Local AI Image Generators and Editors

sd-scripts is a collection of Python scripts for training and generating images with models on your own hardware. It's aimed at people who want to customize image models through LoRA training or deeper fine-tuning and are comfortable working with scripts. The project is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

Mochi Diffusion is a native macOS image generator for people who want to create images on an Apple Silicon Mac without sending prompts or results to a cloud service. It runs Stable Diffusion and FLUX.2 Klein locally, with completely offline generation. The app collects no telemetry or other data and is open source under GPL-3.0.

ChatDev is a self-hosted platform for building teams of AI agents through a visual workflow editor. It's for people who want agents to collaborate on research, data analysis or software projects without writing the orchestration code themselves. You define each agent's role and how information passes between them.

InsightFace is a face analysis toolkit for developers and teams building identity verification, access control, or face editing software. The code uses the MIT license. Its Python tools and self-hosted recognition server run inference on your own hardware. It also offers commercial models and API access for face swapping and deepfake detection.

SadTalker generates talking head videos from a single portrait and an audio recording. The project states an Apache 2.0 license and removal of its earlier noncommercial restriction. It runs locally on Windows, Linux and macOS, and suits creators who want to animate a face without recording a person on camera. Its animation includes facial expressions and head movement, with examples covering speech and singing in different languages.

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.

text-generation-webui, also called TextGen, runs language models on your own hardware through a desktop app or a self-hosted browser interface. It's for people who want private chat and writing tools, and developers who need a local model API. It works offline without telemetry; web search and page fetching use the internet.

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.

Stability Matrix is an open source desktop app for people who use more than one Stable Diffusion interface. It manages local installations of ComfyUI, Automatic1111, Fooocus, Forge, and InvokeAI, so you can try different workflows without maintaining a separate model collection for each one. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Stable Diffusion 3.5 is a family of text-to-image models for people building image tools or producing visual work on their own infrastructure. It generates photography, paintings, line art and 3D-style images from prompts, with an emphasis on following the requested subject and composition.

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.

SillyTavern is a locally installed LLM frontend for AI hobbyists who want detailed control over character chats and prompts. It builds on TavernAI as an independently developed fork and brings text models, image generation and voice into one interface. It's open source under AGPL-3.0.

LivePortrait animates a still portrait using facial expressions and head movements from a driving video. It's for creators who want to animate faces or edit motion in portrait videos on their own hardware. It works with realistic photos as well as portraits in oil paintings, sculptures and 3D renders.

TRELLIS is a local AI model for generating 3D assets from images or text prompts, aimed at 3D artists and researchers exploring asset creation. It can produce meshes, radiance fields and 3D Gaussians from the same underlying representation, so you can choose an output suited to your rendering or editing work.

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.

Lemonade is an open source local AI server for people who want to use models on their own hardware or connect them to apps and agents. It handles chat, coding, image generation, speech, transcription, and embeddings. A built-in interface lets you use those capabilities directly, while its server makes them available to other software.

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.

big-AGI is a browser-based AI workspace for researchers, developers and people who want to compare model answers before relying on them. Its Beam feature sends the same prompt to several models in parallel, without letting them see each other's replies. You can examine disagreements, then use Merge to combine the responses into a single answer with a preset or custom prompt.

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.