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View 52 business solutionsBrowse free open source AI Image Generators and projects for Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source AI Image Generators by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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ComfyUI
The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend
The most powerful and modular diffusion model is GUI and backend. This UI will let you design and execute advanced stable diffusion pipelines using a graph/nodes/flowchart-based interface. We are a team dedicated to iterating and improving ComfyUI, supporting the ComfyUI ecosystem with tools like node manager, node registry, cli, automated testing, and public documentation. Open source AI models will win in the long run against closed models and we are only at the beginning. Our core mission is to advance and democratize AI tooling. We believe that the future of AI tooling is open-source and community-driven. -
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Fooocus
Focus on prompting and generating
Fooocus is an open-source image generation software that simplifies the process of creating images from text prompts. Built on Gradio and leveraging Stable Diffusion XL, Fooocus eliminates the need for manual parameter tweaking, allowing users to focus solely on crafting prompts. It offers a user-friendly interface with minimal setup, making advanced image synthesis accessible to a broader audience. -
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AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion web UI
Stable Diffusion web UI
AUTOMATIC1111's stable-diffusion-webui is a powerful, user-friendly web interface built on the Gradio library that allows users to easily interact with Stable Diffusion models for AI-powered image generation. Supporting both text-to-image (txt2img) and image-to-image (img2img) generation, this open-source UI offers a rich feature set including inpainting, outpainting, attention control, and multiple advanced upscaling options. With a flexible installation process across Windows, Linux, and Apple Silicon, plus support for GPUs and CPUs, it caters to a wide range of users—from hobbyists to professionals. The interface also supports prompt editing, batch processing, custom scripts, and many community extensions, making it a highly customizable and continually evolving platform for creative AI art generation. -
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FLUX.1
Official inference repo for FLUX.1 models
FLUX.1 repository contains inference code and tooling for the FLUX.1 text-to-image diffusion models, enabling developers and researchers to generate and edit images from natural-language prompts using open-weight versions of the model on their own hardware or within custom applications. The project is part of a larger family of FLUX models developed by Black Forest Labs, designed to produce high-quality, detailed visuals from text descriptions with competitive prompt adherence and artistic fidelity. This repo focuses on running the open-source model variants efficiently, providing scripts, model loading logic, and examples for local installations, and supports integration with Python toolchains like PyTorch and popular generative pipelines. Users can launch CLI tools to generate images, experiment with different FLUX variants, and extend the base code for research-oriented applications. -
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stable-diffusion.cpp
Diffusion model(SD,Flux,Wan,Qwen Image,Z-Image,...) inference
stable-diffusion.cpp is a lightweight, high-performance implementation of Stable Diffusion and related generative models written entirely in portable C/C++, designed to run on virtually any device without heavy dependencies. It enables text-to-image and image-to-image generation, supports a growing set of models like SD1.x, SD2.x, SDXL, SD-Turbo, Qwen Image, and more, and is continually updated with support for cutting-edge model variants including video and image editing models. The project is built on the ggml backend, which allows efficient execution on CPUs and GPUs via backends like CUDA, Vulkan, Metal, OpenCL, and SYCL, making it suitable for everything from desktops to mobile devices. It includes options for ControlNet, LoRA models, upscaling via ESRGAN, and advanced sampling techniques, giving developers and users a rich toolkit for creative workflows. -
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FLUX.2
Official inference repo for FLUX.2 models
FLUX.2 is a state-of-the-art open-weight image generation and editing model released by Black Forest Labs aimed at bridging the gap between research-grade capabilities and production-ready workflows. The model offers both text-to-image generation and powerful image editing, including editing of multiple reference images, with fidelity, consistency, and realism that push the limits of what open-source generative models have achieved. It supports high-resolution output (up to ~4 megapixels), which allows for photography-quality images, detailed product shots, infographics or UI mockups rather than just low-resolution drafts. FLUX.2 is built with a modern architecture (a flow-matching transformer + a revamped VAE + a strong vision-language encoder), enabling strong prompt adherence, correct rendering of text/typography in images, reliable lighting, layout, and physical realism, and consistent style/character/product identity across multiple generations or edits. -
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FastSD CPU
Fast stable diffusion on CPU and AI PC
