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RUNLOCALAI · v38
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Draw Things

Fully offline

Free, native macOS / iOS Stable Diffusion app. Runs SD3, Flux on a phone (yes, really).

Editorial verdict: “Best mobile + macOS SD app. Free, native, no Python — runs Flux on Apple Silicon impressively well.”

Image gen UI
Free
Proprietary
★ 4.6 / 5
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Compatibility at a glance

Which runtime + OS combos this app works against. Source of truth for "will it run on my setup?"

§ Runtimes supported
mlxcoreml
§ OS / platform
macosios
§ Hardware + model hint
Minimum VRAM
8 GB
Recommended starter model
SD3.5 Medium or Flux.1 Schnell
→ Build the rest of the stack with /stack-builder→ Pick a GPU for this app

What it is

Draw Things is the pick for anyone who wants Stable Diffusion or Flux on an iPhone or MacBook without touching Python or a cloud service. It’s a native Core ML and MLX app that runs SD3.5 Medium and Flux.1 Schnell on Apple Silicon, including recent iPhone Pros—generation is slow on mobile, but it works fully offline. You get broad format support: checkpoints, LoRAs, ControlNet, inpainting, and regional prompting. The trade-off is that it’s Apple-only and closed-source, so if you’re on Windows or Linux, or need to audit the code, look elsewhere. For a free, ad-free local image generator on Apple hardware, this is the most complete option.

✓ Strengths

  • +Genuinely native — uses Core ML / MLX
  • +Runs on iPhone Pro (slowly but functional)
  • +Free with no ads

△ Caveats

  • −Apple-platform only
  • −Closed-source

About the Image gen UI category

Image generation or AI image editing UI.

§ Other image gen ui apps
Krita AI Diffusion

Best 'SD as digital-art tool' integration. Real Krita workflow, not a wrapper UI.

Diffusion Bee

Easiest macOS SD app — picks defaults so you don't have to.

Where to go from here

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What this app talks to: Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, MLX, LM Studio. The upstream layer.

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