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Fooocus

Image generation on your own computer that works from a prompt, with very few settings to learn.

Instead of Midjourney, DALL-E

S · ToolOpen sourceFreeNo accountWorks offlineNeeds a GPU
github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus
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Fooocus is for people who want to type a sentence and get a picture without learning a hundred dials. It is built on Stable Diffusion XL, aims to feel like Midjourney without the subscription, and handles the settings for you. It runs on your own machine and, after the first launch downloads its default models, works with no connection. The stated minimum is 4 GB of Nvidia graphics memory and 8 GB of system memory, which is light for this category.

Fooocus scores a 5 on lock-in and self-direction, a 4 on power and delivery, a 3 on footprint and a 2 on longevity.

It is free, GPL-3.0 and asks for no account. The project says it is in limited long-term support, with bug fixes only and no newer model designs planned, so it is a finished tool and Longevity is a 2. If you share it over a network with the listen or share options, the interface has no password by default, so leave those off.

    What stands out

  • Describe what you want and it picks the settings for you
  • Runs on a graphics card with as little as 4 GB of memory
  • In limited support, with bug fixes only and no newer model designs planned
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For comparison, we also reviewed Adobe Firefly (15/30) and Midjourney (14/30) as a benchmark.

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