StableSwarmUI

StableSwarmUI 0.6.0 Alpha.

A Modular Stable Diffusion Web-User-Interface, with an emphasis on making powertools easily accessible, high performance, and extensibility.

Follow the Feature Announcements Thread for updates on new features.

Status

This project is in ALPHA status, preparing to move to BETA very soon. That means most things work, but there's a lot more planned before it's truly "ready for primetime". it's currently at a point where it's safe to recommend for general users, though you may need at times to use the integrated Comfy tab as a backup way to execute some things that would ideally be on the main UI. There are some known bugs and quality-of-life limits still be worked out.

Those interested in helping push to a Full ready-for-anything Release status are welcome to submit PRs (read the Contributing document first), and you can contact us here on GitHub or on Discord in the #stableswarmui channel. I highly recommended reaching out to ask about plans for a feature before PRing it. There may already be specific plans or even a work in progress.

Key feature targets not yet implemented:

• Localization / automatic translation
• Mobile browser formatting
• Self-contained internal mini-backend for simple usages
• full detail "Current Model" display in UI, separate from the model selector (probably as a tab within the batch sidebar?)

Installing on Windows

• Download The Install-Windows.bat file, store it somewhere you want to install at (not Program Files), and run it.
  • It should open a command prompt and install itself.
  • If it closes without going further, try running it again, it sometimes needs to run twice. (TODO: Fix that)
  • It will place an icon on your desktop that you can use to re-launch the server at any time.
  • When the installer completes, it will automatically launch the StableSwarmUI server, and open a browser window to the install page.
  • Follow the install instructions on the page.
  • After you submit, be patient, some of the install processing take a few minutes (downloading models and etc).

(TODO): Even easier self-contained pre-installer, a .msi or .exe that provides a general install screen and lets you pick folder and all.

Installing on Linux

• Install git, python3 via your OS package manager if they are not already installed (make sure to include pip and venv on distros that do not include them in python directly)
  • For example, on recent Ubuntu versions, sudo apt install git python3-pip python3-venv
• Install DotNET 7 using the instructions at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/7.0 (you need dotnet-sdk-7.0, as that includes all relevant sub-packages)
  • Some users have said that certain Linux distros expect aspnet-runtime to be installed separately
• Open a shell terminal and cd to a directory you want to install into
• Run shell commands:
  • git clone https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI
  • cd StableSwarmUI
  • ./launch-linux.sh
• open http://localhost:7801/Install
• Follow the install instructions on-page.

(TODO): Maybe outlink a dedicated document with per-distro details and whatever. Maybe also make a one-click installer for Linux?

Installing on Mac

Note: You can only run StableSwarmUI on Mac computers with M1 or M2 (Mx) Apple silicon processors.

1. Open Terminal.
2. Ensure your brew packages are updated with brew update.
3. Verify your brew installation with brew doctor. You should not see any error in the command output.
4. Install .NET for macOS: brew install dotnet.
5. Change the directory (cd) to the folder where you want to install StableSwarmUI.
6. Clone the StableSwarmUI GitHub repository: git clone https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI.
7. cd StableSwarmUI and run the installation script: ./launch-macos.sh.

The installation starts now and downloads the Stable Diffusion models from the internet. Depending on your internet connection, this may take several minutes. Wait for your web browser to open the StableSwarmUI window.

During the StableSwarmUI installation, you are prompted for the type of backend you want to use. For Mac computers with M1 or M2, you can safely choose the ComfyUI backend and choose the Stable Diffusion XL Base and Refiner models in the Download Models screen.

Running with Docker

• To forward an Nvidia GPU, you must have the Nvidia Container Toolkit installed: https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html
• Open a shell terminal and cd to a directory you want to install into
• Run shell commands:
  • git clone https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI
  • cd StableSwarmUI
  • ./launch-docker.sh
  • Open your browser to localhost:7801
• Note that it will forward the Models and Output directory, and will mount Data and dlbackend as independent persistent volumes.

Documentation

See the documentation folder.

Motivations

The "Swarm" name is in reference to the original key function of the UI: enabling a 'swarm' of GPUs to all generate images for the same user at once (especially for large grid generations). This is just the feature that inspired the name and not the end all of what Swarm is.

The overall goal of StableSwarmUI is to a be full-featured one-stop-shop for all things Stable Diffusion.

See the motivations document for motivations on technical choices.

Legal

This project:

• embeds a copy of 7-zip (LGPL).
• has the ability to auto-install ComfyUI (GPL).
• has the option to use as a backend AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui (AGPL).
• can automatically install christophschuhmann/improved-aesthetic-predictor (Apache2).
• can automatically install yuvalkirstain/PickScore (MIT).
• can automatically install git-for-windows (GPLv2).
• uses JSON.NET (MIT), FreneticUtilities (MIT), LiteDB (MIT), ImageSharp (Apache2 under open-source Split License)
• embeds copies of web assets from BootStrap (MIT), Select2 (MIT), JQuery (MIT), exifr (MIT).
• has the option to connect to remote servers to use the Stability.ai API as a backend.
• supports user-built extensions which may have their own licenses or legal conditions.

Copyright (C) 2023 Stability.AI

Licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0, view LICENSE.txt for details.

(In short: personal usage is free, commercial usage is not)

This license is an initial selection, particularly for the Alpha stage of the project, that is subject to change in the future. It will probably be swapped to MIT during Beta.