Local AI Image Generators and Web UIs

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 The project is archived and no longer maintained.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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.