AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion WebUI
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Artists, hobbyists and researchers generating and editing images with Stable Diffusion models.
A full featured web UI for Stable Diffusion offering txt2img, img2img, inpainting and a large extension ecosystem.
Self-hosted, runs as a local Gradio web app on the user's own or a cloud GPU.
Launched in 2022 shortly after Stable Diffusion's public release and still widely used in 2026.
Became the de facto standard local UI for experimenting with Stable Diffusion checkpoints and community extensions.
Built on Python, PyTorch and Gradio, requiring a Stable Diffusion checkpoint and a capable GPU.
Open source under AGPL-3.0, self-hosted, no account needed, one of the most starred image-gen repos with over 160k stars.