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Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Here's the MacOS list I know as of now: (none support fine tuning) Use CoreML: Mochi Diffusion - https://github.com/godly-devotion/mochi-diffusion Amazing AI (closed source) - https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai Gauss - https://github.com/justjake/Gauss Use CoreML but via Swift (not as optimized?) Draw Things (full featured, closed source)- https://draw.nnc.ai/ AI Photo (closed source) - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app…

TI and hypernetworks (and possibly LoRA) will be doable.

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Wonder how it compares to ‘Amazing AI;’ a native Mac app for Stable Diffusion I stumbled into earlier today. Link: https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai

For anyone interested (and using an M1/M2 Mac), whilst Amazing AI offers limited twiddling (just the step count and seed) it is native Apple Silicon, comparatively light on resources, and on my base model 2021 Air (8GB RAM, 7 GPU) it produces a 2048x2048 pixel 100 iteration image in under 5 minutes.

I know that headline number is slow compared to machines with beefy specs, but remember that this is 100 iterations on the lowest power M1 you can get, with 16 times the pixel count of the online 512x512 ones. And even with 40 iterations you can generate some stunning images with the right prompts.

Draw Things has a massive amount of configuration, is equally fast (it's also native) and can do a variety of output sizes.

Both are free from the Mac App Store.

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

#83
post #53

Wonder how it compares to ‘Amazing AI;’ a native Mac app for Stable Diffusion I stumbled into earlier today. Link: https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai

For anyone interested (and using an M1/M2 Mac), whilst Amazing AI offers limited twiddling (just the step count and seed) it is native Apple Silicon, comparatively light on resources, and on my base model 2021 Air (8GB RAM, 7 GPU) it produces a 2048x2048 pixel 100 iteration image in under 5 minutes. I know that headline number is slow compared to machines with beefy specs, but remember that this is 100 iterations on…

What about the swap use? I gather that high-resolution images with your limited RAM must produce a devastating amount of writes.

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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For anyone interested (and using an M1/M2 Mac), whilst Amazing AI offers limited twiddling (just the step count and seed) it is native Apple Silicon, comparatively light on resources, and on my base model 2021 Air (8GB RAM, 7 GPU) it produces a 2048x2048 pixel 100 iteration image in under 5 minutes. I know that headline number is slow compared to machines with beefy specs, but remember that this is 100 iterations on…

What about the swap use? I gather that high-resolution images with your limited RAM must produce a devastating amount of writes.

Haven't noticed anything, but TBH I also haven't looked as I've had no need to question things - the rest of the OS runs fine alongside, with dozens of browser tabs, plus both Amazing AI and Draw Things running (though only one actually generating at once). And with about 50 iterations I'm losing around 1% battery every couple of images so it doesn't seem particularly taxing, whilst running cold.

Edit: It isn't obvious with Amazing AI but it may in fact be doing what Draw Things makes explicit in the options, which is generate at 512x512 and use your choice of upscaler to get to 2048x2048.

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Interesting UI, and great that's it's open-sourced! M1 Mac owners should also check out the iPad version of Draw Things, which has a large number of features and is in very active development: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id64... Be aware that there is a bug in macOS 13.2b1 that makes Draw Things unusable on that version of macOS. Hopefully Apple will fix that soon.

It crashed for me on my Macbook M1

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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post #73

Here's the MacOS list I know as of now: (none support fine tuning) Use CoreML: Mochi Diffusion - https://github.com/godly-devotion/mochi-diffusion Amazing AI (closed source) - https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai Gauss - https://github.com/justjake/Gauss Use CoreML but via Swift (not as optimized?) Draw Things (full featured, closed source)- https://draw.nnc.ai/ AI Photo (closed source) - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app…

Draw Things is only for iOS. You can try to run it on a Mac, but it crashes for me.

Also CoreML on a Mac seems to require macOS 13, which is reportedly buggy. I was going to update and changed my mind after reading people's experiences online. :(

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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It is unfortunate that the UI is not even attempting to be platform native, though.

The box vs. the chocolate

I use iOS instead of Android because of the box. Apps that don’t look like the box art stick out like a sore thumb on iOS.

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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post #39

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be advised that it’s quite slow on an ipad if it doesn’t have an m1. it was faster on my iphone 14pro than on my ipad mini :|

The iPad Mini is quite old in terms of the SoC it shipped with. Any recent iPad or iPhone has much better silicon , even if it’s not an M1.

mine has the A15 which was launched last year. and it still feels slow :(

Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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Interesting UI, and great that's it's open-sourced! M1 Mac owners should also check out the iPad version of Draw Things, which has a large number of features and is in very active development: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id64... Be aware that there is a bug in macOS 13.2b1 that makes Draw Things unusable on that version of macOS. Hopefully Apple will fix that soon.

It crashed for me on my Macbook M1

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Re: Stable Diffusion macOS native app

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post #79

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The iPad Mini is quite old in terms of the SoC it shipped with. Any recent iPad or iPhone has much better silicon , even if it’s not an M1.

mine has the A15 which was launched last year. and it still feels slow :(

Ah I forgot about the refresh for the 6th gen.

The difference in speed with your phone might be down to RAM? 6GB vs 4GB? I forget if the latest mini is LPDDR4 or 5 but it might be 5

Otherwise the A16 and the A15 aren’t that different, though the A16 does have a newer ANE ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A16?wprov=sfti1 ).

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