SwarmUI

“Old or bad options also tracked listed via Obscure Model Support:”

“Swarm automatically installs proper-ish support for AMD Radeon graphics cards when you first install, and will prompt you to confirm during the install process.”

“Some features simply won't work, or will have noticeably worse performance. If you have a choice, get an nvidia GPU.”

“You can only run SwarmUI on Mac computers with M-Series Apple silicon processors (eg M1, M2, ...).”

“If you have an AMD or Intel GPU... uh, there's probably appropriate tooling for that. No idea what it is, good luck.”

“Download The Install-Windows.bat file, store it somewhere you want to install at (not Program Files), and run it.”

“It will place an icon on your desktop that you can use to re-launch the server at any time.”

“Note: if you're on Windows 10, you may need to manually install git and DotNET 8 SDK first. (Windows 11 this is automated).”

“Run the ./install-linux.sh script, it will install everything for you and eventually open the webpage in your browser.”

“Even pulling updates is just a UI button under the 'Server' tab!”

“You can use <region:x,y,width,height,strength> prompt here to use an alternate prompt for a given region.”

“Mask a region and go.”

“Add a Mask, draw a dot anywhere in the empty area (this is just a trick to tell the editor to automask all the empty area to the side, you don't need to mask it manually)”

“Why add and configure five differents nodes to do a hires fix when you can just check 'refiner' and drag a slider for your preferred upscale value.”

“Advanced users may favor the Comfy Workflow tab to get the unrestricted raw graph, but will still have reason to come back to the Generate tab for convenience features (image editor, auto-workflow-generation, etc) and powertools (eg Grid Generator).”

“You can now generate images as normal, but it will automatically use your workflow.”

“Currently there are only a few extensions out there, and they can be found on the Extensions tab.”

“If you like the sound one, look at its readme to make sure you want it. If so, hit the "Install" button.”

“Pick any starter model(s) you want to download.”

“The URL to download a model from.”

“If you want models downloaded by the Model Downloader Utility to go to a specific folder, set the DownloadToRootID to the relevant index”

“Swarm itself has no native autoenabled phone home nor data tracking.”

“As long as you're running locally, your prompts, generated images, etc. are never sent to remote servers.”

“You can disable auto updating in Server->Backends->edit the backend->disable AutoUpdate”

“Swarm does not auto-update itself by default (though you can enable this), but you can manual update in a couple clicks, and this of course downloads from github.com and nuget servers”

“Supports AI image models (Krea 2, Stable Diffusion, Flux, etc.), and AI video models (MiniMax H3, Wan, LTX-2, etc.), some AI audio models (ACE-Step, etc.) and will continue adding new ones in the future when they are released to the public.”

“Every user has a different image output folder, different presets list, different user settings list, etc.”

“You can white/black list model folders, to limit what users see. You can do give different limits to different roles, and different roles to different users.”

“There are preconfigured base roles that set things up appropriately for the most common use cases. You can also make your own roles if you want.”

“Currently, SwarmUI is only validated to be safely usable by Friends and Family.”

“SwarmUI itself is under the MIT license, however some usages may be affected by the GPL variant licenses of connected projects list above, and note that any models used have their own licenses.”

“You can only run SwarmUI on Mac computers with M-Series Apple silicon processors (eg M1, M2, ...).”

“Download The Install-Windows.bat file, store it somewhere you want to install at (not Program Files), and run it.”

“Run the ./install-linux.sh script, it will install everything for you and eventually open the webpage in your browser.”

“Note: if you're on Windows 10, you may need to manually install git and DotNET 8 SDK first. (Windows 11 this is automated).”

“You'll want Python 3.11 or 3.12.”

“This project is in Almost-Release status.”

“Swarm's primary backend provider, ComfyUI, is developed by an author who has consistently maintained a similar stance of pure privacy and has made a public promise that ComfyUI will never phone home.”

“Beginner users will love Swarm's primary Generate tab interface, making it easy to generate anything with a variety of powerful features.”

“cd SwarmUI and run the installation script: ./launch-macos.sh.”

“Swarm will generally try to auto-update ComfyUI and custom nodes, this will perform a git pull to github.com, which GitHub has anonymous statistic counters for events.”