FastSD CPU is an optimized fork of Stable Diffusion designed to run efficiently on CPUs and devices without dedicated GPUs by leveraging Latent Consistency Models and Adversarial Diffusion Distillation techniques that accelerate inference. It focuses on bringing fast text-to-image generation to mainstream hardware like desktop CPUs, lower-end laptops, or edge devices without requiring high-end graphics processors. The repository contains multiple interfaces including a desktop GUI for simple generation, an advanced web-based UI with support for extensions like LoRA and ControlNet, and a command-line interface for scripted usage or server deployments. With support for performance-oriented libraries such as OpenVINO and hardware acceleration on platforms like Intel AI PCs, FastSD CPU aims to shrink generation times dramatically compared with naive CPU implementations. -
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Stable Diffusion
High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
Stable Diffusion Version 2. The Stable Diffusion project, developed by Stability AI, is a cutting-edge image synthesis model that utilizes latent diffusion techniques for high-resolution image generation. It offers an advanced method of generating images based on text input, making it highly flexible for various creative applications. The repository contains pretrained models, various checkpoints, and tools to facilitate image generation tasks, such as fine-tuning and modifying the models. Stability AI's approach to image synthesis has contributed to creating detailed, scalable images while maintaining efficiency. -
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Easy Diffusion
An easy 1-click way to create beautiful artwork on your PC using AI
Easy Diffusion is a widely used community-driven repository offering a simple, one-click way to install and use Stable Diffusion-based generative AI on a personal computer without advanced technical skills or prior setup. It provides a browser-based user interface that runs locally, allowing users to type text prompts and immediately generate images directly within their web browser, democratizing access to powerful text-to-image models for artists and hobbyists alike. The project abstracts away environment setup, dependencies, and model installation — tasks that can be daunting to beginners — and instead lets users focus on creative experimentation with prompt phrasing, model parameters, and image output settings. Because it’s designed to be easy to install and use, EasyDiffusion’s interface includes options for queuing multiple jobs, applying modifiers like upscaling or face correction, and adjusting generation parameters like guidance scale and resolution. -
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Diffusion Bee
Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally
Diffusion Bee is a user-friendly local application designed to make running the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generative model as simple as possible on macOS machines, including both Intel and Apple Silicon. It wraps Stable Diffusion and its dependencies into a one-click installer so users don’t need to manually install Python, drivers, or machine-learning frameworks to generate images. The app runs entirely on the local machine so images are created offline and no user data is sent to external servers unless explicitly chosen, preserving privacy. Users can generate images from text prompts, perform image-to-image transformations, and apply additional features like inpainting, outpainting, and model-based upscaling directly within a clean graphical interface. It’s optimized for Apple hardware performance and can automatically manage features like ControlNet, LoRA models, and advanced prompt options without exposing complexity to the user. -
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Z-Image
Image generation model with single-stream diffusion transformer
Z-Image is an efficient, open-source image generation foundation model built to make high-quality image synthesis more accessible. With just 6 billion parameters — far fewer than many large-scale models — it uses a novel “single-stream diffusion Transformer” architecture to deliver photorealistic image generation, demonstrating that excellence does not always require extremely large model sizes. The project includes several variants: Z-Image-Turbo, a distilled version optimized for speed and low resource consumption; Z-Image-Base, the full-capacity foundation model; and Z-Image-Edit, fine-tuned for image editing tasks. Despite its compact size, Z-Image produces outputs that closely rival those from much larger models — including strong rendering of bilingual (English and Chinese) text inside images, accurate prompt adherence, and good layout and composition. -
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Mochi Diffusion
Run Stable Diffusion on Mac natively
Run Stable Diffusion on Mac natively. This app uses Apple's Core ML Stable Diffusion implementation to achieve maximum performance and speed on Apple Silicon based Macs while reducing memory requirements. Extremely fast and memory efficient (~150MB with Neural Engine) Runs well on all Apple Silicon Macs by fully utilizing Neural Engine. Generate images locally and completely offline. Generate images based on an existing image (commonly known as Image2Image) Generated images are saved with prompt info inside EXIF metadata (view in Finder's Get Info window) Convert generated images to high resolution (using RealESRGAN) Autosave & restore images. Use custom Stable Diffusion Core ML models. No worries about pickled models. macOS native app using SwiftUI. -
