Local AI Image Generators and Editors

Wan2GP brings video, image, music and speech generation to your own computer, with particular attention to GPUs with limited memory. It's for creators who want several media models in one browser interface. The project builds on Wan-Video/Wan2.1.

SurfSense is an open-source NotebookLM alternative that turns documents into cited answers and editable deliverables on your computer. It's a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, aimed at people working with confidential files, research or study material. You don't need an account.

DiffSynth-Studio is a Python diffusion model engine for developers and researchers who want to generate media and train models on their own hardware. It supports large models on consumer GPUs through memory offloading and quantization, with inference and training in the same framework. It's open source under Apache 2.0.

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.

Unsloth brings model training and everyday AI use into a desktop app for people who want to run models on their own hardware. Its no-code interface covers chat, fine-tuning and media generation on macOS, Windows and Linux. The Unsloth software is open source under Apache 2.0.

Hunyuan3D generates textured 3D assets from reference images or text and can run on your own computer. It's for 3D artists, hobbyists and developers who want AI-generated meshes they can use in other software. It supports macOS, Windows and Linux; Hunyuan3D Studio is a separate hosted option.

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.

AI Render is a Blender add-on that uses your scene and a text prompt to generate an image with Stable Diffusion. It's for Blender artists who want to use their 3D work as the basis for AI images and explore different treatments within the application they already use.

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.

h2oGPT is a self-hosted ChatGPT alternative for people who want to chat with local models and ask questions about their own documents. The project is archived and no longer maintained. It's open source under Apache 2.0, with support for Linux, macOS, Windows and Docker.

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.

Comfy Desktop installs and launches ComfyUI on your computer, taking care of the Python environment and dependencies. You can manage several independent ComfyUI instances, each with its own version, custom nodes and settings. It suits people who want to run local image and media workflows without setting up every environment by hand.

Stable Fast 3D turns a single object image into a textured 3D mesh on your own hardware. It's aimed at game and VR developers, designers and people creating product models for e-commerce. Built on TripoSR, it uses a retrained model designed to produce meshes and textures suitable for use in games and other 3D projects.

InstantMesh generates a 3D mesh from a single image on your own machine. It's for creators exploring image-based 3D assets and researchers working on 3D reconstruction. The Python project is open source under Apache 2.0 and uses PyTorch with CUDA for GPU processing.

TripoSR reconstructs a 3D object from a single image on your own hardware. Developed by Tripo AI and Stability AI, it's an open-source model for researchers, developers, and artists who want image-based 3D generation they can use in their own projects. The MIT license covers both the source code and pretrained models.

Layla is an offline AI assistant for Android and iOS that runs language models on your phone. It's for people who want private everyday chat or an AI companion with custom characters, memory and roleplay. Local conversations stay encrypted on your device; optional cloud mode sends requests to your chosen hosted provider.

Lollms WebUI is a local, single-user AI interface for people who want text chat and media generation in one place. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, with Docker support, and lets writers, developers and other users choose models and task-specific personalities. It's free and open source under Apache 2.0. The project receives minimal maintenance.

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.

Deforum is a free Stable Diffusion tool for artists and developers who want to generate images and animations on their own hardware. The project is no longer maintained. Its code uses MIT, while downloaded Stable Diffusion models retain their own weight licenses. Its Python script and Jupyter notebook support local generation, while Google Colab and Replicate offer cloud execution.

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.

Lumina-Image 2.0 is a local AI image generation framework for developers, researchers and people who want to generate images from text on their own hardware. It provides downloadable checkpoints, generation code and tools for adapting the model to your own image collections. The code uses the Apache 2.0 license.

Musubi Tuner is a Python toolkit for training LoRA adapters for image and video generation models on your own hardware. It's aimed at people who want to customize these models using their own datasets and are comfortable working with training scripts. It also includes image and video generation scripts for supported architectures.