InvokeAI README

The project's README from github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI. As one markdown file: README.md.

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Invoke - Professional Creative AI Tools for Visual Media

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Sponsor Invoke

Invoke is a leading creative engine built to empower professionals and enthusiasts alike. Generate and create stunning visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. Invoke offers an industry leading web-based UI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.

Highlighted Features - Canvas and Workflows

Documentation

Quick Links
Installation and Updates - Documentation and Tutorials - Bug Reports - Contributing

Installation

To get started with Invoke, Download the Launcher.

Troubleshooting, FAQ and Support

Please review our FAQ for solutions to common installation problems and other issues.

For more help, please join our Discord.

Features

Full details on features can be found in our documentation.

Web Server & UI

Invoke runs a locally hosted web server & React UI with an industry-leading user experience.

Unified Canvas

The Unified Canvas is a fully integrated canvas implementation with support for all core generation capabilities, in/out-painting, brush tools, and more. This creative tool unlocks the capability for artists to create with AI as a creative collaborator, and can be used to augment AI-generated imagery, sketches, photography, renders, and more.

Workflows & Nodes

Invoke offers a fully featured workflow management solution, enabling users to combine the power of node-based workflows with the ease of a UI. This allows for customizable generation pipelines to be developed and shared by users looking to create specific workflows to support their production use-cases.

Invoke features an organized gallery system for easily storing, accessing, and remixing your content in the Invoke workspace. Images can be dragged/dropped onto any Image-base UI element in the application, and rich metadata within the Image allows for easy recall of key prompts or settings used in your workflow.

Model Support

Other features

Contributing

Anyone who wishes to contribute to this project - whether documentation, features, bug fixes, code cleanup, testing, or code reviews - is very much encouraged to do so.

Get started with contributing by reading our contribution documentation, joining the #dev-chat or the GitHub discussion board.

We hope you enjoy using Invoke as much as we enjoy creating it, and we hope you will elect to become part of our community.

Sponsors

Invoke's open-source development is powered by our sponsors. If Invoke is valuable to you or your business, please consider sponsoring us — it directly funds maintenance, new features, and community support.

Sponsor Invoke

We very much thank the following sponsors:

Backers ($15/mo)

Power Users ($50/mo)

Thanks

Invoke is a combined effort of passionate and talented people from across the world. We thank them for their time, hard work and effort.

Original portions of the software are Copyright © 2024 by respective contributors.

InvokeAI (invoke-ai/InvokeAI)

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What is this?Invoke is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models: a locally hosted web app for generating and editing images with AI, aimed at professionals, artists, and enthusiasts.
Is this a cloud service I sign up for, or something I install on my own machine?Something you install: Invoke runs a locally hosted web server with a React UI on Windows, macOS, or Linux, and you work with it from your browser.
How do I get it running?Download the Launcher — that is the official starting point. The project FAQ covers common installation problems, and the Discord community helps with the rest.
What are the node-based workflows for?They let you build custom generation pipelines: nodes combined with a UI, customizable and shareable, for repeatable production use-cases.
What can I actually do in it besides plain text-to-image?The Unified Canvas bundles all core generation abilities — text-to-image, image-to-image, inpainting and outpainting — with brush tools for augmenting AI images, sketches, photography, or renders.
How does it keep my generations organized?Images go into a board and gallery system; you can drag and drop them onto any image slot, and stored metadata lets you recall the exact prompts and settings behind each result.
Is it free, and can I use it and my output commercially?Yes — it is free under the Apache-2.0 license, which the README calls commercially-friendly. Ongoing development is funded by sponsors.
Will my hardware handle it?The README only says to install on 'compatible hardware' and points to NVIDIA and AMD guides for details — check the installation docs for concrete requirements before committing.
What tools ship with it beyond image generation?Upscaling tools, an embedding manager with support, a model manager, and object segmentation and selection powered by SAM / SAM2 — all built into the same workspace.
Do all the supported models run locally?No. Most run on your own hardware, but the model list marks Nano Banana, GPT Image, and Wan as API-only, so those three call a hosted service instead of generating on your machine.
What are similar projects?stable-diffusion-webui, stable-diffusion-webui-colab, IOPaint, stable-diffusion.cpp, krita-ai-diffusion, WanGP, Fooocus, stable-diffusion
Which topics is it in?img2img, ai-art, inpainting, generative-art, upscaling, stable-diffusion, local-ai, image-editing, text-to-image, diffusion-models, webui, workflow
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