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ArtCraft
Crafting engine for artists, designers, and filmmakers
ArtCraft is an open-source desktop creative environment designed as an IDE for interactive AI-driven image and video creation, with the goal of transforming traditional prompting into a more hands-on crafting workflow. The project positions itself as an intentional “crafting engine” for artists, designers, and filmmakers who want deeper control over generative media pipelines. Rather than relying purely on text prompts, ArtCraft emphasizes visual manipulation, compositional control, and iterative refinement so creators can treat AI output more like a malleable creative medium. The application is built with performance and responsiveness in mind, enabling users to move between different creative canvases and asset workflows within a unified interface. It aims to support complex multimedia generation workflows including image, video, and potentially 3D content creation, making it useful for experimental filmmaking and advanced visual design. -
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Auto-Photoshop-StableDiffusion-Plugin
Plug-in that makes it easy to generate stable diffusion images
Auto-Photoshop-StableDiffusion-Plugin is an open-source extension that seamlessly integrates Stable Diffusion image generation directly into Adobe Photoshop, allowing artists and designers to generate, edit, and refine AI-generated imagery without leaving the Photoshop environment. It bridges Photoshop with popular diffusion backends like AUTOMATIC1111 or ComfyUI, effectively embedding powerful generative tools into a familiar creative workflow so users can apply AI creation to layers, selections, and masks while retaining Photoshop’s full editing capabilities. With this plugin, users can generate new visuals from text prompts, use selectable areas for inpainting or outpainting, and adjust images using AI features while still leveraging traditional design tools such as brushes, filters, and adjustment layers. The integration dramatically reduces context switching between standalone AI tools and professional design software, empowering more efficient experimentation and iteration. -
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KoboldCpp
Run GGUF models easily with a UI or API. One File. Zero Install.
KoboldCpp is an easy-to-use AI text-generation software for GGML and GGUF models, inspired by the original KoboldAI. It's a single self-contained distributable that builds off llama.cpp and adds many additional powerful features. -
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Qwen-Image
Qwen-Image is a powerful image generation foundation model
Qwen-Image is a powerful 20-billion parameter foundation model designed for advanced image generation and precise editing, with a particular strength in complex text rendering across diverse languages, especially Chinese. Built on the MMDiT architecture, it achieves remarkable fidelity in integrating text seamlessly into images while preserving typographic details and layout coherence. The model excels not only in text rendering but also in a wide range of artistic styles, including photorealistic, impressionist, anime, and minimalist aesthetics. Qwen-Image supports sophisticated editing tasks such as style transfer, object insertion and removal, detail enhancement, and even human pose manipulation, making it suitable for both professional and casual users. It also includes advanced image understanding capabilities like object detection, semantic segmentation, depth and edge estimation, and novel view synthesis. -
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InvokeAI
InvokeAI is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models
InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux machines, and runs on GPU cards with as little as 4 GB or RAM. InvokeAI is a leading creative engine built to empower professionals and enthusiasts alike. Generate and create stunning visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. InvokeAI offers an industry leading Web Interface, interactive Command Line Interface, and also serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products. This fork is supported across Linux, Windows and Macintosh. Linux users can use either an Nvidia-based card (with CUDA support) or an AMD card (using the ROCm driver). We do not recommend the GTX 1650 or 1660 series video cards. They are unable to run in half-precision mode and do not have sufficient VRAM to render 512x512 images. -
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GenMedia Creative Studio
AI generative media user experience highlighting use of APIs
GenMedia Creative Studio is a Google Cloud reference application for experimenting with generative media workflows on Vertex AI. It provides a user experience for working with models and APIs such as Gemini, Veo, Imagen, Gemini Image, Gemini TTS, Chirp 3, and Lyria. The project is built to showcase multimodal creation across text, image, video, speech, and music from one deployable interface. It is useful for creators, marketers, developers, and technical teams that want to prototype media-generation experiences using Google Cloud services. The repository also includes experiments and MCP-related materials for connecting generative media capabilities to agent workflows. It is not an officially supported Google product, so it is best treated as a reference implementation and creative sandbox rather than a managed commercial service. -
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texturize
Generate photo-realistic textures based on source images
