correcting noise, soft focus and images that need enlarging for print. It suits wildlife, sports and event photography, where movement or poor lighting can leave a useful shot needing repair.

Stable Diffusion 1.5 is an AI image generation model for artists and developers who want to create artwork or explore design ideas on their own hardware. It can start with a text prompt or modify an existing picture.

Dream Textures is a Blender add-on for artists who want to generate image assets and texture 3D scenes without leaving Blender. It runs Stable Diffusion on your machine and uses scene depth to guide texture projection.

Photomator is a paid photo editor for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro that combines manual color controls with machine learning tools. It's for photographers who want to edit RAW files, retouch individual shots, and apply consistent adjustments across a photo collection within Apple's native apps and file system.

AVCLabs PhotoPro AI is a paid desktop AI photo editor for Windows and macOS that uses your computer's hardware for image processing, with GPU acceleration available. It combines restoration and enhancement with text-prompt edits for photographers, product sellers and people repairing old family photos.

MFLUX is a Python toolkit for creators and developers who want to generate and edit images on an Apple Silicon Mac. It provides a command-line interface for working with models locally.

Kolors generates photorealistic images from text for creators and developers who want to run image generation on their own hardware. Developed by Kuaishou, it supports Chinese and English prompts, including descriptions of Chinese cultural content.

FLUX.1 is a family of image models for developers and creators who want to generate and edit images on their own hardware or servers.

Aperty is a desktop AI portrait editor for photographers working on weddings, family sessions and other portrait shoots. It helps apply consistent retouching across a photo set while leaving control over the strength of each adjustment.

CodeFormer restores degraded faces in photos and videos for people working with damaged images and researchers developing face restoration tools. Its quality control lets you balance a cleaner result against fidelity to the input face.

Easy Diffusion generates and edits images on your computer through a browser interface. It's for people who want to use Stable Diffusion without assembling its software components themselves.

HAT Super Resolution is a local AI image upscaling project for developers, researchers, and people working with low-resolution images. It provides pretrained Hybrid Attention Transformer models and code for training your own.

ComfyUI is a visual AI workflow editor for creators who want control over generation and editing. Its node canvas lets you connect models and processing steps, inspect their settings and reuse the resulting workflows without writing code.

SnapOtter is a self-hosted application for people and teams who need to edit or convert private files without uploading them to an online processing service. It combines media, document and local AI tools in a browser interface.

CAREamics is a Python library for deep-learning restoration and denoising of scientific images. It brings methods such as CARE, Noise2Void and MicroSplit into a shared PyTorch environment, with a consistent API for researchers working across restoration methods.

Waifu2x-Extension-GUI is a Windows desktop app for enlarging artwork, photos and video with AI. It combines multiple processing engines in one interface for people working with both drawn and photographic media.

OpenVINO AI Plugins for GIMP adds image generation and AI editing to GIMP 3 for people who want to work within their existing image editor. Models run on Intel devices through OpenVINO.

HitPaw FotorPea is a proprietary AI photo enhancer for Windows and macOS that combines photo restoration with image generation and editing. It's aimed at photographers, online sellers and people repairing family photos who want automatic corrections without extensive retouching experience.

chaiNNer is a desktop editor for people who want AI upscaling and repeatable image processing without writing scripts. Its visual workflows combine model processing with ordinary edits, so you can reuse the same chain across a collection of images.

Leawo PhotoIns is a proprietary desktop AI photo editor for Windows and macOS that combines photo enhancement, background removal and image enlargement. It's aimed at people who need to correct individual photos or process a batch without editing every image by hand. Each of its main functions supports automatic processing and manual adjustments.

Diffusers is a Python library for developers and researchers building image, video and audio generation into applications or running models on their own hardware. It supports pretrained generation pipelines as well as custom diffusion systems.

Luminar Neo is a photo editor for photographers who want automatic adjustments alongside manual control over their images. It combines tools for portraits and outdoor scenes with layers, masks and edits you can revise without altering the original.

Draw Things creates and edits images on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It's for artists and other creators who want to work offline and keep generation on their own hardware.

DiffusionBee is an AI image app for Mac users who want to create and edit artwork locally through a visual interface. Artists and designers can work with text prompts, existing images and drawings without writing code.

Amuse is a Windows app for people who want to generate media and text with models running on their own hardware. It combines generation with editing tools for both generated output and existing local video.

ON1 Photo RAW is a desktop photo editor for photographers who want to manage and edit RAW photos in one application. It combines a photo browser with retouching and layered editing, covering work you might otherwise split between Lightroom and Photoshop.

IntraPaint is a desktop image editor for people who want manual painting and AI edits in the same application. It combines conventional image editing tools with image generation and inpainting, which lets you use AI to replace parts of an existing image.

PhotoGlimmer is an AI photo editor for photographers who want to brighten underlit people without changing the whole image. It separates people from the background so you can correct portrait lighting while keeping the surrounding scene as it is.

GFPGAN is an AI face restoration tool for repairing low-quality photos and adding restoration to image workflows. It reconstructs facial detail using a pretrained generative model, so results can alter a person's likeness.

DL4MicEverywhere lets microscopy researchers train and use deep learning models on their own computers through graphical Jupyter notebooks. It builds on ZeroCostDL4Mic, bringing its bioimage analysis workflows to local machines and remote computing infrastructure. You don't need coding skills to use the notebook interfaces.