Local AI Image Generators and Editors

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.

text-generation-webui, also called TextGen, runs language models on your own hardware for chat, writing and application integrations. You can use it as a desktop app or a self-hosted browser interface.

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.

Instant NGP is neural graphics software for researchers and developers working on 3D reconstruction and rendering. It trains representations of scenes and images on a single GPU, then lets you explore the results interactively.

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.

Excire Search is a Lightroom Classic plugin for photographers who need to find material in large catalogs and choose between similar shots. Its AI analyzes photos and video clips locally without transferring them to a cloud service.

Locally Uncensored is a desktop AI studio for people who want to chat, create media and work on code on their own PC. It includes mainstream models and variants with fewer refusal restrictions.

ComfyUI Frame Interpolation adds AI frame interpolation to ComfyUI workflows for people working with video or animation. It generates frames between existing images to make motion smoother.

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.

Lollms WebUI is a local AI interface for writing, coding assistance and media generation through a choice of models. The project receives minimal maintenance, and its interface has no built-in user authentication.

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.

Guaardvark is a local AI studio for people who want document chat, task automation and media production on their own hardware. It brings those jobs into one interface and coordinates their use of the GPU.

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.

SAM 3D Objects reconstructs objects in 3D from a single image. It's for researchers and developers who want to recover object geometry and appearance from photographs, including cluttered scenes with partly hidden objects.

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.

Phantasm is an iPhone AI chat app for people who want to use models running on their own machines. The phone provides the chat interface, while a backend you control handles inference.

Lemonade is a local AI server for people who want to chat with models on their own hardware or use them in apps and agents. It includes a built-in interface for direct use and APIs for connecting other software.

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.

InstantID generates personalized portraits from a single reference photo without training a model for each person. Creators and developers can retain a person's facial identity while changing the image through text prompts. Its required InsightFace face models are restricted to non-commercial research.

TTS-Audio-Suite is a ComfyUI extension for creators producing narration, character dialogue and speech matched to subtitles on their own hardware. It brings several speech engines and audio editing tools into the same workspace.

sd-scripts is a collection of Python scripts for people who want to train image models on their own hardware. It suits users comfortable working with scripts who need to adapt a model to their own images or subjects.

Stable Diffusion 3.5 is a text-to-image model family for developers building image tools and creators producing visual work on their own infrastructure. Prompts can describe the subject and composition across photographic, painted, line-art and 3D styles.

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.

Hunyuan3D generates 3D assets from reference images or text for artists and developers who want to work on their own hardware. Shape generation and texturing are separate, so you can create geometry alone or add textures to an existing mesh.

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.

Procedura generates 3D assemblies for people who want to revise the resulting model in code. Each assembly is a parametric program with named parts and defined connections, so you can edit its source and compile the geometry again.

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.

Musubi Tuner provides training scripts for people who want to adapt image and video generation models with their own datasets. It's aimed at users comfortable with a script-based workflow.

Stable Diffusion Core ML is a developer toolkit for adding local AI image generation to Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps. It pairs model conversion tools with a Swift package for embedding generation in native software.

Front Porch AI is a desktop app for character chat and roleplay with local LLMs. It's for people who want to keep their conversations on their own machine while building stories with characters that retain memories and changing emotional states.