Generate photo-realistic textures based on source images. Remix, remake, mashup! Useful if you want to create variations on a theme or elaborate on an existing texture. A command-line tool and Python library to automatically generate new textures similar to a source image or photograph. It's useful in the context of computer graphics if you want to make variations on a theme or expand the size of an existing texture. This software is powered by deep learning technology, using a combination of convolution networks and example-based optimization to synthesize images. We're building texturize as the highest-quality open source library available! The examples are available as notebooks, and you can run them directly in-browser thanks to Jupyter and Google Colab. -
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Diffusers
State-of-the-art diffusion models for image and audio generation
Diffusers is the go-to library for state-of-the-art pretrained diffusion models for generating images, audio, and even 3D structures of molecules. Whether you're looking for a simple inference solution or training your own diffusion models, Diffusers is a modular toolbox that supports both. Our library is designed with a focus on usability over performance, simple over easy, and customizability over abstractions. State-of-the-art diffusion pipelines that can be run in inference with just a few lines of code. Interchangeable noise schedulers for different diffusion speeds and output quality. Pretrained models that can be used as building blocks, and combined with schedulers, for creating your own end-to-end diffusion systems. We recommend installing Diffusers in a virtual environment from PyPi or Conda. For more details about installing PyTorch and Flax, please refer to their official documentation. -
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stable-diffusion-webui-forge
A Fork from Github repository of Illyasviel's Forge
This is for use by the StableProjectorz https://stableprojectorz.com Kept here, in case the file changes URL in his repo. The URL must remain the same, so that StableProjectorz installer can always download it. -
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ChatFred
Alfred workflow using ChatGPT, DALL·E 2 and other models for chatting
Alfred workflow using ChatGPT, DALL·E 2 and other models for chatting, image generation and more. Access ChatGPT, DALL·E 2, and other OpenAI models. Language models often give wrong information. Verify answers if they are important. Talk with ChatGPT via the cf keyword. Answers will show as Large Type. Alternatively, use the Universal Action, Fallback Search, or Hotkey. To generate text with InstructGPT models and see results in-line, use the cft keyword. ⤓ Install on the Alfred Gallery or download it over GitHub and add your OpenAI API key. If you have used ChatGPT or DALL·E 2, you already have an OpenAI account. Otherwise, you can sign up here - You will receive $5 in free credit, no payment data is required. Afterward you can create your API key. To start a conversation with ChatGPT either use the keyword cf, setup the workflow as a fallback search in Alfred or create your custom hotkey to directly send the clipboard content to ChatGPT. -
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GLM-Image
GLM-Image: Auto-regressive for Dense-knowledge and High-fidelity Image
GLM-Image is an open-source generative AI model designed to create high-fidelity images from text prompts using a hybrid architecture that combines autoregressive semantic understanding with diffusion-based detail refinement. It excels at generating images that include complex layouts and detailed text content, making it especially useful for posters, diagrams, info-graphics, social media graphics, and visual content that requires precise text placement and semantic alignment. Because it blends linguistic reasoning with image synthesis, GLM-Image produces visual outputs where semantic relationships and textual accuracy are prioritized alongside artistic style and realism, and its model structure enables it to handle dense visual knowledge tasks that challenge many pure diffusion models. The model’s design and weights are available under an open-source license that encourages experimentation, integration, and deployment across a range of creative workflows. -
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Ian Xiaohei Illustrations
Chinese Little Black Weird Text Illustration Generation Skill
Ian Xiaohei Illustrations is a Codex Skill for generating distinctive hand-drawn illustrations for Chinese articles, posts, blogs, Notion documents, and methodology content. It is centered on the “Xiaohei” visual character and turns abstract ideas, judgments, metaphors, and workflows into clear editorial images. The skill is not a generic illustration prompt pack, because it gives AI agents a specific visual system to follow. Its default style uses a 16:9 white-background composition with rough hand-drawn lines and small red, orange, or blue annotation marks. It is especially useful for knowledge creators who want recognizable article visuals without designing from scratch. The project works as a reusable creative instruction layer for AI-assisted content production. -
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MochiDiffusion
Run Stable Diffusion on Mac natively
MochiDiffusion is a native macOS application that allows users to run Stable Diffusion models locally, leveraging Apple Silicon GPU acceleration via Core ML. It offers users GUI controls for prompts and model configuration without needing Python or Docker, enabling offline image generation.