Local AI Image Generators and Editors

Real-CUGAN NCNN Vulkan is a command-line AI image upscaler for people enlarging anime artwork on their own computer. It uses Real-CUGAN models through the ncnn runtime to increase image resolution and reduce noise.

SwarmUI is a self-hosted AI image generation interface for people who want both straightforward generation controls and access to detailed ComfyUI workflows. You can use it with models running on your own hardware.

SkinTokens is an AI rigging project for 3D artists and researchers preparing meshes for character animation or simulation. Its TokenRig model generates a skeleton hierarchy and the skin weights that control how the mesh moves with its bones. Local inference requires an NVIDIA GPU with at least 14 GB of memory.

ASUS MuseTree is an on-device AI image creation app for designers and people developing visual concepts. It works offline and brings prompts, sketches and reference images into a workspace for exploring and saving ideas.

Layla is an AI assistant for people who want private chat, a personal companion or character roleplay on their phone. It runs local models on Android and iOS, so you can keep using it offline after downloading a model.

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.

Editable Design is an open-source toolkit of Codex skills for creating visual designs that remain editable. It covers posters, infographics and campaign artwork, with a separate skill for researchers who need PowerPoint diagrams from method descriptions.

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.

LLM X is a browser chat interface for people running models on their own hardware. It brings multiple model servers into one place and lets you compare their responses within a conversation.

biniou brings AI chat and media creation into one browser interface on your own computer or server. It's for people who want to work with several kinds of generative AI without switching between separate apps.

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.

Stability Matrix is a desktop app for people who want to use several Stable Diffusion interfaces with one model library. It manages local Web UI packages and includes its own interface for generating images.

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.

LivePortrait animates a portrait with facial expressions and head movements taken from a driving video. It's for creators who want to animate still faces or edit portrait videos on their own hardware.

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.

Unsloth is a desktop app for people who want to chat with models, train them on their own data, and create media on their own hardware. Its no-code interface brings these tasks into one workspace.

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.

Vibe Workflow is a visual AI workflow builder for creators and developers who want repeatable image and video pipelines on their own server. Its editor is self-hostable, but the included generation features use MuAPI and require an account, API key, and internet access.

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.

Stable Fast 3D generates a textured 3D asset from a single object image. Built on TripoSR, it's aimed at game and VR developers, designers and people making product models for e-commerce.