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Draw Things

by Draw Things · Free (app); engine GPL-3.0 · 603 GitHub stars

Native Mac and iPhone app for image and video models with a fast Metal engine, quantized downloads and LoRA training.

macOS

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At a glance

Best for
Image and video generation on a Mac without Python or node graphs.
Inference engine
  • Draw Things (Metal FlashAttention)
GPU support
  • Apple Metal
Opens
  • Safetensors (original weights)
  • Draw Things format
Features
  • Chat window
  • LoRA training
  • Offloads to RAM on small GPUs
Platforms
macOS 12.4+, iPhone and iPad. Apple silicon recommended (Metal FlashAttention); Intel Macs are much slower.
Speed
Its Metal FlashAttention engine is reported 20-40% faster than Core ML on M1 Pro and newer; video models want 24 GB or more.

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Install

46 models on this site run in Draw Things

Model Made by Type Size Opens it as Quality tier
FLUX.2 [dev] Black Forest Labs Image 32.2B Built-in support 92
Qwen-Image 2512 Alibaba Image 20.4B Built-in support 90
Qwen-Image Alibaba Image 20.4B Built-in support 88
Qwen-Image-Edit 2511 Alibaba Image 20.4B Built-in support 86
FLUX.2 [klein] 9B Black Forest Labs Image 9.1B Built-in support 84
HiDream-I1 Full HiDream.ai Image 17.1B Built-in support 84
Z-Image Turbo Alibaba (Tongyi) Image 6.2B Built-in support 84
FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] Black Forest Labs Image 11.9B Built-in support 82
FLUX.1 Krea [dev] Black Forest Labs Image 11.9B Built-in support 82
Z-Image Alibaba (Tongyi) Image 6.2B Built-in support 82
FLUX.1 [dev] Black Forest Labs Image 11.9B Built-in support 80
HiDream-I1 Dev HiDream.ai Image 17.1B Built-in support 80
FLUX.2 [klein] 4B Black Forest Labs Image 3.9B Built-in support 78
FLUX.1 Fill [dev] Black Forest Labs Image 11.9B Built-in support 76
HiDream-I1 Fast HiDream.ai Image 17.1B Built-in support 76
FLUX.1 [schnell] Black Forest Labs Image 11.9B Built-in support 70
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Stability AI Image 8.1B Built-in support 66
Juggernaut XL v9 RunDiffusion Image 2.6B Built-in support 62
RealVisXL V5.0 SG161222 Image 2.6B Built-in support 62
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo Stability AI Image 8.1B Built-in support 62
Animagine XL 4.0 Cagliostro Lab Image 2.6B Built-in support 60
Illustrious XL v0.1 OnomaAI Image 2.6B Built-in support 60
Kolors Kuaishou Image 2.6B Built-in support 60
DreamShaper XL v2 Turbo Lykon Image 2.6B Built-in support 58
Pony Diffusion V6 XL PurpleSmartAI Image 2.6B Built-in support 58
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium Stability AI Image 2.5B Built-in support 58
Animagine XL 3.1 Cagliostro Lab Image 2.6B Built-in support 56
Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Stability AI Image 2.6B Built-in support 55
SDXL-Lightning (4-step) ByteDance Image 2.6B Built-in support 54
Stable Diffusion 3 Medium Stability AI Image 2.0B Built-in support 52
Realistic Vision V5.1 SG161222 Image 0.9B Built-in support 42
DreamShaper 8 Lykon Image 0.9B Built-in support 40
SDXL Turbo Stability AI Image 2.6B Built-in support 40
Stable Diffusion 1.5 Stability AI / Runway Image 0.9B Built-in support 35
LCM DreamShaper v7 Tsinghua (LCM) Image 0.9B Built-in support 30
LTX-2.3 Lightricks Video 18.9B Built-in support 86
Wan 2.2 I2V A14B Alibaba Video 14.0B Built-in support 86
Wan 2.2 T2V A14B Alibaba Video 14.0B Built-in support 86
HunyuanVideo 1.5 (8.3B) Tencent Video 8.3B Built-in support 84
LTX-2 (19B, video + audio) Lightricks Video 18.9B Built-in support 82
Wan 2.1 I2V 14B 720P Alibaba Video 14.0B Built-in support 78
Wan 2.1 T2V 14B Alibaba Video 14.0B Built-in support 78
Wan 2.1 I2V 14B 480P Alibaba Video 14.0B Built-in support 74
HunyuanVideo 13B Tencent Video 13.0B Built-in support 72
Wan 2.2 TI2V 5B Alibaba Video 5.0B Built-in support 70
Wan 2.1 T2V 1.3B Alibaba Video 1.3B Built-in support 55

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